Elder Scrolls Online Beta

[featured_spectre]

fair enough. I know of a hosting company where if you buy the hosting for a year (or take a contract to pay monthly for a year) you get a free .com domain so was looking at that.

[arwen]

Depends how active we get. If we're going to be recruiting other people in-game (outside of EduGeek) then we can't just keep communications to here, can we? In which case, it makes sense to have a domain (though, realistically, I don't see buying one as being a requirement. I'd be fine with TMC.hostname or similar.

 

I feel the same ^^^

 

:-)

[mrjonesybop]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[featured_spectre]

I too feel the same, but I have people I play with that are not on edugeek, so yeah

[Garacesh]

So a site is a definite. Whether we purchase domain name or just use a name.host.gTLD is a different issue - one I'm not too fussed about if I'm honest.

[DMcGuigan]

Always been a fan of the lazy way myself, the three sites I look / looked after for guilds / clans / cabals etc. were all through Enjin, not a bad system.

[featured_spectre]

ahh yes but if you decide to migrate or buy your own domain, enjin make it hard to do so without paying up for the privilege!

[featured_spectre]

That said Enjin is probably the quickest way to go for now without coughing up any cash

[Garacesh]

I've used ucoz domains before for small-time clan/group sites. They're fully customisable, they put the template together but then give you access to all the source code you can do whatever you want. Is good.

 

Also one of their freely available domains is .clan.su

[DMcGuigan]

ahh yes but if you decide to migrate or buy your own domain, enjin make it hard to do so without paying up for the privilege!

 

Really? Looks like the only cost involved is the advanced / ultimate plan, which is what you'd be running anyway if you wanted to get rid of the ads.

 

Can't say I've looked into it too much, I had a quick Google, but the usual TLDs were taken, so I'd end up with something odd if I tried it for the WoW guild.

[featured_spectre]

Yeh enjin wont allow you to remove the forum database or anything, so if you wanted to convert your forum to a new domain elsewhere, you are looking at I think (last time I checked) £250 for the privelege.

[DMcGuigan]

Yeh enjin wont allow you to remove the forum database or anything, so if you wanted to convert your forum to a new domain elsewhere, you are looking at I think (last time I checked) £250 for the privelege.

 

Ah right, I see what you mean now. I was looking at just using a custom domain name, so no *.enjin.com etc.

 

Good to know.

[featured_spectre]

yeh unfortunately its the same for any .*domainhere.com product. Some are arguably a great system to use, others not so much, but then when you use them, you're either tied in to constantly pay for a system so you don't have ads, or you pay through the nose if you want to migrate elsewhere.

[featured_spectre]

Tamriel Mining Corporation - Europe - Elder Scrolls Online - Guild Hosting - Guild Launch < found this one...its not bad. Quick set up, same problem with others that you can't export things so easily or without a cost, but its the best suited to the needs. For $12 a month, we get a voice server, ad free hosting and can use our own domain name also. Edited March 20, 2014 by featured_spectre

[Garacesh]

Oooh that looks nice

[featured_spectre]

I thought so, and at $12 a month, offers a good package (25 slot teamspeak server, good features back end, good looking front end)

[Garacesh]

Huh, Teamspeak with it? That's not bad. 25-man TS3 server usually sets you back £4 on its own.

Hopefully we'll get big enough to exceed that at some point (take over all of the places!) but then we'd have more donating members, so yeah.

[featured_spectre]

the TS alone is $8.50 (US) value, so around £6. Not bad pricing all told

[arwen]

Ooo nice work Nephilim Do we all have early access then ? I have 3 days worth, but from the 4th to the 21st I probably wont be online too much, other things planned . After that I can play pretty regularly.

[mrjonesybop]

I have 3 days worth, but from the 4th to the 21st I probably wont be online too much, other things planned . After that I can play pretty regularly.

 

Same here. I blame @arwen... ;-)

[featured_spectre]

If you have preordered and input your early access code on your account, then yes, you have early access. If people want this to go ahead and use a TS and stuff, lets cough up (I paid £5 to make it ad free for period of time, but doesn't cover the TS costs)

[arwen]

Pay day isn't till the 28th for me, I'll put some in the pot then :-)

[Garacesh]

What's the cut-off point for pre-ordering? Haven't gotten round to doing it yet.

[featured_spectre]

cut off for pre-order is 25th for the early access

[featured_spectre]

and be sure to sign up to the site