New Layout Update

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Anytime, BUT you have to provide me with the set of colors you want. I won't search myself. Usually people don't seem to realize how hard it is to manage to make 20 different colors blend together nicely. So if you are good at this sort of stuff, just do a screen capture of the BU forum homepage, paste it in mspaint, reskin it with the colors you want, and show it to me

[Maleficus]

Looks good.

Don't see a need for breaking the Agora up either - just keep it simple. You make 100 specific forums, and only 1 or 2 of them will actually be used anyhow....

Guess I'll have the non-HL bot forum all to myself?
Might as well just call it the FritzBot forum, since I'm the only non-HL bot here!

I agree with the thought against seperating the bot forums too. Since I'm the only non-HL bot ATM, Fritz will be crammed away in some obscure "OTHER" sub-forum that probably won't be visited much.

If BU is ever going to be more than just about CS bots, we should highlight ALL bots.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

oho
yup... makes sense

although if you notice it's not HL1 bots/HL2 bots/other bots, it's rather separated by game, hence since one can consider that CS is a game itself alone, you won't really be the alone, think of GrogBot, GraveBot, HPB_bot and ShrikeBot.

so...
bot categories or no categories ?
other ppl ?

BTW Mal, are you in touch with the other RTCW bot makers ? (and ET too)
Do you think they would be interested in joining BU if you invited them ?

[Maleficus]

Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

BTW Mal, are you in touch with the other RTCW bot makers ? (and ET too)
Do you think they would be interested in joining BU if you invited them ?

One of the ET bot makers contacted me a while back and I invited them to BU, but they didn't seem interested.

Don't know about the other ET bots, not even sure if they're still around: they've been pretty quiet the last few months, so probably not. The RtCW/ET bot scene isn't as big as I'd like it to be sadly.

I should probably ask the UberSoldat team, since it's coder has updated with news that he is still working on it, albeit slowly. I just haven't had the time.


I guess my main point is: I like Fritz being seen on the main forum page as an equal bot. Being sent off to an "Other bots/games" forum just seems like it would cause it to be ignored. Like its not good enough to get its own category. Many CS players have RtCW too (I am one of those people), and I like that some people, originally just looking for a CS bot, can find Fritz easily and enjoy it too. Right now, ALL bots are equally visible and "findable" , if you catch my drift - even if its just by mistake.

[Huntkillaz]

the reason is fritz in the other is so we can hoepfully get more bots there from other games,

its to show we are not just about cs bots

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Maybe we could find a compromise... maybe we could leave the "Cyborg Factory" section "open" like it is now - with "open" I mean that bots aren't hidden in sub-froums, but displayed directly on the main page.

But we could divide the "Cyborg Factory" by adding some more headlines, maybe in a different colour, or smaller...

Then we could have the different categories on one page, but each preceded by a headline that tells our users and visitors for which "game category" (CS, HL mods, other games) the bots under the respective headlines are. The description of each bot could stay as well, which is especially important for multi-mod bots. What do you think?

[von Ryan]

Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

Anytime, BUT you have to provide me with the set of colors you want. I won't search myself. Usually people don't seem to realize how hard it is to manage to make 20 different colors blend together nicely. So if you are good at this sort of stuff, just do a screen capture of the BU forum homepage, paste it in mspaint, reskin it with the colors you want, and show it to me

Well, I do know how hard it is... To keep it simple and to make smthing different in the same layout... But I'll try to improve it, soon I'll post the modified print screen here. :-)

[Maleficus]

Originally Posted by >BKA< T Wrecks

Maybe we could find a compromise... maybe we could leave the "Cyborg Factory" section "open" like it is now - with "open" I mean that bots aren't hidden in sub-froums, but displayed directly on the main page.

I like this idea a lot.

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Let's see what the other bot coders say...

[@$3.1415rin]

yes, that would be a nice solution, just the forum names like [CS] Joebot e.g.