Hey folks.

Some of you may of already seen these as I posted them in the Shoutbox, but thought I'd put em here too as I realised they don't stay at the top of the shoutbox long.

Essentially I've come up with a few possible improvements regarding the display of our Wall of Fame, Championship Winners, and Live Player List.
These have some cross over as I'm just conceptualising at the moment.

Obviously one is intended to sit in the side bar and the other is intended to sit in the middle under the shoutbox.
Something to consider is that the sidebar is always displayed whereas the middle bar is only displayed on the home page.

So any thoughts? Like them? Hate them? Got any suggestions?
Perhaps a combination of the sidebar and middle bar version would be most appropriate.

http://testsik.staticloud.com/
http://testsikbar.staticloud.com/

Neither of these are currently retrieving data from the server, they are just static at the moment to demonstrate how they might look.
For the search feature I am envisaging that upon hitting show it will display the specified player in the middle, with the 3 players immediately higher ranked above them, and lower ranked beneath them.

Hey there folks

I've just started looking at ways I can go about perhaps tidying up the interface on our server as its a little messy at times I'm sure you'd agree.
One thing I've implemented on my own test server is a relocation and redesign of the Health and Speed bars, with the intention that by moving them I can free up space at the top right, where I can then move the splittimes ladder up to the very top.

So I've attached a screenshot of just how the new bars look on my server if you want to take a quick look and let me know if its hot or not that'd be great Criticisms welcome, I'm no designer.
Obviously the screenshot only contains the bars, I've not had time to grab the other resources from our server and add them yet.
Things to note, its now at the bottom center (obviously) and instead of the bar moving from left to right it expands from the center.

Additionally currently on the server we have a little SiK logo, but its a bit dated now, and I've seen a few nice images made by people here, so if anyone would like to take a crack at designing a new one it could get popped on there

Cheers Guys.

Alright due to the massive growth of the points previously it was clear the system needed to be changed.
The change I have made however is perhaps slightly unusual, although I believe it to be fair and encourage competition.

The basic concept is, for each racer you beat you are awarded points based on the points difference.
As such if you beat someone with significantly more points than you, you will earn a decent amount of points, however if you beat someone with significantly less points than you you will earn less, or even no points, and if you beat someone with similar points to yourself you will earn some points.

In more detail, for each player you earn a default of 5 points for beating them. However for each point more than you they have you will gain an extra 0.01 of a point, and for each point less than you they have you will gain 0.01 less of a point, until that reaches 0.

This means point growth will in general be constant, although it will be easier to catch up with leaders if you race well.
One of the main negative aspects however is that in each race the points system can appear to be malfunctioning. Consider this situation.

Player1 whom finished first has 1000 points
Player2 whom finished second has 50 points
Player3 whom finished 3rd has 1100 points.

Player1 will be awarded 6 points
Player2 will be awarded 16 points
Player3 will be awarded 0 points
(Ignoring points received for finishing the race and toptimes etc.)

So the person who comes 2nd earns more points from the race than he whom won it.

Naturally to some this may seem unfair, and perhaps all ye might not like this system.
Let me know what ya think.

Cheers,
Demiveil.

Right well in the process of rearranging the forums I accidentally deleted this section so thought I would kick it off once again.

Hello all.
My real name is Byron and I am 19 years of age living in the beautiful country of New Zealand.
I recently completed my 2nd year of university studying towards a degree (and then hopefully a masters) in Computer Science with the ultimate goal of becoming a Software Engineer.
Additionally I have a multitude of sporting interests, I enjoy playing football, both of the traditional and American varieties (although only unofficially with mates for the American variation.) I play Badminton at national levels, and recently started learning how to kitesurf, something I intend to continue. I also know how to play the Tenor Saxaphone, although dropped it when I started uni, and intend to begin again once I have a steady income and more free time.
As an original member of SiK I have been here since its inception, I consider myself a dedicated member and with my developing abilities in programming I am responsible for creating or maintaining the scripts running on our server.

Thats a little about myself.
Whose next....

Update

Thought I would update this bad boy as a few things have changed!

I'm currently 20 and have just completed my 3rd and final year at university, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Just prior to completing my degree I was offered a position at a company called Telogis where I currently work as a Graduate Software Engineer.
Over the course of the next year or so one of my main objectives is to learn to skydive and become certified and very much look forward to doing this.


I would love to hear the stories of others by the way, there's a lot of new faces in SiK that I would like to get to know!

Ok I've officially finished the first iteration of a ghost mode script. I've outlined in the suggestions board but I'll put it here too.
At current the system will count down 15 seconds, and then each vehicle will check to see if any other vehicle is within 5 metres of itself, and if there is none it will turn ghostmode off for itself. However if there is it will keep ghost mode on and the car will blink its alpha to indicated that ghost mode is trying to turn off.

I've tested it as much as I can but really I'm certain there will plenty of little issues with it, so I'm hoping that over the next few days you can all just let me know if you have any difficulties with it, or any suggestions to improve it. That'd be great.
Cheers

1 - Real Name - Byron Bos

2 - Gaming name - Demiveil

3 - Games you play - MTA, Call of Juarez- Bound in Blood, Dirt, Hitman Blood Money, GRID etc.

4 - Country of residence - New Zealand

5 - Age - 18

6 - Computer Specs
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores)
Memory: 4GB DDR2 400MHz
Hard Drive: 1st - 320 GB (Internal), 2nd - 1 TB (External)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Monitor: BenQ T2200HD 21.5" 1920 x 1080
Sound Card: Internal
Speakers/Headphones: AKG K-55 Headphones, Shit dell computer speakers.
Keyboard: Logitech S520 Wireless Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech  S520 Wireless Mouse
Mouse Surface: Flexiglow Mousepad
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional x64

7 - Think you would make a good admin? Tell us why? - I've been an admin on SiK, DRuG for a few years now, was also an admin on PHS and PS for sometime but have moved on since then.

8 - Wu Zi Mu Time -
Wu Zi Mu 2:12:344

9 - Anything else you can think of that will be relevant - Just thought I would make this application because I haven't applied for a clan in a very long time and its a good rush, plus I'm meant to be studying and love distractions!

Just a little competition if you so please.
Basically the server has a bunch of images displayed for different purposes and rather than just customise them myself I thought I'd open it up for everyone to make a contribution and we can decide whose we think will look the best.

So here are the images currently on there.


sik_logo.png - This image is displayed in the welcome window when a user joins the server.


countdown_3.png - This image is the first of a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.


countdown_2.png - This image is the second in a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.


countdown_1.png - This image is the third in a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.


countdown_0.png - This image is the last in a series of 4 images displayed in the race start countdown.

One quick not regarding the four countdown images. I would recommend applying transparency so that the images are not displayed as raw rectangles on screen.


hurry.png - This image is displayed in the final moments of a race to remind players the race is about to end.


specnext.png and specnext_hi.png respectively - specnext is the image displayed indicating you can press right to spectate the next player, specnext_hi is simply the image displayed instead during key press.


specprev.png and specprev_hi.png respectively - Simply the same as specnext and specnext_hi


progress_health_bg.png and progress_health.png respectively - progress_health_bg is the background for the health bar displayed in the top right, must be this width. progress_health.png is a 1 pixel wide image replicated according to the players health to fill the background bar.


progress_speed_bg.png and progress_speed.png respectively - Similar to progress_health_bg and progress_health except represent the players speed


title.png - Displayed at the start of the race gamemode, usually on join. Simply represents the race gamemode.


travelling.png - Shown during map change. Can have a black background as the background during this time is black.





Thats all the images for now. Good luck to anyone feeling up to making something, I shall be adding my submissions upon completion. I suggest a 2 day period before you designs should be completed. (You do not have to design something for all of the images)
Make em all SiK!