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EvolvedOnes.com is looking for people who enjoy interactive role play based on Vendetta Online game events. We are the unofficial Vendetta Online role play forum with a custom design that caters to the role play community. Join us let your imagination run free.
We are currently working to build our plug in database. If you have a great plugin that you think others would enjoy or find handy, upload it to our site and we'll make it available to everyone.
A role play forum would not be complete without guilds. EvolvedOnes.com offers Vendetta guilds public and private forums laid out however they like, with as many sub forums as they like. All guilds receive a link on the frontpage, and may submit custom rank images for their members to wear. Guild leaders have an array of tools available to them to add or remove members and moderate their guild forums.
I am convinced that a strong role play community will only benefit the game we all love. New players will be drawn into the stories and it's been my experience, as owner of EvolvedOnes when it was a Freelancer rp forum, that many times players will get hooked on the role play in the forum then sign up for an account on the server.
Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd.
If an artist draws a crowd, is the crowd real?
^ How's that for a serious brain exercise? :)
EZR
^ How's that for a serious brain exercise? :)
EZR
Not great. Click Can't you do better EZR?
On topic, site looks good Sledge. I'll be poking around it a bit more later, but in the mean time, best of luck!
On topic, site looks good Sledge. I'll be poking around it a bit more later, but in the mean time, best of luck!
I sit in waiting for the day we will have more websites about VO than active players...
Indeed
I love SMF + Tinyportal. Bloc is my hero. Good, technically well-done website.
But, again, we really don't NEED another generic fan/rp site for Vendetta-Online.
A solution in search of a problem, again. I sit in waiting for the day we have so many players that individual, separate RP websites are actually needed.
But, again, we really don't NEED another generic fan/rp site for Vendetta-Online.
A solution in search of a problem, again. I sit in waiting for the day we have so many players that individual, separate RP websites are actually needed.
It serves a niche. A lot of people enjoy role playing. The entire Evo site is specifically designed to facilitate role play. No one is required to participate. The amount of fan sites is irrelevant. It's not like the player base is spread out among different competing servers. The point is if we get a good strong role play community going, new players will be drawn in. I've seen it happen before.
good luck. Roleplaying and VO is a sad and sorry match, much that I would wish it otherwise. But as I said, good luck
Looks like there is a race between Evo and VendettaHQ....
Will either win?
Will either win?
I think both lost before the race even began.
Let us have a run off. The first one to get an active vo customer to sign up wins.
Let us have a run off. The first one to get an active vo customer to sign up wins.
I like SMF, as a forum, but as a CMS? No, no, no, bloc fails, it's cludgy hacks, and can be very insecure once you start to add stuff to it.
Good luck restoring that DB to a vanilla install...
Good luck restoring that DB to a vanilla install...
[ITAN]'s been on SMF + TP for like 3 years so far, yodar.
(Far better than Drupal...)
(Far better than Drupal...)
It's like two armless, legless men trying to race.
First:
"Looks like there is a race between Evo and VendettaHQ....
Will either win?"
No. Evo and VHQ are not in a race. I've looked m4c4br3's site over and it looks great. It also serves a different niche than Evo. There is no competition.
Second:
"Good luck restoring that DB to a vanilla install..."
I've been running SMF/TP forums for many years (I also run www.thepoliticalcapital.com) and have had to restore many times. It's very easy. Let me know if you need help restoring yours.
As for this whole argument about "more sites than players" or whatever, you guys should be more positive. How many fan sites sprout around a game is a good measure of it's success or at least it's potential. Stop yacking and just join a rp or a community site! Make them a success and the only thing that can happen is the game will have a wider exposure to gamers at large.
"Looks like there is a race between Evo and VendettaHQ....
Will either win?"
No. Evo and VHQ are not in a race. I've looked m4c4br3's site over and it looks great. It also serves a different niche than Evo. There is no competition.
Second:
"Good luck restoring that DB to a vanilla install..."
I've been running SMF/TP forums for many years (I also run www.thepoliticalcapital.com) and have had to restore many times. It's very easy. Let me know if you need help restoring yours.
As for this whole argument about "more sites than players" or whatever, you guys should be more positive. How many fan sites sprout around a game is a good measure of it's success or at least it's potential. Stop yacking and just join a rp or a community site! Make them a success and the only thing that can happen is the game will have a wider exposure to gamers at large.
You guys don't have "different niches." You're both competing for the empty set of users.
"You guys don't have "different niches." You're both competing for the empty set of users."
I disagree. I'm actively promoting Evo via Adwords. I spend about $30 a month in ads (including my $10 subscription, I spend about $40 a month on this game). You may notice that there are no Google ads on the VO site. I also post about Evo and VO on other gaming sites, namely Freelancer server sites, trying to get them to move on from FL to something new. It's hard moving a large RP community to a new game if it lacks any kind of real role play.
As an ex-Freelancer server op, I've got a little bit of experience with the FL community. It's going to take some time, but with sites like VHQ and Evo, we can do it. Those guys have been dreaming about a sequel to FL for many years now and it's not going to happen. I've been trying to convince them that it has happened. It's called Vendetta Online.
So no, I'm not competing for an "empty set of users". The only competition m4c4br3 and I are engaged in is the competition to excite this community and get new players interested.
I disagree. I'm actively promoting Evo via Adwords. I spend about $30 a month in ads (including my $10 subscription, I spend about $40 a month on this game). You may notice that there are no Google ads on the VO site. I also post about Evo and VO on other gaming sites, namely Freelancer server sites, trying to get them to move on from FL to something new. It's hard moving a large RP community to a new game if it lacks any kind of real role play.
As an ex-Freelancer server op, I've got a little bit of experience with the FL community. It's going to take some time, but with sites like VHQ and Evo, we can do it. Those guys have been dreaming about a sequel to FL for many years now and it's not going to happen. I've been trying to convince them that it has happened. It's called Vendetta Online.
So no, I'm not competing for an "empty set of users". The only competition m4c4br3 and I are engaged in is the competition to excite this community and get new players interested.
I did not say SMF was bad, I use it for all forums I host, but when you start to use addons, you start adding holes.
And bloc does not rule, and using SMF as a CMS instead of a forum can be tricky, cos a forum code update may break a plugin, also, some of the SMF plugns are just plain cludgy, so yah, SMF itself is fine, thats why all the forums I host use SMF, but as far as "community" based plugins go, yah, they can be a pain in the ass.
And bloc does not rule, and using SMF as a CMS instead of a forum can be tricky, cos a forum code update may break a plugin, also, some of the SMF plugns are just plain cludgy, so yah, SMF itself is fine, thats why all the forums I host use SMF, but as far as "community" based plugins go, yah, they can be a pain in the ass.
Yo. Sledge. Keep it up, don't let the naysayers drag ya down.
EZR
EZR
Hey bud, looks like your site is down. I'm getting a 500 when trying to visit it.
Hmm, I just checked it. Seems to be ok now. I'm not sure what happened.
"And bloc does not rule, and using SMF as a CMS instead of a forum can be tricky, cos a forum code update may break a plugin, also, some of the SMF plugns are just plain cludgy, so yah, SMF itself is fine, thats why all the forums I host use SMF, but as far as "community" based plugins go, yah, they can be a pain in the ass."
I use it for a forum, not a CMS. I like TP because it adds a little extra info to the front page. It's especially good for a rp forum because you can show recent posts and rss on the front page. I'm not too worried about mods. I've gotten very good at stripping the database of extra tables and data that mods add. When I restore the forum it's usually with a clean db, then I junk it up with more mods :P.
"And bloc does not rule, and using SMF as a CMS instead of a forum can be tricky, cos a forum code update may break a plugin, also, some of the SMF plugns are just plain cludgy, so yah, SMF itself is fine, thats why all the forums I host use SMF, but as far as "community" based plugins go, yah, they can be a pain in the ass."
I use it for a forum, not a CMS. I like TP because it adds a little extra info to the front page. It's especially good for a rp forum because you can show recent posts and rss on the front page. I'm not too worried about mods. I've gotten very good at stripping the database of extra tables and data that mods add. When I restore the forum it's usually with a clean db, then I junk it up with more mods :P.