Hard To Find Your Mod Guides, Bad Page Design?

Tue Apr 01, 2003 4:44 am by admiral_tolwyn

i got into modding this morning when i saw a guy flying a nomad fighter, and i have been working non-stop on my skills all day. i was always quick at picking things up, and at this point, i can fill my cargo hold with 9999 units of diamonds and fly around in an eagle with 10x the normal armor....

i am ready to go up to the next level. i read thru most of the posts on this forum and i coudnt help but notice that while some of you were "commenting" that the noobs were covering the same ground over and over and asking for help. maybe this is because your guides are all but unreachable?

on your main page, in the nav section on the left, you have your freelancer links listed, minus anything that has to do with modding. now, i have a 21 inch monitor and my screen res is cranked way up, but i still had to scroll down to read this:

Editing
» Features
» FAQ
» SL Custom Ships
» Utilities
» FL Editing Forum
» SL Editing Forum

now, which one of these would YOU go to, if you wanted to learn how to mod? i picked "features" first, because it was the top one, and i find a single artical telling me how to make a new system...interesting, but i want more, and the other articals are useless to me - for example, what if i want to make my own ship? i have to go back to my search engine and find this site. http://forum.duwx.com/viewthread.php?tid=44&page

but just to see what else is available to me here, i stopped by the FAQ. check it out, and tell me y it cant be put in the starlancer section? there are like, 0 FAQs about freelancer. sry guys, but your 2 mins are up, i am going somewhere else.

well, after following dead links and reading more useless articals on other sites, i eventually followed a link that led me back here, and since i had nothing better to do, i checked out the forum. i read for 15 mins, and get more answers here than everywhere else combined!

so my question is, how come all this great knowledge can only be accessed from links that are buried deep in the forums? this turned out to be a great site, but it took me way too long to find what i needed. theres just too much JUNK that no one really cares about here, especially in the nav bar, but really its everywhere.

i think that whoever has admin privilages should start putting a little less time in new mods and maybe just a little more effort on keeping the site "clean". someone really should look into making a "Rookies Guide To Modding" and get it posted in bright red 72 pt ariel font on the front page, so everyone can find it and everyone can read it.

Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:00 am by Bob McDob

It's a bit disorganized, yes, but we manage. Do what I did and post links to all the relevent tutorials you find in a text file (and remember to save it IN CASE YOUR TEXT LOCKS UP *smacks self repeatedly* ).

Anyway, stick with it and you'll learn fairly quickly. Most of the important stuff in this forum is stickied or near the top, and if you don't have the time to find it, you probably don't have the time to be serious about modding.

Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:59 am by Ut

I must admit, I've had my nose firmly burried into this forum for a week and a half now, and while I've learned quite a bit, it's been the hard way. A LOT of the posts have meaningless topics, and even more irritating is the fact that there are a number of useless posts that have what look like helpful titles. It's just one of those things you have to work around.

You see often people asking questions that start with "I looked all through the forums, but...", mostly because they get at least one person coming back with a helpless "read the forums". That's still a lot friendlier than most other forums, though.

It's been my experience, what little I have, that most modification talk goes on in the forums. Reading what people post in .txt and .html files is OK, but you're never up to date unless you watch the real time struggle with the constants and the game code. Just about every Mod Guide you'll want can be found on this forum, and if you're lucky it's been written up as a tutorial and not just posted somewhere as an answer to someone else's question under a cryptic topic.

Now, if only I'd start DOING what all the posts are talking about, instead of just reading them...

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