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psykokow

psykokow
Now I think its harsh to say we shouldn't compare the two... WHY NOT?

I have funded both and I love wing commander games..

FUNNY ENOUGH the demands on both games is very similar... and if you watch some of these Hanger vids, they are good, entertaining though not the beardage you get here. They have a SURE we'll put that in for everything, they are selling in game stuff before the game is out..
Its flash, and big and promising everything.... and very American..

The key thing is.... I like the more reserved attitude here, where its going to be the best of brittish.. I chose to put my efforts into this community (Sorry guys... it could have been very different).
If SC is better to play, Im going to be playing it when I'm not playing ED..

But if i am out and about and I see a game and think, that kind of feature should be in elite... in the elite way then DAMN Tooting Im pooting it up here. If I see a sheep jump a fence and rotate in a way I think 'wow ships should be able to do that on planets' im gonna log in asap.

So I say lets avoid mixing the two up, but they will and should be compared... and if Elite is better on 1/4 of the budget.. hurray.
There is no harm in looking at some of the ideas over there and seeing if they could be inspirational, im certain they will be looking here. It makes sense to.. they are catering to the same people..

So lets NOT create an atmosphere of OMG he said the SC word.. which I keep calling Star Commander lol.... I'd be banned from there in a heartbeat..
 

breakpointUK

breakpointUK
Sterlino said:
well, then... beg pardon me sir.
I am only worried about some useless expectations and comparisons within the two wonderful projects.

And, yeah.. may be it's the start.. don't worry they will fix step by step the site with every news.
Maybe also there will be a totally different home page soon or later when they will have something of more ''satisfying'' to show (game engine, new ships or whatever).
Sure it will take a long time, so we must have patience a little bit.

Bytheway i like simply, user friendly and easy access site instead a techno full of graphics twister that stuck my poor pc ram .. lol
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:D

I get what you mean, in other threads I have argued that mechanics confirmed in SC should not be implemented in ED (very different games but within the same genre)

I think the ED homepage is a perfect place for news and updates and should now be used to attract people that do not necessary know the Elite universe or were aware of the kickstarter programme... perhaps even a place to start laying down some lore (thinking a Gazetteer)...

we now have an idea of templates/menu style from the newsletters so this should be used as a design principle for the homepage (which isn't techno graphics, seems nice and simple to me;))
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
DobrijZmej said:
Tell me, because Newsletters should be available only to those who paid the pledge.
Will any man after open your page will see the latest email newsletter?
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i think that's a yes considering it's a public site.

@Ashley - one request for something to add to the tumblr page is the author and description attributes if you can, at present this is about the only ED source that doesn't use them and without the shorter description the RSS feed spits out the whole post. this would be helpful as the feed output looks awful on my site, it fills the home page to the exclusion of everyone elses updates
 

SnowGhost

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Cody said:
Agreed... one shouldn't have to look anywhere else, either.
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No one shouldn't have to go to facebook or myspace or tumblr or twitter or god knows where else to get information related to Elite.

It's a shame that elite.frontier.co.uk is still in full on begging for money mode. That is what kickstarter is for. I understand the desire for on going new pledges of support. But that could be at elite.frontier.co.uk/funding (or some such).
 

SAB380

SAB380
I like the Tumblr feed. Will make life easier. But others are right as well.

Funny thing about the Star Citizen website being used as an example is the game designers there feel their site is way outdated for what they're now trying to achieve and are building an entirely new site from scratch as we speak.

Meanwhile, Elite: Dangerous is still using what looks like a hobbyists DIY template and making reference to hoping the Kickstarter run does well :D

A proper website would encourage people to get in on the action.....
 

Telstar2001

Telstar2001
The Tumblr page is designed for those people that want a single news feed that they can go and glance at once a day and see if anything new has come out.
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There are a lot of people like myself that never use Twitter or Facebook, so this makes a lot of sense to keep all new updates in one place, which makes it very convenient to come here quickly once a day to see what may be new. but then again.. I have to also agree that a single web site would be the best option for everything ED.
 
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Alien

Alien
It nice you have a tumblr page dedicated to all the latest news ...
but I don't understand why you don't use this page http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ to post all the information.

To me it seems the logical choice ... yet you (Frontier Developments) seem to have abandoned it in favour of something else.

Have I missed something?
Alien
 

Ashley Barley

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You haven't missed anything, unfortunately our web team are too busy working on the game itself to develop a new Elite site right now.

We agree that there is a definite need for an updated Elite site, and there will be one before launch, but I created the Tumblr page as a temporary solution until the web guys have more free time to put into it.
 

Selezen

Selezen
@Ashley...

I'll do it!

I use CMS software to build sites (as do most people these days), for example Wordpress, Drupal, gpEasy, Oxwall, dotnetNuke and Joomla.

I'd probably use either Wordpress or gpEasy depending on what sort of site you wanted. It wouldn't take long - the longest part of it being creating / customising a template.

It would provide:
  • Blogging (using Wordpress would provide per-user blogging)
  • Image galleries
  • Rich content
  • Two-way RSS feeds
  • Embedded audio and media

...and much more

Happy to do it if you want.

Samples of stuff I've done
 
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