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Using the T1 at work, your pages come up in seconds http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I like the page, I recognize some of the race pics, what show were they from? Star Trek Next Gen?

I actually don't have a connection at home at the moment, though I'll be getting a cable connection in the next month or so.

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I got them from BoTF. When I add new races to the Imperium, I'll be using some pictures from MOO2.

Cable modems rock! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif The pages load in seconds for me too.

Anybody out there on a dial-up modem want to help me test how long my site takes to load?

I apologize for veering this thread away from the image collection mod, but really, Val started it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Well, with Sympatico, shared over three computers, it took ~30 seconds.

PS: I.F. Are they strict about the <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>* All sites with banners must have a 0.25% CTR or greater. Your site must average at least one banner click for every 400 banners displayed.
and
* You may NOT incentivize banner clicks. This has always been our policy, but it is worth repeating. The only approved phrase for referencing your banner is 'Please visit our sponsors.'<hr></blockquote>thing? When I saw that I went and clicked-through for you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Can I incentivise before they actually get to your site, since I'm not "you" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

RE: hit counters. No idea, I've never looked.
Geocities creates a stats page automatically.
It indicates that 72% of people jump to the ImagemodDownloads from this very thread, and a mere 8% come through the main page.

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Whats's Sympatico?

And where did you see that thing about the banner ad needing to be clicked on? I haven't seen it before.

And with all your programing knowledge, I thought you might know how to make a counter. Oh well.

Can you release the program you wrote for making 2000 or so population-based modifiers? That would be a cool utility to have.

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]</p>

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Sympatico is Bell's "lets use all the phone-line frequencies not used by voice as a high-speed internet". Basically its a dog-whistle modem, with some filters on your phone jacks just in case.

All the rules are on Spaceport's sign-up page. Are you saying you didn't read the EULA? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Programming yes, internet/HTML stuff: see my homepage. The SE4-ish colourscheme is my fancypants HTML http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

The pop modifier generator is certainly not anywhere near fit for general use.
I change the hardcode for each use, and the thing is pretty "Red Green" if you know what I mean http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
I could throw a bunch of text boxes on the screen for input, but dynamically using a fuction typed in by the user is a tad more difficult.
(right now, SY is linear, Prod. is a sinewave)

If I spent a few days on it, I could come up with something presentable, and maybe a dropdown list of common functions to use.

Heh. This reminds me of when I was little, and due to a sentax error, I discovered that I had inadvertently created a program that rewrote bits of itself. Couldn't find a use for it, since the "dynamic" changes had to be hardcoded...

This is an example of an "axe" (see below). Bang a sharp blade onto a stick and you're set. The "tinman" fully-automatic treechopping system takes much longer.

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I read most of the EULA. I didn't notice that the ad banner had to be clicked on every once in a while. I hope they don't enforce that very strictly. I've only been using spaceports since early Dec 2001, so I don't think the ads have loaded very many times.

My "programming" skills are limited to html and a bit of javascript. I have been trying to teach myself php and mysql, but I've been too lazy. Plus, it's hard to find a free web host that will give you a mysql database, so I haven't had much incentive (or chance) to learn it.

So what do you think of my site SJ?

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]</p>

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The site is very nice. I think my main problem is having too small of a browser Cache.
I did note that some of the SE4 images are broken. (Planets in Torgal & Ship Minis)
The capital city is remarkable.

Re: Counters. Can you read/write files on your site using javascript? If so, a simple text file, read, add 1, write, would be enough for light traffic ("light traffic" = time for script to complete before the next visitor arrives).

PS: No file updates today, but lots of webpage changes. I need to catch up on sleep, and will get to the submissions tomorrow.

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]</p>

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Kamikaze Images Credits

The Kamikaze warhead and the resource depot were part of the same kind of thing, so I posted them here at once. I knew that the image collection did not consist of shipsets.

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SJ:

The broken images were there. Their file extensions were capitalized for some reason. They display properly on my local copy on my hard drive, but I guess the spaceports server doesn't like file extensions that are not of the proper syntax. They are fixed now. Thanks for the notification, and thanks for liking my site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I can't claim credit for the capital city. It is a picture of Romulus that I got it from BoTF, cause I liked it so much.

What do you think of my SEIII shipsets? I think that they're pretty good, especially since I made them by hand in MS Paint. I also made my ISN banner in Paint. That was so much fun. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

My knowledge of javascript is mostly limited to copying other scripts and modifying them to suit my purposes. I'm not too good at making them from scratch.

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I can use cgi, so I think that could be done. However, I have no clue how to do it.

Do you want a graphical banner for the Image Modpack? I might be able to make something similar to my ISN banner.

Also, I'll add a link to your site on my links page. Do you have a banner or something?

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]</p>

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S_J - nice to see your main website updated at Last=-) Looking good. Thanks for the links too. Just in case you weren't aware of my banners, here's a link to them. Given the good-content-rather-than-loads-of-graphics style of your site though (A preference I share BTW) I imagine you knew about the banners and decided not to use them. Which is fine.

BTW, If anyone does pull a hit-counter out of the hat, I'd be very interested in using it. I'm dying to know if anyone actually visits my site...