[May 28, 2013] Update: New Website Launched

   At last! After 6 years, a new website has been launched! You guys gotta check it out! Almost all of the things is new. Dark RO Website Link

   Here are the things that's new.

• New Design and Concept

   Website has a dark theme with cool design unlike the website of other RO servers which are mostly pretty similar but with small detail changes.

• New Features

   Gallery and some Statistics. 

General Website

  Gallery

     Gallery works with Facebook and YouTube accounts. In order to "upload" content you must first Login to the CP. Only after you're logged will you be able to access the "Upload" tab. After you've uploaded something, it will need to be approved by a Staff member, and only until then it will be shown in the gallery and social networks!

   Statistics

     As for the Statistics, we're now collecting PvP and WoE statistics. PvP Statistics is based off, well, How many people you kill (From a recent period of time) and WoE is related to how many Emperiums your guild has broken. 

     If you check out the "ranking" you will be able to see a bit more info. 

     For the PvP ranking, you'll see how many times you've died and whats your highest streak (How many people you've killed without dying)

     For the WoE Ranking, it will show you how many people you have killed while defending your castle, and while taking another guild's castle

   Events Section

     Events are now shown in the main site, aswell as shared on our Facebook/Twitter pages.

As for the CP

   Security Information

     The first thing you'll notice when logging in, is that it will ask you for some information (Security information and display name), to set this information you will require your Serial Code! (There is a link under the login section where you can get it sent to the email that is registered on the account. For security reasons this email will not be shown to you).

   If you do not have your serial code or cannot recover it, you can hit the "Cancel" button. However, some of the site's functions will not be enabled for your account. 

   Display Name

     The display name will be used through different places of the website (Some stuff is still pending implementation), however keep in mind, that you may not use the same display name on two accounts (yet).

   Character Sprites

     Character sprites are created on the minute, so right now you can actually see your current "hairstyle" on your character.

   Login and Tradelogs

     You can now access your Login and Tradelogs . Login logs will show you when did you access your characters for the last time, Tradelogs will show your trades for the past month (Up to 200 trades).

   Dark RO Goes Social

     A lot of people has been desperately crying out for V4P, I said it before and I say it again, we will not work on V4P. However, I did implement a Social Points feature.

     What are social points? Simple, you can get social points for "spreading the word" on Facebook and twitter, You can do this once a day and it will basically  post on your wall a message about you playing DarkRO and inviting your friends.

     I'll be listing us in the next few days (We need the banners for this), like for example, if Pie gets to top 50 on RMS, we will do Exp increase. If Force gets to top 50 on rotop100, there will be an event. If both sites get to top 50, we give everyone X social points (These are just ideas, don't take them as granted right now :P)

   What are Social Points?

     In the CP there is a Social Tab. If you click it you will see two links, Facebook and Twitter. If you click the link, there will be a pop-up which will ask you to authorize our App. When you do this, you will be able to "Spread the word" and throw messages like "Hey! I am playing RO @ Dark-RO.net! Join me!" (There are quiet a few phrases that go randomly). And you can do this every 24 hours. Every time you do this, you gain 1 Social point.

     If you are cool and decide to help us populate our gallery, you will also receive social points (Assuming your submission is approved by the rules), and you will win 5 Social Points for those!

      So what do I do with Social points?! You can claim prizes. The prizes are not yet available on the website as we still need to make a good list, but they will be anything (Supplies, Website perks, Forum perks, Ingame Perks or even headgears!).

So, there are a few things pending:

• Statistics: The former statistics system for WoE was HUGE and MESSED UP big time. I tried to write something similar but it was way too confusing. We will be working on improving the current system to something more useful as time passes by

• Database: The database is under construction. I just need to work a bit more on it so it gets easy to maintain and keep up with every update. 


• Design: While the main layout/skeleton will not be changed, there are a lot of color/design improvements to be made. I invite you all to throw in your suggestions on our I&F section to help us improve the site even further (Wether its design wise or with new features!).


• Bugs: While the website has been throughly tested for the past month and a lot through the past weekend, I do expect bugs to be left, specially with everyone using different browsers. So please, help me help you by fixing those bugs and report them all on our Bugs section of the forum. Keep in mind, everything is logged right now, so if we find you have been abusing any sort of bugs, your account will be permanently unbanned without any chance for it to be unbanned. (Report all bugs you find, for as little as they might be!


• The website is highly security-oriented. You will need your Serial code to perform a lot of functions, you will need to confirm via email a lot of changes done to your account (If you decide to change passwords and what not) and sessions do not last longer than 15 minutes.


• The website is heavily ajax oriented, we have come to notice a few people got issues with ajax, so we will be working on improving the non-ajax people's experience as time passes by.


• The DarkRO Updater has a new page. All past updates are not lost, but need to be re-added. This will be a long task. We also need a possibly better design for the updates page.

Dark RO Wiki is also up.

Disclaimer
   I do not own any of the content. Content is from Dark RO staff. Here's the link of the post.