I need further information on how the house system works. Are houses loaded straight from houses.xml and automatically imported into the database? Or does the database strictly only show house owners, rent, etc?
I do not wish to force admins to import houses, this should already be taken care of by the TFS engine, so im asking Talaturen for clarifications on this and how I should move on with this issue. (This is why I have ignored implementation of houses so far).
Forum system? From my experience, this is messy on OT servers, and only contain half arsed forum functionality(unless I want to waste a shitload of time), has a big lack of activity, and usually lots of spam from negative players. I would recommend to use a hosted project board for proper forum functionality, so we have pbpBB or vBulletin who are professional in this field take care of this.
However: Cached news system with comments will hopefully come within 1.5. I'm looking forward to see Peacy's minimal news system before I decide if I will tweak and implement his system or create one myself.
It will display your details instantly on the site without email verification atm.
It will verify you by checking your IP, if you have the same IP as was registered when creating your account, and you write correct email, character name and user/pass, it will reset your password or show you your username.
Email system is not something I am focusing on, I want to do this right and make it really easy and simple with tutorials and great understanding later on. (wishlist).
I think you can disable lost account interface completely if you wish in config.php, but because of IP verification, I believe it is pretty secure. As long as the hacker isn't your brother.
Houses are loaded from the database.
