There is a lot going on around here today. Here is the list of updates.
New Game
Star Citizen is a Crowd Funded MMORPG/FPS. It is do out in 2015, but some features are already available for alpha access. This game has set records for donations (Crowd Funding). It will release as a single player space fighter sim called Squadron 42. Upon completing the campaign you will be released into the MMO sandbox world. This game is being developed in a modified version of the Cry 3 engine, and looks to set a new standard for game design.
I highly recommend checking this game out. I am extremely excited about it and will be working to develop its pages on our site in the near future.
I highly recommend checking this game out. I am extremely excited about it and will be working to develop its pages on our site in the near future.
Site Tweaks
There is now a TeamSpeak 3 status app in our header. This will now appear on every page. Please continue to use the TeamSpeak 3 page to update your server address as the app runs between 5 and 10 minutes behind the actual server status.
New Graphics
 We have a new logo graphic for the Coalition. Up until now the observant would notice that we were still using the old Late Knights Gaming shield logo on both the website and teamspeak. Well no longer. Both Teamspeak and the Website have been updated with a new coalition logo. We hope you like it. |  In the same roots as the new Late Knights Coalition Logo. I came up with the Late Knights Gaming logo. Let me know what you think. It will be showing up on the Late Knights Gaming pages in the near future. |
Site Updates
The old game page is gone, and the games on it are all getting there own pages. This is still a work in progress. All of our active games have pages now alone with game logos, Official Site links, and link buttons to the the coalition groups that play them. Please take a look at the new format.
The Add a Game / Add a Group form has been moved onto its own page. A link to it appears at the bottom of the "Gaming Groups, Guilds, and Clans" Menu, as well as the "Games" Menu.
Both fore mentioned menu's have also been placed in alphabetical order.
The Add a Game / Add a Group form has been moved onto its own page. A link to it appears at the bottom of the "Gaming Groups, Guilds, and Clans" Menu, as well as the "Games" Menu.
Both fore mentioned menu's have also been placed in alphabetical order.
Teamspeak Plans
We are working to improve our Teamspeak service. For most of last year and the beginning of this year, we ran a 99% up-time. This is the same up-time promised by the pay for sites. Unfortunately the last few weeks we have been plagued by internet issues. From ISP's changing our IP address, to hardware failures, to power outages, our up-time has dropped to 96.36% at the time of this writing. We do not find this to be acceptable.
Currently Matt is developing the first piece of software that will help with the problem. It is a simple app that will run on our server that will email or text our admins when the servers IP address changes. This will allow us to react quicker to getting the new address listed when this happens. I am hoping that eventually we can add the ability for the server to detect and notify us of power outages. (We already have the server on battery backup. It will keep the server alive for up to 2 hours in a local outage. If we have an outage that effects our ISP however it will still take the server down.)
Thus future plans. We are looking into setting up a backup server on the other side of town. This server would be used in the event that the primary service is unavailable. Further down the road we would like to have the two servers "Talk" to each other and email/text server status updates. Finally way down the road we would like to explore the option of our own "pre-launcher" for teamspeak. This app would be run client side, and would detect which server is online and log the client into that server saving you the user from having to update IP addresses at all.
Now some of these plans may prove to much for us to pull off. But we really want to improve our services as we go forward with the coalition.
Currently Matt is developing the first piece of software that will help with the problem. It is a simple app that will run on our server that will email or text our admins when the servers IP address changes. This will allow us to react quicker to getting the new address listed when this happens. I am hoping that eventually we can add the ability for the server to detect and notify us of power outages. (We already have the server on battery backup. It will keep the server alive for up to 2 hours in a local outage. If we have an outage that effects our ISP however it will still take the server down.)
Thus future plans. We are looking into setting up a backup server on the other side of town. This server would be used in the event that the primary service is unavailable. Further down the road we would like to have the two servers "Talk" to each other and email/text server status updates. Finally way down the road we would like to explore the option of our own "pre-launcher" for teamspeak. This app would be run client side, and would detect which server is online and log the client into that server saving you the user from having to update IP addresses at all.
Now some of these plans may prove to much for us to pull off. But we really want to improve our services as we go forward with the coalition.
Finally A CLARIFICATION
We have taken this website from having a separate menu for each game (under the old Lake Knights Gaming setup) to having two primary menus. One menu (Gaming Groups, Guilds, and Clans) contains a list of the groups that make up the Coalition. Some of this groups have a fly-out menu containing more information, lists of addons used by that group, rules, recruitment information, and more. Should a group need enough pages we may explore linking to a separate site when going to that groups area. Also please keep in mind, we do have and will have multiple groups playing the same game.
Because of this fact we also have the "Games" menu; the other major section of the site. This menu contains a list of the games played by Coalition groups. On each games page we have or plan to have a link to that games official site (if one exists), links to all the Coalition groups that play said game, a video or trailer for the game, and possibly more.
The goal of this system to to allow current members to quickly get to the information or updates they need, while allowing members looking to branch out, or potential members, to review the games we offer before exploring the groups that play them.
If we find that this format is not working we will look at changing it but I am hoping that between this explanation, and the updates still coming to the "Games" section that this will work out.
Because of this fact we also have the "Games" menu; the other major section of the site. This menu contains a list of the games played by Coalition groups. On each games page we have or plan to have a link to that games official site (if one exists), links to all the Coalition groups that play said game, a video or trailer for the game, and possibly more.
The goal of this system to to allow current members to quickly get to the information or updates they need, while allowing members looking to branch out, or potential members, to review the games we offer before exploring the groups that play them.
If we find that this format is not working we will look at changing it but I am hoping that between this explanation, and the updates still coming to the "Games" section that this will work out.
In close
Wow, this has got to be the longest list of updates I have posted to date. Thanks for sticking through it. There is a lot of exciting stuff going on around here as we continue building the foundations of the Coalition. As always if you have any ideas, comments or questions, feel free to contact us. Also keep trying to get new people and/or groups involved.
Happy Gaming,
Luke "Bloodgarde" G
Late Knights Coalition
Leadership Team
Happy Gaming,
Luke "Bloodgarde" G
Late Knights Coalition
Leadership Team
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