Announcing.... CIVGROUPS!

[MarkG]

Our latest feature

http://apolyton.net/forums/civgroups.php

YAGPW: CivGroups! AMGD
YAGPW=Yet Another Gramphos Programming Work
AMGD=A MarkG Design

CivGroups is the new way to organize ourselves for multiplayer and democracy games!

- Multiplayer
---Joining a group related to a specific game and mp type, you are listed accordingly and can be easily found

http://apolyton.net/forums/memberlist.php?what=groupmembers&civgroupid=6

- Democracy Games
---No more join threads and hand-made lists!

http://apolyton.net/forums/memberlist.php?what=groupmembers&civgroupid=1

---DG Parties: the same can be done for parties in dg games. Send me a note and a 15x19 gif and i'll add your party in the availiable CivGroups

Related features
- membership indicator in posts
- links to the memberslist and membership indicator in related forums and threads
- in memberslist: user online indicator, pm link, timezone info

Coming soon:
- Voting ability in related forums only in members(demo games)
- Group operators and ability to have operators authorize users before joining a group
- Private forums per CivGroup

[notyoueither]

Wow.

So that's where you buried Gramphos.

Good job.

[ixnay]

So very cool.

[Method]

wow! you linked my FAQ thread! i'm touched

so all we have to do now is instead of a "join" thread, we just say "click here to join" and you'll join?

now, are we going to have the little things in between our location field and join date on the left? that would be cool

[MarkG]

yeap

[Jon Shafer]

Cool stuff Markos, thanks!

Hmmm, maybe I should start designing my PTW Demo Game Team icon.

[H Tower]

so i need to join all the demo games officially to post an opinion there now?

[H Tower]

since when is Markos a member of the Civ2 democracy game? And since you've expressed intrest in it, why don't you run for office then?

[Jon Shafer]

I think what he means is that for the PTW Multi-player forums, you'll need to be a part of the team with secure access to go in. To vote in polls, etc., in the regular demo games you'll need to be a 'group member'.

[Rasbelin]

Nice new feature, Markos and Gramphos. Thanks very much for the coding work, Gramphos.

[MarkG]

so i need to join all the demo games officially to post an opinion there now?

well, officially yes, but not really

what will happen is that pretty soon you wont be able to vote in the c3dg forum if you havent joined the c3dg group

but you wont need to be a member in order to post (unless the people request it that is)

[MarkG]

added:

- links to the memberslist and status indicator in related forums and threads

[Gramphos]

It's alive!

[mapfi]

looks great - just one question:
Could we have a PM link next to the user names on the page where all members of the group are displayed?

[MarkG]

added

- membership indicator in posts

mapfi, will do
i'm also adding timezone info in the memberlist