Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

Just a little sneak preview on what to expect when the new site is going up. it's partly incomplete but i'll show you anyway. here are two 75% resized screenshots:

(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/794/untitled1up8.png)
the main site. that's what you will see when you just entered fleetops.net. in future you will see next to the recent topics also a list with recent news. also some kind of 'promo' screenshot and direct download link will be here. it is based on the open source joomla content management system - unlike the current interface i put together myself back 3 years ago

(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3563/untitled2rm5.png)
the new forum - of course the categories are missing yet. it better integrates with the rest of the site (as you may have noticed on the first screenshot).

of course that's not all of the new site, most categories are done yet. you can directly jump to our new teamspeak server from the main site (this one has a new adress, not the one i posted in the news about month ago - i think it's down anyway). also for mappers a category for easily uploading their maps plus these maps can now be more easy downloaded by site visitors too ;)

we are working on a bigger feature interesting for online players too - and no, not the tournament site ;)

DOCa Cola

looking incredibly refined mate =)

a new website can only raise expectation for the latest release, lets hope both are close to completion ;)

n1 mate.

GRATE JOBE!!!! I realy like it kodos man!

One small consern wher are form rules?

Good job man :)

considering how difficult it is to template those two, I am amazed.  

Looking forward on this together with V3 :) Good job so far.

cool

Wow very nice! :)

And yes getting the schemes and feel of both the forum and the portal is indeed difficult, but nonetheless Doca Cola has accomplished that difficult task!  :D  

thanks guys, glad you like it

@ewm90
no worries, the forum rules will be there too ;)

Doca did you set up the forums as a subdomain or as a sub folder?  

amazing man, the template is awesom.
Are you going to redo theese forums or are you going to set up a new one so that the posts are gone?

thats not sure yet, as we are moving to a new server too

thx
what do you think about a fresh start?

Bah Id rather have the old posts here. I mean we have come such a long way, its stupid to start all over again :D

nonsense you just wanna keep your +2.000 post to show off how cool you are ;)
On Topic: Hmm i don't really mind if you kill all the posts (should be easier for you, since you don't need to migrate the mySQL data from one DB to the other;

The only thing i would request is, that you keep all the users+their profiles; i don't want to register at yet another forum Ty in advance

it depends on if SMF has a IPB 1.3 bridge.

smf has an ipb converter, i already converted the forum content to smf. the problem is that the converter is written for an old version of smf. so i have to install the old version first, convert the stuff from ipb. then upgrade the smf to the newest version. it's a bit complicated. even more complicated as i want to install the joomla->smf bridge too and these database tables are of course not compatible with a non bridge version.
so it's quite problematic when i want to keep the old data as basicly i have to start again from the beginning more or less. but i will look into it. ;)

I dont actually care about my post count. What I dont want to do, however is debate ALL the ideas ALL over again  :hmmm:


 

i think we should give you the task of getting to 3,000 posts before the site changes (n they cant be spam cos thats cheating lol)  :P  

LoL thats easy :P And I never spam! :D
BTW Doca how long till the site changes? :D

no date, as the update is planned along with v3 ;)

well, we could have a freash start yeah, but it makes the forums look more professional with lots and lots of posts, besides i know of more than 2 seperate sites that changed the forums (which were very well visited) and closed them down soon after, becuse people walked away.

I wouldn't worry to much, atleast their IPB conversion script is complete, their one for PHPbb was not. :(  

looks great man! i'd prefer if the current posts and topics could be kept as like baron said we've come a long way and discussed a  lot of stuff that new members would like to read about etc  

indeed, but if that's not possible, i look forward to seeing the new site and forum

me too. its looking good guys :D

haza, after beating up an SMF rep I finally was able to duplicate what you did Doca :P although I am still at a loss as to how you did the smoothed edges :P  

does the web address will change also? or it remains still same
http://www.fleetops.net/ (http://www.fleetops.net/)
http://forum.fleetops.net/ (http://forum.fleetops.net/)
?

the address will be the same. no change there

humm i noticed the site was down earler, this anything to do with the downtime or just a coincedink?

The ISP had crashed for a day or 2 Thay are back up now.

nice going dude :thumbsup:

i think that the posts should be carried over, i mean if anything it should stop about 5% of the already answered question threads that will undoubtably pop up in a new forum.

Agreed.

And it's nice to have 20,000 posts. Really says, "Yeah, I've been here since the beginning."
Unlike me, because this mod seems to have been around since the old Armada, and I certainly didn't look for mods back when I was playing that (too little).

Its more an issue of they will try their best. I doubt this is much an issue where doc is having a confrontation of weather or not to keep the post so much as it is a confrontation with the MySQL and PHP based conversion script that SMF hands out for IPB 1.3,

By the way doc, on a small side note because Joomla's bridge program tends to assign an arbitrary value to the forum link (ie index.php?option=com_smf&item=# that was assigned to the forum value). The admin panel for SMF is almost immediately invalidated if you had plans to call on any modules in the SMF forum, because the admin panel will check for a session and if that isn't present it will redirect you to yourdomain.com/smf_direcotry/admin/index.php
because obviously you can't keep Joomla and in the same directory any joomla modules will blow up in your face. so If you are going to call modules from Joomla, make sure to throw a get exception in the php like. If you throw this in the index.template.php it should fix the problem.

and then with a null else

which bridge are you using? i had problems with the 'official' smf bridge from their site. (invalid session IDs etc). i took the joomla-smf bridge from joomlahacks.com instead which is updated more frequently and didn't have had any problems yet.

DOCa Cola

I used the JoomlaHacks bridge, the one they provide is very unstable (or atleast as far as I could tell when I was using it) It wasn't session ID's that irritated me though, it had more to do with the way the "Official" Joomla bridge was difficult to configure.