UPDATES- Information On Site Changes

[Ac1ds0ld13r]

Submitted the site to Google, MSN / Bing / Microsoft crap, and Yahoo as well as the RSS Feed to Yahoo.
I'm determined to generate more traffic for us. Added a MOD to generate a sitemap for us which will be updated everyday.
I'm also looking for a MOD to handle the SID for guests which will make crawlers more effective.

EDIT: Bumped Claymore's Fallen Sky game above mine. It wasn't in alphabetical order and it was making me crazy.

[Ninja]

I deleted that inactive Star Wars thing I had going on too. No point in keeping it around now.

[Ac1ds0ld13r]

Added a plethora of allowed extensions: Note abuse of the system will get them taken back. Upload responsibly

IMAGES
gif
jpeg
jpg
png
psd
tga
tif
tiff

ARCHIVES
7z
ace
bz2
gtar
gz
rar
tar
tgz
torrent
zip

PLAIN TEXT
c
cpp
csv
diz
h
hpp
ini
js
log
txt
xml

DOCUMENTS
ai
doc
docm
docx
dot
dotm
dotx
odg
odp
ods
odt
pdf
ppt
pptm
pptx
ps
rtf
xls
xlsb
xlsm
xlsx

REAL MEDIA
ram
rm

WINDOWS MEDIA
wma
wmv

FLASH
swf

QUICKTIME
3g2
3gp
m4a
m4v
mov
mp4
qt

DOWNLOADABLE
mp3
mpeg
mpg
ogg
ogm

Secure downloads should also be enabled for added security. Abusers will find their IP / Account banned from uploading and downloading.

[Ac1ds0ld13r]

Added new ranks, changed permissions and added new Groups:

Rank images (might change depending on feedback I get about the images).

Added Game Owners group who have full moderator abilities just their titles do not reflect it. Your game owners first and foremost not mods. As the site grows it wont be fair to demand you guys continue to perform Mod duties. You have full functionality (ignore the PM I sent you about bans) you just don't have to mod the site. The Admins will handle that for now.

Enabled "Newly Registered Users" for new registrants until they have 5 posts. This group has significantly reduced functionality and it was added after I found a few spam accounts registered.... ViagraCialis being one in particular. Those have since been removed and the CAPTCHA has been made a little more complex as a result.

Added "Experienced Players" group which is available by request. Prerequisites will include actively participating in the community along with playing in games. Experienced Players will enjoy expanded functionality over Regular Users and as the site grows and we add stuff will get other things to sweeten the deal.

I'm debating between allowing people to change their usernames but the confusion this could cause has stopped me. That would be a feature available to the Experienced Players group. All goes well I'll be adding avatars and other things I'm looking at that they'll also have access to.

[Ac1ds0ld13r]

Added Auto Groups for ADMINS. This will give us more control over groups thru automation and feature sets.

I also added something I'm calling World Domination Games Points (WDGP). This seems like it might be a cool system. We kicked the idea around of something we were calling "Storybucks" courtesy of Ninja. Storybucks could be spent to do special things in games or play special characters. Here they'll do some different things like allow particular downloads and stuff like that. One of the coolest things about it is the Robbery Module. Robbery will let you attempt to rob another user of up to 10% of their points. Failing however will mean you lose 15% of yours. You get WDGP by posting, creating new topics, and participating in forums across the board. I'll be playing with the point settings until I find a happy balance. But generally you can expect participating outside of your games to be worth a little more than posting in games.

[Ac1ds0ld13r]

Configured Auto Groups to automatically move you into the Experienced Players group once you have 80 posts (thats going to end up going up though, I'm thinking 200 or once things get going). Also added Probation Group. If a user is issued 2 Warnings within 30 days they're automatically moved into the probation group which has some pretty shitty reduced functions. New Users will be able to do more stuff than them... They have a neat title "Board Baddie (" and I encourage hazing to help run them off or bring them into line.

EDIT: Permissions defined for Probation Group:

• NO posting anywhere without Mod Approval
• NO uploads or downloads
• NO profile changes aside from Password
• NO signature
• Severely limited PM functions
• No access to points system
• Severely limited posting functionality (no smilies, no imgs, flash, or bbcode aside from formatting post)
• WDGP reduced to 0 for duration of Warnings.

[Ac1ds0ld13r]

Added SITE WIKI

Admins, Mods, Game Owners wanting access lemme know I can make that happen. Everyone else read, edit and use.

[Ac1ds0ld13r]

Made it possible for Users to change their default style. This can be done through your UCP > Board Preferences > My board style.

I added another one that is REALLY black. Keep in mind your colored text however! Other users may NOT be using the same style as you and they shouldn't have to switch to read your post! Also, we can set styles for individual forums as well, so Game Owners who want a specific style for their game can ask us to set that up.

Additional Styles can be found here.

Keep in mind when we add features and MODs they have to be added to EVERY style, and every time we add a new style it makes more work for us, so we're going to be really picky about what we add. EX: I now have to go make 4 more logos because each style has its own. So before you request a style make sure there isn't one similar already installed.

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Redirect after sending a private message will send you to your Inbox v. your Outbox.

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