The Work In Progress Thread

This thread is where you can post to get help or C&C (Comments & Criticism) on sprites, be it that you're struggling to do the legs on your alien Rhino, or that something is slightly wrong with your donkey chariot but you can't tell just what exactly.

Before you go posting though allow me to point out some rather important aspects about asking for help and C&C, which will ensure the thread continues to run fluently and without pointless posts getting in the way.

1. When asking for help in this thread, please note that the people posting are doing you a favour by going out of their way to help you with something they could just leave for others to deal with. With this in mind Do not take criticisms as a personal attack and be sure that before arguing against someone who has proposed a possible change, that you are absolutely positive that what they have suggested goes against your original intentions. If you are seen to be unjustifiably defensive, your posts will be subject to moderation.

2. This is more to those who are posting to give comments and criticism. If you're just going to tell a member how bad/good their sprite is, Don't Bother this isn't a compliment or bashing thread, it is a place for people to come who need help on sprites, or who want to know if anything is wrong with their sprite. So please, if you're posting, give the help that the people have asked for. Your posts, if flame-baiting in nature, will be subject to moderation.

With that out the way, I hope you guys can improve via use of this thread, however there are other means of improving and getting help. More often than not these methods actually tend to be more effective at improving your armies, so please give them a try -

Alternative Methods
Our main way of communicating with each other as a community isn't actually on the forums. We have an IRC channel which enables us to speak in real time, this allows a much smoother and quicker way of delivering help to those who need it. Using whatever IRC Client you wish, please connect to irc.esper.net and channel #picturewars for those who don't understand or have never used IRC, please head on over to the PW chatrooms thread -
http://picturewars.net/smf/index.php?topic=37.0

Other than that, you can simply use steam chat to speak with people willing to help you. This method tends to be better after you've got to know a few people in the IRC, that way they can speak to you via steam after you ask for help in IRC.

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(02-27-2012 11:28 PM)Collective Mind link Wrote:I've noticed that some people are kind of bad at giving/receiving criticism. This is annoying.
Constructive criticism should not be about grinding down and ripping apart somebody's work.
Constructive criticism should not be taken as a horrific insult to your work.
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