Somebody send the Webmaster a link to this topic!

Hmm, Deschain's clean up looks great. I honestly like the new site better if only because I can read it easier.

My last email to the Webmaster did not go well.

That sounds like a horrible policy. It's -your- game, you should have some control over how it's presented to the public.

Thanks for providing the email address, Estarra, I've sent my HOT BLOODED RAGE.

I kid...I swear. Also, Deschain's redesign pretty much addressed my concerns.

Voicing support for the 'talk about what makes LUSTERNIA great, not about how great LUSTERNIA is camp.

Deschain's suggestion seems a decent first step.

Getting rid of 'Create a Character' on the navbar would also be a good first step if Deschain's is too complicated. We don't need two links in the menu bar to what (I assume) will eventually be the same thing.

I, like so many others, played Lusternia at first in large part because of the Elder Wars/History sections of the website-- while the guilds pages were awful, the history sections were so immensely different from any other game that I'd played that I felt compelled to learn more.

Also, play up influence/questing! It's part of what makes the game so... Lusternian, especially compared to other MMOs-- and certainly compared to 'regular' flash games. (How many other games do you know where you have to solve mastermind, Tower of Hanoi, and minesweeper, amongst other puzzles?)

While I can sympathise with your sentiment, you all really should be directing your constructive criticism/opinions/suggestions to Jeremy - as I understand, he's handling it!

Estarra's surely too busy maintaining the things that make Lusternia awesome

Having looked at it, as long as they bring back the honors/players online section so I can have that up in a tab to look at every so often, I would give or take t he rest of the site

There is a players online feature on the Chrome extension. It does not seem to be as accurate as the website link was.

The main iron realms site who list doesn't bypass gems of cloaking, Lusternia site one does.

Uh oh, can of worms detected, depending on how often that updates and if it visible to everyone, as opposed to GMCP bypassing which seems to be based off of channel sharing.

Just to clarify, I'm in charge of everything under the "Info" tab and adding news articles. The front page and marketing decisions are wholly in the hands of IRE.

That's depressing. The site is repulsive, especially after I logged in. The create character crap didn't go away and it's an option under my login. I don't want to create a new character when I'm logged in as myself.


If I have time, I'll send in an email. The site is atrocious.

Site looks good!

double post due to phone..........

Well, as I said before, I actually like the new site. I like the colors and graphics and I even like the fonts.

The only issue I have is that top navigation bar and the Info link it holds. It's too inconspicuous, considering all the things you want to read before playing are there. Maybe something as simple as making the font a little bigger there and changing the word 'Info' to 'Game Information' or something would work. Cause, I don't play a game without reading about the races and the guilds and so on and, to me, that information seems almost hidden away, like folks aren't meant to find it until it's too late.

The races and guilds and world of Lusternia are too cool to treat that way!

The new look is the website version of

This marketing method

I'll give it a bit, but the old one was pretty, and fast, and concise, and very easy to navigate.

The new one is none of these things. It somehow manages to have too much clutter, AND too much space. That's... sort of impressive, actually.

I'll second that.

Changed the "Info" tab to "Game Info". See, I am good for something!

BTW, just got out of a long meeting with the Webmaster and showed him this thread. Please continue to send him feedback. He likes some ideas he's heard and may tweak the front page in the future. Keep in mind, however, that the priority now is to get the website functioning and work out any bugs that may crop up rather than the design itself.