Diesl

Well, I tried out your game. Besides being ridiculously slow (took 2 mins to load a page, if it even loaded), The interface is barely changed from the default. You have a few mods in there, but nothing that really distinguishes your game from any other, and in terms of storyline/content, there is nothing really that distinguish it from the barebones game engine. There is a lot more to criticize, but I will leave it at that. As I said before, you should really customize your game, both in UI and content/story before you come on here asking for opinions and feedback. A few days work, albeit many hours spent each, is not even close to enough. Also, lose the cocky attitude, you're not impressing anyone.

To be honest, you're not going to get good feedback if you are asking for input on a game you spent less than a week on. You should really spend about a few months, and get a good idea running and develop/design around that, and then open for suggestions. A lot of people come in here and ask for comments and suggestions for their game, and they have a half-ass site with a very basic UI, not well thought out game structure, story or content, and it just looks and feels like every other new (mafia style) game out there. With your attitude "how much fun can a text based game really be?", It seems like you're making this game for the money rather than for the experience, knowledge, practice and fun. Not a good sign.

To summarize print "<br /><br /> <form action='addpagehere.php' method='post'>Type in whatever.<br /><br /> <input type='text' size='10' maxlength='40' name='variable'> <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit'> </form>";

Just to add another point, if you support a multi-language game, then you support a multi-language community, which means you will have to moderate in each language that you offer. Unless you speak all these languages, or have dedicated GM's to moderate in these languages, it becomes a lot more work.

Saw this video on another site. I like the UI update on it. Glad they are updating their CSS3 and HTML 5 support, as well as adopting a quicker release schedule.

Can you post the entire code, as it looks like your if statement is not meeting the conditions, thus not getting to the query.

I tried using Aptana on my laptop and it had a small albeit uncomfortable lag to it. I've been a bit leary about using VIM because I've heard there is a steep learning curve to it, although a web developer friend said that once you start to use it, you love it. What is your (or anyone's) experience with VIM DJ?

On the home page, to view the articles submitted by other players, I have to go to Section Widget.. and click on either PHP or Databases. It's not exactly intuitive to what "section widget" actually means, and not as easy to navigate to. What I am suggesting is to have an "articles" link added to the top menu bar that links to these articles.

Just a thought: Could you throw a link to the articles (or section widgets) up on the top menu bar? Would make it a bit easier and more intuitive if there was a link to all articles written on the top menu bar IMO.

a_bertrand: new messages show in my inbox, but the old ones are not showing up in my inbox. When I click on edit folders it shows inbox: 1 sent items: 12 (correct) However, it recognizes that i have the old inbox messages as I have many notifications, which are the respective inbox messages. I can see them if I click on "settings", but they will disappear once I open the message. Other - the default sorting method for many forum sections is by title, rather than by date. I sorted it by last post, but then it went back to the default when I left and came back to that page.

Looks nice! Some issues: - my private message inbox is empty (even though I had messages there), it seems all inbox messages are made into notifications (sent messages show up fine). - private messaging is turned off by default (at least it was when i first tried to use it). - signature codes not working properly (img tags linking rather than displaying the image)

Not true at all.

You're missing the column on the right for that page. It's trying to fit the 2 columns into the entire table.

Are you a really high level? The crime and attack system is based on levels: The higher level you are, the less EXP you will gain. And hospitalize/mugging options after defeating someone doesn't give EXP, only "leaving does" (as mentioned by previous posters).

Those are some huge buttons, especially for their purpose. They take up about 1/5 of the width of my laptop screen.

$40 upgrade seems like a lot, especially given the history with this engine (no offense). I believe that performance optimization should be something that gets patched into 2.0.3. $20-$25 would be acceptable IMO. Although, it's good to see that improvements are made to improve scalability and ease of use.

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Could you add some preview screenshots?

I find that multi-accounts mess up game economies. You have players over inflating the markets with whatever gets them the most money. It makes it hard for you as a game owner to try and balance the economy. Also, multi-account players tend to play for a shorter period of time. If you allow them to have as many accounts as they can, they will abuse it until they get to the very top. Some players enjoy the challenge of getting to the top, but once you have everything you possible can, then what? the game gets boring.

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Congratulations to both.

They are not useless. With the web being so JavaScript heavy now (JQuery, AJAX, and the recent popularity in Node.js), JavaScript benchmarks communicate a lot about how these browsers are performing for modern front end development. Even if the differences are minuscule, there are still differences, and they show how each browser renders JavaScript in different environments. You may not care, but as I said before, my bias is towards web development, so these are the kinds of things that interest me, and many others as well. But yes, all modern browsers are on a relatively equal level. Will people use 64bit? I hope not, but Microsoft does make it available and there are less educated people who won't know why they shouldn't. They have a 64bit computer and their friend/grandma told them that it was faster so why not use a 64bit browser to? Also, I'm sure Microsoft will embed IE9 x64 with their Windows 7 x64 packages.

It depends a bit on how players are achieving this new ranks. Do they reach a certain level and get a new rank? Do they complete a quest? Commit a certain number of crimes? etc. But basically, you could add a column to the users table for their race and for their rank. Whenever they reach the point where they would update their rank, you would then update the rank table column. If you have it so when they reach a certain level, you can use global function in global_func.php that updates the users' stats when they level up (I forget what the function is called). Run a conditional statement such as if($ir['level'] == 10) { Update race rank to Level F } It will most likely end up a bit more complicated, but that is the basic idea.

Although IE 9 is a major improvement, it still draws large criticism from the web development community (my bias). There are many blogs detailing how they are still lack support for some of the new HTML5 and CSS3 features that other popular browsers have put in support for. Depending on what review you use for benchmarking, the results for IE9 vary. Many JavaScript benchmarks have been released, and it seems that Chrome is still the leader. Although IE9 x32 and FF4 have narrowed on the gap considerably, and depending on the benchmark, they even come out on top. Although, from what I've seen, IE9 x64 uses an old JavaScript engine and no-where close to the speeds of IE9 x32 and other popular browsers. I would have to say the interface is a definite improvement on previous versions. One thing that is worrisome is the development timeline for browser updates with IE. It took how many years for IE 9 to come out? Google has been really good with releasing new versions and updates consistently (the auto update is a great) and Mozilla has claimed that they will release new versions of firefox every 16 weeks. One would hope that Microsoft can keep up. I have to give praise to Microsoft for finally trying to push users to update to the latest versions of internet explorer and get rid of the dreaded IE6: http://ie6countdown.com/ Overall, I still will be using Google Chrome for everyday browsing and FireFox for development.

Very nice! The interface seems very straightforward and simple. Good luck on your sales.