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There's a few modders over there now. I just seen that Firefox ported Ebro to TLD |
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I just seen that Firefox ported Ebro to TLD |
mooxe wrote (View Post): |
I listened to TIK's response as well. To answer a couple of his questions.. the site makes money from donations and Google Ads. That money goes directly to the bill of $59 per month, there's enough saved up for the next three months, and I'm 36 years old haha... I have not paid out of pocket any substantial amount for years now due to donations and ads. |
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If anyone wants to start another Close Combat site please feel free to use these forums to promote it. A new site can offer a different outlook, my outlook has been pretty bleak since Matrix and I never tried to hide it. You could focus on the new versions rather than all. There's better software out there to integrate social media commenting and videos. There's no shortage of do-dads to make a new site worthwhile and popular. CCS is what-you-see-is-what-you-get from here till the end! Have a look at CSO, he's toying with Joomla (www.closecombat.org/CSO), not sure what his plans are though. |
HeadClot wrote: |
I came here because of TheImperatorKnight's Video about the site shutting down. |
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I would be willing to take initiative on this. I am one of the regulars over on Moddb/Indiedb.
Personally I want to see closecombatseries.net live on one way or another. Under different leadership or the current leadership. |
TheImperatorKnight wrote (View Post): |
1. Why don't you like Matrix? Ok, they're games aren't perfect, but at least they're trying! 2. If a new site is created, it should be about all the versions, new and old. 3. Integrating social media (as much as I love Facebook and Google+ ) and videos is a must. This, imho, is the only flaw with this site. The shout box just doesn't cut it, I'm afraid. |
platoon_michael wrote (View Post): |
I looked at ModDB too for a few seconds.
First impression to me is it looks/feels like a Cluster F%@* I'm gonna miss this site. |
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1. Let me rephrase... I don't like what they didn't do with Close Combat. So it makes me not like them all that much. 2. Sure, but your increasing the world load immensely. 3. In 2004 social media was only just emerging, so the integration options didn't exist until a few more years. Facebook is 10 years old now as well. By that time this site was popular with the CC fans and had a substantial amount of posts, users and downloads. My point it, it was too late to switch, and I have no plans to ever upgrade the CCS website in the future now. As well... I don't like social media's powers to track your life. I probably would never of integrated anyways. Yes there's lots of other ways to track but I mitigate where I can... 4. How much time does it take to run the site.. The most time consuming thing for me running CCS is monitoring its health. Is the server and are all the services on? I periodically check the logs and file system for intrusions, I check problems with email and other various thingamabobs. CCS has been exploited a few times over the years and I have had to detect, fix and prevent it from happening again. Monthly bill payments, yearly domain bill payments... creating articles... validating mod integrity, meaning verifying the plugins work and have the right entries in the header. I manage backups as well.... but I am not very good at it as I accidentally deleted Tournamenthouse.com awhile ago... Sometimes when software or hardware is upgraded there could be a setting changed that affects CCS. This happened last year and resulted in the screenshots section not working for maybe 9 or 10 months. I fixed it after many many hours spread over those 9-10 months picking at it.... it was an option turned off when it should of been on in the PHP config file. 5. What your looking at right now, downloads+website+database+screenshots is 100Gb. |
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At least for me the latest "easy modded" versions of CC was the beginning of the end and i cant see that any 3D version will help things. |
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I heard (perhaps wrong) that modding in 3D was easier than in 2D? Shadows are easier to create, etc |
Dima wrote (View Post): |
CC is not loved for its graphics...
but for 2014 CC modelling system (data) is way outdated in comparison to new wargames but nothing was done in re-releases to improve data and actually tactical combat phase became worse with introducing of girly soldiers, i.e. 1 sniper can ruin the whole attack of say 15 infantry teams in TLD/LSA/PITF. |
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I think CC decayed because Matrix did not invest on it. |
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Perhaps both of these issues will be solved in the next gen? They're investing now, and they're creating a new system. |
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Just a shame I don't use snipers in PitF. Snipers are a support unit, so why would I take one when I can have a tank instead? |
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