I think I could do that....

have any feedback on what the two different forums should be called (ie: Commercial Indie Projects and Free Indie Projects)?

Sound good.

You might want to have a root though the Space RPG - RTS - 4x and add any from there or is it best to keep them separate. ❓ Maybe some one else will chip in.

Made any decision on the StarWars game, maybe just a general chat forum for other online space games like StarWars and Smarts new game as well that shores of something one.

I will probably make these new forums and merge the 4x, RTS, RPG posts into either the indie sections, gameral space gaming sections or spawn off another forum if the game warrants it. On the others I will create these forums probably tonight/tomorrow and start moving some posts.

Free Indie and Open Source Gaming Projects

Commercial Indie Projects

Galactic Command Online

Star Wars: The Old Republic

And I have been toying around with a general Mass Effect area as well... anyone have any thoughts on this?

sounds good to me. Atm. it is a indeed a bit unclear which game you find where in the subforums.

Thanks Malvoisin, this is the type of feedback I am looking for. I want the forums to make sense and I want it to be generally easy to find what your looking for. I will also look into the forum descriptions and look to editing some that may give doubt to the contents inside that forum area.

Personally I wouldn't move any game into the indy section, unless it really is an indy game. Perhaps the indy sections could also have RTS, 4X ect sub-sections?

Sounds good to split the commercial ones from the free ones.

You could perhaps move the stand alone space sims and MMOs into 2 subsections of the space sim gaming section?

Perhaps call that Commercial single player games and commercial MMO games? That would free up a lot of space on the main page if that is what your trying to do...

I have been skeptical on doing anything with the RPG/RTS/4x area because it does cover a few areas of games. But on the other had people might have a difficult time deciding on where to post something if they have an indie game but it falls in the rpg/rts/4x realm. That's why I thought about just combining them and really make the indie areas a 'catch all' for all games and just separate by commercial and free/open.

I have thought about this a lot personally. I guess I would need more feedback on that before I just do it. Yeah people can see all the subforum listsings under the forum heading.

In a way I am trying to consolidate but also make it easier for people to post in the correct area and be able to find things with ease. I lay everything out on one page right now so people can see what is out or coming to make games a little more noticeable. Maybe I could have a 'Featured Games' area where I pull out fan favorites to get some special attention.

Not sure overall but I am definitely open for discussing it. Because all I want is for the people that use SSC to have a easy time finding what they need. And if people like/don't like the layout to please speak up. I am definitely not a web designing guru so I make changes because of feedback.

The only time I have ever really had confusion here is lets say your looking for a forum that is actually in its own section and sometimes you might look in the general sections first before finding it in its own section, but its really minimal confusion 🙂

Have you ever thought about having a mobile version of the site, which would just be a totally stripped down version for phones, many sites have them and its handy for when your on the move. 🙂

If you want an example of a site that uses this, well off the top of my head I know that the Dwarf Fortress site has this.

The tapatalk integration is installed here and you should be able to get the app for apple/android. There was another mod I was looking at that is in development that looks very promising here: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2091769

Only thing is that it will only process the forums and nothing else on the website. Still contemplating getting the vbulletin publisher edition as well. I won't make that choice until the summer or shortly after. I know right now my immediate changes is the wiki and possible domain move because 1and1 hosting isn't giving me everything I would like in a host. I would love nightly backups and bigger mysql database allotment.

Have any opinions on how the forums should look? Because I have thought about just making a couple categories and then nesting the forums into those areas as subforums. to clean it up and not make the forum list so long. But in a way having the list does make it a bit quicker to find your game, least in theory.

Cool that sounds good, only Im Android-less for at least another 6 months until I can get out of my bloody contract 🙂 But I aim to get the HTC Desire, or the newer one.

i just wanted to say i love the new design of the main page 😀 Great work!

Thanks Grimm

I spent a few hours last night trying to set it up and doesn't look to bad for a WP newb like me.

Some things I still want to do or try to figure out to do:

- Change header font (title) to SSC's font 'backlash'

- Maybe play with backgrounds to see if I can give it an outer space or gaming feel

- Work on colors for the page (a bit darker) and border lines

- Would like to widen the theme about 100-150px

- Figure out a way to display a random screenshot from gallery

- And of course work on blog content

Hi Darkone! I still love the site,even more so since the upgrade. Looks Great but have one minor suggestion.

On the Forum Page can you remove the (site links:) tag at the beginning,or better yet put a regular menu bar in its place.

It somehow just doesn't look right. Did I mention ? I Love your site !

Thanks for the feedback VinhDucanh

I haven't put too much effort into the styling in the forums because I have still be contemplating the purchase of a site wide style for SSC but it would cost me about $100 so I just haven't done it yet because people haven't given me to much feedback on it. (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2299)

I'll see what I can come up with. Usually its sometimes tough finding a mod for menus that goes good with the style itself. Maybe I will try to edit the background to the logo and see if I can add a menu bar to that? I will have to play around and see what I can come up with, but I have to play and write up a review first for Star Ruler and then I will tackle this unless I find an easy fix of course.

Added the new menu bar and removed the old, also edited the search page to remove the google search.

Looks like theirs a graphic problem with the menu bar, theirs black dots in the words.

I notice when I hit Ctrl-F5 it display's like it should for me. I will try flushing all of the cached images and things when I get home to see if that fixes the problem for people?

That did the trick.

Never new about that CTRL+F5 before.

What that does is force a reload of a website's pages and graphics. Most of the time your web browser caches all the images and just display's it even know there is something new. You can either tell your browser to not cache or always load pages. But as long as the website itself dumps its own cache it should fix itself after a few moments or next visit.

I will add more options to the menu this weekend when I get a moment to have it match the mainpage.

Yo I'm very happy with the site and service.

There's no way I'd be able to track down and compile such a massive list of games for myself so SSC is a valuable resource, when I choose a game I want to be sure it's the best possible choice for me as I like to play a game until it has literally nothing left to give lol.

The selection here is very wide and varied so no matter what specific aspects of space sim play you're looking for, there is always going to be a listed game to fill that desire.

Obviously there are technical issues that pop up in the day to day running of any site but they are minor compared to the good points.

Plus it's nice to just be in the company of other people who like these kinds of games (and the popularity of space sims seems to be on a massive upwards curve atm).

Looking at the thingy at the bottom of the main page I see a total of 129 people (give or take a couple of sneaky adbots loitering around) both logged and guest browsing the site at this moment.

Dude that is pretty good if you ask me.

Just one issue before I forget (time for me to go to the hypersleep chamber), videos... I can't seem to see embedded vids, I just get a white square.

I'm on Firefox if that's any help?

It could easily be something on my end of things.

Anyway yep, thank you Admin for a great service and long may it last.

Kind words SuperbatPrime that I am sure Darkone will appreciate. He does put a lot of effort into the site and doesn't get thanked nearly enough. As for your issue, have you updated flash player ect?

Opinion of SSC? Where else in the damn galaxy would I find a shoutbox with a built-in caffeine dispenser?

As for the people who frequent this fine establishment - you're all raging space-nuts! Exactly my kind of people!

As are you lot over on the Oolite forum <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Oh and Cody? ....I *broke* my Oolite install!! <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_cray2.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> Too many oxps I guess. Drat I was really needing an Oolite fix too <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_impossible.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Broke it? May I enquire exactly how? A reasonable machine should be able to handle oodles of OXPs!