Why dont you post news?

I think many people do either not have the interest to do that (for instance, they might think it isn’t worth the work), are too lazy or forgot about it.

Similiar as here,
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4060&post_id=43847#forumpost43847, I think the news need to be more present to the people. Maybe we should some kind of global news network, where you can see the news of other servers? And/or that you can see the news from T SP even from FL server communities.

Ironically, I made such a suggestion for the FlSES-webinterface, but I am not sure about the state of the project and even if it is still developed, it will surely take at least months or maybe even years at the dev speed.
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1729&forum=54

Maybe T SP could also use some kind of bots which are check the server sites for their server news. Some kind of a list, where every server owner can subscribe if he is willing to have his site scanned.

I use it regularly. Every time a post an article at moddb I post it here as well. Moddb is a lot harder to get on the front page, but I know what they’re looking for…basically some text and lots of eye candy. However, at TSP, we’re just happy if there’s news

I think it would be a very good thing if more mods starting using these two fantastic resources. If anyone wants help creating an article for use on both sites, hit me up in a PM.

Because i don’t have news.

We need to change a way to thinking this: Why people post news?

People post news on the OLD TLR website just for advertisement and get more people play their mod. But in here, TSP, we don’t have many player to BE get, so TSP are unattractive for them.

TSP is a website mainly service for modders, and many modders have their own website so they can post news there, not here.

Since the game become old and old, and lost many color, old player gone, and new player never know this game. We even cannot buy a CD from many of stores. If we don’t have player, modders will become inactivity.

So here is my solution if you guys don’t want to give up this game:

1, Game graph MUST be improve.
I do this to my mod too, and looks people like it. the Freeword team mades lot’s of plugin include the Porsche is help to do this. But i think it’s not enough.

2, Just appropriately advertise this game in ANY game community, link back to TSP.
We need get player come here, not only modders. If player come, modders will absolutely follow. AND, TSP is a public website service for all modders and players, not only for specially mod.

3, A way to get CD, mod, etc.
Help people to get CD in legal way, maybe someone can try to get a online selling authorization for Freelancer CD.
You know human is lazy, just put everything they need in hes hand so they may try to play few mins.

I see posting news is job of the staff. They are willed to hold their members - its their work. Sure it would help if others would post news too. But i know that this is not common.

The question is what news do you want to share or have posted here? TSP in my eyes is a source for modders and admins - not so much for players. So if i want to have news then i am already happy if there are posts about modding progress or people are in touch with their mod and keep posting problems or improvements. Thats the kind of news i would like to see here and that are the kind of news i get here.

So don’t blame your members they don’t post news - they do ;D

TSP is no overall game news site and hence this will not have priority here. Second point: Is guaranteed that the news post site is working. I know of one incident where it didn’t worked for me. Maybe others did had problems with it as well and so meanwhile refuse to post news because they fear it is not be posted anytime soon.

And when it doesn’t work, don’t contact the admins immediately, of course. That never works, as we all know.

As a player ( never been on line for quite a while) i visit this site and only this site on a weekly basis i like to read what the modders are doing view the eye candy. And only sign in on rare times have been around for a few years tried numerous on line games but freelancer was my first so holds a place in my heart ( think i have one) . Like most older players who take breaks from freelancer we always return and are amazed at the development modders come up with so been honest here The Starport is a very important site to players / modders new or old. News is great but to most readers / posters the break throughs in what yous accomplish here is better than eye candy. As most players / modders here are improving the game on a whole with there work into freelancer it still amazes me that dedicated people are keeping freelancer alive just by posting about it.

Sandman.

I just submitted a server news article, not sure if it worked. This may be why you have no news being submitted.

After submission it just goes to a whitescreen with nothing on it (Firefox 4.0).

When submitting a link for a jpg, if you hit preview you not only don’t see the picture but the link disappears.
If you browse to the jpg on your computer, there is not button to upload it. Again, hitting preview makes this disappear and still no picture.

So, check to see if any of it got to you.

Odd. It definitely didn’t work. I use firefox as well and have never had any issues. Can you PM your news to see if I have the same problem?

News pm’d to you.

Submitting news isn’t the only thing that doesn’t work. You can’t submit tutorials onto the wiki either, not that that’s any use as well. Submitting anything on here is such a complicated and painful process, why i don’t bother anymore.

Seems it wasnt only me who had the problem with the submitting news feature. I had the same problem with the white page. What is strange as it doesnt say the submission didnt worked. So i waited to see what happens Sure it would be good to inform the admins - but if it would be something to bother i am sure you would have been receiving requests on this already.

w0dk4 wrote:

You know, actually I think a large part of the FL community is visiting us or is at least reached by word-of-mouth originating from here. The part I dont understand is that everybody is always crying about how their community/mod/server dies, yet they cannot even be bothered to write a front news page over here?
This is the question I’d like to get an answer to.

What news do you expect to be posted? If there is something happening on the server? About events on the server?
I expect to get news about modding progress over here. Eventually new eye candy stuff or get to know about problems that appearing when modding. Thats the reason i visit this place. And therefore its a good resource. You can be proud of this - generally because i guess that the reason other visitors are hitting up this site as well
That your frontpage gets a lot of hits must not mean its by regular visitors - does it? Bots and crawlers are contributing to this too.

Next to that there are mostly own modding or server homepages for each project. People will most likely visit the original homepage. Sure it could attract more the wider the infos are spread - but then again i am asking what news about servers are player relevant? Are the efforts worth in the end

Your site is a Freelancer “only” site thats the title saying. And i dont expect to read news here about other games - because I have other sites where i can take these kind of news from.
Furthermore i dont expect that (in my case) someone is interested whats happening on Crossfire (besides the other minor differences between our both communities). Imo.

Speaking on behalf of Broken Bonds, it’s because we don’t have anything newsworthy yet. We’ll definitely submit some news when we have something to submit, though.

What exactly would make something mod-related “newsworthy” in the eyes of the Starport administration team?

Kazinsal wrote:
Speaking on behalf of Broken Bonds, it’s because we don’t have anything newsworthy yet. We’ll definitely submit some news when we have something to submit, though.

What exactly would make something mod-related “newsworthy” in the eyes of the Starport administration team?

Maybe TSP need a journalist

Kazinsal wrote:
Speaking on behalf of Broken Bonds, it’s because we don’t have anything newsworthy yet. We’ll definitely submit some news when we have something to submit, though.

What exactly would make something mod-related “newsworthy” in the eyes of the Starport administration team?

Anything to show regarding the mod, whether this be new models, systems, features, something of that sort. I’d recommend it being longer than a sentence or two, though.

Pictures or videos are also a nice feature.

I submitted a minor news. Hm. Couldn’t you increase the max characters maybe?

I edited the front news and the post (post first, then news entry) and it seems the forums thread isn’t shown anymore @ latest posts.

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4069&forum=2&post_id=43947#forumpost43947

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