RPGWatch Updates, Bug reports and Feature requests

[Myrthos]

We will keep you informed of the non-forum related updates we make to RPGWatch in this thread. If you have any suggestion for the non-forum pages or want to make us aware of a (potential) problem, let us know too.

To start with, RSS feeds are available now. Check the news menu at the top for the link.

[txa1265]

I posted a request to get it added to GameTab

[garvity]

I just put the MMOWatch feed into my MMO feed section. Are you going to eventually use the MMOWatch.com domain as well?

Right now I have your feed coming in like this:

GW Nightfall - Preview @ Boomtown on MMOWatch (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=2&newsbit=2305)

Some hands-on impressions of Guild Wars: Factions are up at Boomtown:So here we are again, logging on for God knows which time, this time preparing to get into the next chapter of the saga, Nightfall. The title screen now has a sort of African-Arabian from-the-desert-to-the-seas thing going, and as usual, Jeremy Soule's music fits the mood....

via RPGWatch (http://www.rpgwatch.com/?rwsiteid=2)

I could change it to "...on RPGWatch" or "via MMOWatch" let me know if you have a preference.

[Myrthos]

That domain was not for sale. So we probably use something like mmo.rpgwatch.com taking you directly to the MMOWatch section.
I have no preference as to what you use. The link of the newsbit will show in all sections and any skin.

[garvity]

Ok, I'll keep it as it is, mentioning both MMOWatch and RPGWatch.

[fatBastard()]

I don't know if this is the right place to suggest this but here goes anyway:

One of the features I really enjoyed on RPGDot was the little "new item" icon that indicated what news topics had been posted since the last time I visited. Are there any plans to implement that feature on RPGWatch as well?

[txa1265]

In the general forum view there are the indicator icons:
Forum Contains New Posts
Forum Contains No New Posts
Forum is Closed for Posting

And, if you go to the Forums menu, there is a 'new posts' option. It is your friend ;)

[Arhu]

He's talking about the newsitems on the front page, not the forums. :) Should be possible.

[Myrthos]

On RPGDot the forum login was also used on the news page. In that way it was possible to detect new newsbits since your last visit.
This is not the case on RPGWatch at the moment. Maybe we'll add it in the future when we enable other features for our logged-in visitors as well.

[Lucky Day]

Are the game types going to be added to the news bits? I found these helpful whenever a new or obscure/indie game got posted, especially when it was a long time between news items.

If so I'd also like to see CRPG's categorized in Traditional, Action, and Console styles. Like KotOR would be a Console style in spite of also being a PC game. Hmm..a platform icon might also be useful if at all possible so we know what it can run on.

I know its often not easy to categorize many games these days, especially as many games are blending elements of each other.

[Myrthos]

Most of that information is listed to the right hand side of the newsbit. We had to enter some games rather quickly in the last week, so not all entries might be shown at the moment though.
The platform the newsbit is about is also shown. If the game is available on multiple platforms the box at the right hand side will show for what platform or platforms, the newsbit is made.

[r3dshift]

I can't submit news, although I think it's pretty intriguing that the Witcher's teaser video is out! Check the latest the Witcher thread for details, it's gonna blow your minds away!

[txa1265]

I can't submit news, although I think it's pretty intriguing that the Witcher's teaser video is out! Check the latest the Witcher thread for details, it's gonna blow your minds away!

Just start a RPG General thread on the Witcher.

[Corwin]

The Submit News Feature isn't active yet. In the meantime, just PM the details to Dhruin or one of the other editors, and we'll see it gets posted.

[Avantenor]

Is there a possibility to tell Opera automatically to reload all pages by request?

Could you place a login-formular on frontpage?

[Myrthos]

The 'Submit news' link is working now.

[r3dshift]

The 'Submit news' link is working now.

Great. However, I don't seem to be able to comment on newsbits now. This is what I get when I click on the "Comments (0)" hyperlink:

vBulletin Message
Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

[Arhu]

Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Fixed.. I think it was my fault. :embarassed: Thanks.

[Myrthos]

Odd... Don't know why that doesn't work anymore, but it's fixed.

[r3dshift]

Fixed.. I think it was my fault. :embarassed:

I was just about to edit my previous post saying it must have been a temporary phenomenon only 'cause now it's working again.
Anyway, thanks for the fix! ;)

[Myrthos]

Great we both fixed it..... I can undo mine now :)

[Uriziel]

I have a request to help out us older.....ummm.....less visually acute. Can you offer a visual theme similar to the old site? The dark background and light text is easier for me to read......especially since I tend to read tons of threads lol. I have a rather large LCD and the light from it on this theme is giving me sunburn. Oh, and I AM using the "dark" theme(which is'nt.)

Also on the main RPGWATCH forum, a view new posts thingy would be nice. The option is available in forum tools once you are inside a sub-forum, but would be handy from the main forum index.

[Arhu]

*scratches head*

Uh.. are you saying you are using the dark color scheme, but it isn't dark? Or not dark enough? Or is it too dark and you want something "medium"?

[Uriziel]

The text field area is the same. The only thing that changed was the color of the border

[Jaz]

When the tab reads 'dark', you're using the light scheme, and vice versa. If you want it dark, you need to press the 'dark' tab, afterwards it reads 'light'.
The default setting doesn't have dark or light tabs, it's always light. To get a dark and light variant, you need to use the Lapis Watch or Amber Watch schemes.

[Wulf]

After logging in, i read the topics then if i post a reply, say after about 5 minutes, an error screen pops-up (not logged in) then i have to re log-in. This happens every day i try.
If i copy text and paste right away as i log-in then all is o.k - surely as long as i am logged in i should be able to post comments without having to 're log-in'.

I have the remove all cookies on exit function enabled in firefox, does this matter?

:(

[Corwin]

I'd think that sounds like a plausible reason. I've never had to re-log in!!

[Wulf]

Thanks Corwin,

i've altered the settings and will test over the next few days.

PS: i've just found that remembering the cookies also loads with the last preferred chosen colour scheme!!...now its on dark amber watch every time, i should have known.. :blush:

[Arhu]

http://arhiel.blautann.de/dummy/cookie.jpg

Me want cookies.
RPGWatch looove cookies.

[Wulf]

:lol: Yes, cookie control is very important, i must try harder to tolerate them.

[Uriziel]

When the tab reads 'dark', you're using the light scheme, and vice versa. If you want it dark, you need to press the 'dark' tab, afterwards it reads 'light'.
The default setting doesn't have dark or light tabs, it's always light. To get a dark and light variant, you need to use the Lapis Watch or Amber Watch schemes.

Thanks Jaz. I click "dark" and now it is :) BTW, Lapis dark does'nt display properly using Opera, but Amber dark(sounds like a beer :p ) is fine. I can't explain how Lapis dark displays on Opera, you'll just have to see for yourself.

[Arhu]

BTW, Lapis dark does'nt display properly using Opera, but Amber dark(sounds like a beer :p ) is fine. I can't explain how Lapis dark displays on Opera, you'll just have to see for yourself.
I'm doing so now and everything looks fine (Opera 9.02). Lapis and Amber should only be different colors, really, nothing else. Are you using an older version? Or maybe try to shift-click the reload button, in case some wrong data has been cached.

Could you at least try to explain what's wrong with Lapis dark? :)

[Uriziel]

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2484/lapiswatchdarkuq7.th.jpg (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lapiswatchdarkuq7.jpg)

[Uriziel]

[img=http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7287/lapiswatchdark2pf8.th.jpg] (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lapiswatchdark2pf8.jpg)

In this one the "dark" toggle button is gone

Using the lastest Opera btw.

[Uriziel]

Dam, now this is odd. After editting the last link, everything is displaying normally. I was using Lapis to post both links and nothing changed. As soon as I edited the second link, it works fine...WTF?

[SirDeity]

I doubt this is a site issue, but I've noticed something strange. When I first visited this site the first thing I noticed was that everything was really huge. For example, this "Quick Reply" window is taking up about half of my LCD widescreen 24" screen. Most awkward of all is the initial home page (the newsbits or "ALL NEWS" section). Here I have to scroll horizontally almost three full windows (default size - not maximized) just to view the third column. I'll take screenshots with the window at its default size and at its maximized size so perhaps someone can offer me some assistance. At first I thought this awkwardness was just because the site was still very new and I fully anticipated that it'd be fixed up shortly, but just yesterday I viewed the site from a computer in the computer cluster on campus and it all looked nice and smooth and attractive. Anyway, this is when I realized the problem must be somewhere in my personal settings or elsewhere on my end. To clarify, all other sites I visit on this computer appear just fine. RPGDot for example, appears as it is supposed to appear. It seems to be only this site that looks different than it's supposed to be. This may be irrelevant, but I should also mention that I notice some zoom features on the front page. I've tried both "small zoom" and "larger zoom" under "HELP." Neither of these fix the problem, but the larger soom seems to make it worse. I'll see if I can't post those screenshots now...

Default Browser Size:
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0008.jpg
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0003.jpg
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0004.jpg

Maximized Browser Size:
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0007.jpg
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0006.jpg
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0005.jpg

I hope this helps and I apologize for taking up so much space. Thanks!

[SirDeity]

Here's a couple quick screenshots of this forum thread:
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0010.jpg
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/sirdeity/UO0009.jpg

[Gorath]

I don´t see screenshots.

[txa1265]

I see a complete mess.

[Arhu]

I doubt this is a site issue, but I've noticed something strange. When I first visited this site the first thing I noticed was that everything was really huge. For example, this "Quick Reply" window is taking up about half of my LCD widescreen 24" screen.!

My guess is that you have set the text size to "large" or somesuch in IE, or zoomed in in Opera. Try to set the text size to medium (View -> text size).

[SirDeity]

That worked! Thanks Arhu. It was so obvious I should've figured it out myself. Anyway, it still seems strange that only this site seems to go all wacky (visually) with my IE text size set anywhere above medium whereas any other site looks just fine. I guess one of the draw backs to having a widescreen (huge) monitor is that the text in browsers is VERY small and therefore difficult to read but the text can only be enlarged at the cost of some windows going out of sync with (frames not where they're supposed to be, text bodys not where they're supposed to be, etc...). I'll just squint my eyes! =)

[kencube]

A search news function should be added.
I just wanted to find an old news(it's something about where's Troika staff going). Not knowing the exact title & date, and I can't find any place to search for news, so I decided to search the forum by keywords. Although there's a News Comment Section, I found out that not all news have threads in that section. So I can't find what I want. At last, I need to use Google to search for, but the link on Google refer to news comment, not the news itself. And I need to re-type the link to reach the news, finally.
If there's a search function for the whole site, it'd be much convenient.

[Myrthos]

Yeah I know. It's on this wish list that I also use as an oversized paperweight

[Sem]

I'm missing a link to the (Gothic 3) Wiki on the front page.

[Myrthos]

The link to 'More articles' on the front page is working now.
And in case you missed it, the 'Details' link of the games shown at the right hand side of a newsbit, now leads to a tabbed view with everything we have for that game.

[Dhruin]

Thanks, Myrthos! :)

[SirDeity]

This is just an unrealistic idea, but it'd be really cool if this site eventually had its own intro movie with commentary from some of the key founding staff and the mission statement or objective of RPGWatch, followed by a 3D high graphics short movie. I could help to create the intro movie down the road but it'd take at least a few people.

Anyway, everyone has a forum avatar... but how many forums have their own intro movies? It'd set RPGWatch apart from others... and to avoid annoying people by forcing them to watch it or load it everytime they access the site, you could just have it optionally display on the main page or have it show one time for everyone upon initially registering with the forums.

[Arma]

Is it me, or the "^ Back to Top" link in the news is not working?

[Myrthos]

Tried it in IE and FF and it works in both

[txa1265]

Tried it in IE and FF and it works in both

Works for me (FF 1.5.0.8) just fine.

[Arma]

Well, I'm using ... Opera. Version 9.02 Build 8585. And I agree on that it works in FF and IE.

[dteowner]

Used to be at the Dot that the "new posts" flag was reset (showing no new posts) if you ended your session (by inactivity or quitting the browser). This does not appear to be the case here. Threads that I did not view Friday still show as unread even though I have been to the site several times since. And yes, I know I can do it manually, but I always seem to forget particularly since it was handled for me in the past.

[Gorath]

Well, I'm using ... Opera. Version 9.02 Build 8585. And I agree on that it works in FF and IE.

Confirmed, doesn´t work in Opera 9.

[Gorath]

I think this is too much work for a small site. You can do things like if you have 500000 readers every month.

This is just an unrealistic idea, but it'd be really cool if this site eventually had its own intro movie with commentary from some of the key founding staff and the mission statement or objective of RPGWatch, followed by a 3D high graphics short movie. I could help to create the intro movie down the road but it'd take at least a few people.

Anyway, everyone has a forum avatar... but how many forums have their own intro movies? It'd set RPGWatch apart from others... and to avoid annoying people by forcing them to watch it or load it everytime they access the site, you could just have it optionally display on the main page or have it show one time for everyone upon initially registering with the forums.

[Myrthos]

Used to be at the Dot that the "new posts" flag was reset (showing no new posts) if you ended your session (by inactivity or quitting the browser). This does not appear to be the case here. Threads that I did not view Friday still show as unread even though I have been to the site several times since. And yes, I know I can do it manually, but I always seem to forget particularly since it was handled for me in the past.
As I think this is correct behaviour and the behaviour at RPGDot was erroneous I don't think it will change.

Confirmed, doesn´t work in Opera 9.
So much for compatibility then....

[Cm]

Do what I do Dte, at the end of my readthrough I just go to the main forums site list and hit the Mark Read at the bottom of the list before I log. One click gets them all.

[dteowner]

Do what I do Dte, at the end of my readthrough I just go to the main forums site list and hit the Mark Read at the bottom of the list before I log. One click gets them all.I know, I know, but I'm old, forgetful, and a creature of...ummm....what was I saying again?

[Corwin]

Dte, if you're old, I'm Ancient, while CM is just decrepit!! :biggrin:

[Cm]

*Cm slaps Corwin with a wet moldy fish*
Just wait til I find a way to add my red hot pitchfork smilie to the list.

[Arhu]

Is it me, or the "^ Back to Top" link in the news is not working?
Solved in a way.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Hello, I've got kind of a feature request :

We have some very good discussions in the "News comments" area. I believe that some of them are worth to be preserved, and not to become hidfden beneath the heap of newer "News Comments" in the course of the following years.

Therefore I believve that kind of an symbolic link - at least - in a part of the RPGWatch forums would be a good idea. Or kind of an index to the "most memorable discussions". ;)

I'm writing this with especially having the current TB vs. RT debate in mind.

[Corwin]

Sounds like a good idea; I know how difficult finding a link to something you remember reading can be. I'd think that such a thing would be fairly easy to implement if there is a demand for it, but that would be up to the admins to decide!!

[Danicek]

This is most certainly worth consideration...

[Wulf]

A great idea indeed from Alrik'

A chest full of discussive gems all in one place could be kept forever, a kind of reference library - but would the topic threads be locked or open, or maybe amendable with editors permission only... to keep them gaffiti free and preserved?

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Well, I could imagine kind of an own forum area ... like "best of" or so. ;)

Well, and another idea would be to move these discussions into that special area after a certain time of "time-out", that means when no-one posts anymore, or x months or years have passed since the initial discussion began.

[Danicek]

Yeah, I recollect we were discussing such feature back on the RPGDot. I think it never got implemented, not sure though. Generally I don't see real reason for it.

[txa1265]

Well, and another idea would be to move these discussions into that special area after a certain time of "time-out", that means when no-one posts anymore, or x months or years have passed since the initial discussion began.

If you do that, then how can people expect to put others down with "RTFM, n00b" or "use teh serch butn lamerz" ;)

[Danicek]

Obviously the discussion back on RPGDot included things like that only certain forums would have it (well, I may be wrong but probably the AOT on the RPGDot got this feature in the end).

Also there are options like deleting/archiving where the archive could be searcheable.

[Jaz]

It happens here, too. Forums are auto-pruned, old discussions moved to archives.

[Danicek]

Good, I even did not notice. Probably we are too young to have that much old threads for me to notice it.

[Asbjoern]

Hi,

I have a feature request. Could it be possible for you to make a link in the "Games" menu for a page that contains all the games that RPG/MMOWatch "watch"?
I often miss the possibility of viewing the information related to a specific game and the only way to access a game's page is when news about it is covered.
And perhaps that is the reason why there's only one "Games Comments" thread. Because why use the games comments page, when there's a news comments page competing with it.

Just a thought I've been meaning to share in a long time.

[Corwin]

Working on the Database will likely be our next order of business, which should give you more of what you want.

[Asbjoern]

Okay, good to know. :)

[Myrthos]

Added PictureWatch to the front page. It is updated every 15 minutes.

[JuliusMagnus]

Is it just me or is the Wiki full of spam?

[Corwin]

I believe that is an issue we are attempting to deal with, but the nature of Wikis makes it difficult. With a very small volunteer staff, the Wiki takes a low priority. Assistance is always welcome!! :)

[Gorath]

I´ve reloaded an older wiki front page and disabled comments. Furthermore the main page can no longer be edited.

[Lucky Day]

Does the information on the Games themselves link back to their news comments threads? I remember the Dot had histories in the databases.

Can we make a separate forum for games that are not RPG? It would seem a happy middle ground between RPG discussion and Off Topic.

edit:
I see the one in Featured Games but that seems geared for the reviews.

[Jaz]

Can we make a separate forum for games that are not RPG? It would seem a happy middle ground between RPG discussion and Off Topic.Oh yes, fine with me. Opinions?

[Corwin]

We do have a virtually unused Games Comments forum??

[Gorath]

Can a user start a thread in it?

[txa1265]

I don't know, and it talks about 'comment on our 'featured games' here. We should make it more general so that the recent 'opinions on two worlds' thread could have gone there.

[Dhruin]

I'm pretty sure it's a system-generated forum specifically for making comments while viewing games in the database - in other words, it's just like the News Comments forum. You don't manually create threads there - they happen automatically when you comment on a newsbit -- or a game from the database, in this case.

One of the reasons it's virtually unused is the database functionality isn't complete yet, hence noone uses it.

[dteowner]

And so the conclusion would be...?

Seems to me that a forum where stuff like UFO:ET belongs would be useful. Besides, then we could have some crispy flamewars over what games are "RPG enough" to go into RPG General and which ones aren't.

[Corwin]

And are YOU volunteering to moderate such a forum???!!! :)

[dteowner]

Ummm, sure. Wouldn't be the first time I've put my head in the vise and turned the crank a couple rounds.

[Jaz]

Dhruin is correct, the Games Comments forum is system-fed, like the news comments. You pick a game in the database and comment on it. You cannot start threads in the forum itself.

So we have a volunteer with moderation experience for a 'General Games' forum.

[Corwin]

I say go for it; Dte is an excellent moderator!!

[Jaz]

Done; Lucky Day, your wish was granted ;).

[Bartacus]

Hi,

I have a feature request. Could it be possible for you to make a link in the "Games" menu for a page that contains all the games that RPG/MMOWatch "watch"?
I often miss the possibility of viewing the information related to a specific game and the only way to access a game's page is when news about it is covered.


I think this is already possible to create -> After all it's just a 'view' one would have to create for some games. The problem is only what games should ave such a seperate view? Gothic, NWN and Morrowind/Oblivion is pretty clear cause of the amount of users who come here to discuss those games.

Still it would be empty without some other info about the game itself. Gorath and I are discussing about a GothicWatch and how it should look like, but for the other games people are needed too.

[Dhruin]

This is the top priority in terms of the next feature to add to the site. We actually have this functionality for Editors and it just needs to be finished...

[Asbjoern]

As I see it. The day RPGWatch gets the game database up and running and the Future Watch (what ever it is) activated, this website will be unmatched.

[Lucky Day]

Done; Lucky Day, your wish was granted ;).

bless you :thanks:

and ditto to Dte

[magerette]

Added PictureWatch to the front page. It is updated every 15 minutes.

Just wanted to mention I enjoy this feature. :)

[warweasel1]

Hi-

Just a question about 'Forum Watch on the front page:

Would it be possible (or desirable, to anyone else) to have the posts there act as links to the most recent/last post, rather than to the beginning of the thread? Just to be clear, I don't mind navigating to the last post myself, and there can be great info at the beginning of these threads, but for some of the ongoing topics (last game finished, what are you playing now etc) it seems like a natural thing to jump to the latest entry?

[Corwin]

I believe you can set that in your preferences for how forums are displayed. Go to your user CP and change it!!

[Gorath]

Correct.
Was one of the first things I changed. LIFO is the correct method for forum posts.

[Wulf]

There's no complaints from me, it's more of a curiosity than anything - i've become aware of the words/letters spelled as *&acute* contained within the posts and articles of certain rpgwatch admin's.

Is it a software bug....or a keystroke error etc' - - Gorath is the forums champion with Dhruin way behind in second place, i did a forum search....

&acute by Gorath 18
&acute by Dhruin 2

First one to get to 100 will receive a golden tankard from me, yet can't see it being caused by having a beer...or else Corwin would also be a contender ! ! :lol:

[txa1265]

There's no complaints from me, it's more of a curiosity than anything - i've become aware of the words/letters spelled as *&acute* contained within the posts and articles of certain rpgwatch admin's.

I assume it is a keyboard translation thing.

[Jaz]

Looks like the accent aigu "´"is turned into &acute (the ISO entity corresponding to "´") when a newsbit creates an automatic forum entry (hence, all these &acutes happened in the news comments forum). Dhruin and Gorath are among our most active news posters.

[Corwin]

Yep, they are formating commands which work in news items, but not always in forum posts, which aren't as sophisticated!!

[Dhruin]

Just to repeat all the previous responses...the forum software isn't understanding some of the international characters being used. Gorath's ---> ' <--- is different (have a look at Jaz' post, the apostrophe is sloped quite aggressively), presumably because of his German keyboard. I'm guessing it happens to me when I quote other sources that include those characters or similar.

Myrthos has programmed fixes in the past for similar issues but it would be a low priority for me because we have quite a list of desired improvements. :)

[Moriendor]

Just to repeat all the previous responses...the forum software isn't understanding some of the international characters being used. Gorath's ---> ' <--- is different (have a look at Jaz' post, the apostrophe is sloped quite aggressively), presumably because of his German keyboard. I'm guessing it happens to me when I quote other sources that include those characters or similar.

Just to clarify: German keyboards have both actually, the " ' " and the " ´ " . Gorath is just using the "wrong" one ;) ... and -yes- the other issue, i.e. when it happens to you, is indeed probably copying and pasting from sources who also use the "wrong" one.

[Gorath]

I´m not using the wrong one. The forum software doesn´t understand the right one. :gorath:

[Moriendor]

I´m not using the wrong one. The forum software doesn´t understand the right one. :gorath:

Hehe, yes, that's exactly what I meant and why I put wrong in quotes... the "wrong" one in terms of the forums soft ;) .

[Corwin]

Down boys, down. Get back to the Gothic forums where you belong!! :biggrin:

[Wulf]

I had always assumed selecting the OS language automatically corrected/adjusted the character sheet/style, yet it appears that a difference could crop up with selected web-site/url language also....very interesting.

Thanks to all for the informative replies. :beer:

[Ubbax]

I´m not using the wrong one. The forum software doesn´t understand the right one. :gorath:

I'll chime in here since I recently started experiencing this problem. Gorath is correct this is related to forum software, although in my case I've narrowed it down to choice of editor selected.

On a Canadian Logitec cordless keyboard, set to US language as the default, if I set the editor to Wysiwyg I can not use the key which types the Apostrophe/Quote. If I try I end up with a funny looking e with an accent above it (e with a backwards apostrophe). However if I switch to "Standard Editor with extra formatting controls" all my keys work fine.

Ubbax
"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows." - David T. Wolf

[nameless hero]

Can the default colour scheme be the dark black one and not the white one? Its all ways frustrating to have to manually change it do dark.

[txa1265]

Can the default colour scheme be the dark black one and not the white one? Its all ways frustrating to have to manually change it do dark.

Of course, for those of us who prefer light the opposite is true :)

Doesn't it store in your profile so that whenever you login it is set?

[Myrthos]

It is stored in a cookie. If your browser (or something else) eats cookies when it closes, there is nothing stored anymore and you see the default one upon startup.

[Myrthos]

It is now possible to view our Games Database. In the 'Games' menu option at the top you will find the 'Database Search' option.

[Asbjoern]

This is brilliant. Very good work indeed and the service is quite fast. Very good work.

[Gorath]

Whatever you changed completely fucked up the main page in my Opera 9. The menu is horizontally out of place, the forum menu rolled down, every element on the page has a line break after every line, etc.

[Myrthos]

Sensitive browser ;)

[Corwin]

Yeah, get something decent like Firefox!! :p :biggrin:

[txa1265]

Yeah, get something decent like Firefox!! :p :biggrin:

Heck, even the new Safari for Windows handles it well ...

[nameless hero]

It is now possible to view our Games Database. In the 'Games' menu option at the top you will find the 'Database Search' option.

OMG how awesome is that!!! Good Job!!!

One question though. Will there be also a "search by category" option implemented at a later stage?

[Gorath]

Works again, thanks. :)


Hey guys, blame yourself if you don´t know what a comfortable browser looks like! :p

[Dhruin]

OMG how awesome is that!!! Good Job!!!

One question though. Will there be also a "search by category" option implemented at a later stage?

Yes, that is planned for some time down the track.

[Pladio]

Well, my keyboard can do all the apostrophes :D
" ' " , " " ", " ´ " , " ` " :P

Useless post, I know.
Actually, I just wanted to say the features work great. Thank you admins.

[Myrthos]

Added the options for doing a search for developers and publishers as well in the 'GAMES" menu tab.

As you will see the info is limited, but we are working on a way to involve the community in getting this information up to date.

[Ubereil]

Where's the "Mark as read" button? :-/


Übereil

[Corwin]

On the first page down at the bottom, right underneath the last forum listing!!

[Ubereil]

But then I mark EVERYTHING as read. I just want to mark separate forums.

Übereil

[kalniel]

Request: The Witcher forum section :D

[magerette]

Second kalniel's request. :) and nice work on the Games menu options. One step closer to that comprehensive database. That's about the only thing I miss from the Dot.

Also a question that may have been asked before, is there any way to search the News section for all the newsposts on a particular game?

It may be there and I'm just not seeing it.

[Myrthos]

You have to search for the game and then select the news tab at the top of the page. For Gothic this would result in: http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/news?ref=0&id=3

[magerette]

Thank you. Easy to use and very helpful.

[Arhu]

But then I mark EVERYTHING as read. I just want to mark separate forums.

For single forums, Forum Tools -> Mark This Forum Read.

There's no complaints from me, it's more of a curiosity than anything - i've become aware of the words/letters spelled as *&acute* contained within the posts and articles of certain rpgwatch admin's.

Might be fixed now. We'll know for sure once Gorath posts a new newsbit. ;)

Would it be possible (or desirable, to anyone else) to have the posts there act as links to the most recent/last post, rather than to the beginning of the thread?

Mm, yes, that kinda make sense. It's something Myrthos would have to change though. Currently the links are all like showthread.php?t=xxxx, whereas they'd need to be like showthread.php?p=xxxxx#postxxxxx
In vBulletin language: showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$postinfo[postid]#post$postinfo[postid]

As I see it. The day RPGWatch gets the game database up and running and the Future Watch (what ever it is) activated, this website will be unmatched.

Half of the Future Watch is already activated, actually. Read: pictures and polls. ;)

[Alrik Fassbauer]

What happened to RPGWatch today ? I received a message saying that there was no web page/site for this URL ...

[Myrthos]

Yeah, small mistake, big effects.

[Cm]

I keep getting a syntax error on line 271 message when I log in to the main news page. Is it just me and how do I fix that? Not a big deal I guess but stuff like that annoys and makes me want to go hummmm!

[Arhu]

Hummm! Please clarify. As you can't log in to the main news page by design, you must be seeing ghosts. ;)

[VPeric]

Would it be possible add a button to "show all" for the databases (games, devs, publishers)? Browsing by letter isn't that much fun. ;)

[Asbjoern]

Well, I got an idea after reading VPeric's post. Perhaps you could implement a user rating system to each game in the database so it is possible for registered users of this website to rate every game and then the scores are accumulated to represent an average score (Using your five star system).
Then next to the "Show all"-button there could be a "Show all by user rating"-button.

What say you?

I suppose I just miss that top 100 page from RPGDot.

And what about the possiblity of adding user reviews to a specific game in your database? And others to be able to rate user reviews.

And I've also thought about the possiblity to select which games to show in the database. So that you could deselect specifically MMORPGs or RPGs to appear in your browsing/search.

I guess I should just get back to my English essay instead of spending my time writing about different ideas here.
You've probably already thought of it all, haven't you?

[Gorath]

Well, I got an idea after reading VPeric's post. Perhaps you could implement a user rating system to each game in the database so it is possible for registered users of this website to rate every game and then the scores are accumulated to represent an average score (Using your five star system).
Then next to the "Show all"-button there could be a "Show all by user rating"-button.

What say you?

I suppose I just miss that top 100 page from RPGDot.

And what about the possiblity of adding user reviews to a specific game in your database? And others to be able to rate user reviews.

We´ve had something like that at RPGDot, and were very unhappy about it. The whole thing simply doesn´t work.
You always have a couple of idiots who think one game rules and all the rest sucks, so they feel the need to give 10/10 to that game and 1/10 to 25 other games. The problem gets even bigger if you consider how many 10s a good game needs to compensate one 1/10.


And I've also thought about the possiblity to select which games to show in the database. So that you could deselect specifically MMORPGs or RPGs to appear in your browsing/search.

I guess I should just get back to my English essay instead of spending my time writing about different ideas here.
You've probably already thought of it all, haven't you?

Of course we already know everything. But we still appreciate your input. :lol::gorath:

[Gorath]

Might be fixed now. We'll know for sure once Gorath posts a new newsbit. ;)

It´s not fixed but looks different now. See latest Legend newsbit.

[Arhu]

It´s not fixed but looks different now. See latest Legend newsbit.

Let me rephrase that: .. once Gorath posts a new newsbit and someone comments on it.

The bug was in the code that transfered a newsbit to the forum. Several characters like trademarks, special quotation marks and your ´ weren't correctly converted to html code. The ´ in your newsbit looks different because it's written in italics. At least that's my theory.

Your ´'s won't be converted to ''s, if that's what you mean, but they should now be correctly displayed in forum newsbit posts. :)

Arhu

[Cm]

Ok not the news page just the main page I guess. The url is www.rpgwatch.com/?rwsiteid=1
The error is: Runtime Error has occured. Do you want to debug? Error: Syntax error line 271

[Arhu]

Ok not the news page just the main page I guess. The url is www.rpgwatch.com/?rwsiteid=1
The error is: Runtime Error has occured. Do you want to debug? Error: Syntax error line 271
Thanks. Should be fixed now. But there seems to be a huge horizontal scrollbar in IE, where's that coming from? And how long has it been there? :uneasy:

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Is this a bug ?

When I click onto these pictures, I get nothing but a message saying that I'm not logged in. Even when I'm logged in.

It's within the Gothic 1 texture patches thread.

[Arhu]

Is this a bug ?
It's within the Gothic 1 texture patches thread.

Link to thread (http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?p=46398#post46398) in question.

It works for me and my forum test account. Entering your username and password again doesn't help? Since you are logged in, I assume you are allowing cookies in your browser? Have you tried another browser to see if there's a problem in the forum or in your browser? Otherwise I'm not really sure why it's not working for you... Anyone else got that problem?

[Jaz]

No problem here. Not as an admin, anyway. But I'll try something else, wait a minute...

EDIT
My sock has no problems with these pictures, either.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Strange. Now it works.

[Cm]

I was wondering if subset in the NWN2 forums just for the MoTB would be good to sort all the info in one section? Just an idea.

[Asbjoern]

I think some images have been misplaced in the 2Moons gallery: http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/images?ref=0&id=159

[Bartacus]

Nice pics though

[Asbjoern]

Nice pics though

Definitely. I have stored some of them on my computer.

[Myrthos]

This was a test set I used to test the image uploader our editors use. Good thing I used this set.....

We don't actually have any images for 2Moons, so I removed them.

[Asbjoern]

I've thought about this for some time. Is it possible to link the singleplayer RPGs in the database to the Picture Watch on RPGWatch and the MMORPGs in the database to the Picture Watch on MMOWatch?

Another suggestion would be to make it possible to select between showing only "RPGs", "MMORPGs" or "All" when browsing the games database.

This would in general create an easier distinction between the two Watches and give them both a more unique identity. Furthermore ease the readers who only visit this website for information on either RPGs or MMORPGs.

[coyote]

I tried to post a reply to the news about Michael's article concerning Titan Quest, and was not able to. Instead, the browser displayed the following error message:

Database error
The RPGWatch Forums database has encountered a problem.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please try the following:
Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
Open the www.rpgwatch.com home page, then try to open another page.
Click the Back button to try another link.

The www.rpgwatch.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Using the Refresh button in my browser or reloading RPGWatch did not help, of course. Neither did switching from Firefox to IE.

[Gorath]

It has already been posted in the internal forum. We have to wait for Myrthos to fix it.

[Myrthos]

It is possible to comment this newsbit now.

[Rhiow]

Bug regarding games comments: when browsing the games database and clicking on a "add/view comments" link I get an error when I'm the first to make a comment. Something wrong with the URL maybe?

Example for Bioshock: [LINK (http://www.rpgwatch.com//forums/newthread.php?do=comments&ref=0&cid=)]

[Myrthos]

Fixed it....

[Myrthos]

Added a search box on the home page. As our own search engine is not operational, it uses Google to deliver the search results. In addition it is also possible to search through our database.

[darklord]

The news keeps changing back to the light colour scheme instead of the dark one, it's been fine till now then the other day it keeps insisting on reverting back.

Any ideas? :-)

Cheers,

Daniel.

[Asbjoern]

The news keeps changing back to the light colour scheme instead of the dark one, it's been fine till now then the other day it keeps insisting on reverting back.

Any ideas? :-)

Cheers,

Daniel.

Delete your RPGWatch cookies. It worked for me when I had the same problem.

[darklord]

That solved it cheers. :-)

Daniel.