Multi guild website area - any interest?

[Mehallie]

Progress update:

Unfortunatly none so far

Between looking after my wife and the fact I have been getting a headache every time I sat infront of the screen I have made no progress towards getting this online.

If the weather is bad this weekend maybe something will get done - and maybe over the next 24 hours (paracetamol is your friend)

That and I want to switch my linux version to debian asap since my current kernel is too old to run the nvidia 3D drivers, and the CDs arrived this morning (modem install would really be slow)

I\'ll try get something done but will keep you updated

simm

[simm]

Oooops

That last post was me writing under my wife\'s ID (forgot to check who was logged in last)

Same applies - just read as if it were from me

[Kada-El]

Originally posted by Mazrim
If we had a planeshift guild page, there would be a link to all the guilds, and all there info...

You can use this guild page  for now if you want to check out some guilds. I have only listed guilds with web sites so far - I find that guilds without a site tend to be the first to disappear into obscurity.

simm - please give our best wishes to Mehallie, let her know we are thinking about her.

[cmhitman]

he-he   , the k\'s will rule you all??
lol
thats funny, the only guild i know of even fit for planeshift domination is scope  

[simm]

Right, we are both feeling a lot better now and I am finally getting a chance to sit down and do some serious coding on this.

Hopefully I will make some decent progress today!

One other thing - whether I am involved in a guild or not - this suite will be totally guild neutral - ie it will provide hosting for as many guilds that want and site creation tools (it is not quite giving you a strait HTML page - however I think you will like what it offers)

In fact it will work better with more guilds on it (if not all guilds on it) simple by the interation it offers by using a common database.

Ok enough of the concept of it and down to writing the rest of it.

Then I just need to get a domain for it.

Any suggestions? (bear in mind this will be a multi game suite and so the game name should not be in this domain - the game name will be a subdomain eg horizons.domain.com or planeshift.domain.com)

simm

[simm]

Ok well good news

I got pretty much all of what is needed to get the suite online done today.

the only thing missing is a guild creation area, however until I decide what system I want to use for people setting up guilds I will put up a forum, in which a guild leader cna post their guild details and chater - I will note that these will have to be of a reasonable length (not just one liners) and then get 5 other people to sign under you to say they also want to be in the guild.

This will eventually change to an automated system when I get change to write it.

Also for now once you are in a guild there will not be a way to leave it until again I get time to add it, so I dont recomend making joke guilds \"to see what happens\".

Lastly I will note that to start off with at least all planeshift members will count as \"paying\" status. Doesn\'t really mean that much in effect as I have no payment system implemented (and as I have said probably wont be using one for planeshift) - however the game requires members to be paying or non paying.

For those that are curious the differences as they stand right now are:
Paying members                                        Non paying
Unlimited chars                                          Only 1 char
Inbox for 100 message                             Inbox for 5 messages
Able to host or join open events              only able to join open - or to host guild events (if an officer)

A couple of other things that may get added to limit non paying members are fequency/number of message board posts. Number of picutures allowed in character/user profiles. or limited use of other advanced features as I release them (such as only being able to be a buyer when the forsale advert area comes out)

For now my plan is for planeshift members to count as paying - unless hosting costs force me to switch to non paying (since the limitations on them will limit bandwidth and those that do prefer to pay would cover hosting costs)

If I can get this released for a couple of games (as is my plan) planeshift accounts should be covered for by revenue from the other games.

If the worst did come to the worst I will note the figure I was looking at is around $10US per year for an account - but as I said, non paying members will still have access anyway.

Dont worry about this too much, things are still up in the air, and a good portion on what I want is not finished yet anyway.

(I hate dragging this out but I would feel really guilty if I didn\'t mention it and then asked for donations to help host it down the line, as I am not in a situation to be able to cover web hosting costs. right now I get it for free and as long as bandwidth does not rocket it will hopefully stay that way)

So over the next day or 2 I\'ll be setting up a domain for the site and opening up the signups.

things may look a touch crude on the sign up pages, but I hope you will bear with me.

simm

[simm]

Ok its nearly ready.

There are a couple of small bugs I want to iron out before I open it - I would do them tonight but I am a bit too tired to think cohorantly (and I want to test out the basics just to make sure you can atleast sign up and then complain that the rest of it doesn\'t work in the message boards!.)

I will hopefully be posting the link to it on here tommorrow or wednesday at the latest (as long as the real world does not interupt)

Simon