They started hosting us when we were at around 50% completion... I've noticed that for the big GSI hosted sites they usually give a chunky full paragraph main news item, where as smaller projects end up in the mod round up at the bottom of the page. As someone else mentioned, the main factor for whether they post the news seems to be the quality of the news itself. A good few new screenshots, or a movie will certainly do the trick, but a few sentences on your web site saying you've recruited a mapper and that you need an animator probably won't make the cut.
I'm just grateful that there is still a decent, popular Half-Life news site still around... it's one of the main sources of the 45,000 or so hits we get a month... -- dodgy aka David Hunt Leader, Uncrossable Parallel website: http://www.planethalflife.com/uncrossable/sf/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc: irc.gamesnet.net:6667 #parallels icq: 93350590 ----- Original Message ----- From: "omega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] FP charging & PHL Monopoly > they do. > they take really lame ones that dont meet their 75% completion mark as their > hosting regulations request, and then leave ones that do have that > percentile hanging. ie: snowwar. they hosted it at like 0.1%. and back > before i killed mmxhl, when we needed a host, before it started sucking > hard, i tried to get hosting on it, we already HAD a release, were mod of > teh week once and they wouldnt host us because "you dont have 75% > completion". which was utter bull. and of course they will NOT post news for > american heros because when galadriel was working for them she badmouthed > OMA and now they totally ignore it. its just ludicrous. > > > -omega > Blackened Interactive > http://www.nofadz.com/blackened > IRC: irc.gamesnet.net channel: #blackened-interactive > Assistant Coder, Underhive (http://www.underhive.com) > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
