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DominionsFan · #1 October 7th, 2003, 03:53 PM

What is a newsgroup?

Psitticine · #2 October 7th, 2003, 04:10 PM

DominionsFAN:

A USENET newsgroup is rather like this forum, being that it is full of threads and conversation on a specific topic. (Well, usually on a specific topic. Spammers and trolls are aggrievatingly common on the unmoderated newsGroups.) Your ISP should provide a news server, which should hopefully carry any Dom-related newsGroups, but they vary in their content from ISP to ISP.

Gandalf Parker:

My editing partner (the Bionic Giraffe) is a web designer. I'll point her to this thread and see if she thinks she has time and so forth to help out.

Pocus · #3 October 7th, 2003, 08:28 PM

specifically, when 'we' (understand the players of doms I) speak of 'The' newsgroup, we speak of

comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic

Why do I'm saying that? Because this newsgroup is not specific to dominions, and speak of any game which can be qualified to be a strategy game (RTS included). You will find many people interested in discussing with you of games like dominions, but also in UFO aftermath, Galactic civ, C&C generals, etc.
Many players (including me) didnt knew dominions before reading discussions about the game in the NG. Then you are intrigued, try the demo, and the deadly addictive process begin.

Gandalf Parker · #4 October 7th, 2003, 08:35 PM

NewsGroups are older than WWW. Older than Internet in fact. There is a newsgroup for every hobby, team, music group, job, geographical area, etc etc etc that you have ever heard of.

Your ISP often gives you access to newsGroups. It is considered a part of what "internet service" means, like email and a web page.

Gandalf Parker · #5 October 7th, 2003, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Psitticine:
Gandalf Parker:

My editing partner (the Bionic Giraffe) is a web designer. I'll point her to this thread and see if she thinks she has time and so forth to help out.

Im really hoping that one of the addicted players is a dedicated webmaster who just lacks a place to host their big idea/project.

Nerfix · #6 October 7th, 2003, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

quote:
Originally posted by Psitticine:
Gandalf Parker:

My editing partner (the Bionic Giraffe) is a web designer. I'll point her to this thread and see if she thinks she has time and so forth to help out.

Im really hoping that one of the addicted players is a dedicated webmaster who just lacks a place to host their big idea/project.

Well, Wractale, the creator of Dominions X is a "webmaster"*(can 15-years old teen be a webmaster?), and he has already made his "grand project" true.

However, he doesn't have direct connection, and in general, i'm the one who has too much spare time, but my #%&?!@# tar-pump computer can hardly run any HTML editors without crashing. Luckily i'm getting new computer pretty soon, so you can except more regular updates.
(* I sure hope i understand the meaning of this term correctly now, if not, forget the existence of my post)

Mortifer · #7 October 7th, 2003, 08:55 PM

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Originally posted by Pocus:
UFO aftermath

I bought this game...all I have to say that the old X-Com was LOT better.

As for webmasters...I can make awesome sites. I made some in the past, mainly for clans.
I could make a lot better website than DominionsX in a very short time just for example......No offense of course.
Anyways I plan to make a mod site for Doms II, when the mod tools will be out, so you will see a decent website than.

[Depends how much time will I spend to make it...if I will have enough time you will be amazed.]

[ October 07, 2003, 19:59: Message edited by: Mortifer ]