DF Challenge questions

[Anonymous]

Great work

[Lithium]

I'll get to it all asap. Not sure how to make it load through out, not sure why the sound is stopping yet. Haven't looked at it in days

I'd say don't worry about the loading throughout unless you have a whole days worth of time or more to work on it--for now.

We really need to get a first version up, but it has to be good. The loading bar must be fixed along with the sound issues.

All other non-critical and small things can be tweaked and adjusted later. We are meeting new people in game and need to open our recruitment method to avoid falling further behind.

[Adad]

it'll be done tomorrow. Plan to put it live by tomorrow night. I apologize for the delays, it's been a busy week.

[Tbone]

Ok. I plan on being out all night tomorrow night, so I may not get around to it until Tuesday but we'll see.

[Lits]

I can't believe how awesome this is! I can't wait to show it to all my friends (in hopes of getting them interested in DF and FA!)

[likwidtek]

Assuming we go live with this today, we probably need to create a "bluepill" forum for the darkfall recruitment.

What do you guys think?

What would be the name for the vhost/subdomain?  thepath.followtheangel.org ?

[Phienyx]

I think that would be a great idea.

[Anonymous]

"very excited to see how it rolls" Cant wait

[likwidtek]

Not sure if this is the updated one or not but the challenge located here: http://jwnettesheim.startlogic.com//DarkFall/Challenge.html as of 1:09 FA time still seems bugged.  No loading screen and audio isn't working.  Sorry if this isn't the updated one.. just thought you'd want to know.

Also if the flash file is still too large, is there an option to compress the audio even more?  I'm sure the files everyone created in audacity were pretty large.  I'm sure you could get away with some serious compression.

[likwidtek]

Regarding the new challenge help forum, assuming it's going to be PHPbb3  here are some template ideas that could get hacked to suit our needs:

Fav, could replace the entire top with dark forest image
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/eMuza2

or this one
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/DVGFX2


Might look cool with the background the DarkForest and the foreground our FA Crest
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/nexus


Could edit this with the LOGO in the back and a cutom hear on top
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/sacred2light

We could take this one and replace the top of it with the dark forest image used in the challenge
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/AZ_ClassyDark


this one sorta matches the site or the rest of us
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Avalon

matches internal FA site, sorta
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Minimalistic

Same with this one:
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/plainjane

[Adad]

compressing the sound makes it sound bad. As I stated earlier, I will be fixing the bugs today to the best of my abilities.  As I am working on right now.

[Adad]

ok, loading bar works thanks to some help from Lith.  The audio plays in the intro video at the end now, not sure if the levels are good yet or not, have to go to work.  Still hate the background noise in Lits' first line...

[Pirus]

seems to me the voices aren't loud enough but then again im at work and the sound isn't real loud anyway but the swamp sounds were very loud.  I could bearly make out anything lits said in the first few seconds.

[Tbone]

I have work tonight but I should be home by about 9 FA time. If we could get the challenge up and running tonight, that'd be excellent. I'll be around then if not sooner.

[Lithium]

Very nice!

Tbone: I'll be home by 11 FA Time, but just reuse all the old code and includes we have setup

Adad: I'd like the completion link to do preferably a POST call to the apply page (will convert apply to apply.php). Name the POST code and set it to a few random characters like 'fH7d8a.' We'll keep it static for now and if need be later on make it more dynamically created. This will prevent anyone from just going directly to the apply page on a lucky guessing of the page name. If you can't do a post, we can do a GET instead, apply.php?code=fj389djk, but then it will be much easier to get around if someone already knows the code, wheras a post would require more effort from the attacker.