[War] WAR's situation (was: Re: NHSAC: Waiting on Game Reports - December 2006)

[pentaj2 at Scranton.edu]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jester <jester at goodvevil.com>
Date: Saturday, January 27, 2007 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: NHSAC: Waiting on Game Reports - December 2007

> pentaj2 at scranton.edu wrote:
> > The email I sent to the list a few days back...Should really be 
> taken 
> > as our report.
> >   
> This is odd.  This is two e-mails that went out to the list that I 
> haven't seen, counting Shayne's first report.  Not sure if these e-
> mails 
> are being caught by my spam filter or what.
> 
> Did you send it to me directly, or to this list?  I just glanced 
> at the 
> Google archive and didn't find it there, though granted it was a 
> somewhat cursory look.

To the list.

> > WAR is going to be undergoing a substantial rebuild, possibly 
> > including a revamp of our premise to place the game an 
> undetermined 
> > number of years in the near future.
> >
> > We need help, in short. We need a webmaster...To build -and- 
> maintain 
> > our website.
> >
> > We'd do it ourselves, but nobody on WAR has the HTML 
> skills...And I 
> > head to a vocational rehab thing for 5 days a week for 16 weeks 
> in a 
> > month.
> >   
> Is there anyone on the list that can help John out with this?  
> WAR's 
> website is simple enough that it could be maintained with any 
> number of 
> free website tools, so it honestly shouldn't be TOO much of a 
> difficulty 
> to keep it up to date.  Are you sure that none of the players are 
> at 
> least willing to try it?  These days, at least basic web upkeep 
> skill is 
> becoming more along the lines of a survival skill.  ;-)

I'm fairly sure that: A. There are those who know, but wouldn't have 
the time. B. Those who have the time don't know how.:)

We're looking into if Obsidian Fleet's Sim Management System can be 
hacked to work for us, making updating simpler...

But also, we've never had a good website, really. Ever. For Trek 
games, there are people to copy from. For us...?

I think we really need help thinking over what exactly a good website 
in our genre looks like...Because what we have doesn't seem to pull 
people in, and we're unique enough we have nobody to look at. Heck, 
what a good website for us would be.

> And John, does this mean you'll be unavailable for the game in a 
> month?  
> If so, who will be taking over?

I'll be around only from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon on most 
weekends.

WAR at the moment is in a weird sort of flux. I have no idea what's 
going to happen.