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Site make over - 6/8/2001 10:44:00 AM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		Let us know what you think. We will be updating the products page over the next couple of days...fans of hex based tactical gaming will be happy ;)

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- 6/8/2001 2:08:00 PM   
Resisti


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Status: offline 		Pls,give me back the blue colour of the forum,pls.I cant live without it(it remembers me the...blue screens of death,lol)

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- 6/8/2001 2:10:00 PM   
Resisti


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Status: offline 		Ahem,look at my post above:black letters on a DARK grey back are not so readible...

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- 6/8/2001 2:22:00 PM   
K G von Martinez

 

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- 6/8/2001 3:01:00 PM   
ectizen

 

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Status: offline 		I knew this thread would be somewhere on these forums... It's probably doing me some good to get out of SPWAW and have a look around ;) I also vote for a tweaking of the colours to provide greater contrast for the text. Perhaps if the light and dark grey backgrounds were closer to each other, a text colour that nicely contrasts both would be easier to find. Or something... Edited to add: Ooh, while I'm here I'll also cast a vote for increasing the number of threads listed on a page from 25 to around 50. This will help keep recent threads on the front page of the higher traffic forums. Actually, since this might annoy the lower traffic forums, is it possible to do this for only the high traffic ones? [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: ectizen ]

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- 6/8/2001 3:14:00 PM   
Marc von Martial


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Status: offline 		Thanks for the input, will fix that ASAP. Cheers, Marc

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- 6/8/2001 3:31:00 PM   
Marc von Martial


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- 6/8/2001 4:54:00 PM   
dfsrusa

 

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Status: offline 		Yes, the dark grey backgrounds were too dark. Looks much better now. Blue or grey, I'll guess we'll soon get used to whatever is chosen. Scot Stephenson

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- 6/8/2001 6:09:00 PM   
K G von Martinez

 

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Status: offline 		Not as nice as the old blue, but I can now read well again.

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- 6/8/2001 6:11:00 PM   
Lars Remmen

 

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Originally posted by Paul Vebber: Let us know what you think. We will be updating the products page over the next couple of days...fans of hex based tactical gaming will be happy ;)
Paul, My opinion is that the new design is pretty horrible. Dark and depressing compared to the old design :(

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- 6/8/2001 6:22:00 PM   
Marc von Martial


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- 6/8/2001 8:24:00 PM   
Supervisor

 

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Status: offline 		Going against the general opinion here, but I think it looks good.

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- 6/8/2001 8:38:00 PM   
Ross Moorhouse


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Status: offline 		Same here. I like the whole new make over that the Matrix site is getting... :D

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- 6/8/2001 9:13:00 PM   
Joe Osborne

 

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Originally posted by Lars Remmen: Paul, My opinion is that the new design is pretty horrible. Dark and depressing compared to the old design :(
Hmmmm....I tend to agree.... Thank God for the blue stripe at the top. Just from a pure design standpoint there is so much black and white here that anything with color looks out of place...and who is the "magical soldier" making a rifle levitate in the logo...I would lose that fast.. Don't like it.....sorry... :( You guys do such a great job building and supporting games....this design distracts from that imho. Joe Osborne

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- 6/8/2001 9:21:00 PM   
TheZel66

 

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Status: offline 		I like the new look and feel, very clean. A step up from the bright blue.. Of course, I used to build 16bit Windows Apps. :D :D :D :D

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- 6/8/2001 9:21:00 PM   
ectizen

 

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Originally posted by GS_Marcks: Better now?
Most excellent! I will now discard my prepared request for fluorescent text. :D

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- 6/8/2001 10:00:00 PM   
Marc von Martial


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and who is the "magical soldier" making a rifle levitate in the logo...I would lose that fast..
I assume you´re a wargamer too and interested in WW2, right? You should know that image then ;). Possibly one of the famoust of WW2. [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: GS_Marcks ]

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- 6/8/2001 10:26:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		the colors are really difficult, the text doesn't contrast with the background very well at all!

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- 6/8/2001 11:27:00 PM   
Resisti


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Originally posted by GS_Marcks: I assume you´re a wargamer too and interested in WW2, right? You should know that image then ;). Possibly one of the famoust of WW2.
Tell me if I'm right:it makes me think abt the indeed famous photo of the soldier killed during Spanish Civil War(i dont remember which side he was fighting for). If so,let me say we need a real BIG phantasy to figure the logo as a copy of that photo... web page BTW:is it me or Image feature of the UBB code it's nopt working? [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: Resisti ]

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- 6/8/2001 11:40:00 PM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		no actually it is from a similarly famous photo of a falling German Infantry man

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- 6/8/2001 11:45:00 PM   
Marc von Martial


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the colors are really difficult, the text doesn't contrast with the background very well at all!
May I ask that you check your monitors settings. Over here at the graphics team we work with calibrated monitors (following international ICC standards) and I can assure you that the text and the background have a good contrast and don´t merge or so. It was maybe difficult with the darker grey used before, but that has been changed. [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: GS_Marcks ]

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- 6/9/2001 1:10:00 AM   
Joe Osborne

 

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Originally posted by GS_Marcks: I assume you´re a wargamer too and interested in WW2, right? You should know that image then ;). Possibly one of the famoust of WW2. [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: GS_Marcks ]
Oh, I think I've seen it before...it's just the rendering here that looks strange...you lose the effect of him falling from a gunshot wound due to the fact you cannot see the lower torso...the image as rendered just looks like a soldier standing there levitating a rifle.....just my meager opinion :) Joe Osborne

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- 6/9/2001 1:24:00 AM   
Marc von Martial


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Oh, I think I've seen it before...it's just the rendering here that looks strange...you lose the effect of him falling from a gunshot wound due to the fact you cannot see the lower torso...the image as rendered just looks like a soldier standing there levitating a rifle.....just my meager opinion
Hehe :D, blame da Big Boss, I wanted it right the way you described it. Well nearly ;). For anybody interested here´s the original: this kind of photos allways make me think .... thanks go to Mark "Vor" Holoboski for digging it up for me. [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: GS_Marcks ]

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- 6/9/2001 1:41:00 AM   
Joe Osborne

 

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Originally posted by GS_Marcks: Hehe :D, blame da Big Boss, [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: GS_Marcks ]
:D :D :D ROFLMAO!!!! NOW I understand! :) Joe O.

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- 6/9/2001 1:54:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Black on Gray is readible, but the Black on OD is not. I'm using Netscape btw. My eyes are straining...

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- 6/9/2001 2:09:00 AM   
Marc von Martial


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OD
Excuse me, what are you meaning by "OD"?

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- 6/9/2001 3:04:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Olive Drab. :)

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- 6/9/2001 3:06:00 AM   
Marc von Martial


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Status: offline 		Hmmm, curious. I just checked the boards with NS, I don´t see any OD (if he really means olive drab) here ;)

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- 6/9/2001 3:41:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Very sombre, very gloomy, very European. I like it. But it will destroy my eyesight. w

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- 6/9/2001 8:00:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		I like the new 'look' It's clean. The gamma on my monitor is dark - I know that I need to fix it, but the contrast is fine by me - and my eyesight is far from perfect! -brent [ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: brent_2 ]

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