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A joint venture by davie1903 & fenixink

What is Project Illumination?

Project Illumination is a community service alliance, our goal is to connect new players to the community and help them establish social connections within the game.

 

What does that mean?

It is our belief that as fun as MMA Tycoon is, the community is it’s greatest strength. It is the connections people make in the community that keeps them playing or coming back. We believe that if we can create these connections with all new players early on, we can help the game grow; providing Mike with the precious funds necessary to better the game for everyone. We also believe that keeping new managers in the game will strengthen the games ecosystem by creating a much larger field of managers with a variety of experience.

 

How do we plan to accomplish these goals?

Project Illumination has identified 5 primary directives to reach it’s goals.
This is still early on in the process and we fully expect to have to change and evolve.

 

  1. Provide consistent day to day advice and feedback for new players in alliance chat.

 

  1. Compile information from as many sources as possible into an all-in-one guide that can be distributed via pm to new players.

*UPDATE* The guide is available for viewing at this link and is a work in progress: The Panopticon

 

  1. Encourage the community to contribute to this goal in whatever way they can. New players obviously won’t be able to provide slider experience but they can easily send pms out with the project forum link and the all-in-one guide link.

 

  1. Facilitate community connections through meticulous record keeping and constant contact. We will build a roster of managers willing to mentor (via the in-game mentorship or otherwise) new players but do not wish to leave their alliances to officially join Project Illumination.

 

  1. Our long term goal is to become an institute of learning. We want to take new players in, help them make connections, and then send them out into the world to pursue their own ambitions. We wish to continue supporting Project Illumination alumni and expect that some graduates may wish to continue on as a contributor to Project Illumination.

 

Why should you care?

We need you to care, as much as we might like to say we’re experts none of us are experts on everything. We are relying on the community to lend us it’s support. We want to compile the all-in-one guide but we need you to help fill it. All contributors will be credited with their contributions and listed here. We will be contacting managers who have placed guides on the forums to ask their permission to use segments of their guides. We do not intend to delve into the deepest concepts of subject matter in the all-in-one guide, instead we aim to provide a list of things not to do and a general overview of the subject matter with links to the full guides or other sources. These entries may vary in complexity dependent upon the wealth of knowledge the community contributes.

 

We also need as many volunteer mentors as we can get to put into our mentor index.

Please contact either fenixink or davie1903 if your interested in being added to the index.

 

Please send any contributions to: projectIlluminationcontrib@gmail.com

You will receive confirmation of receipt and we will have all contributions archived.

 

What about financial support?

If you wish to provide financial support to the project please donate to the Noob Fund.

We look forward to providing the knowledge new players need to become self-sustraining in addition to the startup funds provided by the Noob Fund.

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Nice! May the project be robust and prosperous (for the newbs)! :)

 

Considering I am the one who named it Illumination and discussed it with Davie before the alliance started, sure I will mentor

 

Nice! Brownie points... :)

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I am willing to give advice. You can put me on the list if you want ;)

 

Thank you bjorn I will add you to the index.

 

Considering I am the one who named it Illumination and discussed it with Davie before the alliance started, sure I will mentor

 

I had no idea, but thank you I love the name. I will be happy to add you to the index Conor thanks again.

 

Feel free to Pm me about anything and I wil try to help mate.

 

Thank you potter.

 

This post was really well written, good job fenixink

 

Thank you, I wanted to try and make it as clear and concise as possible since the project itself will be rather robust.

 

i like this idea

not sure i can help that much but ill help where i can :) and ill post this link in my allaince chat as well

 

Thanks coton getting the word out is just as important as mentoring.

 

Derail?

 

You should have read the entire first post son.

 

He clearly asks for donations to the Noob fund.

 

Castor glad to see you've taken an interest shall I add you to the mentor index?

 

 

While you're right (if this really is the case??) please stay in topic and don't derail yet another legit thread, thanks! Im sure you can settle the above thing elsewhere.

 

Thanks for looking out Dee.

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First mentor questionnaires sent out and work has begun on the all-in-one guide.

We still need contributions for the guide and if any experienced managers are willing to be references to verify the information in the guide is correct contact me.

The last thing we want to do is put out an all-in-one guide with incorrect information on what each hidden effects or something of that nature.

 

Thank you for all your support thus far.

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First mentor questionnaires sent out and work has begun on the all-in-one guide.

We still need contributions for the guide and if any experienced managers are willing to be references to verify the information in the guide is correct contact me.

The last thing we want to do is put out an all-in-one guide with incorrect information on what each hidden effects or something of that nature.

 

Thank you for all your support thus far.

can any one have the guide or just new players as after 5 years i could still do with help

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I am willing to become a mentor. I stopped mentoring due to a couple of reasons (My last mentee turned out to be some scumbag called Dagg and I was sick of taking on mentees who went inactive within a week). Just let me know what you need me to do.

 

Also, I would be willing to proofread the guide to point out anything that might be incorrect, and will also help in anyway I can with the guide. If you need to ask me any questions just PM me :)

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Hey everyone,

 

if anyone has a guide or tips that they have they can either send to us or to the email in the first post.

 

Yes the guide can be used by everyone and it will be in depth so could help every sort of manager big or small.

 

If there anyone who would like to join just get in touch and we can get you joined. however, we will have a list of contacts who are going to be outside mentors so thank you to everyone that will help us with this venture and turn this into something special.

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Not to derail or anything but Alexi did write quite a good guide a little while back. Probably search it on the forum and use some of it or mail and ask him if he has a copy or something.

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I am willing to become a mentor. I stopped mentoring due to a couple of reasons (My last mentee turned out to be some scumbag called Dagg and I was sick of taking on mentees who went inactive within a week). Just let me know what you need me to do.

 

Also, I would be willing to proofread the guide to point out anything that might be incorrect, and will also help in anyway I can with the guide. If you need to ask me any questions just PM me :)

 

Excellent thank you for volunteering GBK I'll send out a mentor questionnaire.

 

can any one have the guide or just new players as after 5 years i could still do with help

 

This guide is for the entire community.

 

Not to derail or anything but Alexi did write quite a good guide a little while back. Probably search it on the forum and use some of it or mail and ask him if he has a copy or something.

 

Thanks for the tip Jax, not derailing at all I'll look into that.

 

I have copies of that guide if you need it.

 

If I can't find it I'll hit you up Skap thanks for offering.

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Project Illumination Status Update

 

In our first week we have accomplished several goals:

Begun building infrastructure including:

- Added 4 mentors to our mentor index

- Created and distributed a mentor questionnaire

 

Begun expanding Project Illumination:

- We have recruited approx. 5 players some new and some experienced

- We have continued to maintain a high level of responsiveness and activity in alliance chat

 

Begun planning and researching for the all-in-one guide:

- We have obtained permission from Alexi to include his guide (with the caveat we make sure to check the info is not outdated).

- We have collected several guides from members

- We have had several people volunteer to fact check the guide

- We have begun outlining the contents of the guide

 

What we need:

We would like the guide to contain a section called "What to do on your first day in Tycoon".

This section should cover almost everything in a very brief way. We are looking for input about

what topics people think should be represented in this section as well as what topics should be left

out to be covered in more advanced sections.

 

All in all a fairly productive week. I wish I had made more progress on the guide

but RL is pretty busy right now and between it and designing posters my time is limited

(I have just reworked some previous commitments to open up some more time).

 

Thank you to everyone who has or continues to support Project Illumination.

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Project Illumination Status Update

 

Since our last update things have become busy for myself in RL and my co-founder Liam Davidson (davie1903) has left Project Illumination as it's first graduate to become a member of Vendetta. We wish Liam all the best in this endeavor and will of course continue to provide any support we can to him as an alumni. This has resulted in some slight restructuring of the project but nothing noteworthy. Due to my busy RL schedule I am in the process of determining the best course to continue moving the project forward. I will likely be offering research and writing tasks internally to Project Illumination members with a tycoon buck reward for completing a given task. If there are any particular experts or writers externally that would be interested in contributing for a nominal fee or simply for the sake of helping out please pm me in game.

 

Since our last update (broken down by primary directive):

We have continued to provide consistent feedback for new players in alliance chat.

- For the first time we even had the fighters of two members bump heads in a QFC.

- Both managers carried themselves professionally and showed excellent sportsmanship,
I must say these kinds of firsts are what I personally look forward to witnessing.

- We are happy to have added several new players to our ranks including but not limited to Macho Man (madness), Aaron Blake (edge224), and Ryne Woodsmall (twookool)

 

Due to lack of personal time not as much progress as I would like has been made on compiling information for the all-in-one guide

I have however put together the first visual component of the Panopticon (the new name for the all-in-one guide).

The guide is available for viewing at this link: The Panopticon

We are continuing to encourage the community to contribute (such is the purpose of this post)

There was zero feedback from the community on things that should be absolutely included in the "Your first day in tycoon section".

We understand that every member of the communities time is valuable and that perhaps we should use different methods to obtain peoples opinions on the subject. To that end I will be putting up a separate post in General Discussion focused on this subject.

 

We are facilitating community connections and have been actively offering mentorship opportunities to our members

I would just like to thank all our volunteer mentors once again for donating their time to assist Project Illumination, you are all an integral part of our success.

 

Technically we've had a graduate which puts us one step closer to our goal to become an institute of learning

 

What we need:

We are always looking for more new players and volunteer mentors, feel free to direct anyone who qualifies as either to us.

 

Thank you to everyone who has or continues to support Project Illumination.

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