The Monk

1) Yes. 2) Yes, the site frequently times out for 10-20 seconds then remains fine for 10+ minutes, some days it doesn't timeout at all. 3) I honestly don't know, V3 is the obvious choice but that's not an over-night job. I can still see room for improvement re: activity levels but I think its something that isn't easy to fix. I don't think its a terrible thing that the site is inactive, a website mainly focusing on 1 specific thing(PHP game development) doesn't need to have a new post every 10 minutes. Providing users keep answering questions, occasionally pop-ing out a freebie, discussing strategies/challenges etc I will personally keep visiting.

In all honesty vB is just a personal preference. Great choice of themes which used to be what attracted me to a site, now its more about content. SMF is not my personal preference but as you said you're worried about server resources, its fairly lightweight and shouldn't give you too much trouble. I've never used it myself other than as a regular member but from what I know the set-up/administration is fairly simple. Other than that, SMF is free, vB is not. Very little being risked trying SMF.

I expected the instrument to look like that, didn't expect him to break out in a half decent tune! That's awesome as!

If you're not using MCC you're going to have to post all relevant PHP files and MySQL tables. For all we know your equivalent of the $ir query could be anything! If you're looking for to pay a programmer to do it(with access to your site) then post some sort of ballpark figure. There are some great PHP programmers on here but I doubt they can do much with this limited information.

How rare, free hosting screwing someone over!

require_once "globals.php"; to include_once(DIRNAME(__FILE__).'/globals.php');   I'll try to remember to test this after I sleep, nice work!

Love the 'Betray' one haha. Very nice(and somewhat funny) picture.

I don't think I've come across a website radio without this set-up. Great idea posting a guide to full set-up. Thanks!

vB or SMF. Both have their ups and downs. The one plus they do share is being better(imo) than the other forum engines.

You want it to pop-up inside the browser and then disappear when you move your mouse away? I think that's do-able and most likely a javascript job. A few games I have seen have the description appear in a new(small) browser window, works quite well if you're looking for something more simple.

yes i have permission to use those images Commercially? They look like something ripped from google or planetrender.

Forums would be a good one, pretty big for only $1 though. Equip items would be pretty good as well, same with crystal market.

Sounds really good! Best of luck!

Np :)

Sounds like a great idea, I think most game owners love anything to do with the donation page so making a good one will probably be welcomed :P

I thought it meant in-game adverts but if this is true then Silva is right, probably better off having no adverts.

1) PHP. 2) None, I should stop being lazy and learn C#. 3) At the time I believed that PHP ruled the internet, never tried anything outside of it.

Chuck me a PM with some mod requests if you want. We can work out a price based on the mod quality rather than just lines. Wouldn't want someone doing this. $var = 'This'; $var2 = '='; $var3 = 'easy money'; echo 'T'; echo 'h'; echo 'i'; echo 's';

Amen :) Features and speed were my two preferred things in a game. Call me crazy but graphics quality was just not a big deal for me, if I had reasonable delays to load pages I'd get angry, being Australian and most things being hosted in the US it was high-quality/large amounts of graphics that annoyed me due to load speed. That's actually the reason I began playing, then eventually coding, text-based games. If I was to go back now days though my internet speed would not be such an issue and with a lot of companies realizing their Australian user database is fairly big they are hosting servers in Sydney etc. Not too say I wouldn't go back to text-based at all, once a mafia game addict, always a mafia game addict :thumbsup:

The link is from over a year ago, you can PM the OP if you want but he hasn't logged in for a while.

Quick-scoping is completely unrealistic but removing it was probably a bad choice for a lot of customers satisfaction levels. COD4 engine, COD5 zombies, COD6 game quality = Hopefully Black Ops.

Well if you want a gamers perspective you can throw code out the window, features all the way.

If you're talking about a high/low mod then I made one in the free mods section. [mccode v2.x] Basic High/Low

Personally dominion, I thought putting ' ' around numbers in queries and ` ` around table/column references was a good habit. I might have just developed that thought from MCCodes but I don't know...

I'd declare this: $_GET['ID'] = abs((int) $_GET['ID']); before any queries involving it, under globals is a good place. Also I'd personally declare it $_GET['id'] = (int) $_GET['id'] + 0; That will force a number with less processor use.