New Skin Submission/Management Process

[Skuzzy]

As the title says.  You no longer will use email to submit skins, or manage your skins.

The skin submssion page will be used for all skin submissions.  In order to submit a skin, you will need an active game account.

If you have any problems with the above page, please let us know.

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it is not allowing me to sign in, I am using my ingame name

[Skuzzy]

it is not allowing me to sign in, I am using my ingame name

Not your game ID.  Your game login ID.

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Not your game ID.  Your game login ID.

    durrr

all good

[Devil 505]

Skuzzy, how will notifaction of a skin being accepted be handled with the new system? I see the 4 109's I submitted on a list titled "Currently Submitted Skins", and the list for "Released Skins" is obviously empty, but there is not a list for accepted skins not yet in the game.

[Skuzzy]

"Currently Submitted" is the list of skins we have in the queue for review.  When it makes that list, your skin(s) is ready for the review process.  It makes the list as soon as you submit it.  In this particular case, I inserted them for you so I could test the submission process.

The new system is going to be much, much more efficient about getting skins reviewed.  Once you submit the skin, it is ready for the internal review process.  It also takes a load off of the skinner as now you no longer need to keep up with the skin reference number, which is needed if you update a skin.  It saves many hours of work for us as we no longer have to translate emails to skin submissions and let the skinner know we got the skin.  I am still flushing out the details internally, but we hope to be able to review skins for inclusion a couple of times a month.

Right now we are overlapping the old with the new.  The new, being the submission process.  The old being the internal review process.  It will take some time to get it all flushed out and completed, but it is already shaping up to be a much more efficient system.  I am deliberately taking my time with getting this all done to make sure all the bases are covered, but at the same time, I really am looking forward to finishing this project.

It has been eating at me for years.

[B4Buster]

Any plans on having submitted skins pass a quality check administered by members of the skinning team?

[Skuzzy]

Any plans on having submitted skins pass a quality check administered by members of the skinning team?

No.

[Krusty]

Is there any way to disupute skins' authenticity or accuracy if they are blatantly bad or non-combat markings, etc?

For example the black P-38 that took so many years to get removed from the game? There are at least a few more that similarly don't really belong.

[caldera]

It saves many hours of work for us as we no longer have to translate emails to skin submissions and let the skinner know we got the skin.

Skuzzy, will the map submission process be updated to a similar process?  (A long time ago) a squaddie submitted a MA map and received a confirmation email that it was received.  Many months later, he checked to see how it was proceeding and got a reply that you guys never received the map.  I had something similar occur after sending in a map for a rough check on the base layout.  I gave up on finishing the map after thinking it would somehow disappear into the ether as well.

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Is there any way to disupute skins' authenticity or accuracy if they are blatantly bad or non-combat markings, etc?

For example the black P-38 that took so many years to get removed from the game? There are at least a few more that similarly don't really belong.

isn't that already done

[Krusty]

isn't that already done

Some folks unscrupulously sneak a skin in without any review, keeping it hidden and/or supplying one-sided or bad info with the skin in hopes of getting it accepted, all just because they like it. Some skins in game I can name right now were skinned without knowledge it wasn't a combat set of markings, and some were skinned deliberately knowing (and still submitting) that it was an unarmed noncombat skin.

So, no. That's not done already. There's a general honor rule that gets abused, and now according to the orphan system whenever a skin gets accepted it's in for eternity. So hence my question about if there will be some kind of oversight for inaccurate/inauthentic skins which have snuck into the game by whatever means (ignorance or intent) but ought not be.

[Skuzzy]

Is there any way to disupute skins' authenticity or accuracy if they are blatantly bad or non-combat markings, etc?

For example the black P-38 that took so many years to get removed from the game? There are at least a few more that similarly don't really belong.

The problem with removing an accepted skin, is we need more than one person claiming it is not accurate.  That said, let's not jump the gun.  This new process is just getting off the ground.  There is still a lot to do. The removal process for any skin is going to be easier, once I am done with this entire system.  Everything is going to be easier, quite frankly.

Skuzzy, will the map submission process be updated to a similar process?  (A long time ago) a squaddie submitted a MA map and received a confirmation email that it was received.  Many months later, he checked to see how it was proceeding and got a reply that you guys never received the map.  I had something similar occur after sending in a map for a rough check on the base layout.  I gave up on finishing the map after thinking it would somehow disappear into the ether as well.

That is already done.  Terrains can be submitted and used in the arenas (except for the Main arenas) without HTC intervention.  It is all built into the Terrain Editor.  If you want the terrain to be available to the Main arenas, then you contact us and we can make it happen.  Much simpler process than before.

The problems with using email before is I would get a one line question, "How is my terrain?", with no other reference and I would not have a clue what the question was in reference to.  I also suffered a loss of my email box, once, due to an HD failure, which caused a number of projects to be lost.

No one is happier than I am about getting all of this out of the email system.

[Chilli]

Great news Skuzzy!  Then I guess no more of these email box incidences................ http://youtu.be/urizHysauG0