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Not sure if this is the place to put this but:

The name….I got the E-mail from Freelancer: War Torn, when I opened it the first thing I saw was “The Starport” now instantly I was like “What the heck could this be? Oh well…” well I clicked the link and it brought me to the nice front page. Everything here is an “Instant” grab for me. I like it ^_^

**We welcome all visitors here. Feel free to look around and see what you can find. Freelancer’s success is due to the ability to mod the game and also to the many users who have contributed their work to the common good.

So please sit down and enjoy your stay and feel free to ask anything about Freelancer, we will try to answer any questions that you have.**

Add a IRC java applet for the irc channel #the-starport .
I recommend pjirc : http://www.pjirc.com/main.php

@FriendlyFire:

Only point I’d have to leave out is with the MOTY/UOTY. How could we stay neutral, yet rate mods? If the public decides, the mods with the highest amount of members will always win. It’d be a touchy subject, don’t you think?

On this, I think a PlanetQuake “mod of the week” or “mod of the month” is in order - in the old days of Quake 2 at least, a mod was chosen as MotW for random reasons. It couldn’ve been a new mod doing something cool, an older mod being brought back to life, etc. For all intents and purposes, the mod selection might as well have been random, but it was a great way for reletively new mods in the scene, or old mods being resurrected, to get some well-earned attention.

I don’t like a user-voted MotW because, as you said, it is nothing more than a popularity contest. I’m sure many are willing to argue this, especially since mods are usually popular for a reason, however I really view MotW as a chance for un-assuming projects to hit the major spotlight and get more than just a passing glance.

(also, on a side note, the “quote” button is a bit wonky, at least for me - it seems to do the whole thing in a completely seperate page)

yea, its not set to open up the page in the same part of jooml,a ill take a look at it soon or if one of the other admins can >.> hehe

@foxUnit01:

@FriendlyFire:

Only point I’d have to leave out is with the MOTY/UOTY. How could we stay neutral, yet rate mods? If the public decides, the mods with the highest amount of members will always win. It’d be a touchy subject, don’t you think?

On this, I think a PlanetQuake “mod of the week” or “mod of the month” is in order - in the old days of Quake 2 at least, a mod was chosen as MotW for random reasons. It couldn’ve been a new mod doing something cool, an older mod being brought back to life, etc. For all intents and purposes, the mod selection might as well have been random, but it was a great way for reletively new mods in the scene, or old mods being resurrected, to get some well-earned attention.

I don’t like a user-voted MotW because, as you said, it is nothing more than a popularity contest. I’m sure many are willing to argue this, especially since mods are usually popular for a reason, however I really view MotW as a chance for un-assuming projects to hit the major spotlight and get more than just a passing glance.

(also, on a side note, the “quote” button is a bit wonky, at least for me - it seems to do the whole thing in a completely seperate page)

I much prefer that concept and I agree it could be a nice thing to do.

As for the Quote button, I’m well aware of that and am looking into fixing it

What about a Freelancermap?

Since Arbiter.de is down I dont know a web-map, except the one of the station-network.de, but the page is in german:
Click
The map is in english, so you may could ask for permission to use it on Starport, however, I also searched for the autor but wasnt able to find an e-mail or IM address.

You may could ask at our forum, maybe our “Big Bosses” know an answer

Btw, quote is still not fixed ^^

I also miss a spamm channel here >_>

of course you do ^^

Maybe add a user string for xfire user names? It is a quite popular programm and used by some members here.

? I mean an additional user string in the profile so you can add the xfire username there

Like here:
http://41399.rapidforum.com/action=profile&id=60
(last string)

But eh - You got me to an idea, will create a global FL Xfire group & chatroom

Ahoy
OT Aurora on Xfire
Youtube Freelancer Group
Incase someone wants 2 keep in touch and stuff…

Greetz,
Mörser out

I wonder…are players interested in “play info” about mods? Such as where to find which equipment (even though this can be easily find out with FLDS), systems?

Maybe we should work out a survey to recieve more feedback from players what they want at SP?

In order to get voices at that, server OPs might could cooperate by giving players a little credit sum for participate in that survey.

Bas wrote:
I wonder…are players interested in “play info” about mods? Such as where to find which equipment (even though this can be easily find out with FLDS), systems?

Maybe we should work out a survey to recieve more feedback from players what they want at SP?

In order to get voices at that, server OPs might could cooperate by giving players a little credit sum for participate in that survey.

I mused that it shouldn’t be difficult to program a parser for mods (activated, xml script files would be far too annoying to deal with) that could parse the files and then output, in html, with appropriate linking, all the corresponding information for the mod (maybe with db inserts and queries etc).

I think I mentioned it to Op at lancersreactor.org a month or two back. That way it can create a web-based…repository of information for mods.

Is that what you meant?

Yeah, such a thing.

But if you don’t know FLDS you should surely try it out to see what that app can do:
http://ds.fa-matz.de/

Screenshot gallery?

http://www.freelancer-foren.com/index.php <- left bar

Maybe random hints on the left side?

What about for linking the logo to the homepage or the forums index?