I will suggest highly user-friendly designs for our launcher and website which will mean we don't have to put up with non-english speakers a lot compard to iccup.

Gyro_SC2

Canada540 Posts

May 24 2013 02:29 GMT

#165

btw i can offer my help for translation for french.

xboi209

United States1173 Posts

May 24 2013 02:34 GMT

#166

On May 24 2013 11:29 Gyro_SC2 wrote:
btw i can offer my help for translation for french.

I don't think french translations will be necessary but it's an international language so i will ask birdie to consider it

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

May 24 2013 03:11 GMT

#167

what kind of coding skills/languages/tools would be necessary? I'm looking to expand my horizons and would like to help with the coding if you guys want.

xboi209

United States1173 Posts

May 24 2013 03:13 GMT

#168

Currently we need someone who knows reverse engineering by now

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

May 24 2013 03:26 GMT

#169

Yeah, I would just focus on English for now, Koreans have their own server and pretty much everyone else outside of Korea who is into BW and online gaming has dealt with English.

Jaevlaterran

Sweden578 Posts

May 24 2013 04:09 GMT

#170

On May 24 2013 10:17 icystorage wrote:
SBWI should look into this

We are ofc keeping our eyes on this. It all depends on how it develops over time. Birdie and I have talked briefly and I expect we will talk more in the future if this becomes a steady project.

sabas123

Netherlands3122 Posts

May 24 2013 06:37 GMT

#171

On May 24 2013 11:12 Gyro_SC2 wrote:

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Same !!!! WOW please do this fast !!!!

tbh i think it would be smarter to do wait until the important features like that everybody can host are completly done.

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

May 24 2013 08:28 GMT

#172

On May 22 2013 23:13 Jaevlaterran wrote:

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On May 22 2013 15:20 TehRei wrote:

On May 22 2013 14:31 thezanursic wrote:
The only way I see this ever getting of the ground is if teamliquid fully supported the server and would advertize it to the other two bigger communities. Proper marketing of the automated match-making system, a good lunch event, SC2 celebrities playing BW for fun on the new server for the launch event and proper marketing inside and outside of the community (Would it be so hard to get personalities like Day9 and Husky to do a little bit of promotion for a game that they used to be heavily invested in?)

Marketing to the casual side of the community and people who don't currently play BW or haven't played BW in some time is in reality the only way to make this work (with the backing of TL).

That would certainly help, but...

On May 22 2013 14:31 thezanursic wrote:
If the server was branded as the ''TL server'' and if it were properly advertized within the community. It could possibly gather a big enough player-base.

I think this would go a long way towards populating the server. A BW-server managed by TL would be the dream, but a BW-server endorsed by TL would be almost as good (and more realistic). I also believe this would make BW a lot more approachable to new players.
Currently, if someone new to the BW scene comes to TL and asks how to get started, they get an answer similar to this;

Update BW to latest patch
Install iccup-/w-/mini-launcher
Download the correct map pack from the server you want to play on
port forward
If using Windows Vista/7/8, download colorfix
Register an account on iccup/fish
Double-check that your anti-hack and lan-latency work

If it's possible to remove a few items from that list, or to have them available in the same place, that would go a long way towards making BW easier to pick up. For example: imagine if you could log in with your (already created) teamliquid account? Or if you don't have to port forward?

Note that I'm not saying that teamliquid has to be in charge of running the proposed server, but if there's gonna be a new server, communication and cooperation with big BW communities such as TL and Defiler will be key. The closer fan communities and tournament organizers cooperate with the server admins, the better.

I agree with all this. If there was one file to dowload and double click that did all those things on the list, I'd switch immediatly.

is this possible? that would be a dream for newcomers and even vets.

HaFnium

United Kingdom1078 Posts

May 24 2013 08:57 GMT

#173

Take your time guys.

While I voted yes, I think we still need to encourage the rest of the iccup players to switch, because you'd be surprised by the number of people who has never heard of Teamliquid...

[sc1f]eonzerg

Belgium7012 Posts

May 24 2013 09:02 GMT

#174

more important. only noobs and the banned players will agree with this -_- .the most logical is to fix the problems iccup tl ...

Estonia807 Posts

May 24 2013 09:24 GMT

#175

I can translate to russian, if it will be necessary

Gyro_SC2

Canada540 Posts

May 24 2013 11:46 GMT

#176

what will be the name of the new server ?

Arkqn

France589 Posts

May 24 2013 12:08 GMT

#177

On May 24 2013 18:02 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote:
more important. only noobs and the banned players will agree with this -_- .the most logical is to fix the problems iccup tl ...

I completely agree with this. It'll be better spending all this time and effort trying to fix issues between TL and iCCup, I'm sure there's a way out of it if people were not so stubborn.

Birdie

New Zealand4438 Posts

May 24 2013 12:11 GMT

#178

On May 24 2013 21:08 Arkqn wrote:

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I completely agree with this. It'll be better spending all this time and effort trying to fix issues between TL and iCCup, I'm sure there's a way out of it if people were not so stubborn.

It's not going to change iCCup though, because YelloAnt isn't going to update or improve the SCBW side of iCCup. And I doubt we can get anything changed with the administration. Myself and xboi and others have tried in the past to get iCCup improved, but it never happened. I'd love it if iCCup were to have all these features added and the administration changed but it isn't going to happen.

traceurling

United States1240 Posts

May 24 2013 13:17 GMT

#179

:/ it's just the devs that want to focus on DOTA not Starcraft

Also I think battle.net for starcraft II has a pretty good layout
Also an someone give me a history lesson on PGT WGT and old servers

thezanursic

5500 Posts

May 24 2013 14:43 GMT

#180

If you can pull this off by all means, but I suggest that once you are at a point that you can start showing something of do it! You need as much support and hype as possible. Do whatever you can to legitimize yourself. You seem to be a pretty cool guy and you are a pretty well known name (at least to me) in this niche community so I don't have much trouble trusting that you are indeed legit, but other people who might potentially play on your server don't and have no reason to.

And I think it is of vital importance that you set up some kind of partnership with TL (when you have a product to actually show them) so that your announcement threads will be featured at least. Nazgul and the other staff at TL are still very passionate about BW so I don't think it's out of the realm of possibilty that they would support your project.