http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion Simple:Press Forum Version 4.0.4 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/its-been-awhile/#p1795 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/its-been-awhile/#p1795 Is this thing on? I'm sure I haven't been here in years, how is everyone?
]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2018 08:49:54 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1780 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1780 Update:
Made pretty good progress for the first day working on this. The database is in place, the basic directory render engine is in place (need to expand on this to include the pop up dialog with detailed information), and the sidebar navigation is in place. Should be able to have this entire section done within a few days.
]]> Sun, 23 Jul 2017 01:44:43 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1777 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1777 Network Tag Ideas
› Format: Free-Form, Statistical
› Canon: Canon, Non-Canon, Alternative Universe
› Word Count: None, Low, Medium, High
› Difficulty: Beginner, Adept, Advanced

No need to do genres, as that's how the listings will be broken up to begin with. Could also do forum software.
]]> Sat, 22 Jul 2017 15:28:19 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revitalization-project-chimera-engine/#p1772 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revitalization-project-chimera-engine/#p1772 Updates:
Design UI for the back end and the update queue are finished, as is the database and core functionality of the queue itself. I will be continuing work on the backend soon, though Chimera will be mostly on hold now until I get the site itself re-worked and the network built. That being said I will probably continue to mess with Chimera while I work on that as well, as many features might be shared.

]]> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:28:29 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1771 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1771 I mean, most cases they can just pop on the forums and look. We can't really track that, it's one thing on site (I can access all our forum databases with scripts and render that info) it's another for a network. As for our hosted RPGs, I intend to have a separate directory for them with more info, like what our homepage is now, or perhaps even closer to the CPN directory (depending on how many we actually host.) My thoughts on that are, we should be somewhat selective about what we host here, CPN didn't work and simply hosting whatever will just end up in a bunch of empty groups.
]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:12:58 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1770 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1770 Yeah, I was thinking more for the groups that get hosted here. I guess it would depend on how easy/difficult we could verify that information to update it in the network. Activity and member count though, in my opinion, is something that is important to prospective members, you don't want to go somewhere that's dead or has no activity.
]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:32:13 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1769 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1769 I don't think we can actually track and members or activity, these are RPGs hosted off site and just listed with us. It would require someone manually updating that kind of info.
]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:45:20 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1768 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1768 Visually, I do like how the Directory is currently setup and do believe it will be a good basis for the Networking area. I don't like the idea of getting rid of sorting at the top of the Networking area like the Directory currently has, reason being is that it is an option that the members would have and if that option can be provided, then why not?

However, I also like the idea having the RPG Genres on the right side with the number of RPGS within each genre listed as well.

As for fields:
- Name
- Button
- URL
- Description
- Genre
- Member Count
- Weekly Activity Level
- Awards
- Date Opened
- Friends: This is a feature that would be cool to add later on. First, people would have to be able to “friend” people on Dystopia Pro, then in the RPG Directory, if any of your “friends” are members of an RPG, it could list them.
]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:58:26 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1767 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1767 We need to break down how the network is going to operate, etc here. Just general ideas about how we list the RPGs, how we navigate them, what fields we use in the database, etc. Any ideas?

Visually I was thinking we'd do something close to the directory as it is now, just with more information. As for how it functions I thought instead of having a form with drop downs to sort them we could just do a nav on the right where the directory stats are now. One div for each genre with maybe the number of RPGs in that genre listed there as well. Then simple pagination to sort from there. Perhaps we can feature one RPG per gerne page every week or bi-weekly or something to appear at the top of the list no matter what?
 
As for fields there are the important ones (name, button, url, description, genre) but what else should we keep track of? We want this directory to be a good place for RPers to find RPs after all.
]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 01:07:55 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/dystopia-pro-revitalization-project/#p1764 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/dystopia-pro-revitalization-project/#p1764 I've been working conceptually tonight on some of the changes that need to take place with the site structure itself to make it more of a community than just a collection of RP boards. The first thing that will entail is the before mentioned restructuring of the homepage. Here's a link to the original concept for the layout I'm using http://dystopiapro.com/images/rpgs2.jpg which is probably what I will take it back closer too. What we use a homepage now I want to kind of merge into the directory so each listing there has recent posts and stuff like that. The homepage will go back to being a gateway into the site, though I will figure out ways to add some links to our biggest RPs and hot topics to the community forums and new additions to the network. We will also need to restructure the "community" area, which as of now is just these forums. I think just setting it up as a blog style page with updates and gateway links to all of the other areas, hot topics, top RPGs, etc sorta our take on the cpn main http://dystopiapro.com/images/cpn2.jpg
]]> Mon, 17 Jul 2017 02:01:46 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revitalization-project-chimera-engine/#p1762 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revitalization-project-chimera-engine/#p1762 This is a topic for all things Chimera related, including discussing possible uses for automation across the network of RPGs we host. I'm going to include a list of all the current components of Chimera, the state of completion of each, and the areas that still need to be work on for future reference.

Front End ~ Character Profile:
› (100%) Image Edit Tool: Allows you to change your profile image, resizes images to fit the profile automatically.
› (100%) Character Info Tool: Allows you to edit any base character info, some options here are turned off.
› (100%) Money Transfer Tool: Allows a player to gift money to another player. 
› (100%) Equipment Tool: Allows player to swap out equipped items, reflecting instant change in stats.
› (100%) Item Transfer Tool: Allows player to gift items and equippment to other players.

Front End ~ Other Interactive Pages:
› (100%) Item Database Tool: Allows purchase of items and equipment for money, auto adds them to your profile.
› (0%) Technique Database Tool: As with items, except for techniques. (Mostly the same as Item Database code wise)
› (50%) Registration Tool: Adds a new profile to the database. Need to finish the parser, also need to add options to queue these for approval that can be turned on or off. Queue system is something I can make once for several of the things we are doing and use over and over.
› (0%) Travel Tool: Changes characters location. Need to think about different travel systems we might use overall and incorperate options for all of them, including paid instant travel, or timed travel.
› (50%) Character Database: A serachable database that allows you to view other members profiles. The database itself is done, I just need to work up another version of the profile form that loads in profiles. This won't require much work.

Back End ~ Control Panel
› (100%) Design UI: I need to come up with a univeral design for the control panel. This will be the same for every site we use Chimera on. It can be simple but needs to be organized. I intend to use tabs probably for different sub-areas.
› (0%) God Mode Tool: Loads all profile options so admin's can edit anything. Much of this will use existing parsers but a couple new ones will need to be created to allow admins to remove techniques or items, etc.
› (0%) Registration Tool: Nearly the same thing as the front end version, just different UI and the ability to set the userid instead of it pulling it automatically from whoever is signed in. Lets us add players manually if need be.
› (0%) Add Techniques Tool: Adds new techniques to the database, no editing pages required.
› (0%) Add Items Tools: As with Techniques but adds new items, no editing, etc.
› (0%) Edit Techniques Tool: Allows you to pick an existing technique via dropdown or search and make changes to it's database entry (like stats, or description, image, etc)
› (0%) Edit Items Tool: As with edit techniques but with items and equipment.
› (0%) System Globals Tool: This is where you will set things like XP multipliers and other variables you will want to be able to change like registration on/off, etc.

Back End ~ Update Queue:
› (100%) Design UI: need to do UIs for both the front end portal of this that users interact with and the backend that the admins will see.
› (0%) XP Database: This stores the XP info the parsers will use to check against to trigger a level up, it will also store level up info (stat increases etc)
› (100%) The Queue: A database will be needed for this, basic flow is user puts required info into front end UI, that gets written to a queue database. The back end UI will load all the individual rows from that queue database into it and allow an admin to trigger said update via click of a button which will send info to the queue parser(s) which will then update the character database and finally delete the item from the queue database. The meat of this system here can be used on several of our projects, including registration for chimera, adding RPGs to our network, etc. They will all mostly function the exact same way save the actual parsing.
]]> Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:37:34 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revitalization-project-community-engagement/#p1761 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revitalization-project-community-engagement/#p1761 Yeah, we should definitely do things like this. Also just offering help in certain areas of RPG management and engaging in that way should benefit overall activity. Most of the RPG networks out there have competitions monthly that reward prime affiliation spots, i.e. feature spots.
]]> Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:07:34 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/dystopia-pro-revitalization-project/#p1760 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/dystopia-pro-revitalization-project/#p1760 I can break the homepage up into sections as it was originally intended again, that way we can have some areas for our network as well as an area for the RPGs we host. I can pull out the old code for the directory I had on CPN which ranked the groups based on activity and cannibalize it some to put it into use here. I will have to let the design stuff bounce around in the ole' noggin for awhile though, figure out how I want to change the look and whatnot before I go in and work on the container code and stuff.
]]> Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:05:33 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/dystopia-pro-revitalization-project/#p1757 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/dystopia-pro-revitalization-project/#p1757
1) Definitely agree here. When I'm on my PC tomorrow, I'll go around clicking on all kinds of links and see if I can break things and how easy it is too navigate or find the information I'm looking for. I think a good idea for the home page could be if it listed the current most active RPGs instead of just a strict 9-12 that we have to rotate so often.

2) I like this idea, I was actually trying to figure out how to leave some groups earlier today.

3) Agreed. As we discussed, Insanity should be a good place to really work out Chimera Engine due to it's simplicity. Again, I want to see how much I can get done next week before I fully commit to it. As for which RPGs we clean up first, I think we really to think about what has the most appeal.

4) Created a topic for this.
]]> Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:09:02 +0000 http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1756 General Discussion http://dystopiapro.com/forum/general-discussion/revilization-project-networking/#p1756 ]]> Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:42:39 +0000