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Orochi

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Fieldtrip! Inside the Strategy Panel!

Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:56 pm

Greetings, citizens of DS! We'll be having a fieldtrip to the famed Strategy Panel! Hurray! Seatbelts, everyone!

What is the Strategy Panel anyway? The Strat Panel is where the staff reads the guides that you(yes, you!) have submitted and decides if they're worthy of being published.

What we have here is the first page of the Strategy Panel:

Let's click the 4th strategy, a gondar guide:

O_O! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

After clicking the nuke button, that strategy accumulated a total of 3 negative points and has been purged from the Strategy Panel.

You have just witnessed the death of a hero strategy. Let us have a moment of silence to honor the fallen guide..

MOVING ON!

Here we have 3 decent hero strategies, notice the difference between the guides with 4 votes and the one with 3. Guides with 4 votes or more can be published by an Imperator or an Executor.

Now that the member(which identity we shall hide under the name of Ariel Lin)'s Davion guide has amassed 4 positive votes, a new option came out of the panel. That guide can now be published.

Take note: Just because your guide has 4 or more votes doesn't mean the'll get published ASAP. We will prioritize the strategies that have been submitted before and guides on heroes with few/no published guides.

Vote Tiers:

Awesome Tier(6+ votes): Your guide is awesome and will probably be a candidate for GotM. All you need to do is wait for someone to publish it.

Great Tier(4-5 votes): Your strategy is now approved for publishing. Try to improve it while waiting for it to be published.

Good Tier(2-3 votes): You're getting there. Your guide is decent and has potential. Improve your guide and get those votes! The best way to do this is to PM the staffers for feedback and to help you improve your guide.

Bad Tier(negative votes): Your guide is bad and you should feel bad. It will eventually get that 3rd negative vote and will get blown up. I suggest that you start over and keep improving. Bug a staffer for feedback on why your guide got axed.

Horrible Tier(0 votes): This is the worst thing that can ever happen to a guide. Cursed to remain in the Strategy Panel for all eternity, your guide shall is trapped between heaven and hell. And you'll just grow old waiting for it to be published. Guides that has 0 votes are not bad, most are actually decent and has potential, but not enough for them to earn votes. So unless you want your guide to be trapped in the Strategy Panel, I suggest that you keep improving your guide and ask for feedback.

But how? Who? When and where?

Here is the list of the staffers that you can PM and ask for feedback. Just click on their names:

These are the people in charge of voting/nuking guides. Go ahead and bug them!

dohyun99

fwii~

Ghost - Hero/Item idea makers, PM this guy.

Greater Bash

Pinky Ishkafel

quale

Shimrra_3 - Hero/Item idea makers, PM this guy.

These are the people that can publish your guides. Careful, they bite!

Amplirage

Caspian - Teh Prince is also in charge of publishing Hero and Item ideas.

Nidoking

quickbrownfox

Orochi - Yes, Orochi can help you with your guide. Just make sure that you read his sig first, coz he really does ignore stupid private messages and eats annoying people.

yukino_silvermaine - The Yang to Orochi's Yin. It's just as scary to send a private message to Yukino Sora Silvermaine. You have been warned. Yukino Silvermaine edit: Don't send me PMs about your guides/ideas. Ever. If you do, I'll put a negative vote for it in return.

drew - No, just no.

In conclusion, let's mess with a guide by editing it:

That concludes our field trip! Guide makers are encouraged to make new guides! Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!

Now GTFO my bus before I shoot you all! Shoo!
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