I didn't see a topic on this but maybe I missed it. Looking pretty spiffy.

Ginormous text with odd spacing doesn't thrill me. It's a web site made almost entirely for new players, which I sort of understand, but the things established players want to see are just not found as easily on this site.

I've never really been a Drupal fan, either, but that's neither here nor there.

Look at "player info" and see everyone's favorite aquamancer for a good laugh!

That's pretty much how I feel.

While I agree with Zarquan - considering what Achaea's been doing lately comes to mind....

If anyone happened to have seen the leaked new Siren pictures, well... I can totally dig 'classy slutty' pictures of a Siren character, but that was rather, uh. Something else.

Yeah, it did take me a bit to find some of the links. Still I prefer it over the old layout visually. I had a hard time reading the font on the old site. It is obviously designed to draw in new players and that is a good thing. Keeping them is the part that should be worked on. IRE needs to move beyond its aversion to quest guides and it shouldn't be relying on players to maintain a wiki. All the major quest locations, npcs, and items should have an officially maintained entry.

I'm generally holding back on it, since I don't know if it is just me being spoiled and lazy by big games and their communities, but I've found it terribly difficult to get information on "endgame" and basically things past level 80. While once you actually find the right people for it you get tons and tons of information out of them. But a readily available guide, for example one that covers all things aetherhunting (how to set up a good ship, the costs, the numbers, the roles of crew, what skills they should have ect.), that kinda stuff is just not there. Now, I am not saying IRE should provide us with all that when a community can do so, but sometimes some confirmed numbers and mechanics and a official basic explanation would be welcome rather than me compiling my own guides through a lot of forum searching and then wonder if info isn't dated yet.

Well, so much for holding back, that's my rant

I think the new website could do with making a few things smaller, but I liked the new design until I got to the bottom half. The bottom half looks only half done, what with the style of the page completely breaking and becoming super bland.

I don't think it's bad design, could just use a few tweaks so that it didn't scream OMG OMG OMG OMG quite so loudly . Very cool though.

Iashe said it'll take a few days to get it up to snuff.

Also, if you're nostalgic (like me) old.lusternia.com exists.

Oh thank the gods yes. I need old.lusternia.com Thank youuuuu. So much easier to read. My poor brain did not want to comprehend the new website. I guess I'll try again later.

I like it, for the most part. I do want to second that the spacing and organization of some things are weird though. Take a look at the histories section - its just a bunch of text.

I would also like to see the "info" button at the top turn into a drop down navigation menu when you click it for easier access to those categories.

I'm not seeing the new website. Is it still in the testing phase?

The new site is live at www.lusternia.com, unless you somehow have a really old cache that didn't update.

Still not seeing it.

Try another browser. Clear your cache. Take a walk around the block. Have a glass of water. Look at the screen sideways. Whatever you got to do. I promise it's there. You don't know what you're missing.

www.lusternia.com (not lusternia.com) - if you still don't see it, try ctrl+f5. Though I am to understand if you use Chrome or IE, it won't skip the cache.

Try to clear out your caches/temp. internet files, and maybe it'll load up for you

Thanks! This is what worked for me. Much less busy than the original site. I have the feeling this is geared towards someone just getting into MMO's. Though, as someone who has played one Mud or another for the past seventeen years, not nearly enough. Would love to see race and classes offered right up front-- and rightfully so, this is one of Lusternia's strong suits.

If everything doesn't work, going to drupal.lusternia.com will still let you see it.

This.

The new website is pretty but it tells me nothing about the game.

Oh finally, I had been anticipating this since it was mentioned in a newsletter a while back. Yeah I agree with what Iasmos said, though I do like this layout and I think it is better for marketing and will attract more people. Having lots of flashy graphics helps. Also lol @ Player Info, I can't believe they dragged up that old Forren photo!

EDIT: Also totally agree about putting more info up there esp. regarding races and guilds. When I check out a new game, regardless if it's graphic or text-based, that's where I always look first!