I know its been suggested in the past but nobody has really paid much attention to it, so I thought I'd have one last stab at seeing if this will get accepted.
I notice, almost all of the time, newcommers will be asking questions, that are completely covered in many of the tutorials we've all submitted. Collision, multiplayer, fighting, saving files, etc. And every time, someone (hopefully) will point out the tutorial threads, tutorial city, etc.
The problem is, the threads are stickied at the top, which obviously doesnt work. People learn to skip over the first couple of threads, and newcommers end up never reading them. If however, there was a specific board for Tutorials, Im pretty sure newcommers would see it a lot better, as well as it being a good place to organize ALL of the tutorials once and for all (Tutorial City is nice, but I dont think Vink is updating it anymore, and I think a board from these forums would be easier for people to reach, not to mention see).
Obviously not everyone could post on them, so Rich or Lee (I forget who was the main Apollo guru... I think it was Rich, yeah?) would have to only allow MODs to post in it. I know there's MOD-only boards right now, so Im pretty sure it wouldnt be too hard to make another mod-only board, that newcommers can only see or reply to, but not post new threads in. Then, whenever someone writes a new tutorial, they'd post it on whatever board makes the most sense (usually Newcommer's Corner), and if a MOD decided it was worth while, they'd move it over to the tutorial thread.
It wouldnt have to be limited to tutorials, I'd think it should also have useful code snippets (USEFUL... not a jumping routine or some random stop watch... thats what the code base is for.), along with links to helpful resources for programming.
This would be so ideal. Newcommers could tick the "search only in this board" option on the search box, and fire in whatever problem they're having, and instantly see all of the quality tutorials that've been written on that subject. Hopefully when a mod moved the thread over, they would rename it to something that really went over what the tutorial covered well. There'd need to be a naming convention as well, stating if its for DBC or DBP, just like the other boards require.
So... reply if you're in favour of the idea, and maybe if enough people respond, and Rich or Lee has some free time on their hands, they can throw together a beta version of this.
- RUC'
