Hello all! We've just added some new features and changed a lot of the existing ones:

Submission points
A new point system has been implemented. Whenever you submit something that gets added to the site, a site editor will have the possibility to give you a certain number of points for that submission. Larger submissions that take more time to make will give you more points than smaller submissions.

You will not be able to see exactly how many points you have, but awards are automatically given to people with many points. The award will be displayed underneath your name in posts and your profile as a bronze star, silver star or gold star, depending on how many points you have.

In other words, if you submit a lot, you will get a shiny star underneath your name for everyone to see, and users with many points will obviously have a higher chance of becoming a site editor!

Profile layout and rank images
We've made several changes to the layout of a user's profile next to a post:

• Next to the user's name, you will now see a small green or gray icon showing if the user is online or offline, respectively.
• We now have new, improved rank images. There is now an unique image for bronze pages, iron squires and all the other ranks, and the images for special ranks such as moderators and site editors have a colour matching the rank's colour.
• A user's RuneScape name and status is now displayed on the post pages too! You don't have to go to the profile to check this information anymore. The RuneScape name also links to the forum hiscore, which will display the user's stats.
• And obviously, you'll see a star if the user is a good submitter!

Posting page changes
There have been made some changes to the posting layout too. When replying to a topic, the subject/description field is now hidden. You will only see these fields when posting/editing a topic (i.e. the first post in a topic). Several other smaller changes have been made, such as increased spacing between the smilies.

Other changes
The post time has been moved from the bottom right corner to the upper right corner of a post. The upper right corner used to contain the post subject, but since the subject will only be "Re: Topic subject", this didn't serve any purpose.

Lastly, for those of you who have a special rank and a coloured name, you will now see your name in the same colour as next to your posts at the top of the forum.

That's all for now. Remember, if you have any suggestions or ideas that you believe will make the site or forums better, please post them here!

Very nice updates! I like the new look it makes the site look fanicer. Now will everyone start with 0 submission points? AV why don't you have your runescape satus on your posts?

Everyone will start on 0 points

Great Updates Av

Yes, but we may give points for recent submissions. This is being discussed in the site editor forums as we speak.

It was a bug. I've fixed it.

Ohh....beautiful!

I believe AV needs a massive round of appulase, he was the main driving force behind this idea. Not forgetting Lil Mc as it was his post that made this whole thing added to the thought process. I do believe everyone in the Staff needs a pat on the back, this was a piece of work everyone was involved in.

Pineapple,

It would be quite a task to go through all the submissions already entered and pass out points for them. It will be more competitive for people to start at 0.

Get those submissions in.

Yeah I understand that. Once I'm off a libary computer and have my own computer I'm going to take som many pictures to ad to this site and make a G&A. That will hoply happen this summer when my brother lives with my mom and we get child support.

Woohoo! Finally. AV I LOVE YOU! Looks amazing! Glad to see my idea turned out this well.

So let's if you say yes to that would all the database submissions I added give me points?

ALSO I MUST SAY WOW!!!!!!! this is the BEST!!!! update I have ever seen thus far everything looks AWSOME!!!! I almost want to kiss your feet lol

THANKS SO MUCH!!

I thought something looked different...Looks great guys! If I could hand you beers I would! cheers!

Lol I'd join you

anyhow super update

Great update! I love the new rank icons and the online/offline icons are much better than the old online image (which used a lot of space).

I also noticed that clicking on an avatar takes you to a user's profile... I don't think that was possible before this update?

EDIT: Haha, I just realized that I always look at the lower right corner to find the post time even though you've moved it to the upper left corner...

As far as I know, this was not possible before the update. I may be mistaken though.

No you wern't able to do that before the update.

Mmm a rather clever plan to feed off peoples greed, pride and insecurity. Definately the most sucsssful method to manipulate people.