There will be changes made to the tutorial forum.
There are a few reasons for this:
1. The tutorial forum has been full of support requests.
2. There was no reward for writing and maintaining a tutorial.
3. Support has been less than successful in the past, and while those who offer it are very good, there has been no incentive to permanently resolve some issues.
Here are the changes:
Nobody can post new topics.
This is mainly to curb the amount of support requests that clutter up the guides. Guide submissions will be made in a pre-formed announcement thread, and will be split or retyped into new threads.
Any unrelated response to a guide will be deleted.
There was one guide that was 14 pages long. The pages are divided by number of posts, not length of posts. There is no way there should be 14 pages of information, and useful information in the 12th page, surrounded by spam.
--- Exception to what will be deleted ---
If you post a response or feedback, or the troubleshooting request responds to a problem with the guide itself, and not unrelated material, then the post will be left to the original guide-writer to deal with.
Feedback is an important stage of support, so I encourage everyone to point out problems with guides. Be courteous to your guide-writer.
Rewarding titles will be given to people who actively write and rewrite their guides.
Guide-writing is a thankless task sometimes. The following titles will be given to people who write and maintain their tutorials. In order to obtain a title, you must be accepted by the community managers, and your guide must not be too out of date. Failure to maintain the tutorials will result in a loss of title, unless you have handled 4 tutorials, and are thus respected as a person who has contributed a great deal.
The titles:
1 guide: Advisor
2 guides: Tutor
3 guides: Mentor
4 guides: Guru
<<<a big thank you to Spike for creating the rank images to go with this>>>
The topics of the guides must be diverse, and must be deemed important by the community managers. I don't want to see 15 guides on how newbies should make a new server. We should have 1 with a lot of detail. One can also obtain the title of Advisor by advising enough guides on mistakes and revisions. Be active, and you may randomly receive this title.
Post your tutorial submissions here!
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18891
Post your tutorial requests here, if you need something new written.
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18890
Changes to the Tutorial Forum
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