Recruitment Campaign, Paragon Studios is hiring!

In my most unconventional suggestion yet, I propose something that doesn't affect the City of game directly, but can indirectly improve the rate of content creation.

After viewing the front page so many times, I quickly noticed a banner saying City of Heroes was hiring, for months and months I've seen the occasional position come and go, but nothing special.

But this is the thing, there's still a bunch of positions left to be filled and as of the date of posting, included an Animator, Character Artist and a few game and server engineers. Most of the list feature some rather critical content-related positions, as well as some coding and stability positions for servers. The requirements are pretty high, necessary to keep a game like Co* at the top of it's game, but it's reachable for any person with experience.

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It's not enough for us to just 'say' what we want the game to have, because ultimately it's the devs that are hired that have to do the suggestions and work already scheduled. If we want to help this game and the development team improve their diversity and productivity, it will be necessary to keep up with demand, by boosting their manpower.

What I suggest is for people, anybody really, to spread the word. "Paragon Studios is hiring!" The more the news is spread, the more chance that some budding animator, artist or engineer will see that there's a job opening suitable for them and might apply for it. With the kind of requirements stated in the job descriptions, the ones that do get hired will be top-quality members of the team! (give or take a few months to get used to the environment and systems involved)

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The idea of the playerbase helping advertise job positions for a game studio sounds rather crazy, but I see it as a way of helping out the devs achieve some of the more difficult tasks put off due to a lack of resources for the time given. It will also mean a slight productivity boost. Content can be created faster or more different types of content at the same time.

Perhaps it will work amazingly well, or realistically it might take a long while. But if more people talk about the open positions in Paragon studios, the more chance suitable candidates will pick up on it and give it a go.

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Who here would be even the slightest bit interested in spreading the word? Would you say it loud and proud, or keep it discreet? Or is this suggestion just plain silly?

I'd be interested in an actaul job, although I do need to finish my animation course first.

Then I could give up on sleep and re-build all the out-dated mobs and start churning out costume pieces.
Might even get made a canon character...
What? Even robots can dream, ok?

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I actually wanted to apply for a Powers Designer position when it was still open, however I was (and still am) involved in my Games Art & Design course at university, and will be for this and the next year. Sadly the position got filled and hasn't come up since, which sucks for me because I am really, REALLY not qualified for anything else on the list.

It's hard for a new designer to get into the biz when they require you to have been on a AAA-title development team first.

The stupid thing about the industry;
You can't get work without getting work in the industry first.
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Uhm...oh-KAY, way to kill off any potentials from the get go.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.