It is really difficult to find someone who is interested an open minded about working on someone's project. Just because of the fact that people do like creative control and just control in general. You have to be aggressive if you want people to help you. Don't wait for them to come to you. I have gotten lucky and found myself a terrainer to help me in my work and I even offered $600 dollars for his work, but he gracefully declined and he is STILL helping me 5 months later. I am also paying out $2-4 dollars per spell being made to another person.
I'm not trying to downplay your money arrangements here TMMagic, but even my payments are really low considering the amount of time that some people have to put into a project's creation. True enough - modding is free and we should be doing it for fun. But what if I don't want to do it for fun and get money? Well, you'd bet your ass I'd get a decent amount of money for 100+ hours of work! (Not $10/20). AND - if I did want to do it for fun, it'd be on my own accord and ideas.
Also - I do help other people from time to time. I usually am directly requested (Which is what I suggest you start doing on these forums). If I like someone's map and I've talked to them before, I'll ask them if they need help with anything and that's how I usually get involved in projects as well.
The way you are searching for talent is the most effective way to get people. MONEY! Time = money, as you may have heard. If that wasn't true, then employer's would go scouting on their own looking for people instead of having to negotiate payments. (Of course this isn't true right now cause of the recession)
My suggestion to you is to go out and look for people on your own and reach out to them rather than having people come to you. This is an aggressive approach and most effective especially if you don't want to dish out large amounts of money. Also - offer other forms of credit, for example state you have plans to put the map on the marketplace and that you will split revenue with team members - this is common in most start-up studios/projects. Of course 99.9% of projects proposed NEVER get finished. Also keep in mind the programmer's mentality! 90% of a project is made instantly. The rest of the 10% is what takes the longest.
This is quite true.. i'm working for Enexy right now in Rise of Nigma, A.K.A. Eternal Dusk as another person who can do triggers other than himself. I've lately been getting ed over by school work and parents so I don't work as much as I did during the Summer, but i'm still close to the project and do as much as I can when I can. I've actually tried to make a Wilderness Survival map, but that was the first map I made and turned out to be pretty good, with me doing everything, including the units, triggers, and everything. But I eventually gave that up and moved to a RPG so I can get into the SCU Development team, but I posted the application when they were very busy to check the forums, and eventually Enexy hired me to work on Rise of Nigma. People who work on projects that like it don't want to work under a leader who can't do some of the hard parts of the Editor. Like seriously, looking for: Item Creator and the requirements is to make an ability? Data/Unit Editor, Trigger Editor, and UI Editor. It seems like you can only do Terrain, and put that an Item Creator has to make an Ability, the lack of knowledge shows, and people don't want to work under an incompetent leader.
I don't want to be mean or anything, but it's the truth... projects die either because the team isn't motivated, or the leader is very incompetent and wants the team to do everything for him without paying them.
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This is quite true.. i'm working for Enexy right now in Rise of Nigma, A.K.A. Eternal Dusk as another person who can do triggers other than himself. I've lately been getting ed over by school work and parents so I don't work as much as I did during the Summer, but i'm still close to the project and do as much as I can when I can. I've actually tried to make a Wilderness Survival map, but that was the first map I made and turned out to be pretty good, with me doing everything, including the units, triggers, and everything. But I eventually gave that up and moved to a RPG so I can get into the SCU Development team, but I posted the application when they were very busy to check the forums, and eventually Enexy hired me to work on Rise of Nigma. People who work on projects that like it don't want to work under a leader who can't do some of the hard parts of the Editor. Like seriously, looking for: Item Creator and the requirements is to make an ability? Data/Unit Editor, Trigger Editor, and UI Editor. It seems like you can only do Terrain, and put that an Item Creator has to make an Ability, the lack of knowledge shows, and people don't want to work under an incompetent leader. I don't want to be mean or anything, but it's the truth... projects die either because the team isn't motivated, or the leader is very incompetent and wants the team to do everything for him without paying them.