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Space Empires is a game created by Malfador Machinations. There have been 4 incarnations with another on the way. There are lots of fans of this great series even if it has cost them jobs, wives, girlfriends, or a bout of vitamin D deficiency. In this 4x game you attack and destroy aliens at will, but also colonize planets and explore, make treaties and design ships - the favourite things to do by Space Emperors everywhere. Thanks to MM!

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hehe. that should be on the wiki, perhaps under "Space Empires Wiki Logo"

but I don't know, I was wondering if I might suggest just having the logo and skip the book. The logo is cool, but I think the book looks a little cluttered for a design. but that's just my 2 cents. otherwise, very nice job. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yeah, I already said I'd come up with something else.

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Any chance of somehow porting the malfadorica over to the new wiki? I don't much fancy re-entering the dozens (hundreds?) of articles I wrote for that site.

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Porting, of course! I wasn't going to say anything until you guys offered.

I'll post an announcement on the SEWiki main page.

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Fyron,
I've noticed that you've done quite a bit of work over at wikipedia.org on the SpaceEmpires entries. Have you put a link in those pages to the new SEWiki?

T

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I was planning to wait until it gets fleshed out a bit more.

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someone really should make this a sticky.

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We still have too many stickys as it is. Just like we've had for the last few pages of this thread.

This is a official hint. TM

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Here is a beginning for a logo:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...-se-wiki-4.png

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Nice

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If you could "tilt out" the orbiting text a bit to make it more legible that would be a killer logo.

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'wikipedia' is kinda hard to see.

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I should mention that by a decision of the consensus that it's not "Space Empires Wikipedia" but that the official name is "Space Empires Wiki" or "SEWiki".

I've created a logo too. What do you think?
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...779-sewiki.png

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Kinda plain.

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Kwok:
It's a bit hard to read the text on that one.

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alright, try this one
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...89-sewiki2.png

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or a bit of a change up...

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...2-sewiki2b.png

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I do have a non-tilted version as well.

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I've created an SEWiki Logo Contest page here for candidates to post their logos for voting on 10/29/05:

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p...i_Logo_Contest

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Is there a thread like this one on the Starfury forums?

Which races crossover between SE and SF?

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That one is not plain.

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Err, no offence, but I do believe that most of that article still comes from the hand of yours truly, who created the ruddy thing in the first place.....

*****

I like the second nebulae logo just a little better than the first (with centered text).

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Didn't mean to slight anyone. Merely glanced at the edit log once and saw a lot of the fyron name, that's all.

T

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Here's one:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...-se-wiki-8.png

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And another:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...se-wiki-11.png

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Easier to see, but still to much slant. I suggest billboard style text.

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oh and kwok, if you haven't already, go ahead and post your logos here for a community vote:

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p...i_Logo_Contest

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Inigma,

I was under the impression that Fyron had wanted me to do a logo, but if you want it to be a contest then that's fine. But do I get 33% credit for your warp point cut and paste from the SE.net logo? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Narf,

The text itself is actually not slanted at all. I've just made it wider and used an arc to create that appearance. I don't have any trouble reading the text, with a minor exception for the red planet text which has a bit of texture applied.

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The blue one is easy to see. I missed it, though; I was talking about the red one.

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Oh but of course. In fact, I'll give you credit for the nebula logo. I just want a cooler-looking logo than what we had. Figured a contest would do us good - but I really do like your blue one.

My only concern is that it's Space Empire Wiki, not Wikipedia, but I think I'm losing the momentum on that one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif I'm just happy we finally have a wiki. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I've been busy trying to get that FAQ up, and I hope to have it done in time for Deluxe. I could use help (hint to other readers).

But in any event, I've left my mark on the SE landscape, and I'm glad we got a wiki. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Let's do it wiki-like, and have the contest anyways. I'd love to see the results of people's decisions for even your many versions of the logo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I can make it just say wiki, I thought it might weaken the ring motif, but I have a few ideas. It will have to wait until I get home from work though.

I'm not sure on this wiki vs wikipedia thing, what's supposed to be the difference?

Edit:

Nevermind, I did some independent research and found out the answer for myself. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Here is just a wiki version:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...se-wiki-13.png

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Copying the Newbie FAQ over is causing some issues... The SE4 and FAQs categories are being spammed with every page... what if there was a Newbie FAQ for SEIV category that was a subcategory of these two, and all pages of the FAQ were just in it? The SE4 category would still list the FAQ, but only once instead of several dozen times...

Also, the sections that have no player associated with them should be attributed to Slick. The rest of the FAQ menitons who posted the info, so these pages should too.

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I completely agree Fyron.

I'd say its time for subcategories for those two.