[Zomboy]

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Originally Posted by Potassium I have some amazing ideas for a server but I don't know PAWN, however I'm still opening a server - just doing so with another person who does know PAWN. I have years of experience here - enough to know what people are looking for in a decent server -, and I have years of admin experience across multiple popular servers. So I believe I (and my team) have what it takes to make a successful server So will you still make the same statement and say that I shouldn't be making a server because I don't know PAWN?

No, Indeed you need not know PAWN but a reputed and experienced player like you can easily get players and scripters (A full team of them Infact) but not everyone is well reputed and if you're not reputed enough you're most likely gonna get Ignored, scammed or in worst case scenario get your script stolen and hence, only people with sheer beginner's luck manage to get a highly trusted and skilled scripter in their team.
For eg. Lets suppose you know scripting and if well reputed players invite you to join their team you WILL accept it but if someone like me(low reputed and not a very well known player) invites you to join my team you'd most definitely ignore or straight away reject the offer.

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Originally Posted by Potassium The fact that he has created the topic shows that he is interested in doing it the "right" way, just doesn't yet know how to do that.

Indeed he is interested in doing it "The Right Way" but would just doing it right bring him players?

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Originally Posted by Potassium we shouldn't be discouraging him from doing so.

Making him learn PAWN to create server with features he likes rather than making him reliable fully on his "hired" scripter isn't really "Discouragement" in my opinion.