What Do You Think?

napi

<div class="IPBDescription">Call 0800-HOWS-THIS-SITE</div> It took longer than expected but the new Unknownworlds site and the NS site are now up and running... lots of changes

what do you guys think?
Personally, i really like it. as said on the announcements, there still a few bugs to work out but that aside, it's a really nice bit of work <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

obuh

It looks kind of nice, some new features, but I don't see anything speacial really. I wonder what problems they encountered to make it last that long. (:

Alkiller

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Dare I say the 3 letter word that rhymes with 'fus'?

Naxo

The website in itself looks kinda "normal", I'm more found of the "promises" it came with. Easier interaction icons/status<->website, more news items and sudden very nice clear and direct communication, which people felt a lack of.

DragonMech

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Exactly. If you look at it, you won't see too much right away. However, if you look deeper you'll see not only some new features, but the foundation for more UWE games. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Drummer

plus all of the features arent up and running yet, but everything is ready for them to be implemented

Xeno

well, i was a bit dissapointed. i wont lie. i expected this big shock when i opened up the site. thought it would be so great that i would get a heart attack and die. so i open it up. icons are at the top. new banner. some new screenshots which may or may not interest people. most of the info taken from the old site. ehh, its nice, but not a month and a half of work quality that i thought was gonna happen. so i thought maybe forums would be better. a new banner and some new icons on the side. ok. i dont see why it had to be shut down for a month and a half. i would have prefered if they kept the old site and integrated the new stuff into the old site. unless im wrong and there's gonna be something super awesome later. then again, i'm not paying for anything. the ns team can do whatever they want. in the end, i think it's the game that matters most.

adi0

me too. the time it took to redo the site made me think they'd totally reorganize it, give it a new look, pack with new features, downloads, movies etc.. and when it was finally opened I went "phew.. it's the same old site wth?". on the other hand maybe it's better that devs put their effort in game creation, rather than making "omg 1337 flash kickass" site. and we don't really know what they're up to in the future.

on top of that i'm really glad that forums are up and running, certainly 100x more glad than disappointed <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Zek

To be honest I was satisfied with the last site, but this one is a bit nicer. Maybe not a-month-and-a-half-of-downtime nicer, but it's nice and I'm sure it will prove more useful in the future. I'm just happy to be able to post again. I think the forums could have used some more improvements, like a Constellation group and icons showing up under the names.

TheTitan

As someone who likes to design web pages in my spare time, I must say the new site looks great. It is very easy to navigate and it looks like they are setting the grounds for some major features implementation sooner or latter.

TurtleX

The new website gives unknown worlds somewhat a more "proffesional" look, but from the perspective of a 14year old gamer such as myself, the flash design in the last one seemed it would do better at grabbing new players.

but im glad they updated those screenshots, the old screens from the last site were too old to show my friends to get them into it too

SinSpawn

I wasn't that pleased when I saw the site, it looked too bland graphically. But we'll see if there will be any graphical updates in the future for the NS site

Uzguz

You folks are missing the point.

They didn't take the site offline to enhance it graphically. If you were expecting it to look nicer, well that's your fault. It's the functionality that took a month and a half to implement, as Naxo and Dragon Mech pointed out. The reason why this functionality isn't very apparent right now is that we're still on the same version of NS and UWE doesn't have any other games yet. Once these factors are amended, you'll notice them.

Skydancer

They merged servers info, forums and website into one huge thing. That's why it took so long.

UnCritical

Yep, just because you can't see the differences doesn't mean they arn't there. I would imagine ALOT of work went into the backend and the database.

How they have tied everything together is especially nice.

Kudos I say.