Large Project based on Shaiya (2014-2015) Looking for Experienced Team. Good Pay Rate

[ProTrader155]

Shaiya 2 Project

This project is in the beginning of its theoretical construction, it may change completely and take longer to accomplish. I am looking for developers who are intregueed and want the opportunity to work with me to make this happen.

THIS IS NOT The usual Shaiya Private Server.

What I need
BASIC TO EXTENSIVE PRIVATE SERVER EDITING:
- Someone with the ability to easily edit the Shaiya Database, manipulate it to do what I want for the project, can become quite complex tasks from Epic Quests, to Titles, to Forges, to PvP Rewards, to Mob Spawns etc...
- Someone with the ability of editing Gears etc, to change colour etc the basics basically.
- Someone with extensive knowledge of the Shaiya world and p-server development experience. SERVER FILES WILL BE NEWEST EPISODE, however they will be completely modded in the end.
- Someone with knowledge of modding the Auction House, building stock exchanges, and transactions between WEBSITE and INGAME.
- Someone with the ability to fix ALL bugs/glitches/exploits
- Someone with the ability of editing classes, removing classes, creating new ones, merging skill trees, creating skill trees, making items equipable to different classes, changing stats etc...

3-D MODELER/EDITOR / Map Editor

- Someone that understands 3-DModelling, can has knowledge on importing 3 D Models, Animations, Rigs, Particles from other games, or custom made into the game and making them fit in and work smoothly.
- Someone that knows MAP editing to the extent of creating new terrain, might be using HERO 2 ENGINE or UNITY 3D with Maya / Max to achieve this.
- Someone that knows how to import MOBS/NPCs/New characters, Character animations, Items, Armors, Weapons, Sets and even buildings and terrains from other games like "GW2, SWOTR and more custom ones"
- Someone with a little experience on creating new maps etc...

I need people with knowledge of Shaiya, 3D Modelling, Database manipulation, Coding, Animation and more.

Project Budget: Will be aiming at 50,000$ USD for now, costs may change, since this is a private server we will be pirating 99% of the things anyway and the money will go to the team/tools that can't be pirated.

Goal:
Mod the shaiya that already exists, and apply huge new custom expansions, to create a new world.
The modding will be so extensive that it will completely change the gameplay, however theory is not a problem, I have the project in mind and know what I want to do with it.

ETA:
Modding the game - Within 3months max with good Team
Making First expansion- Within 16months of game modding with good Team.

PAYMENT WILL VARY DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE, I DO NOT HAVE TO HIRE YOU, NOT LOOKING FOR THE USUAL P-SERVER DEVELOPERS, I NEED SOMEONE WITH EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE.


Project is not going to have a starting date until Team has been assembled, thank you.

If you are interested please PM me. More information is available, however I do not wish to share too much.

Expense Plan:
DDOS Protected large hosting (up to 1000$ monthly cost)
SEO Work (up to 2000$ monthly cost)
ENGINE (Depends on which, aiming for free/100$ max)
TEAM (Depending on knowledge and working hours, hoping to pay 5-15$ per hour depending on experience level)

[Fender1951]

its illegal to try and do this you moron.

[ProTrader155]

Originally Posted by Fender1951

its illegal to try and do this you moron.

To do what?
I want to make a private server, a more advanced ones, any private server is illegal. And I would not go around calling people morons.
I will contact Choi Rock to see what price they list the licenses for.

[CyberSandler]

I was just thinking...

[ProTrader155]

I am not sure what that is about.
I will keep this thread up, if you are serious and potentially interested tell me.

[nubness]

All in all, the ideas are good, but it looks quite impossible without official server help.

Originally Posted by ProTrader155

To do what?
I want to make a private server, a more advanced ones, any private server is illegal. And I would not go around calling people morons.
I will contact Choi Rock to see what price they list the licenses for.

First of all, it's not Choi Rock, it's Nexon.

Second of all, they have very high prices on Shaiya, so unless you're ready to pay a few hundreds of thousands of USD or EUR, you cannot expect anything from them. Whatever is connected to official servers is all about money.

Anyway, good luck with it.

[TeddyBear94]

just a small sense from me. dont expect if u putted that money into it to get it back. Furthermore if u are looking for such an experience team ur defniatly wrong here

[Fender1951]

Originally Posted by TeddyBear94

just a small sense from me. dont expect if u putted that money into it to get it back. Furthermore if u are looking for such an experience team ur defniatly wrong here

[ProTrader155]

I am sure there are some coders here, and I posted here to see if anyone is interested, the project is starting in a year so there is a lot of time to learn.
Also I don't understand why people are bashing it, and thats why I said MAYBE ask them if they can sell the rights, I doubt they would for under 100k.
Also it is NOT impossible, I know a team of 4 who were nubs and they managed to make over a year their own game engine derived from the Shaiya game engine and then build a game, its called Ascended, not fully finished.

[[Admin]Snuggle]

The team that is building Ascended are not "nubs" lol they actually know what they are doing.
Plus it's not built from Shaiya, it's built from Unity.
On the subject here..you are trying to build off a game that honestly has no high value place in the game world.
If you want to do a project 'this' big then you might as well invest in creating a whole new game from scratch through Unity, UDK, or Cry Engine. (which all 3 are free to use if I might add)
Trust me when I say it's a waste of time and money to try to bring back an old game like this.
Even more so since it's an mmo.
Mmos are ever changing as of the games, you need to adapt to 2013-2014 standards.
This is more 2005ish..I forget when it came out it's been forever.
Just look at E3 alone this year and see how far mmos have developed.
They are now on the next gen consoles and they look fantastic. (ie: Destiny and The Division)
PC gaming sadly just isn't what it used to be.
Just some helpful advice.

[nubness]

Originally Posted by ProTrader155

Also it is NOT impossible, I know a team of 4 who were nubs and they managed to make over a year their own game engine derived from the Shaiya game engine and then build a game, its called Ascended, not fully finished.

Originally Posted by [Admin]Snuggle

The team that is building Ascended are not "nubs" lol they actually know what they are doing.

Snuggle, you're in the wrong tense here. Everyone is a nub at some point, so I guess ProTrader155 could be right. You can make a big effort to start something as big as Ascended as a total dummy, and if you have enough determination, you can do it, and evolve from being just a nub.

Originally Posted by [Admin]Snuggle

Plus it's not built from Shaiya, it's built from Unity.

This sentence of yours makes no sense at all. Shaiya and Unity are 2 different things. Shaiya is a game, Unity is a game engine.
I'm not totally sure, but I believe the engine Shaiya was built in is Microsoft's SDK(Software Development Kit).

At first they built it in Unity, yes. However, after running a few tests they went into more problems, including the well-known Shaiya lag that occurs when there's too many objects to load, so they decided to switch over to Unreal Engine (UE3), also known as UDK (Unreal Development Kit).



I kinda have to agree with Teddy there, you may not return your investments.

[ProTrader155]

I was basing this on the idea that there are a lot of old shaiya fans out there, and that this would be a new experience, but I guess you are right. I will see. This year I am working on my new company anyway, was looking to see what kind of people were interested.

[[Admin]Snuggle]

Oh nubness you try too hard.
I love how you go after me though <3 it really shows off your man crush.
Anyway.
I'm far from stupid so you can stop trying to say things I say don't make sense.
If you would do a bit of something called reading:

Originally Posted by ProTrader155

I know a team of 4 who were nubs and they managed to make over a year their own game engine derived from the Shaiya game engine and then build a game, its called Ascended, not fully finished.

My response was to all that.
Shaiya isn't a game engine. Anyone with half a brain knows that.
I was using his wording. Duh. -.- I do that.
Also he was referring to the Ascended team not knowing a thing and just picking up a project.
Which it wasn't like that at all.
The team they have actually have skills such as being graphic designers and programmers.
They have the skills already at hand to do this type of thing.
Plus they even have the resources.
I know this because I used to have contact with Tex back when he first talked about this project.
His original idea was sort of a "Shaiya 2" he even used all of Shaiya's resources.
Yet he was smart enough to look and say there is no profit to be had here.
Then started his own project from scratch.

[nubness]

Originally Posted by [Admin]Snuggle

Oh nubness you try too hard.
I love how you go after me though <3 it really shows off your man crush.
Anyway.
I'm far from stupid so you can stop trying to say things I say don't make sense.
If you would do a bit of something called reading:

My response was to all that.
Shaiya isn't a game engine. Anyone with half a brain knows that.
I was using his wording. Duh. -.- I do that.
Also he was referring to the Ascended team not knowing a thing and just picking up a project.
Which it wasn't like that at all.
The team they have actually have skills such as being graphic designers and programmers.
They have the skills already at hand to do this type of thing.
Plus they even have the resources.
I know this because I used to have contact with Tex back when he first talked about this project.
His original idea was sort of a "Shaiya 2" he even used all of Shaiya's resources.
Yet he was smart enough to look and say there is no profit to be had here.
Then started his own project from scratch.

Snuggle : 1+1=3
nubness : 1+1=2
Snuggle : 1+1=2, but you still suck nubness, and I'm right.

That's exactly what your non-sense looks like.

If you can't see the difference between were and are, I'm afraid that's not my problem.

[ProTrader155]

Hmmm true, guys pls don't flame at me, I don't understand why people always feel the need to flame, was just an idea... I was interested in joining the gaming industry maybe, but meh I will see.
Maybe a private server "company", of many games etc, will see next year. Thanks for the input guys