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Haha yeah... I duno though, just thinking of how/when we're gona go down, whether the staff are getting out what they put in. Not in selfish way, but y'know, are we helping people, are we motivating members to make games, etc.

Exactly, I don't see why newbies struggle to find to the correct forum either. Oh, another advantage is grouping the general discussions together. There's an RMXP & RMVX general discussion forum, and also game dev discussion. So all these topics will be grouped into one. I think this idea is a lot more efficient too. You've got all your game making needs covered by the different forums, then you sort your topics by prefixes. Allowing any number of engines to be supported.

Now that we have a good, full-proof system of topic prefixing and thus easily distinguish topics of different engines, I have been thinking of merging the forums in the Game Dev category. At the moment, clearly there's a bit of confusion going on. The amount of topics in the wrong forum is frustrating. For me, I just have to read what forums are there and I know where it all goes. Why is that so hard? Apparently it is. One answer to that question is that we two types of forums in the Game Dev category: Engine specific and merged. For example, you have RMXP support topics in its own forum, but RMXP Scripts and resources are mixed with all others. So the idea is to mix them all into one forum, and members are forced to use topic prefixing, so it should work out just fine. There shouldn't be any confusion. Would look like this: Game Development Discussion Tools & Utilities Projects & Teams -Project Recruitment Tutorials -Official Tutorials Engine Support -RGSS Support Resource Showcase & Critique -Resource Requests User Submitted Scripts -Scripts Request Nice and simple, right? Since I'm suggesting this, maybe I'm biased towards the idea. But, I'll try to deliver an appropriate list of pros and cons. Pros -Simple structure that reduces confusion on where to post -Ability to expand on supported engines - if we include an engine in the topic prefixes, then it is considered an engine we support. Before we only supported RMXP/RMVX as we had specific forums for those engines -Easier to make mods to list specific topics - for example, if i wanted to display all of the RMVX support topics on our VX homepage, I could easily to do as they have been prefixed Cons -Difficult to tell which engines are support on the forum for newbies -the forums do not have the engine in their name and this affects SEO Thats all I can think of right now :sweatdrop: Thoughts?

I agree with Roph for the most part. Particularly on if rmrk was started now it would definitely fail. Not sure how this site didnt fail to think of it. But also I think Roph has a tendency to compare everything to rmrk, just a first impression. It is low percentage. But if you're dedicated you can always tweak it. You cant get feedback on what users want if you dont have something to begin with, right? Roph mentioned forums adding arcades, blogs, etc. That doesn't apply at all, this hasnt be attempted yet. Or was he saying that in your favor? Too tired to scroll up lol. I still say go for it. Optimism may be your friend (or enemy). Wow that was way too neutral.

Thats a lot of money. Have you decided absolutely that is the software you want to use? Here's an alternative which I have played around with in the past: http://www.socialengine.net/

You're actually the only member in that usergroup, i forgot to set the proper permissions for it :sweatdrop: You should have access not. Yup, I will try add some when I get more free time. Are you back? :(

My only concern would be facebooks dominance over social networking. For example, after you you're done fb-stalking your friends, will you be bothered to do it again on this site? I suppose that effect would be diminished if it is specifically gaming. I duno, I think that a lot of successes happen after just trying things. The concept of twitter is a little silly but they do ok. So I say go for it see where it ends up.

Oh I didn't notice this before I made the announcement. Complain there from now on. As for games sucking, yeah, they come as is. I also couldn't figure out how to fight even after looking at the controls... I thought it would be good coz it was 16mb, oh well. Hopefully will be adding a lot more in there soon :) Noticed they actually have a VIP section for their awesome games. Cheeky, bet they're not even the original authors but they still making a profit of them.

Hey all, As long requested, we now have an arcade! So far I'm winning. :biggrin_002: Linkity: http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/forums/index.php?app=arcade Only 4 games so far. I found out how to hack the system and add in my own flash games, however, there are types that can be hacked. Games using the same arcade (any version) on other sites I can steal and use in ours and these will be able to submit scores. Otherwise, you can just play them. I guess we'll only add extremely awesome flash games which we arn't able to add the scores in, because we want a fully functional arcade of course. I hacked Angry Faic which we used to have ages ago, I love that game :) I plan to add many more games in here, but due to the games needing special editing for scores, I will not have requests open because the chances are that we won't be able to have that game. But I will try to periodically add games into it. I will have a link up in the "Other" menu or the top menu later on.

Lol. Kage the spam forum isnt really the spam forum. Its a forum for members who think their topics aren't with posting unless its under the cover of spam. I can totally imagine your website just be reading the CSS. Aside from the colors. I never organize CSS. I just add stuff one after the other as its needed.

Hi all, A while ago I installed a topic prefixing mod, as announced here: http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5304 Sadly this system was not a success at all. Despite my attempts to remind members to chose a topic prefix in the most obvious way I thought possible, members still were just ignoring it. The reason why it failed was because 1. Editing topics and adding prefixes when editing the topic didnt work and 2. because the system of not being able to post without a topic prefix also wouldn't work. So now you have to :) It's more convenient for everyone and really helps us out if you do. It will also make it FAR easier to write nice components for the site because we can easily filter multi-engined content. A note to mods: If you see any un-prefixed topics, you can now edit them and add the prefix in. It should be obvious which forums require it as you should see topics in that forum with prefixes.

Oh I moved it... Sorry for the confusion.

I merged your posts for you, there is an edit button if you need it. I know you forgot your email, but I can give you access to your old account if you want it. Sounds like you don't, so nevermind :)

Welcome back, your other account name doesn't sound familiar... Do you want me to reset your password so you can use your other account?

Yeah IP content would be the smart choice. I'm not sure but IP contents styles also come from the skins, right? The price is an interesting dilemma. Some people say that price is an indicator of quality. I don't know if you know any economics but the scenario fits in the with theory of monopolistic competition. There are many skins for sale, but since each are slightly different than each other, authors are able to set higher prices. Although no doubt decreasing the price will maximize revenue. Point being, though weak, you could set prices slightly higher than others. EDIT: Forgot to say, I'll PM you after my exams in approximately a months time when I have some time to be able to contribute.

Oh I didn't find it. I have a list of every single website that links here :king:

All, Recently I have noticed a huge decrease in the comments in the RGSS Scripts archives. Before the update everyone could comment, but RMXP Unlimited members couldn't use their accounts. Since the upgrade guests haven't been able to comment, just members. I have changed the settings so both members and guests can comment in the hopes of stimulating the number of comments and also to help more people with scripts :)

It's pretty easy to pickup I think. You can use an IDE or dreamweaver (because it has syntax highlighting) to edit CSS and the HTML live. So when you click save in Dreamweaver, you refresh and the changes have taken effect. It requires a little setting up and an offline server of course, but you can do it that way. After you got that setup (not that I ever used that method) its pretty quick to skin the thing actually. Particularly if you're not a perfectionist, like me :)

Ohhh. Can I submit my skins too? I made this one if that qualifies me :unsure: Actually I didn't make the graphics, but that's a little part of it...the CSS is the real skill. I was thinking about doing this, but didn't want to start my own site of course. You can do it on invisionzie and they take a cut of your earnings.

Haha, I know how rmxp sprites look, I am an admin :P I think I found what I was talking about, by randomly clicking in one of those folders. Lets see if any of these will help... They're VX style, but its pretty easy to make them work in XP, just add an extra frame.