Zelaron improvements - Help required

Well, I'll just try to keep my answers fairly short and do the point. Thanks a lot for the compliments, but I won't include them in the post, unless you want to sit up all night reading it.

Originally posted by Toten first we need more guides for making the right chars for the bots and guides how to config the ini files....so that the new users have it easier to find what they need... then they don t need to create new treads and so they will stay here and don t go to the other forums...becouse they will find a lot of information...i hope i inspirat( right word??) you a little bit... second we need more Advertisements....i think i found this site in google...but use other advertisements on some sites...

// Actually, I started a section with guides at the zelaron.com portal, but there aren't enough of them there. The portal just isn't finished, because I've had a hard time deciding what kind of content it should have.

// Also, we did advertise at Somethingawful once (probably the reason why we have so many insane people in the chat/flame forum), but quite frankly, advertising like that doesn't really work well. Search engine ranks are always good, but telling some friends would also be ideal. I just don't know yet.

Originally posted by TeRaGuArD Could you put the Zelaron > RPG Games > Diablo II > links at the bottom too so I don't have to scroll all the way up to go back somewhere jus a thought to make it easier. Oh and I jus checked out the games plz fix the music loop on the Breakout game it drove me nuts.

// If you're talking about a link in the bottom of the forum index (forumhome), then I can't say I like the idea completely. Shouldn't it usually take longer to scroll by the D2 forum, all the way down to the bottom? Actually, I do have a plan for simplicity, but I can't reveal it just yet.

// About the Breakout game, I can't fix the music, because I'm not the game author, so therefore, I can't edit the .swf files. The best thing I can offer you is an oppertunity to turn your volume down

Originally posted by Adrenachrome it had a direct link to hellmonkeys site whenever i needed it i just went to Zelaron then hellmonkeys

// That's not really a huge change, I'll deal with it once I've decided what kind of new portal content should be added. Besides, I'm starting to find the affiliate section quite useless. So far, I haven't really heard about anyone coming to the site that way. Taco's site is pretty decent though, but most of the sites aren't.

Originally posted by Titusfied I think that you guys should do more polls: Like I read in one post, how much MF and what you've been getting. Try to figure out what is getting the best results. Maybe at a certain time, or day, or character (I know I'm stretching here, but I think it would be interesting). I'd also like to see comparisons with other bots and maybe expand your downloadable section so that other bots can be checked out that we know are safe. There are a lot of bots, and I've tried a lot better ones than IPB 3.4 and JEDi, but I can't get sufficient help for troubleshooting them enough to get them to work properly...

// That sounds like a job for the forum moderators, and/or members. Anyone can contribute, it just takes a while to get people started at times.

Originally posted by Shpook hmmm, maybe more stuff that gets the users involved, like a working chat(lol), more polls, more mod and admin interaction(it's good now, but more would be better) More direct software links, links to the sig hosting sites and other hosting sites, better tutorials on the bots/graphics/hack progs. Maybe full featured contests with prizes(nothing major really) Also, maybe you could put a thread or something in the D2Hackit and bots forum that people could upload their PickitLog.html for everyone to see... One more thing, make it easy to access user stats thru UserCP or something, and go thru and make sure all the links work(cuz ive found a few that dont, mainly in the forum jump)

// We DO have an IRC chat, but right now, it's only forwarding to another server, which has been taken out. I'm looking for a better one, and I can just say that Quakenet and ETG haven't been very good. Undernet isn't very easy to find a working channel on, but in time, we might start our own IRC network. However, our bandwidth is a bit limited right now though, so that will be an idea for later.

// User stats? As in, your own post count and so on? Feel free to PM me more in detail. Besides, the "forumjump" is usually a resource hog and a pain, it keeps doing some odd things, but it's a bug in vBulletin. Version 3.0 should be released in less than a month (if I can beleive the hype), and hopefully, that should take care of it.

Originally posted by drivehappy 2.) More programmers interacting, i'm an avid programmer, not too many ppl on the programming forum though. 3.) OOoo just thought about this one, have like IRC chat or something here... for all them n00bs posting for help with the bots. It would be so much easier to talk instantly with 'em. 4.) Dunno about this; Xbox game cracking. BTW: Blizzard prolly knows about this site already... they did make the greatest game in the world, they're not stupid. But I really don't think any bots are illegal, since technically they arent alterating anything in the game, just sending harmless packets back and forth.

// Well, more programmer interaction isn't really a solution to the problem. What would make programmers join this board? They don't come out of nowhere.

// Correct me if I'm wrong, but the XBOX game cracking sounds highly illegal. Warez are beyond our policy, but game hacks are still all right, as long as they are not harmful to the user(s). Blizzard most likely knows about the site, but there are lots of Diablo II cheat/hacking sites, so they don't deal with them all. The only legal case so far (which Blizzard lost) was against the author of BNETD, the emulated Battle.Net.

Originally posted by Shpook Also, I dont know quite how v Bulletin works, but maybe you could add frames that way there's a quick and easy forum jump on the side or top of the screen?

// Frames are the nemesis of web designers. I would rather add a small menu object that follows the user all the way down, which expands upon clicking.