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If you have a suggestion on how to make Chaos Dwarfs Online even better, we welcome you ideas! We will surely consider them and let you know if we agree. If we do, your idea should come to fruition! We appreciate all the help we can get.

Cheers,
-Xander

Roar.

The smilies can definitely be changed. I will look around for a good set somewhere.

@Someone: Those are great, hehe.

Grimstonefire Wrote:

A few suggestions for people to consider.

*cracks knuckles*

Grimstonefire Wrote:

Firstly, what about a background to appear behind all these boxes? Being just white is not particularly evil in any way Happy

The current theme is a very basic one. I intend on making more dark and detailed ones with more graphics. Users could then select from multiple themes.

Grimstonefire Wrote:

My initial thought was fire/ flames as this could be in character and yet not too black for anyone. They could have the colour taken right down to be quite subtle, or even black and white.

Ya, we could edit the default skin to include these. Or make a totally new theme, what do you think?

Grimstonefire Wrote:

Another thing might be changing the description of the 'Rules development' area to be something more like this:
Got a new Chaos Dwarf unit or character that you want feedback on? Perhaps a new scenario, armylist or ideas for a campaign. Then post and test them here!

Not a bad idea. You have Admin powers! Make it so. Happy

Grimstonefire Wrote:

It invites dicussion of wider things that just what should or should not be in a new book. It also wouldn't need updating then once the book comes out.

Agreed.

Grimstonefire Wrote:

Also to get us on Warvault with a 'vote for us' link in the 'Chaos Dwarfs Online' section (under website news, or staff for those with that option).

By all means. What is needed for this? If any graphics are needed just tell me the size I have to make and I will do it. What's the link to this?

Grimstonefire Wrote:

My final suggestion (of the top of my head), is a long term project that would take a while to do.

Check out the Wiki. My hope is that becomes one of our goals, to fill it up with our Chaos Dwarf Knowledge. Plus I will be making a Web Site portion which will showcase armies and conversion guides.

Grimstonefire Wrote:

Basically its to have a quick flash intro to the site leading to the main portal. I have a few ideas on this, but then we would need to know what Xander our technical whiz could do.

I can do anything you can think of in your head. Just let me know what you envision.

Grimstonefire Wrote:

I have a picture in my mind of where I want CDO to be, and depending on what skills we have access to will determine how good we can make this. The aim being to impress people as they first enter the site.

Sounds like a good plan. I am open to all ideas.

Grimstonefire Wrote:

EDIT
Another possible idea is a very simple 'animation' (for want of the correct technical term) on the main banner itself? IMO the banner should be changed anyway at a point in the distant future. Its fine for now though.

That's more difficult. As the MyBB system uses images to be displayed in the top. I would have to hack it someway for a flash banner. Unless we just use an animated Gif, in which case we will have colour loss.

Whew. Good stuff. Don't forget, you are an Admin too. Happy

Im pretty close to finishing my first 500 points of chaos dwarfs. As soon as they are all painted, id be glad to do this project. I still have to get more minis (which is SLOW: the sad fact of being a student, but now that its summer, the job should help), But i expect it to be done aroung end of july, early august.

Eh not sure but the log-in seems broken. It's so weird. I've got to log in 2 times before I am even logged on.

It's pretty odd to see yourself just log in, return to index, and not appear on the active member area. Is there any possibility it can be changed so you can see yourself when you just log in? Cheers!

edit: this also happens when I post o.O

Also, is there a plug-in that allows members to log in for a longer time, eg each time they visit the forum? It's pretty stupid you have to log in every time you visit, even Invisionfree supports it >_<

And yes I've been looking at MyBB fora for some time now, maybe I'm swapping over too.

AGPO Wrote:

Some more professional looking conversion articles and video guides (like the one Xander did for the BfSP warriors) would be handy. Just a thought

These are in the works for the Main Site! Stay tuned! Happy

Master Vampire Wrote:

Eh not sure but the log-in seems broken. It's so weird. I've got to log in 2 times before I am even logged on.

It's pretty odd to see yourself just log in, return to index, and not appear on the active member area. Is there any possibility it can be changed so you can see yourself when you just log in? Cheers!

edit: this also happens when I post o.O

Also, is there a plug-in that allows members to log in for a longer time, eg each time they visit the forum? It's pretty stupid you have to log in every time you visit, even Invisionfree supports it >_<

And yes I've been looking at MyBB fora for some time now, maybe I'm swapping over too.

This is most likely due to an old URL messing with your cookies.

Ensure that you have "http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/" as your URL, if you have "http://chaos-dwarfs.xandor.ca/" your cookies will not work properly. Make sure to change your favourites too!

Xander Wrote:

Ensure that you have "http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/" as your URL, if you have "http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/" your cookies will not work properly. Make sure to change your favourites too!

lol yea that was it. Cheers!

Haha, glad to help where I can. HoH has changed it's URL too from time to time. And also the Portal there does not function very well. It switches around all the time.

I don't know if you guys have this bug, but it's majorly annoying.

I have to refresh the page to see new replies. Now I haven't seen anyone else complain about it, so I guess it's due to my Browser's configurations? I think it has to do with cookies. Any thoughts?

Cheers,
-MV

That's very odd, it should reload the page with new posts on every click without having to refresh. I have never encountered such an error on a forum. That can happen sometimes with web pages though... I suggest closing your browser, maybe reboot your computer, see if that helps.

Hmm the people on the MyBB support forums suggest that I should 'hard refresh' pages where I have troubles (CTRL + F5).

I seems to work. Not sure at the moment though.

What browser do you use?

Apparantly it had to do with my cache. Checking up on that, it said it never checked for more "updated" pages, so I set it to automatically. Still very weird that on Invisionfree forums it did work Unsure

Pyro Stick Wrote:

A chat room! That would be cool.

Like that idea, maybe a shoutbox if a chatroom is not viable?

Also i notice there are reputation points, i also notice that people keep giving each other slaves. As a fun idea how about allowing people to award Slaves as rep points but making them in the thousands? (E.G like that idea *awards 1000 slaves* and have the number so far aquired show where it says reputation. Is that viable? has it been suggested already?

I still think if we can utilise the rep oints system it would be pretty cool!

Xander Wrote:

As it stands the rep system is for the Market Place. Sort of like the eBay method. As we get bigger there will be a bigger need for that system if buying/selling/trading is to be reliable.

I will take a look for some plugins that could fill that role.

Fair enough, i didn't realise it was actually in use! Happy

How about making the market place part of the forum even more interresting to use where it is listing what is needed and what is being sold in one major page or somthing.

And for the other sake how about replacing these --> Tongue