Thursday, September 22, 2011

Server Population Chart + New Site Developement

I'm officially announcing that I'm going to be slowly working on a new website layout. I've also got an... interesting little add-on that's quite spiffy: a server population chart. It records the population count every thirty minutes on the server (through an NPC, so if the server is offline it won't show zero players for an extended period), and a php script reads that data and displays it as a simple line graph. This is nothing super amazing, I just thought it was pretty neat. Anyways, here's a temporary link to it: chart. This is just temporary. It'll be integrated into the new website design, but I'm still just in the planning stages, so nothing definite yet.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

New Control Panel

I haven't posted here in a long time... but I felt like posting about this in case someone stumbles upon our blog.

For about a month or two, I'd been working on a new Flux CP off and on to replace the old, limited Ceres CP. The new CP has a lot more features, and is a lot easier for me to work on to add or change something as needed. There's also room for expansion in the built-in functions like a new donation system that will automatically credit and account when a donation is made. This will require some testing whenever I can get around to it, and it's not like I'm getting so many donations that I can't keep up, but the update will make things easier for me. The problem is the system built-in to the CP doesn't use the same tables and formats as what we already have.

Well, I won't go into any more details about that for now, but the CP can be found here.