FPSL Needs Staff

MilkMunzta

New league coming out. Hopefully it will come out in a little, MAYBE, Z8 might sponsor it. We need staff for certain areas so our league is sucessful.

Contact me at :

XFIRE: dragonmaze56
Gmail: firstpersonshooterleague@gmail.com
Yahoo: firstpersonshooterleague@yahoo.com
Hotmail: firstpersonshooterleague@hotmail.com

Gurppppp

Nice spelling, "successful"...doubt this league will ever pick up.

so_fly

who's our?

you and your kdr?

DenxiBanned

Rules? Anti-Cheat? Current Staff? Website?

WA_tsyKo

Denxi wrote: »

Rules? Anti-Cheat? Current Staff? Website?

Don't waste your time.

MilkMunzta

Working on rules. Have 7 members in staff. Have an anti-cheat. Working on website :

1stpersonshooterleague.spruz.com Also working on guns allowed.

DenxiBanned

SportMunzta wrote: »

Working on rules. Have 7 members in staff. Have an anti-cheat. Working on website :

1stpersonshooterleague.spruz.com Also working on guns allowed.

What logic are you basing weapon restrictions around?

[MOD]Polleus

Procedures, procedures, procedures. I can't say it enough, with a little experience behind that.

You should be privately recruiting staff. Public announcements of a League before you have it completely ready to go, will only bring you flaming and unnecessary headache. There shouldn't even be an announcement until you have a full staff, website, anti-cheat, and ALL of your procedures written up.

Staff:

• GFX/Design staff
  • Website, banners, logos, general graphics
• Forum staff
  • Administrators
  • Moderators
• Anti-cheat staff
• Event Staff
  • League Directors (Competitive experience/background preferred)
  • League Managers (Competitive experience/background preferred)
  • General Staff

Website:

• Not a free hosting service. Not many free hosting sites will offer the amount of bandwidth a League would require. You need paid hosting with a registered domain.
• Well structured. Not a PHP-Nuke set up with cheap boxes. Have a unique banner made with a custom logo.
  • Have a home page template made with someone who has experience with Dreamweaver/Photoshop or go pay $20-$80 for the custom made CSS/HTML templates. You're not going to get by with a ragtag looking website. If you're going to do it, do it right and professional.
• Preferably a reliable forum software such as vBulletin or IPB. You could use phpbb3 or Simple Machines if you don't have the money to pay for the first two, but from a security and functionality standpoint, you're better off with vBulletin or IPB.
  • Make sure to properly section your forums with general sections, off-topic sections, league sections (scheduling/reporting/questions/etc).
• Help Desk software. Get it. You will need it. You do not want 800 PM's a day coming into your inbox wherever you have it designated. A Help Desk with customizable sections for ticket submission will make for a much more organized way of dealing with the masses.

Anti-Cheat:

• If you don't have one, you really shouldn't be releasing ANYTHING for a competitive setting. Using replays as a deterrent for cheating in this game simply will not work. So at this point, you shouldn't even be talking about a public release.

Procedures: Do not copy another League's rules word for word. It is very unprofessional and in most cases illegal. Most professional leagues have their content copyrighted. It just looks bad on you.

• If you have not come to the community to consult a weapon/item rule set, then you aren't even one step in the right direction. The community is the group you are gearing your League towards. It only makes sense to consult them for a competitive rule set would it not? Consult the experienced players for insight on weapon/item balancing, leveling the playing field, etc.
• Game play rule set - Just a few off the top of my head to keep in mind:
  • How are your matches going to be played? Round count, maps, general game settings?
  • What day/time are they going to be played?
  • How will teams schedule/report matches?
  • How will teams dispute rule violations? How will those be handled?
• Help Desk Procedures:
  • How will teams submit tickets? Do you have a specific format you want teams to follow when submitting them? What are teams allowed to submit tickets for?
• Forum Procedures:
  • MAKE SURE to have a set of forum rules in place. You would be foolish not to write them up and have them visible somewhere in a sticky. Consult other websites for reference, but DO NOT copy them word for word. This is very unprofessional and in some cases against the law.

These are just SOME of the aspects you have to prepare before even THINKING about coming to the community with an announcement. These things should already be in place at the time you come to the community as the League Administrator/Director. If you don't take the time to do it right, you are not going to make it.

Also, you can't even THINK of presenting yourself to a company for a sponsorship until you have an already established website, name, website traffic, etc. You can't just say you're a League and ask for a sponsorship. I have not yet seen any of these things I've mentioned. No one will take you seriously from a professional standpoint until you've established many of these things first. I had to be the hard head, but that's how it is.

MilkMunzta

Thanks Polleus, I'm gunna print this out.

Swoopzz

what is this bad kid still doing on these forums...

Whats_Up

Nevermind changed my mind after I looked at there site lol.

Envsnnn

As Polleus said, it isn't just so easy to start a League.

First, you're going to need TOP of the line coders to make a near-to-perfect AC system so those people who intend to cheat aren't able to.

Second, you're going to have to rent a server for your website, (spruz.com has bandwidth limitations, fyi.) and you're going to need someone experienced in setting up a dedicated server or VPS.

i.e Apache, PHP, etc (experience with Linux)

Third, once you've setup the server and it's able to render HTML/PHP/CSS, etc, You're going to need someone to CODE and design that website good enough to attract some talented and non-cheat players.

Fourth, after all the steps are complete who says anyone will like it? You're going to need an advertising campaign to attract the right people rather than posting on these forums.

Fifth, you're going to need someone to manage funds and law, for those players who intend to sue you for any ol' reason will do so with ease without someone managing your business properly. Someone to write up a TOS perfectly isn't easily found even around these forums.

Sixth, you're going to need a LOT of funds to advertising campaigns, server rental fees, paying the coders, etc.

Between all of this, you have to make sure not to create any close similarities to other Leagues, i.e design, dialog, etc.

I suggest you get to work, sir.

sGDavid

Everybody has the right intentions to start up things like this. But when it comes down to it, people don't think ahead. They think of what they got cuz their excited. Happens to me sometimes. I've learned and you can learn from this.