Scratch

Thank's for the advice 

I can help with the beta testing?

This is pretty cool and related.

muppetds wrote:

I can help with the beta testing?

Thanks a lot  . Could You have a look at the website and tell me what could be improved,  the style and colours in particular are a bit dodgy.

Hardmath123 wrote:

I agree with nathanprocks: this seems like a huge project which I don't really want to dedicate too much of my time to.

I don't expect anyone to continue to help throughout the entire project, like you and someone else have said, it is quite massive. The hardest part will be getting a basic game set up and the core functions working, so that is probably the only part that NEEDS more that one person, adding the actual content shouldn't be that hard. (In short, I only need people to help for the core mechanics and such, after that helpers would be more of luxury than a necessity).

Hardmath123 wrote:

Start small, just make an online interaction kind of setup which resembles Club Penguin: you move around and can talk. Build everything up from that.

That's great advice, like I said above, I'll try to get the core functions of the game working first (the bones) and the content (the meat) over time.

Hardmath123 wrote:

Don't include ranks where you receive privileges to control or tax others

The ranks need quite a lot of work, but the tax which the lord Mayor would be able to change would be a trade tax, so a percentage (1% - 5% are the min's and max's) would be deducted from all sales and purchases each player in that town makes and would be transferred into the treasury.

To stop all towns from having the maximum tax rate of 5%, the amount of new players that would be moved into that town by default would dramatically decrease, so it would be a mixture between profit and growth.

As for the issue about the community and some people benefiting of others, Imagine it in scratch - the community elect leader (let's say a moderator), this moderator then has a discussion with the community and everyone decides that 1/10 of their project views will go to a community account, and in return they use these views to improve scratch. Apologies for not being very clear about the scratch comparison, but hopefully you will get my meaning - it unites a small community to work together to achieve shared goals.

Hardmath123 wrote:

If you include private messaging, moderating will become a heavy task. Remember to make it safe!

There will be a button to report private messages, just as there will be to report posts. Administrators also have the ability to scan through all of the private messages and delete any that break the rules. I'm not sure about the idea of staff looking through private messages though, so possibly a gadget that deletes all of the messages with certain words in and ban's the senders of these messages?

Thank's for all of the advice, I'm sure it will be a huge help!

rookwood101 wrote:

This is pretty cool and related.

Thank's for the link, it puts it into perspective the quality that our game will have to be to keep up with other browser based games.

ls97 wrote:

A note about private and public messaging:
The best way to deal with messaging safely on a MMOG site is with Report buttons in chats. The report should ask for a brief reason, and then send an excerpt of the last 100 seconds of chat to a database. Moderators should then check the database often to eventually ban any offending user!   ["/quote"]

Great idea, I will be sure to include a feature that allows users to delete the last 20 - 30 messages in the chatbox or select individual messages to report.

[quote ="ls97"] As for the project, it sounds interesting but big. I just can't commit myself to this kind of stuff unless I start it

Like I said to Hardmath123, even if you just helped to create the login system or any other tiny pieces of code or graphics, it would be a huge help!

ls97 wrote:

Also, are you sure you wan't to be completely HTML-based? Plugins like Flash and Java offer much more extensibility and security! Maybe only make certain sections HTML-based, like forums, and make the chats, login and user base in a plugin.

Well, I don't know any Java and very little flash, so unless someone that has had experience with flash or Java would be willing to help I don't think it would be possible to include any other language besides from weblanguages.

As for the security aspect, while Java and Flash are more secure, PHP and SQL will have to suffice.

hardmath123 wrote:

I guess I could help you get started.   
I'm really experienced in HTML5, CSS3, JS, especially using the Canvas API's, and setting up core OOP libraries.

Great  .

Seeing as your experienced with HTML, CSS and Javascript, could you make a start on the  Login screen for the game. I'll leave the theme up to you, but try and keep it medieval please.

The actual form should look something like this:

<form action="login.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username..." id="username">
<input type="password" name="password" placeholder="" id="password">
<input type="submit" value="Login">
</form>

If you need any images I've got a small collection Here and Here.

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JackERY wrote:

hardmath123 wrote:

I guess I could help you get started.   
I'm really experienced in HTML5, CSS3, JS, especially using the Canvas API's, and setting up core OOP libraries.

Great  .

Seeing as your experienced with HTML, CSS and Javascript, could you make a start on the  Login screen for the game. I'll leave the theme up to you, but try and keep it medieval please.

The actual form should look something like this:

Code:

<form action="login.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username..." id="username">
<input type="password" name="password" placeholder="" id="password">
<input type="submit" value="Login">
</form>

If you need any images I've got a small collection Here and Here.

Woah, sorry I've been totally out of it this week. Too much stuff going on in real life... 

I'll get started on it next week. If you want, you can actually draw out a basic plan on a paint editor or scan a blueprint and I'll make something based on that. 

Also, remember to plan it out 

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I've started work on the forums (http://myphpwebsite.x10.mx/), so feel free to register and if you'd prefer you can say that you'd like to help with the project there.