Lilith

Thank You for assisting us in knowing who we are working with and by default accepting the responsibility of the extra work. To the members of MWG, Please do not abuse this as it can just as easily be taken away.

There are many topics that allow us to recommend / present someone's work they have done well. As a new member of MWG, I have little knowledge of who is LEAST likely to be helpful. I would suggest a hall of shame threat where members can post their negative experiences working with another member. There should be rules about how to post similar to: 1. Name of offending party 2. known aliases 3. how they offended 4. evidence / screenshots supporting this. Reply posting should be limited to adding more evidence either supporting or negating the accusation. Just a thought to help new members choose who to work with without being scammed.

In that case Paul, Here is my official apology to Dayo. Dayo, It has come to my attention that it is in fact your site that is hosting my work, if the images are completely removed from the server, I will take no further action, however, no matter who owns the site, it is in violation and I will continue with my intended actions. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused both of us, and I wish to express that there are no hard feelings directed at Dayo.

@Paul, I haven't been here long enough to know who they are, but they are bound to be out there in any community. More evidence: MSN Conversation (still in progress at the time of this post) This guy knows no bounds, nor does he seem to know the truth anymore.

Getting my name right or wrong, ... no big deal. I use a screen name more often than my real name, BC no one can get that right either. So what he missed a letter in typing. Now, Id like to see people actually follow spydre's example and provide proof of the wrongdoings rather than just flame George. It has become apparent to me that there a number of people who are less than desirable on this forum and because of the constant off topics / flaming/ and generally unprofessional behavior, these topics get buried or deleted. So please, if you have dealt with George, had a bad experience, please provide the entire story and any evidence you can to back it up. Let the reader determine how they feel about the evidence presented.

this would work if you did it like bombs, you have to select the page and the user ID for the target, and when that user goes to that page, boom ..... muhahahahaha I kinda like it

@ George, if you were not going to give me any work, why did your hire me, and make me part of the company? (rhetorical question, needs no answer, I already know that Google is cheaper.) BTW, Official notice. You have 24 hours to remove my work from any of your sites and delete the files from your computer. @at DJK, you are 100% right, I haven't been on MWG long enough to know of the aliases people use. Bad on me I suppose.

They do both use the same CG Studios forum pic, and I wasn't even given one.

You see George, I warned you via messenger that you were using copyrighted images, when I found the electronic signature watermarked and traced by Digi Mark. Your excuse: its a stock photo, its not part of the package if they buy the stock photo, they can use it too. Yeah I'ma gonna go with ... you lied. Secondly, you and Dayo agreed to hire me as your mascot provider, You exchanged services and agreed to provide an original mascot (I asked Spydre about this as his conversation didn't reflect if it was supposed to be custom or not)provide a mascot, which (as CG studios' mascot designer) should have been refereed to me to create (which was not). You have often refereed to me in these forums as "a friend". So don't you even dare try to push off your thievery onto me. Here is the google link for that image. http://images.all-free-download.com/images/graphicmedium/cartoon_soldier_vector_37854.jpg (Link to the image provided in exchange for services / sold) I couldn't believe it at first either. SO George, Count me out of CG Studios! As a graphic designer (or should I say graphic thief?), you know how hard artists work to create things, so you of all people shouldn't be claiming someone else's work as your own. Remove all content that I have created on your site in full or in part. and good luck. I won't be part of someone claiming they created something they didn't.

wow! Both methods are extremely helpful! I really appreciate the effort put into your answers. Ill probably use Zu's method just because I can modify it to fit several needs with my coding abilities at this time, but Paul has defiantly given me something to play with to improve those abilities.

hmmm, I think I quit torn after like 1 day of play because there was nothing to keep my interest graphically. I mean I am a right brained person who requires some kind of interesting thing to keep my attention. However, other games who have massive amounts of graphics distract me and drive me batty. I find that as a player, I prefer a game that has at least a header / side image, but nothing behind the text that draws me away from paying attn to the game. So, I would have to say A mix is a happy medium. a graphically enhanced header or image that doesn't interfere with or distract from the text, with clean css / html "playing area".

no, not what I mean, I mean having the choice to buy the mccodes files with a licence (unsecured), or paying a bit extra for the codes with security (the difference going to the person who has secured the files) and a licence from Mccodes. Not going along and later finding out later that someone has to access your site, change your files, and you have to pay more, you know like knowing up front what your investment is really going to be.

So heres an idea .... and something Id be greatly interested in. Ask the owners if they would be willing to post a copy of the secured files as a paid mod to licensed McCodes owners so we can DL secured files. Not such a big project, you already did the work, and would probably make a good sum off it.

How would you code an item that appears in your inventory, but instead of a "use" link, you get a "throw bomb" (in this case) link that initiates the bomb.php file?

OK, so I just had to go check out this game in question. I have to say that I have not seen that much creativity and originality in a game in a long time, major props on that even if the game is not my style. (I am married, and I don't think some of the events I got would be ok with my husband on a regular basis, without his involvement anyway lmao) But I now see the ummm, situation. Have you considered selling "member credits" usable with multiple games on a third party site that can then be cashed in with a code and used to purchase donator packs on the game in question?

Capchas are annoying for the user lol, are there some other ways? (that and I can barely read most of them)

OK, so simple questions, for discussion sake. (without telling me how stupid I am for not knowing.) What are they? How is each different from one another? How do they work? How are they used to cheat? How do you stop them from being used?

To get around the "adult only" thing with my game (I hate dealing with immaturity and censoring is the only real reason i did this) I have set my rules to state that you must be 17 to hold an account "due to the graphic descriptions of battles and swearing in the game". I am considering adding to the account registration some type of age verification to help weed out the kids stupid enough not to lie and at least act mature. I then have not had issues with pay pal and the adult only thing. I don't really know the nature of your game, but 17+ instead of 18+ helps avoids that Porn flag with pay pal when sex is no part of the site anyway.

Issue has been resolved, Thank you both for helping / being willing to help fix my mess. RE: what was even wrong .... Im a dumb ass when it comes to crons lol.

my friend requests are not seeming to show up, can you send me a message via MSN? Danny replied first, so he gets first crack.

Time and Money, the two things we never have enough of. At this juncture I have more Money than time, so I am offering $20 via pay pal to the first coder to successfully make my crons work. This will be done via Team Veiwer. Please contact me on MSN at [email protected]

Wow, for a coder to get more than half is ludicrous in my opinion, yes, they do all the make it work stuff, but without advertising, good game management, and administration, its going to flop on its face. Ive seen some of the best coded games Epic fail because the admins were (insert favorite derogatory term here). And without advertising, you aren't going to get players who will donate to even look at your game. Both sides are of epic importance! Those of you who just code need to get a grip and loose the "i'm a coding god and the most important part of this". Yall are important, but players could give two $h**s about what the code looks like as long as it works right. And players are the ones you make $$ off of.

Shinobi, I know that the Gimp/Photoshop Debate isn't what you were looking for. The point is, start with a graphics program. (I myself use a program that is never discussed here, and not even available for purchase anymore, but I love it and thats what matters) DJ Kanna is right, the more you know about coding, the better layout design you can create. Now as far as I can tell, you can create pure CSS templates. They are coded so that you dont use tables for your layouts. These kinds of templates are (keep in mind this is just my opinion) difficult to learn, time consuming to create,and a royal pain to go cross browser with, but boy do they look good in the end! You are still going to have to create an image library for the template anyway. Your other option is to design a layout in a graphics program as one package, slice it, (cut it up into little blocks that piece together like a puzzle) and integrate the pieces into the appropriate places. (header.php, mainmenu.php, login.php, register.php) This method is much faster, easier to learn, and still looks good. You can add to this method as your skills get better and you learn more tricks to making things look good, so its a good starting point to keep from getting discouraged. I would defiantly suggest doing some research on what goes into a layout coding side, so that you can account for it in the development of your graphics. Good Luck and I hope to see some examples soon ~Lilith~

I have been learning how to create layouts, CSS, HTML, and McCodes integration. While I am not fluent in integrating, I have a few layouts I wanted to show and get feedback on, each can be sliced, and coded into html, and CSS. Industrial Layout - ingame Blue - Login Blue - ingame More to be added as soon as uploading complete.

Looked at the game, and its still pretty basic. What kind of "dark brotherhood" are you wanting, are you looking for an underground clan of vampires, rouges, magicians, ect? And like Danny asked, what is your price range?