Hello all,
My name is Ben and I am the Content Director at Planet Half-Life. I am interested in publishing a sort of crash-course in administrating various forms of servers for the Half-Life series. In particular, I'd like to have an article for each of these games: Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, CS:S, DoD:S and HLDM. Each article would cover a number of topics, some of which would probably not need much editing between the different articles as the material would be similar. The topics covered in each article would be:
I'd imagine that sections like server promotion and administrator etiquette would need minor (if any) adjusting between the games, but the other sections would need to be written from scratch each time as they would be quite different. I am appealing to you, the esteemed SRCDS community, to aid me in accomplishing this. I know next to nothing about running servers, and thus cannot write this on my own.
If you would only be interested in writing on one of the games, that would be totally fine, you don't have to dedicate to writing all of them. You will get full credit for your work, are free to use the article on a resume (GameSpy/IGN/FoxIE is a pretty darn big company and thus articles published on one of its sites is a fairly big deal) and I am open to other requests as well.
If you would be interested (or know anyone who would be interested) in helping me do this, please let me know. You can reach me via email at d3pth_charge[at]planethalflife[dot]com or via ICQ: 263711007.
Note: Writing skills are NOT required! I am the editor and will be editing the final draft anyway, all I care about is knowledge and willingness to help me and the site out!
Thank you so much for reading this, and I look forward to your response greatly!
PS: I apologize if I broke any rules in posting this... note that this is not a commercial advertisement as the work would be voluntary.
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Ben "D3pth" Ballinger
Planet Half-Life Content Director
My name is Ben and I am the Content Director at Planet Half-Life. I am interested in publishing a sort of crash-course in administrating various forms of servers for the Half-Life series. In particular, I'd like to have an article for each of these games: Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, CS:S, DoD:S and HLDM. Each article would cover a number of topics, some of which would probably not need much editing between the different articles as the material would be similar. The topics covered in each article would be:
- Setting up your Server
- Map Rotation for Maximized Server Use
- Server Plug-Ins
- Promoting Your Server
- Server Administrator Etiquette
I'd imagine that sections like server promotion and administrator etiquette would need minor (if any) adjusting between the games, but the other sections would need to be written from scratch each time as they would be quite different. I am appealing to you, the esteemed SRCDS community, to aid me in accomplishing this. I know next to nothing about running servers, and thus cannot write this on my own.
If you would only be interested in writing on one of the games, that would be totally fine, you don't have to dedicate to writing all of them. You will get full credit for your work, are free to use the article on a resume (GameSpy/IGN/FoxIE is a pretty darn big company and thus articles published on one of its sites is a fairly big deal) and I am open to other requests as well.
If you would be interested (or know anyone who would be interested) in helping me do this, please let me know. You can reach me via email at d3pth_charge[at]planethalflife[dot]com or via ICQ: 263711007.
Note: Writing skills are NOT required! I am the editor and will be editing the final draft anyway, all I care about is knowledge and willingness to help me and the site out!
Thank you so much for reading this, and I look forward to your response greatly!
PS: I apologize if I broke any rules in posting this... note that this is not a commercial advertisement as the work would be voluntary.
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Ben "D3pth" Ballinger
Planet Half-Life Content Director
