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[Crono]

Chris is actually right Darlene. Although we don't view registration as being that complicated, I too was slightly confused when I started and have seen many players ingame also tell me they have no idea "how to signup" to these forums.

Graal has always been slightly backwards in how it runs things but I think the forums are one of the most off-putting + particularly confusing things for newcommers and those who have never used a forum before (a surprisingly large amount of people!). Graalians doesn't require you to sign up with any kind of ingame information and there's still no problem with identity theft or anything of the sort. Perhaps if Graal's main website was simplified and shared its login with the forums (I've seen some games do this...unless I'm hallucinating) it would be a much easier process.

I don't know the mechanics (or anything really) behind vBulletin so perhaps someone with more knowledge could explain a few things.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Crono

I don't know the mechanics (or anything really) behind vBulletin so perhaps someone with more knowledge could explain a few things.

I don't have much experience with vBulletin, but have done similar things with other forum software in the past (e.g. when you log on Era for the first time, a forum account is created for you; PM the NPC-server "forums" for a link to the forums that signs you in automatically, no password needed). This should be fairly simple with vBulletin as well.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I don't have much experience with vBulletin, but have done similar things with other forum software in the past (e.g. when you log on Era for the first time, a forum account is created for you; PM the NPC-server "forums" for a link to the forums that signs you in automatically, no password needed). This should be fairly simple with vBulletin as well.

What I was thinking was the entire login process for the forums and the mainsite are combined, so if you're signed into the graal site you're signed into the forums and maybe the otherway around. This way players won't have to register and can comfortably use their normal login/passes for Graal on the forums.

Let players set their own passwords (perhaps force complex passwords, etc) and all is well imo.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Crono

What I was thinking was the entire login process for the forums and the mainsite are combined, so if you're signed into the graal site you're signed into the forums and maybe the otherway around. This way players won't have to register and can comfortably use their normal login/passes for Graal on the forums.

Let players set their own passwords (perhaps force complex passwords, etc) and all is well imo.

Would be nice to see this as well, although I think it's pretty clear at this point that they don't care how terrible their website is.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Would be nice to see this as well, although I think it's pretty clear at this point that they don't care how terrible their website is.

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