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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:49 am
You just recieved positive Karma for that. Haha
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:55 am
cheers for the Karma.
Geromix, is the Forumation team gonna be putting up any more extras? new updates i mean that they have made public?
Geromix Admin
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:27 am
DarkGhost wrote:
cheers for the Karma.
Geromix, is the Forumation team gonna be putting up any more extras? new updates i mean that they have made public?
Updates happen once in 3 months.This update was big so we will have to wait for some time for next one.
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:30 am
kk... well what do u suggest for firstly the intro page. we should start going deeper into these ideas.
whats a four section forum by the way?
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DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:51 am
Heres the video suggestions if you decide to put any on the portal page or branch pages or whatever we are doing.
all video showings have been changed using settings capable to make them appropriate for the site including removal of similar videos option. The video screen size can be changed! dont panic that they are all diffrent size movies. options are 320 x 265, 425 x 344, 480 x 385, 640 x 505.
Unfortunately i could not find a half decent one for Pirate Puzzles. Any others u find post them here.
bulbster Newbie
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:33 am
>New chat system. with this maybe i can suggest
In real life by the way I am a web developer both in php and .net/c# . Maybe i can be a help. > > It also mention in the forum a chat system. maybe we can add my chat server to the site, aside from shoutbox it is the best strategical for all kinds of games that aof have. We try it before but it didn't work out properly since it is just a link in the site and not viewable to all users.
this time lets make it viewable and very accessible to all.
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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we talking about that one we used the IRC Chat & Counter thats on the portal that we have Once we login type /join #aof to join us. If so a. i dont really like it that much. b. if ur keeping it its quite inconvient having to go to other offsite links.
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:10 am
If any of the game/ branch members had ideas to increase effectivness and awareness of roles in branchs maybe.
For example maybe for the Pirate Puzzle branch we may add an option for you to set ur ingame crew position in the form of the image on your profiles.
AoF Flag roles: - Monarch - Royalty - Titled - Member
Im sure that options could be included with the progression to even narrow down what crew you find yourself in.
Other branchs could include anything they have for example if their was an image of resonable size for diplomat or one of the other roles such as in Ikarium. Or we could ask one of the graphics teams nicely to throw afew of the same size as above together for the ranks in all branchs.
Arch_Vile Admin
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a new chat system that i have in mind was the one that have an 'alarm" sound whenver you got a new msg...this will lets us know that someone has replied, the current chat system and all the chat system we have here does not have that so even if you msg someone you prolly get the answer in like an hours time which is very inconvenient if your doing coordinate attacks.
another one i had in mind was something similar to teamspeak, using a mic to talk to your frens which is easier rather than have to type..certain game requires that kind of communication in place. so if we have a certain chat system that can provide both, is good really.
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:10 am
i actually find teamspeak worse. unless ur all from the NI like me and Titan dear knows what u think were saying with are accents and choice of vocab...lol
have u got any links to this chat thing u talkign about so we can have alook?
Titan Admin
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:33 am
I never really gave TS a go but then again i only use Xfire for that stuff.
A good chat program for this forum would be very cool. I never use the current ones, only the shoutbox for random chat about anything >_<
Sangheili Admin
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:44 am
well, as for a mic chat system theres skype
i had it downloaded on my laptop(which is now broken, was old anyways) to check it out, seemed pretty nice
we could use it alongside something else for text chatting
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:32 am
so out of interest whats these extra 5 HTML pages gonna be?
Also the creation of Links to the Wiki's of All Games that we play here. Maybe not Voids but we can put in links for the Discovery Wiki, The Ogame Wiki, The Pirate Puzzles Wiki, The Ikariam Wiki & if their is one the Tribal Wars we can add it.
Arch_Vile Admin
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:58 am
I dont have the links of the " chat and mic-chat of my dreams" that i mentioned as i dont know if they even existed if so i dont they are...since skpe has been mentioned i can go check it out.
recently me and me fren used msn as a way of text chatting and used steam acct for both text and mic chatting.perhaps we can use it but if we have a provider like bulbster who actually have and owned a chat website could have this incorporate in our forum would be good tho.
or a website that incorporates both is even better
wat is steam, well i dont know how to describe it by hopes this ones explains it all... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(content_delivery)
Titan Admin
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:12 am
Steam made installing Empire Total war hell on earth, I HATE STEAM!!!
For a while i didn't know their was an offline mode for steam so when my internet wasn't working for a while i couldn't play ETW so i was soo incredible annoyed, I HATE STEAM!!!
techno_kid Admin
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:30 am
you all have lots of intesting ideas but could someone mock up a list of them and turn then into polls, then we know wot to do
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:42 am
maybe we should make a new theme. Addings bits of all the games we are playing at moment.
On a side note im willing to lend a hand with some of the HTML on the portal (i know some but normally with a tutorial infront of me to refresh) & some of the forum & site stuff aswell. If u want ofcourse. tell me when to play ball and ill help were i can.
Arch_Vile Admin
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Maybe we should make a list of wat we want on the forum...heres my list,not really a list tbh.
I want to have a communication software or program that uses both mic and text based for use with communication with members effectively.
The current mic and text based software i been using is Ventrilo, been using it today in my alliance in GW.Only drawback was i got to pay to be the server. The only free one is the Steam program but you might face problems like the one Titan had.
The only famous chat is MSN, if MSN can be used for mic-chat it could be good...we can all get an MSN acct...make it mandatory.
Cugix Admin
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I can arrange for an Xfire banner that directly links to the site of Xfire that i used on other sites if i can find it again. it was black so should fit that kinda theme. If u want ofcourse... its like a small banner bar. We could also setup an AoF clan their to keep all members in touch. many of us already use it.
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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on a side note i was just thinking their that i might turn all of the 'username' mentioned areas on the portal into links to forum profiles. For example we have the list of users with roles in branch's such as the Pheonix Hand in Ikariam.
mightybean Senior Member
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i was also just thinking... If it's possible to do a "recent posts" section like they have on the Void Server site that'd be great. I know we have the most recent post for each section, but you have to fish through everything if your looking for something that is a bit older.
That'd be AWESOME!
DarkGhost AoF Legend
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:43 am
not 100% sure with that last request if its possible on this site. although we do have the Latest topics block on the portal and on the forum blocks to the right...
Also i was thinking what if we made a more application fill in process of recruitment were by is it possible to make a application sheet for all branchs in one. One section to be filled in by all peeps wanting to be filled in with options to tick & character names to fill in similar to the idea of the questions that we have on forums but on the site itself now.
Arch_Vile Admin
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:18 pm
Ah darkghost now your talking lol, great xfire...i didnt thought of it ha ha, xfire is cool but izzit free??
mightybean Senior Member
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Subject: Re: Forum Revamp Ideas Thread Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:44 pm
xFire is free mate! Really useful tool, and doesn't interfer with gameplay at all!
Just google the official site and you can download it from there.