Post by Plague von Karma on Aug 22, 2020 15:47:26 GMT
The Roadmap
So you want to contribute to RBY 2k20? There's lots of ways to do so, and since you're here, it seems you're already well on your way. There's a lot of big plans for the future, so let's go over what's needed in their respective areas.Things being handled that don't have threads on The Workshop
Nothing right now!
Tournaments
Main contributors: Disaster Area, K Legacy, Ventous, SBPC
These individuals are in charge of;
- Building a tournament system in SQL (Disaster Area) - On hold
- Displaying brackets, points, usage, etc on-site (K Legacy, Disaster Area, SBPC)
- Creating a tool for tournament hosts to put in usage data and do other hosting duties (Ventous, Disaster Area, SBPC)
If you are skilled with SQL, PHP, or HTML, you can help out with this!
We're also interested in:
We want to produce a tournament team for OM Seasons, with people doing the following;
We're also interested in:
- Season Hosts (Disaster Area is going to eventually work on a write-up for how this will work, if you're interested message him)
- Producing an advanced player rating system in 2k20 to compare others.
- Utilizing tournament data on our analysis format.
- Team tournaments (very long way away from reaching this)
We want to produce a tournament team for OM Seasons, with people doing the following;
- Working as a Season Host.
- Someone to create the survey and manage what can and cannot be polled.
- Someone to write up survey results on-site.
Tiering
This is mainly being worked on by Disaster Area, but is on hold.
We're currently working on;
- How Tiering Councils will be created
- Suspect Testing & Banning Policy
- Creation of Lower Tiers
Guides & Resources
If you need assistance on finding info, review the RBY Resource Hub. We want to prioritize any formats with a season, but welcome any kind of contribution for any format with open arms. We want to put an articles feed onto the front page of the site as well.
Difficulty is graded with Easy Intermediate Difficult
Most easy articles tend to be marred by their monotonous nature.
High Priority Guides
- RBY 1U and OU analyses
- Policy documentation
- Tier introductions
Medium Priority Guides
Low Priority Guides
Content
Content through mediums such as YouTube videos are something we're always open to. Should you have the capabilities of making videos, please let us know!
We're looking to make videos such as;
We're also looking to stream on Twitch, with mmf being the main one working on a potential template.
We're interested in social media as well, so if anyone is interesting in help with managing that, give us a shout!
- Analyses for OMs (eg. Nintendo formats, STABmons, RRIB, RBY+, etc)
- Mechanics overviews (eg. What moves are affected by the "Same type effect immunity" and what does it mean?, x/256, Counter, Sleep)
- Battle strategy (eg. Lead matchups, switching in, prediction, etc)
- Teambuilding-related guides
- Legal DV Combinations (this post has a spreadsheet and tons of helpful info)
- Guide to the a tier's automatic & near-automatic additions, eg. Big 3/5 in OU, and when you can justify not using them in the teambuilder
- Resources for OMs (eg. Nintendo formats, STABmons, etc)
- Sample Teams
- Guides for modded formats such as Violet, RRIB, RBY+ and RBY251
Low Priority Guides
- Defensiveness List revamp (this)
- Ways to 2HKO Tauros (old 2k10 guide that's lost to time)
- Average Wrap length when paralyzed (old 2k10 guide that's lost to time)
- Analysis of Metronome (based on this)
- Speed Tiers w/Critical Hit rates
- New legal moves in 1U (this and this can go a long way)
- Historical pieces (eg. RBY BL when that was around, Pre-Crystal_ RBY?)
- Freeze odds article (this may be helpful)
- Revamp of the massive calc doc Isa did back in the day, maybe include everything on the VR?
Content
Content through mediums such as YouTube videos are something we're always open to. Should you have the capabilities of making videos, please let us know!
We're looking to make videos such as;
- Pokemon Spotlights
- Yearly Metagame Reports
- Gameplay analysis (eg. Narrated Matches)
- Teambuilding analysis
- Player interviews
- Metagame History
- New metagame trends
We're also looking to stream on Twitch, with mmf being the main one working on a potential template.
We're interested in social media as well, so if anyone is interesting in help with managing that, give us a shout!