Alzir

It’s also something I looked at recently but wasn’t happy with the styles on show, as it looked like we’d lose some of the forum structure we have currently plus I wondered how easily user access groups could be setup. Losing the current archive would also be hard to stomach, and was a concern of mine as well, though that article lammie paints a better picture of it than i’d originally picked up myself. It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve moved forum so if it’s a lot better, and easier to integrate than the current setup, then i’m sure we’ll cope. I did post above what appears and easy way to integrate phpbb into a wordpress theme though and since the lookbook thing sounds as if it’s designed to integrate a blog and forum, it may not be necessary. Having said that i’m keeping an open mind atm concerning all aspects of the site and a working example of this may be good to see. Would it take long to knock up our own example, without worrying about themes or content, just to assess function?

It’s strange looking at a logo that doesn’t have bugs, but that’s a good effort ben. I’m not sure if have it will fit in there, but one thing that should is jonny’s slogan for us back in the day “wasting time since ’99”. I think that would be better that online from 99, though well done on the ryhme.

@Gary Goat wrote:

Some great games last night. I know we’re trying to populate the server but i’m really liking these smaller games with us all on TS. Was nice to have my mic up and running 8)

Might be an idea to try and balance the teams a bit better as they were pretty stacked at some points last night and theres nothing that puts people off more then stacked teams. I’ve noticed servers running some sort of script that shuffles teams for the next round if the ticket difference gets too high which works pretty well. No idea how hard that sort of stuff is to impliment though.

The team balance at times was a bit skewed, so I had been considering this myself as well. The script you’re referring to is easy to install via procon, but it requires one of us to have it open and active currently, however i’m not sure about it because it seems a little buggy. The autobalance function seems to kick in at the end of a round and in other servers i’ve noticed winning players being switched onto the losing team with no regard given to their contribution towards the victory, which is a little annoying for people who like their stats, though i’ve yet to check whether battlelog actually records a loss. On the otherhand we do need to ensure the teams don’t become stacked too heavily as it’s not fun for either team.

Oh and before I go to bed, thanks to all who turned up tonight, especially occa, silversides, and the rats who came along. We had some good games in there, and even saw the odd random turn up when we peaked around 13 or 14 players. That was likely close to hitting the tipping point where the server would take off, though it wasn’t to be this evening. It is hard to tell though how successful this is going to be, but we can only keep trying and see what happens.

One thing we could do with btw is a new logo, because as much as we like bugs, we can’t really use it on youtube or facebook.

They’re on there already, after nose hair.