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[BitTwiddler]

Can you only scale the statistics images when they are larger then the maximum, otherwise display them at the normal size. I play automation on 1440x900, which makes getting images of the required size difficult, and when scaled up they look terrible (jpg and all). My normal screen is 1680x1050, but I play in a window, since I use multiple monitors and fullscreen is always wonky with multiple monitors.

[07CobaltGirl]

OK, I also had to do Ctrl+F5 to get page to load past timer. It worked. Company registered. Interesting site layout. You should probably note somewhere the company image has to be a non-GIF image file, or suggest which files will work. I can tell you PNG files will work.

[WizzyThaMan]

@BitTwiddler: It should rescale now properly.

@Cobaltgirl: When uploading the images it already says jpeg or png if i'm correct. For the company logo however, we should probably limit the extensions to jpeg and png in the file extension dropdown

[BitTwiddler]

@BitTwiddler: It should rescale now properly.

There doesn't seem to have been any change. I tried CTRL+F5 to force a refresh as well. Stat Images are still scaled up.

[WizzyThaMan]

Its supposed to scale up to keep it fitting with the current layout. Could you PM me any specified issue if something really is not working well andcausing blurry images?

[WizzyThaMan]

After a couple of days getting everything smoothed out and adding some user-friendliness to the website, we can safely say that we launched and are up and running!
First of all, I want to thank the community for being awesome. We really appreciate all your appreciation (YES!) and we hope you will utilize the website to its full extend, even later on when we expand with additional features! Secondly, we want to say a big thank you to those showing their appreciation and donating money to us to upkeep the website and keep expanding it! Besides all of those using the website already, this is a big plus on motivation for us to continue. As said, we will reinvest the donations into making everything better, including our livestreams, videos and all the other content we want to offer!

I wish you all the best and I hope AutomationHub will be having a good 2015 as well as Automation itself. Without this awesome community, both the game and the website wouldn't have a big chance of existing anyway!

On behalf of the whole AutomationHub Team, Aaron, Simon, Alex(website programmer) and myself, Bart, have a joyful, healthy and amazing 2015 and full Steam(pun intended!) ahead!

[SeriousSimon]

Guys! We are live right now to compete for the first: Dude of the evening in a Multiplayersession!


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[WizzyThaMan]

We fixed some bugs. Here is a list of what we fixed:

- When editing your car, the engine you had selected would so now and then jump back to the first in the list, instead of the engien you had selected for that car.
- When deleting an image belonging to car or engine, it sometimes deleted an image on all other cars and engines, too.
- Changing your company logo on one car company, also changed it on the other, second company (Platinum contributors)
- Pages system on the company catalog still showed two pages when 'Show 120 companies' was selected, with under 120 companies in the catalog at this point. (82 as we speak)

Furthermore, we are working on a system for easily marking up your additonal car and engine info and your company history through a WYSIWYG-editor (What You See Is What You Get). This means you put together everything the way you want it visually, and when saving it, it should pretty much exactly like that.
Right now this is already possible, if you have some HTML and/or CSS knowledge.

As for many other features, we are looking to implement a ranking page which shows the 100 best cars, engines and companies in some sort of Hall of Fame. We are also looking to get medals to work with those so it really matters and pays off when you reach first place!

Hope that excites you enough! Keep those companies updated. I am really pleased with the current companies that have some nice cars and engines

Thanks!

[utopian201]

Also is it possible when adding a car, to specify the type? Eg High end sports car, compact etc? That way we can compare say all full size cars created by all users?

[WizzyThaMan]

That is actually a nice idea, and indeed something we thought about since we already did it for the engines, but definetly something for down the road.
We currently use the engine types (and would use the car types) far too little to implement it now. Other things have higher priority.
When we do it, then we will implement it according to this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification

Note that we will probably only add the main categories, so not muscle cars, pony cars and whatsoever, to keep it simple.
Most people that will end up playing the game, wont go as deep as knowing every single category and thus keeping it simple and straight forward for those users is what we tend to aim for.

[ElSaico]

At last, a nice home for our "public" stuff.
In my case, once I get back to consistently play the game, that is.

Just a thing, though: you guys might want to restrict the HTML on the descriptions for companies/cars/engines/etc. - right now it allows for some rather nasty XSS stuff.

[WizzyThaMan]

We are at it as we speak!

[UltimateBMWfan]

Some more blank fields in the future could help too, default stuff like price, etc. Although obviously there isn't much point implementing it as of yet.

[WizzyThaMan]

You can add all that to the additional info box. Thats what it is for.
Later on we will have a WYSIWYG editor in there to make this bold, color text or whatever.
I'm not saying we won't do it, but if we do its a long way down the road.

[WizzyThaMan]

Ok, so we found out our first cheater on AutomationHub, spamming the ratings button with multiple accounts.
We track pretty much everything and get notified when several weird things occur. People doing this will get warned or banned, depending on how severe things are theyve done. Ranking will ALWAYS be reset, no matter what. Shame we have to do it this way, but yeah. Soon we will implement a report button so the community can moderate itself to a certain extend and keep an eye out, especially when we end up getting quite some users. Votes connected to a certain userID will also be deleted, so everything will stay in order the way it is supposed to be.

Hope this clears things up.