As a reminder, it is not possible to register for a forum login on the forums themselves. Instead new members should register at http://www.star-patrol.net/wp-login.php?action=register to create a login that will be used for both the blog and the forum.

Existing members of the blog MUST login to the blog and update/confirm their password. Once this is done, their blog login and password can be used on the forum. To update/confirm your password, login using the link at the bottom of the sidebar to the right (http://www.star-patrol.net/wp-login.php), scroll to the bottom of the page and type in your new/current password (twice) and click Update Profile.

The Star Patrol forums are [more or less] complete and are open for use! Before logging into the forums you must first log in to your star patrol subscription account here and confirm your password. Once this is done you may then log into the forums by clicking the “Forums” link on the home page.

All of the forums are completely open with the exception of the boards in Announcements & Events. In these only moderators and administrators may post new threads, but anyone may reply to threads in the Events and Announcement Discussion boards.

We currently have no official forum rules, but as a general guideline keep things civil, play nice, and don’t do anything that you think might get you in trouble anywhere else.

And of course… have fun!

I’m just about done with the forum. I have the theme for it installed and it appears to be working. What I’m doing next is importing everyone’s subscriber login for the main site into the forum so everyone will have only a single login and password to keep track of. Once I’ve completed the import everyone will need to login to the main site, then update/confirm their password once logged in. This will set the password for the forum. I should have the import done by Sunday.

Also, while I’m taking care of all of this, are there any specific forum categories you all want to see? I’m planning a place for announcements and news (same as what you’ll find here) and a place to discuss that news (much like the CoH site has it in their forums), a place for setting up in game events related to Star Patrol, a place to discuss issues with Nova Dominion and other SG/VG related to Star Patrol, a place for posting fan fiction, a place for organizing/summarizing online RP activity and a place for participate in RP directly on the forums for those who can’t meet up online. Is there anything else we should have?

The website has been successfully updated with the new design and everything seems to be working. I’ve still got some work to do on the forum, but that should be finished by the end of the week. My primary concern is to get the main site content republished and make sure everything does in fact work as intended. If anyone sees any oddities in the new design please comment here for now.

I’m getting ready to launch the update of the Star-Patrol.net site design and to avoid the potential loss of registration information I’m disabling registration for updates. I should have the new site published by this weekend.

Within the next week Star-Patrol.net will receive a major update in design and functionality. This will include a new theme for the wordpress engine which will allow for a more up-to-date look and feel, but also allow for a number of new features which will be added to the website. Most notable of these will be a fully functioning forum. The forum will require a separate login but will otherwise run on the same server and will use the same login info which is currently used for subscriber/editor logins, so there will be no need to create/maintain a separate login for the forum unless you wish to do so.

While I’m prepping things, I’m open to suggestions as to what forum categories people are interested in. Obviously there’ll be the requisite Announcements, Player Events and General Discussion forums. I’m wanting to include a Role-Playing forum as well but I’m not sure if I should sub-categorize it into smaller forums (such as one for general rp, another for rp discussion, another for stories/fanfiction, etc.). Any thoughts on this?