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Back when I was a staff member, one of my focuses was to get some interest from the competitive community but unfortunately it didn't get very far... I hope we can get something working because I'd love to see this site appeal to everyone lots of good ideas in this thread already.

My original idea for the wiki was for it to be more of a knowledge base for JKA rather than players posting their own personal stories/accomplishments or tutorials (Which the tutorial section covers) For example, actual game mechanics on e.g. 25 health packs, which would have its own page describing what it does, how it functions, the code behind it and other info about it. We could list entity names, mathematics behind how the game calculates things etc etc Whilst the wiki currently has some really nice pages, the last I checked, it had a lot of pages with opinions and personal areas which I don't have much interest in personally.

Ah well, at least they're actively working on it

Are the Jedi still trying to take ovah?!

Thanks

Heylo, it's been a while Apologies for fading away last time whilst I was staff, it has been quite a busy year XD (Got engaged, moved into our own place etc). I'm going to be hanging around a lot more now this place is looking great as always and it's nice to see a lot of new faces around here!

Rofl, ALREADY BEEN DOWN THAT ROUTE.

Heylo all, In a few days, my domain host will be expiring my domain "JKANews.com", meaning they'll probably have a landing page on it for the next 100 years and want to sell it for a ridiculous amount ANYWAY I was curious if any one here would be interested in buying it? I used to run JKANews as a news website back in 2007/2008 but it sort of fell apart, always kept the domain though until now.

I'm well aware of all of this, you guys asked myself and others of our opinions on OpenJK and as I stated, it is a minor annoyance is all compared to what I'm used to... hardly a big deal.

Yup I know, but alt+tab pales in comparison to something like Q3E which is instant and moves it out the way, truly minimized off the screen until you hit the keyboard shortcut to go back.

How did you find out about OpenJK?Raz0r and word of mouth I believe How difficult was it to get OpenJK working?Surprisingly simple, I thought it might be a hassle but it was just a matter of dropping files in. Do you know anybody who isn't on JKHub and uses OpenJK?I believe some JAWA members use it, although that is probably down to Raz's advertisements in the past. What would you change (if anything)?Advertisements, I feel you guys have some really great stuff going on but nobody is really aware of what is being added/changed. I realize that due to the nature of the project that things are probably added/removed/changed daily, however it would be nice to have some sort of... update feed with screenshots and clear explanations for those who aren't literate in the coding world. A good example is Raz0r's work on JA++ which is obviously a separate project, he made this really cool spectator-name system that I had never even heard about/seen before, yet I know if other people saw that they'd be wow'ed... I sometimes think that you guys undervalue the work that you actually do, which in my opinion should be all over a website/twitter to those who want to see these updates in layman's terms. In terms of what bothers me, only two really minor things come to mind: External programs such as minimizers obviously don't support the use of OpenJK due to it being a different exe. This isn't OpenJK's fault at all, however it is a little annoyance especially considering the constraints of an ingame minimizer (/minimize), Raz is hoping to get Q3E Minimizer which is now Open Source to support OpenJK I don't like complaining about this, especially since so many people are for it in the JACoders community (Probably everyone XD) but a little annoyance to me is the lack of being able to do quick commands e.g. /q. I realize that this can be quickly accomplished by hitting tab however I often find myself after 10 years nearly always doing /q I'm not saying "CHANGE IT!" but I just thought I'd write this down as it's the only thing that has bothered me since using OpenJK. Off topic from the questions though, I really love the work you guys have done and I can't wait to see how it continues to develop keep up the great work!

If you have root access then just ignore the sudo in what Raz said

NuclearFallOut and OVH are what JAWA uses. I highly recommend NFO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU

I had the idea of doing something very very similar to this, we even had a map made for it XD you can use it if you like. It's best to contact Helena on the JAWA forums. Good luck, hope you can make it happen

Watch your language and be respectful to other people... I'm sure the people in your home that are responsible for you wouldn't be proud if they saw you talking to someone like that would they?

I'm going to be attempting to contact some of these authors again and hopefully get those people/files here

Comments section is actually quite popular, and I think a review system would be great as long as it was an extra as @@therfiles said, not a requirement before a file went up. And of course reviews are biased, that's a big part of it they're playing it from the perspective of a first time user based on their own experience rather than a collective experience. Quite honestly though, this doesn't require anything official or any site changes so any one could write a review and post it in the comments section. This is what @@Caelum aimed for the comments section to be in the first place afterall XD this was discussed at length back then.

A team of critics would be awesome From being a staff on both JKFiles/JKHub, the staff here usually have more work to do and critiquing files properly takes time and effort. Something I applaud JKFiles for, because in my opinion they've had some great reviewers e.g. Nozy, Inyri etc.

Damned if we do, damned if we don't

Since returning to my duties, the amount of posts that have been hidden by staff is actually surprisingly high. We do take great strides to hide/move/split content that isn't relevant to the discussion but we'll always miss some, and that is stuff that other users will see rather than the work we've actually done.

That's how it already is though

Welcome to the hub

Unless it was reported to someone specific, I've not seen anything come through relating to that.