[April Fools] Introducing WesGold™ Forum Accounts
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[April Fools] Introducing WesGold™ Forum Accounts
Posted on April 1 2014
Greetings, forum users!
The first version of Battle for Wesnoth was first released to the public in July 2003. Since then, the game and the community around it have grown far beyond anyone’s original expectations. We are committed to providing you with the best Free (as in speech) gaming experience, and in order to best serve the community’s evolving needs, we continuously seek new ways to improve our existing infrastructure.
In an ideal world, we would be able to provide you with these services without charging you a single cent. However, the reality is that our current hardware platform can no longer sustain the community at its current growth rate, and as you may know, hosting large public servers is expensive. As game developers and players ourselves, we would never consider moving to a “free-to-play” or “freemium” model, and closing our doors to our existing players is definitely out of the question. For these reasons, the Wesnoth.org administration and our community management team have worked hard — with the collaboration of our Forum Moderators — on devising a middle-ground alternative which we are sure will prove useful to the community by promoting intelligent and hassle-free communication.
We are proud to announce the launch of the WesGold™ Forum Accounts program! This initiative will enable users of our Wesnoth.org forums board to access new highly-requested features intended for bettering your overall forum experience for an affordable monthly fee of USD 10.00. These are the benefits for WesGold ™ users:
WesGold ™ users will also be able to use these new WesGold™-only BBCodes in posts and signatures:
The WesGold™ subscription platform will be fully operational within the next 24 hours. This announcement will be updated accordingly once WesGold™ subscriptions are open to public.
We want to hear your feedback! You may post your thoughts and ideas to this thread for other cool additions you might want to see in the future for WesGold™ users.
Regards
WesGold™ and WesGold™ Forum Accounts program are trademarks or registered trademarks of Weldyn Industries Inc. in the U.S. This post is Copyright © 2005-2014 by Weldyn Industries Inc. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution of this post is allowed without prior written permission.
Greetings, forum users!
The first version of Battle for Wesnoth was first released to the public in July 2003. Since then, the game and the community around it have grown far beyond anyone’s original expectations. We are committed to providing you with the best Free (as in speech) gaming experience, and in order to best serve the community’s evolving needs, we continuously seek new ways to improve our existing infrastructure.
In an ideal world, we would be able to provide you with these services without charging you a single cent. However, the reality is that our current hardware platform can no longer sustain the community at its current growth rate, and as you may know, hosting large public servers is expensive. As game developers and players ourselves, we would never consider moving to a “free-to-play” or “freemium” model, and closing our doors to our existing players is definitely out of the question. For these reasons, the Wesnoth.org administration and our community management team have worked hard — with the collaboration of our Forum Moderators — on devising a middle-ground alternative which we are sure will prove useful to the community by promoting intelligent and hassle-free communication.
We are proud to announce the launch of the WesGold™ Forum Accounts program! This initiative will enable users of our Wesnoth.org forums board to access new highly-requested features intended for bettering your overall forum experience for an affordable monthly fee of USD 10.00. These are the benefits for WesGold ™ users:
- Color formatting in posts and signatures!
- Increased signature size limits up to 1000 characters and 10 lines!
- Animated avatars up to 1 MiB/200x200 in size!
- New BBCodes!
- The ability to lock, unlock, and delete their own forum threads, even after others have posted in them!
- Unlimited thread resurrections in all forum sections, even if they are not the thread’s author!
- Advanced post search options powered by Google’s Enterprise Search platform!
- Full WML validation and syntax highlighting in posts!
- One-click integration with social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Windows, and more!
- A more dynamic forum experience leveraging the power of HTML5, CSS3, and AJAX!
WesGold ™ users will also be able to use these new WesGold™-only BBCodes in posts and signatures:
- Table formatting tags:
table
,row
,header
,cell
- Social media tags:
youtube
,soundcloud
,twitter
,imgur
(more to come!) - A powerful
html
tag for including your own HTML code in posts!
Includes automatic server-side analysis during submission to prevent exploits. Forum posts found to contain exploits will result in immediate rejection of the post, revocation of WesGold™ privileges, and permanent banning of the authoring account, as well as an instant notification to our field agents and legal representatives around the world. - More to come!
The WesGold™ subscription platform will be fully operational within the next 24 hours. This announcement will be updated accordingly once WesGold™ subscriptions are open to public.
We want to hear your feedback! You may post your thoughts and ideas to this thread for other cool additions you might want to see in the future for WesGold™ users.
Regards
WesGold™ and WesGold™ Forum Accounts program are trademarks or registered trademarks of Weldyn Industries Inc. in the U.S. This post is Copyright © 2005-2014 by Weldyn Industries Inc. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution of this post is allowed without prior written permission.
Author of the unofficial UtBS sequels Invasion from the Unknown and After the Storm.
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shadowm wrote:our field agents [...] around the world.
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It would be great, if WesGold could give suggestions about adding new features
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I don't get it why would I need WesGold for that. Or it will be disallowed for common forum users later, because April 1st isn't the best day to disallow stuff?Color formatting in posts
Last edited by Crendgrim on April 1st, 2014, 10:01 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Removed colors per Posting Guideline 1d
Reason: Removed colors per Posting Guideline 1d
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UMC Story Images — Story images for your campaign!
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Automatic download count increase for my addons!You may post your thoughts and ideas to this thread for other cool additions you might want to see in the future for WesGold™ users.
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Holy crap, unlimited thread necromancy? I'm in!
Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?
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To coincide with this announcement, I've been developing the crypto-currency that can only be mined by completing scenarios of official Wesnoth campaigns.
For a limited time, I will offer 4.1 free Wesbucks ™ crypto-currency to the first people who sign up for WesGold ™ forum accounts.
(By the way, I still need a good coin graphic for it!)
I am also excited to announce that as part of our promotion, celebrity rapper will.i.am has vowed to do nothing but play wesnoth campaigns for 120 consecutive hours in an effort to amass 4 billion Wesbucks ™!
For a limited time, I will offer 4.1 free Wesbucks ™ crypto-currency to the first people who sign up for WesGold ™ forum accounts.
(By the way, I still need a good coin graphic for it!)
I am also excited to announce that as part of our promotion, celebrity rapper will.i.am has vowed to do nothing but play wesnoth campaigns for 120 consecutive hours in an effort to amass 4 billion Wesbucks ™!
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/User:Sapient... "Looks like your skills saved us again. Uh, well at least, they saved Soarin's apple pie."
- Paulomat4
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Will I be able to pay for my WesGold account with Wesbucks?
Creator of Dawn of Thunder and Global Unitmarkers
"I thought Naga's used semi-automatic crossbows with incendiary thermite arrows . . . my beliefs that this race is awesome are now shattered." - Evil Earl
"I thought Naga's used semi-automatic crossbows with incendiary thermite arrows . . . my beliefs that this race is awesome are now shattered." - Evil Earl
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As soon as our finances department figures out how this cryptocurrency stuff works, sure!Paulomat4 wrote:Will I be able to pay for my WesGold account with Wesbucks?
Spoiler:
Author of the unofficial UtBS sequels Invasion from the Unknown and After the Storm.
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finally.
may i ask if there are also forum-titles to buy -
lets say "developer h.c." in red letters, for example
may i ask if there are also forum-titles to buy -
lets say "developer h.c." in red letters, for example
The best bet is your own, good Taste.
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It's also possible to pay with bottles containing certain liquid instead of money? I promise, they're more than worthy!
I'm interested in anti-ban feature, not in wezgold or whatever it is, by the way.
I'm interested in anti-ban feature, not in wezgold or whatever it is, by the way.
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Unfortunately, legal issues coupled with a perceived overall lack of interest have forced us to disband the WesGold™ working team and cancel the program.
For this reason, the tables feature, which was the first to be deployed yesterday (the first day of April), is going to be retired at the end of the week.
This is just a taste of the cool and awesome stuff you chose to not finance, people:
(Click on the Quote button to take a look at the BBCode.)
UPDATE 2014-04-07: Feature dropped as announced above.
For this reason, the tables feature, which was the first to be deployed yesterday (the first day of April), is going to be retired at the end of the week.
This is just a taste of the cool and awesome stuff you chose to not finance, people:
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[table][row][header]Release[/header][header]Tagging date[/header][/row]
[row][cell]1.11.12 (1.12 beta 3)[/cell][cell]Sun Mar 23 19:42:47 2014 +0100[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]1.11.11 (1.12 beta 2)[/cell][cell]Sun Mar 2 19:33:15 2014 +0100[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]1.11.10 (1.12 beta 1)[/cell][cell]Sat Feb 22 14:44:56 2014 +0100[/cell][/row][/table]
UPDATE 2014-04-07: Feature dropped as announced above.
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Author of the unofficial UtBS sequels Invasion from the Unknown and After the Storm.
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I was wondering about how you would go about implementing the wml syntax check. Integration of wmllint, emacs mode, the preprocessor, somehow ? But till then you actually got me. Some points need to be valid, costs of running the MP server and so on.
projects (BfW 1.12):
A Simple Campaign: campaign draft for wml starters • Plan Your Advancements: mp mod
The Earth's Gut: sp campaign • Settlers of Wesnoth: mp scenario • Wesnoth Lua Pack: lua tags and utils
updated to 1.8 and handed over: A Gryphon's Tale: sp campaign
A Simple Campaign: campaign draft for wml starters • Plan Your Advancements: mp mod
The Earth's Gut: sp campaign • Settlers of Wesnoth: mp scenario • Wesnoth Lua Pack: lua tags and utils
updated to 1.8 and handed over: A Gryphon's Tale: sp campaign
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Darn, how could I miss it this year?
Greetz
HomerJ
Greetz
HomerJ
Six years without a signature!