The future of Terra-Arcanum?

Well, I really don't care if you like it or not, since you are but one person.

That reminds me, I remember when Milo posted on the Tarant Daily with his Jesus sig and received a caning by one of the mods.

We at Terra-Arcanum don't mind any sigs until they have actual pr0n content or links and what not. Sig size is also and issue.

 

i tried to add it to my signature, but it made it too long...

the irony of that situation is that if i added the non-google link (which has shorter text) the picture would fill most of the screen, but the one i'm using now uses more text (about 35 characters i think) and i think my current sig is pretty much the best ever... so i'm not going to change it.

does anyone else think that that sombrero boy piscture is a good idea for a custom avatar? i'm thinking something along the lines of

what do you guys think? (how about it mods ?)

anyway, the super kkk bros. can be found at http://www.i-mockery.com along with many other pretty lame but hilarious hacked nes emulator roms. my favorites are "super black bros. II" (the goodness minded retaliation to all of the numerous rascist hacks of nes games) and any game involving

WILFORD BRIMLEY!

i personally think wilford brimley is best implemented in "baby dodge ball"

 

I'll have to look that up... Wilford Bemley is funny... and I think that you should get like a spam-person (take a cookie cutter, and cut spam into a person shape) as your avatar... since it fits you so well...

 

Sleek, you need about 800 more quality posts before you can start thinking about maybe asking if you could possibly get a custom avatar. Perhaps. At this stage, you are nowhere near deserving of any avatar apart from the spam can.

 

I should qualify when I hit 1000, eh? Anyway, as far as avatars go, how can you go past...



MONTY!
Love him. Love him now.


[edit] - Count your blessings - marquee didn't work .

 

Who's Monty?? I'm wont to distrust anyone whose nose takes up more than a third of their face. . .

 

Tell me you're kidding. Please do.

 

I'm not kidding when I say I'd also like to know.

 

Oh, THAT Monty! I'm absolutely in LOVE with the man but I've never seen a picture of him. All you had to do was drop the Desert Fox's name in connection and I would have known. DUH!

 

DU and Jinxy - on the subject of redesign...

1. Structure of the site.

What are you going to code it in, and how? I would here suggest a php template heavy site, as it would make it easier for me if I'm to help with the graphics, but anything similar and I might be on.

2. Arcanum contra ToEE, VTM:BL and possible upcoming games from troika.

I'm not sure what all the people in here think, but how much focus should be put on arcanum, and how much focus on the new games - and in the design how much of this will shine through?

Also skinned templates could be used for various games, this requires that some graph kid ties up with you - I might, but I might not - and to decide on this based on maybes is trippy indeed - but might work wonders.

also custom news, for those that simply don't care about game X.

2.1. the name TA.

love it, partly because I was with the 2 others that came up with it - but anyway it will pose problems for the focus if the contentt drifts away from Arcanum, and how to deal with it?

3. Timeline

how are much time does everyone need for it?

3.1 Where it is worked at.

I'm seeing lots of changed on TA, and lots of broken links; would it not be best to make a subdir. with the altarnative site (perhaps drawing info from the old DB) and work on everything there instead of whacking this one in the process?


the end.

more to come I'm sure.

 

And in the words of Monty, Python not the Fox, and now for something completely different.

And slightly more on topic too!

I was wondering if you can through my page on the links while your rehashing stuff. It's the only currently active clan, that I know of, for Arcanum MP. And don't ask me how we play MP, it's inexplicable. But we do it :razz: .

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Weekend_Warriors_Clan

When I hit 1000 I want a spacebar as my avatar.

DU EDIT: Fixed the link. You just needed to drop the url and add 'http://' to the front.

 

I would love minimal graphicks since most of the ppl are still in 56K.

Thank you.

 

Chris: thinking about the forum, or a possible upcoming page?

I might have neglected some compression on the current graphics, so if you are experiencing problems here speak up.

as for the later possible project of building out the site, we could probably throw in a LG version it goes with templates.

 

Monkeypunch i do not have any problems now .Everything is now lighting fast since i now have a 384/128 line. (only 85 euro/month bargain in greece)


So no matter what you do i will not complain.

But in general content is king and graphics do not matter unless they make the page download slower.

Graphics are really secondary .

Terra Arcanum may need.
More people more news more games to cover more content .
(hey good developer givez miz morez eXclusivez)

It certainly does not need more graphics or more customization in graphics.


EDIT.(the exception to the rule lol) Oh and i would really like a way to use terra arcanum code for my website that you host so that my site would look better because right now it looks like s&*t.

Chris.

EDIT 2 Another idea ready for the dustbin.

Instead or Terra Arcanum the world of Troika games

why not

TERRA TROIKA ?

http://www.terra-troika.com

 

well not more graphic - we are talking about changing what we have

it might end up being less then now - and the templates are something you pick, so you will only load one.

...and I'm all for content over graphics, I wouldn't want it anyother way, and the point of the graphics is to help the content, and not distract it - thus the fixing of problem areas in the forum that detracts from the content.

for example the site itself is hard to read due to the resolution I made it for (the standard at the time I thought), the menu is horrid, and it seems the site wants to expand into other troika games, and as it is you wont be able to fit it into what we have now. And again the forum/site wont really get more graphics, perhaps less even, and hopefully it will be a lil' better place to get the content we have in the forum - and once the site is rewapped (if) - it should fare the same.

As for more content over graphics; I wont become a newsie, nor am I really in the mood for posting at forums or write about cRPGs (perhaps arcade games + music and books, all unrealated to this site)- so if I'm to help out, it is through the graphics, so that the users (like you CB) of the site can get through the site without too much fuzz.

EDIT: omg - this is bad, I need to sleep - so much errors...

 

Just one thing, I don't know whether you're planning on doing it or not but don't use ActiveX while building this new page. Pages which make use of that bloody AX don't work properly in Opera. Don't know about Netscape. Besides AX is a huge security hole.

 

IMO the page should work without active code, php should be enough, and javascripts should always be optionial and not needed.

 

Re: DU and Jinxy - on the subject of redesign...

When OrionSector went from Moo3 only to any Empire Building Sci-Fi game, they had no trouble with names...

Darn, I keep on coming back to that, don't I?