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<blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1607518" data-attributes="member: 5">I see that Shallown has already made many good points, and with a more detailed accounting than I have, but I'll just add...We trust the back end team to maintain the spirit of the front end team's work, if any changes need to be made.&nbsp; Sending it back for another go-aroudn with all of the writers would be too time consuming and likely to get hung up as so many schedules would have to be accomodated to do it fully.&nbsp; Unless we wanted to put out no more than one a year (maybe two), we'd be hard pressed to do otherwise.It's actually a lot more liberal in favor of the writers than a simple freelancer's work-for-hire in that the front end has plenty of time to work out the kinks, and the back end team is doing mostly clean up.&nbsp; Oddly enough, it's the clean up that really takes the most time.&nbsp; Or, perhaps, not so oddly when you consider how many DMs are chock full of ideas and how many ever get published.&nbsp; It's mostly the &quot;busy work&quot; that is done on the back end and the &quot;creative work&quot; (the fun stuff) that mostly gets done on the front end.I think we might look toward bringing in a few more folks to the back end as time goes by so that we can speed up the process, but that's for Trainz to determine and will largely be decided on a case-by-case basis.&nbsp; You (Conaill) sound interested in getting behind the scenes but I have to warn you; It's a LOT more work, the work is a LOT more mundane, and the glory really goes to those who get the contributors credits, in the end.&nbsp; (Be careful what you wish for, because we might just ruin the whole experience for you by taking you up on it!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(One caveat to the above by Shallown is that once I am done with the layout and legal work I send a copy back to Trainz for yet another final approval.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark, post: 1607518, member: 5"] I see that Shallown has already made many good points, and with a more detailed accounting than I have, but I'll just add... We trust the back end team to maintain the spirit of the front end team's work, if any changes need to be made. Sending it back for another go-aroudn with all of the writers would be too time consuming and likely to get hung up as so many schedules would have to be accomodated to do it fully. Unless we wanted to put out no more than one a year (maybe two), we'd be hard pressed to do otherwise. It's actually a lot more liberal in favor of the writers than a simple freelancer's work-for-hire in that the front end has plenty of time to work out the kinks, and the back end team is doing mostly clean up. Oddly enough, it's the clean up that really takes the most time. Or, perhaps, not so oddly when you consider how many DMs are chock full of ideas and how many ever get published. It's mostly the "busy work" that is done on the back end and the "creative work" (the fun stuff) that mostly gets done on the front end. I think we might look toward bringing in a few more folks to the back end as time goes by so that we can speed up the process, but that's for Trainz to determine and will largely be decided on a case-by-case basis. You (Conaill) sound interested in getting behind the scenes but I have to warn you; It's a LOT more work, the work is a LOT more mundane, and the glory really goes to those who get the contributors credits, in the end. (Be careful what you wish for, because we might just ruin the whole experience for you by taking you up on it!) ;) (One caveat to the above by Shallown is that once I am done with the layout and legal work I send a copy back to Trainz for yet another final approval.) [/QUOTE]

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