Can I make this forum sort the "normal" way?

Gandalf Parker · #1 February 3rd, 2004, 06:27 PM

"This is Internet. You can find anything. If you search, and dont find it, then you found a hole. Fill it. This is Internet"

Actually, having been a strong suggstor in areas involving illwinters site from the first days of Dom1 I have to say they have made 200% improvement.

You know the Dominions2 domain names are still available. Im sure that searches for Dominions2 are occurring continually. Instead of "suggesting" that someone else do it maybe you could take a stab at it? Even make alittle money on the side.

Kristoffer O · #2 February 3rd, 2004, 06:39 PM

Our website is a temporary solution that enables us to quickly add things ourselves without having to learn how to make nice pages. I prefer to spend the few hours I have after work on Dominions rather than on web pages.

WraCTale (the dominionsx guy) made an example of a nice page for us, but I do not believe we could change it when needed. We're not very skilled in that area. Thus we went with the simplistic look. I consider our page more of a support page while Shrapnel's is a PR page. Their page is quite nice.

#3 February 3rd, 2004, 07:07 PM

I often wonder if the people who come to this forum think that 2 Swedes who work normal jobs and a few family members and other people all with the same name (Go Johans!) are suddenly lumped into the same Category as multi-million dollar companies.

Is it past every internet Users comprehension that not every game is built different? Shrapnel and Illwinter are NOT Blizzard, get used to it. Understand it, accept them for what they are and maybe you can provide helpful suggestions instead of ludicrious ones that while you feel are 'good suggestions' are not feasible.

Give 'em an inch, they take a mile.

Targa · #4 February 3rd, 2004, 07:28 PM

Actually, I don't think it's common knowledge, unless you read this forum long enough. It seems that there are quite a few readers who don't fully understand who/what Illwinter is all about. To quote J.O. from another thread:

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Originally posted by Johan Osterman:
The answer is the same as it is to all these kinds of questions. Illwinter has very limited resources. These resources are currently largely unpaid, the resources in question are not particularily fond of programming UI interface issues, and since the resources is it's own boss and is, more or less, unpaid it is not suprising that the resources spend most of it's time improving on other stuff than the UI.

Unless/until this becomes common knowledge, people will continue to request "improvements" to things that Illwinter has neither the time nor resources to implement. Perhaps the "about Illwinter" web page should make some note of this?

On another note, as I look at "a typical day at Illwinter" here:
http://www.illwinter.com/illwork.jpg
The first thought that pops into my head is "Where's that map?!!"

Kris: That looks awesome!!! Was it ever finished and released? Did I miss it somewhere?

vanedor · #5 February 3rd, 2004, 07:42 PM

"You know the Dominions2 domain names are still available."

It would have no use since it would not be the official site(no image gain for Illwinter) and there is already a very nice fan website that does perfectly the job of giving players another place to look at for infos and help about Dom2.

I'm glad the current site is considered as temporary.

#6 February 3rd, 2004, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by vanedor:
I'm glad the current site is considered as temporary.

It's a temporary support site. Meaning that it wouldn't even exist if it wasn't needed to host and fill certain areas for the community. I think you misinterpreted that as meaning "We'll make a good one later".

I'm sure sometime in the future the webpage will get an upgrade, but I doubt IW has the time to update and upgrade the webpage as it stands now. I would rather have them having a less than "marketable" website while fixing issues with the game, than the other way around.