Civ3 Demo Game Website

[Kuciwalker]

As [some of] you know, Trip has created a website for the Current Game Information. I was thinking that we could expand this concept further, by making a real website with information etc. We could have a contest to see who could make the best site. What do you think?

[Inverse Icarus]

and what will i win?

[Jon Shafer]

You'll win the right to design, make, and update the real site until the end of time.

I'm going to split up the front page I think, since it's starting to get crowded, and all the images may be a little rough on 56k users.

[Kuciwalker]

Actually, we could just use that person's design, and then have one of the ministers (possibly the VP?) handle it, or whoever wants to and can.

[disorganizer]

i would propose also handling the citizen registry in there and not in the forum
maybe a poll-registry and group/party registry would also work and de-clutter the forum?

[Robber Baron]

Yeah, and clutter up the website.
Seriously, it seems to me like the political stuff is better suited to the forums (unless party whips wanted to set up their own web pages).
I know it makes the forum crowded and noisy. But politics should be.

[Kuciwalker]

Not political stuff, government stuff.

[disorganizer]

i did not talk of having them post there, just a kind of index, with membership list and leader, maybe candidate list and a "election progam".
like for citizen groups the members, leader, founder, topic

[Jon Shafer]

Well, if people give me good, well thought out ideas for things to put on the site, then I'll be glad to add it when I get the chance.

[disorganizer]

a) a citizen registry with the possibility to easily add information like:
* apo-name
* chat-name
* in-game city the citizen lives in
* email
* real-life country
* real-life age
* in-game function (like for example president)
* in-game group- and party membership
this registry should also give out statistics if requested, like citizens per city, citizens per country,... so a database should be in the background

the citizen should be requested for a password the first time he enters the data, and then it should be possible for the citizen to edit his data by entering his password at any time. it should also be possible for him to edit the password.

[disorganizer]

b) zoomable map of our lands. as our map will get really big we will have problems showing our lands in only 1 pic. so zomming in and out will be necessary. maybe we could even click on cities to get detailed city information like build queues.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by disorganizer
b) zoomable map of our lands. as our map will get really big we will have problems showing our lands in only 1 pic. so zomming in and out will be necessary. maybe we could even click on cities to get detailed city information like build queues.

Sheeze, I do have a life you know (just barely).
I could do the part about cities with an imagemap, but updating things like that every turnchat would suck me dry of all life. Besides, I would be more willing to do that if people didn't have access to the save file and couldn't actually find it themselves.

One thing I do plan on doing is having a large full map of our area (already done), and you'll be able to click on certain cities to zoom in on that area (maybe later). I don't have access to the site at the moment though, so I'll update it when I get the chance.

[Purple]

Trip, would you put the URL in your profile so the house icon shows up at the top of your posts?

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Purple
Trip, would you put the URL in your profile so the house icon shows up at the top of your posts?

Oh, sure, sorry. I'll have to change it soon though, so I hope I don't forget to.

[disorganizer]

if we would have governors, it would be their job to update the infos of their province ;-)
we could even have province websites