Ghoztcraft is now offering an ad service for anyone. Sponsored Links will now be displayed on some topics in particular forums. VIP Members, Admin, and Staff, as well as Clan members cannot see the ads. This excludes about 10% of all the members here. You can pay Ghoztcraft (donations@ghoztcraft.net) to have your ad on these topics. It will be fairly cheep, and a weekly fee via PayPal. It can be text, or an ad banner.

Send an email to ads@ghoztcraft.net with a link to your banner, and how long you wish to display it. Based on the size of the banner, and length of display, you will receive a price to pay in return. Also details on how to pay. Expect a response within 24 hours.

I've been waiting to do this for a while, now that our hits per month are in the millions, and out unique visitors are in the thousands having your ad displayed here is actually worth something.

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New Forums: Graphics Competitions

If you haven't notice already we have made some new changes in the Graphic sections of the forums. We have added a few new sub forums in the competitions area. We are really excited about this. I have added a few new competitions that we didn't recently have.

The first is, Signature of the Week (SOTW): Weekly signature competitions that most of us are already familiar with.

The second is Large Art of the Fortnight (LAOTF): How it works;

1. The entries topic will open on Monday where everyone will be able to enter their LPs. The entries topic will then close the next Friday. So you have 11 days to finish your artwork and 3 days of voting (this can be changed). To qualify as "Large Art", the size of your work must be larger than 400x400 pixels.

2. Then over the weekend we will have votes on the winner. We will be giving out prizes for winners, like 5,000 GP for first place and down from there to third place. (still being decided)

(FYI: Fortnight means 14 consecutive days.)

The third is GC Photography Competitions: Pretty much what it says. This is a monthly photography competition. So get out there and use your camera. There will be no photo manipulations, save your manipulations for the LAOTF competition.

The fourth is Battle Arena: Here you can challenge others to a design war! These are 1v1 competitions. This is the part of the forums where you guys can battle it out with your sigs and large pieces, in order to win Ghoztpoints from each other.

I will be writing the rules for each of these competitions in the next few days, and pinning them in the appropriate area. If you have any questions about these improvements please post your questions here in this thread.

Each competition will have Ghoztpoint and Hall of Fame entries as prizes, with the exception of the Battle arena where it is all about beating your opponents and snatching their pride and ghoztpoints and anything else you want to bet on!

Hey Everyone,

We've just updated a few things around Ghoztcraft and we think you should know about it. We've got a new way of managing the Signature of the Week, we will now have an official page for this. ZAR will be posting about this later. We have updated the Site Rules, Staff Rules, and VIP Fonts on the VIP Skin.

You can review the rules here:
http://www.ghoztcraft.net/forums/boardrules.html

The only change made to Staff rules, is as follows; Staff Members are only allowed into the Retired Staff group if they have at least 100 mod actions and 3 months of time served.

One major new rule, you will notice, is the new signature limitations. Simply put, if you're sig is too big and otherwise annoying, it will be removed. So anyone with a sig that doesn't meet the minimim dimensions, please update it.

And last but not least, we need a new mod for the Steam Games section, please contact XGhozt or myself if you're interested. We will be updating our Points System soon, all AS Admins have been de-modded, this is nothing personal, we just won't need you.

Thanks, have an awesome day,
~ Poply / Ghoztcraft Administration.

Hello everyone,

After months of waiting (which I appologize for) - I've finally updated the Firefox Added "Ghoztcraft Menu" which adds a menu to the menubar of Firefox for easy access to various parts of the site.

Changes in v1.5
- Updated Forum(s) links.
- Updated Compatibility (firefox3).

You can download and install or update the Ghoztcraft Firefox Extension by going to the forums portal and clicking on "Install Extension!". This will prompt you to allow Ghoztcraft and install the plugin. You will need to restart your browser to see the changes. The addon is also located here.

Enjoy the plugin,
The Ghoztcraft Administraton Team.

Hello everyone,

I've got some good news. I finally spent the time to just fix all the damn errors myself. It took me a few hours but I tracked them down and corrected them. There was an error which broke the My Assistant, and a few typo's in the code regarding member display names. Some template errors and I updated the settings.

The shoutbox is VIP Only, if you're a VIP Member and do not see the shoutbox please let me know. Also note that I deleted all of the old shouts. And, if anyone see's any errors that I missed, please let me know as soon as possible.

Thanks, Enjoy,
~ XGhozt

Woohoo! Let's parteh,

As of August 6th, 2008; Ghoztcraft is officially 3 years old. The first time I created Ghoztcraft was on 08-06-2005. In the last year we've literally doubled our hits if you take a look at our post from last year. And a few weeks ago I posted out about 10 million milestone. I must say, it's a dream come true to see the site as active as it is.

Around the same time Gc turned 3, we also managed to hit 10,000 members. Which is also a nice milestone to remember. So what do you say Ghoztcraft, can we hit 20,000 members and 20 million hit's next year?

Oh yeah, and don't forget about our 200+ VIP Members! Without you guys it wouldn't be possible!

Round of applause for the community,
~XGhozt

Hello everyone,

We've good news! Thanks to our co-admin (mastricx) we've just obtained a new domain: ushack.net. We plan on using this to dedicate an entire website to the game server(s). You'll be able to check status, sign up, review events and more. We'll make sure there are various items on the site in which you can easily implement onto your own website to help support our cause.

Here's the URL: http://www.ushack.net/

Thanks,
~XGhozt

Hello everyone,

A new position is now available at Ghoztcraft. This is (or could be) a rather enjoyable one. It's title is "News Manager". What you will be doing is.. well.. Managing the News at Ghoztcraft.net. The idea is simple. We will provide an email and RSS Account to manage any news you need to review. As you find interesting articles of news you post them on the site in the appropriate News Forum.

This includes gaming news, world news and other news. And when requested, Ghoztcraft's News. You'll be able to manage that entire section, approve, edit/delete other topics/posts which members post and you'll be responsible for keeping it organized and up to date.

There are some good things about being a News Manager. You get to read lot's of news and I can guarantee you'll learn something. You'll find lot's of cool software, read all kinds of articles and keep up with todays latest gaming news, world news, and interesting facts. And of course, post them on Ghoztcraft, which means a high post count for you.

So, anyone interested, sign up here. There are no basic requirements, but I will be the one approving the applications. Goodluck. I'm also not sure how many of you I'll pick, but be assured that this "job" will take time to do, and can't be done sloppy.

~XGhozt