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[Cobalt Katze]

Pirotess would probably have to fill you in on the details of what'll be possible with the system, since it's his big project

[Jaeth]

That'd be cool...

*waits for Pirotess to reply*

[Nabren]

Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

Also keep in mind that here at Spheres, once the game is closer to launch, we're going to be hosting some pretty in-depth Guild management tools

Aye, can't wait for that! Hehe

[Pirotess]

Originally Posted by Jaeth

CK, I hope integration with outside guild websites will be possible - I'm thinking XML feeds or something. That would just rock!

Definitely something Im planning to have as a feature. Unfortunately I havent had much free time lately to do work on the system which is fairly annoying. I'll get something up eventually though.

[Jaeth]

Piro, let me know if I can contribute in any way. I'd be very happy to do so.

[Pirotess]

Will need lots of testing once I get a framework in place so you're assistance there will be very beneficial.

[Jaeth]

Cool, is there any way to look up information about your project, or is it not online yet? (I'm talking about the project itself, not the actual product.)

I'd love to know more about which technologies/frameworks are used and so forth... I'd be willing to sign an NDA!

[Nabren]

I'm sure plenty of people that frequent this community would be more than happy to help you test it

[Pirotess]

Dont have too many concrete details right yet. It will run on top of the vBulletin software this site runs off of. Your existing forum accounts will provide the authentication mechanism and vBulletins public groups functionality may or may not be used to group registered accounts together into guilds. It depends on whether or not using the public groups will slow down the rest of the site since there will be so many security checks going on for each page. Past that the first part of the site to launch will be the guild summary pages. Each guild leader will be able to update the pages with things like a brief description of the guild, its goals, the time zone it operates in, a link to any official site it might already have, whether they are recruiting or not, who the recruitment official to contact is if they are, how long they have existed, a charter, etc. Not too long after thats in place a sortable roster system will go in place which Im hoping to be able to have automatically export to a php page running on guilds local sites if they so choose. Other possibilities include DKP modules, complete guild hosting, etc. Theres quite a number of possiblities that completely revolve around what our forum members want and what I can figure out how to build. I have my database schema in place already and just need to start coding the php pages. Unforunately thats what I havent had time to do for the last two weeks straight now.

[Bootstrap]

Whoa! Sweet Piro. I'm not a coder but I am a great tester. Work is real slow atm while awaiting a new contractor to be reviewed, scored and hired.

SO I have nothing but time on my hands atm to test anything.