Update from the Community Manager - 23 Feb 2011

[Kallocain]

Ok, stuff is happening over here! There are a lot of news since we have GDC coming up, but I really can't tell you everything until we have announced it, so here is what I have right now.

Cities in Motion Released
The game is released and the subforums are now active. It's looking good, all reports say that CiM is a very fun and stable game!

New Project to be Announced
Link to the forum and hints here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?601-*-Project-Glory-* (The name will not actually be Project Glory, no) Something brand new, not a sequel, not an expansion.

Beta Patch for Victoria 2
The discussion thread: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...a-of-1.3-23rd-February-2011-Discussion-Thread
The patch and change log is in the tech support forum. The change log is huge, and I think it looks very promising. Have not tried it yet actually!

New Templates
Four new templates are available for selection. The colours are made to be similar to the old CK, Victoria HoI and EU forum colours. Let me know of any bugs in the forum help, except the one about blue background for the community, forum actions and quick links dropdown, I'm aware of that. (Fixed!)

 

[Kallocain]

Hm, I dislike (somewhat) the new templates. They all have a white-ish background, which I think is pretty hard to read on a computer screen. Any chance that can be changed to the "old" templates, where we had non-white background? I'm staying with DeepOceanEdited, that works nicely. Except for the overly "round corners", but I've complained about that before

The old templates are not compatible with the new software. Plus, they do feel rather dated now that I've gotten used to this, so I'd probably not want to go back even if I could now.

 

[Kallocain]

As long as DeepOceanEdited stays, it's bearable Speaking of which, when will you get round to fixing th eremaining "forum read/new posts/closed thread/etc" icons? Some still have the old icons (the blueish round corners), and not the new envelope-style.

Which ones? I looked around a bit and didn't see any.

 

[Kallocain]

Any feedback on the templates is very welcome! We can still change things.

 

[Kallocain]

Ah, perhaps because your posts always gets a platypus. These are the ones I always see:

* thread with own posts (closed or not)
* closed, unread thread (not closed read), without any of my posts
* deleted threads also have the old style, but that's not important as not visible to normal users
* The platypus still has the old "dot", if possible perhaps have a platypus without dot, and a platypus with dot if it's a thread you have posted in?

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The one I still notice is the "you have posted in this thread" one, which I guess you would not see because you get the "Paradox Employee posted here" one

Of course, I just see the platypus! Doh! Thanks, I'll look into the icons.
And thank you guys for the feedback on the templates, we'll try to adjust them accordingly.

 

[Kallocain]

The CK Style looks badass

Anyway there´s still some tweaking needed ( i volunteer for Help )

Edit: Will the CK/Vic/HoI/EU Forums have those styles as default? As of now, if you change it, it appears on the whole forum

You need to be an admin to tweak these things, so that'll not really work. Thanks though.
The plan is to have them as default in their forums, but we need to tweak them a bit more first, and then I'll make it happen.
It will not override your choice if you have anything other than default though.

 

[Kallocain]

Not anymore it seems

Thanks Kallocain

Oh, it's not me doing these! I had to struggle so much to get the deepocean one fixed up I never want to look at templates again - ever!
We have a very talented intern who does these new ones. A hard-core HoI2 player!