I consider myself a newbie as there are still things I don't know, but I started mapping in MOHAA, through the COD series and eventually picked up COH, HL2 and now BIA mapping. I can make single player and multiplayer maps for each game and I have people on xfire/vent/msn asking me for help pretty much everyday, most of them are trying to get into mapping and are put off by editors they are yet to understand and tutorials that look too long. They simply prefer learning the basics and solving errors instantly, which I can't blame them for.

I chat on ventrilo with freinds that are mappers, it's very fast to solve errors that way and we discuss level design all the time, so the system works in that sense.

At the end of the day if the answers that are given via chat are also posted here,
foyleman

you'll make foyleman and a lot of other mappers very happy.

well i have to support grim on this as i have been contacted
on xfire not to help mapping but people joining to just become admin on my server ? thats not mapping and it will take a while to weed them out ,ModsOnLine is our source and we all work here when we to help solve issues with mapping ,scripting and so on
as for chat ,im all for it i mapped for 2 yrs with sand box and a few either programs but the radiant was a pain ,untill FRU Elim started a mapper help desk it didnt last long :(
but, i had 2-1/2 hour sets with him and in that time i learned all key things needed to make maps ! very helpfull "thanks FRU Elim,
learnerd where and how to make gsc where things go ,keys for making patches ,loadscreens "cod2 ,was able to make my first cod2 map Tilldusk ive made 20+ maps since, cod4 was alot easyer because of this,"till loadscreens lol" but i got it finally thanks "ModsOnLine" for there tuts
we all need to work to learn more ,and if you are not willing to spend mass time to make maps and you just want to play them, save us the time and drop out ,most of us have 1000s of hrs in mapping ,and can help ,but im not giving out rcon passwords or anything else to do with servers or clans
this is a mapping help line
i will be on and off ,and willing to help mapping
this can work!

No need to explain and debate who is right and wrong here (I had to delete some unacceptable posts).

THANKS Foyleman
it is just a easy for people to post there problems and one of us can contact them, and set up ts ,(the post must be off the hook lol ,to have to remove them ,lot of angry people these days )

foley im not quite sure why you deleted my post?
i just explained why the person complaining about being removed was indeed removed
is that out of line?

Yes as it furthers the argument.

Back on track, how is the help desk thing going? Would be good to know what's going on and many people signed up etc?

GRIM-G-RC writes...

Your post and few other was removed due to the nature of the content, every following post was adding fuel to the fire. A certain issue has come up from these posts and is still being discussed.

Therefore it was best to remove them completly.

I understand
i thought it might be helpful to know why the person got kicked out
but i get it

we are up to 63 members in the mappers guild for xfire
it seems to be going very well from what i see

every now and then someone asks me a question and i can answer it
more often then not i cant answer it but i dont mind being asked

if and when a question that is being asked to me is not on the forums or tutorials i will be sure to post it if i can answer it efficiantly

Signed up. As someone asked before how will the people needing help know who to ask?

try putting the question in your status on xfire
at the bottom of xfire set status like this

Q. loadscreens?
Q. wont compile?
Q.material dont load?
Q.adding prefabs?
q.errors ?
then one of us that have idea about it can help