I love how active and progressive you are in terms of your scripting skills as well as the server, but if I may offer some criticism that's personally putting me off real bad about your advertisements and posts (and in that relation, the server itself) is your way of presenting and posting things.
To put it shortly, all your posts here on OTLand look like an unicorn pUkeD them out after a 200 pound meal of skittles
See what I mean?
It's really hard to read and get intrigued by it when it's formatted so randomly (word capitalization, tabbing, colored words, etc.) and for so many amazing features, you display too few (quality, "don't stretch screen") screenshots.
As someone who works closely with graphics and knows how visual presentation affects people's way of thinking, I'd really advise you to invest some time/resources into a logo, header for your posts and some borders for the paragraphs, as well as post more screenshots and use more neutral text coloring (and less of that too).
I'm posting this because I appreciate your effort and it would be bad if more people were turned away from your posts just because of some simple things like that which can be improved easily.
I really like your criticism, but I would like to ask some question in return, so I would know exactly what you meant by it.
I am aware that I have started using color codes in all my posts. I actually had real meaning behind it (because my discussion thread is only place where I write my progress if anything), but the color codes I started using got over me and started using them everywhere.
Formally I don't see anything bad about colorful texts, but when I have looked my text trough this difference OTLand layout (black theme) its, well a bit too colorful.
Are you using flexile style or xenFracture Style?
Obviously I don't use the colors the way you described, but sometimes I happen to use them alot.
Specially in my "story" style updates.
The keywords are bolded and colored: blue means players, purple means quests, red means monster names etc.
Of course I could stop doing that, but I want to be sure, what type of post you were talking about, maybe only "story" type posts?:
>all of story type post are linked under this post<
Or you also dislike the way give out my patch updates? (Purple patch name, red category, bolded objects)
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The reason I'm not posting screenshots or anything what would attract more attention is because of number of reason:
1. lazy - It already takes me 10-60minutes to write the post, because I suck at english and I try to make myself clear. Screenshotting, cutting and explaining my updates would take even more time.
2. future plans - For all the features, I plan to make youtube video tutorial or some kind of sketch. I'm thinking spending extra time to make post about is not needed.
3. I'm satisfied - I don't think I need good advertizing right now, I'm working on server alone ~6-12 hours a day and I could not simply produce content faster anyway.
I'm already happy to have few players playing once per week and for months I have already had somebody to test my latest features or updates. Recently I made new post to speed up the testing (updated TFS) and there were several players who were happy to help test thing out. Amazing!
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Making logo or attractive pictures to promote server seems like extra effort to advertize server, but once again, server is like 1% ready, I don't think I would require too much attention right now.
To be honest I think my current content wouldn't even stand more than 20 players playing at the same time xD (although would be interesting to see what does my scaling system has to say about that)
Also I'm hosting from home with 2GB ram computer, I already have some kind of weird lag spikes (I think they come because of my elaborate codes are written in LUA, not in source) no need to make it even worse
When is the Next update? also when are you going to be adding skilltree?
hopefully tomorrow 29.07
I don't work on my server on some specific normal worker schedule.
I script when I want and I rest when I want, because this the only thing I'm doing in my life for now and I am the "boss".
For now past 3 days I have been doing a bit more playing and having fun than scripting.
I have skillTree ready, but I have to change the way task master rewards.
Before I get to this taskmaster I currently have unfinished scripts, what I would like to finish.
Making new boss room (its like quest, but its not)
and new solo-boss.
I try to make something very hard and tactical, because lately I have been mostly nerfing monsters.
