The Game Sidebar adds an easily accessed panel to PWE Vanilla Forums with links to each game's home page, news page and specific game forum. The panel also has permanent links to the ARC Home Page, Charge Page and ARC User Profile.
You can find the file here: https://github.com/Eiledon/PWEVC/blob/master/README.md#game-sidebar-panel
Installation
Currently supported browsers are Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Support for Internet Explorer may come in a future update.
There are several ways to install user scripts but the easiest way is typically through a browser extension like Grease Monkey. Click the above link for more info. If you already have Grease Monkey or something similar you can just click this.
Features
Once installed, simply hover mouse over the ARC logo
in the top left corner of your browser window (near the forum breadcrumbs) to access the hidden panel.
To access the links for a particular game simply hover over that game's logo and the links will appear.
Users can customise which games the panel will show by clicking on the Select "Games button" in the bottom right corner of the panel. Then simply untick the games you do not wish to see and click "Select Games" button once more to apply the choices and save the settings. These settings will be remembered between browsing sessions.
Screenshots
Panel - Standard View
Panel - Game Links Visible
Panel - Game Selection Menu
Panel - Filtered View with Menu
Credits
Developer: @eiledon
Graphics: Perfect World Entertainment
Comments
I've updated my themes for the new version.
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Notes:
I took the opportunity to change the addin script name so the file name matches the title Game Panel - if you have a version of the Game Panel addin installed from prior to today, please uninstall it and add the new version from the link in the opening post or directly via <a href="https://github.com/Eiledon/PWEVC/raw/master/PWE_Game_Panel.user.js">this link</a>
Based on the current set up of each forum, I have added code to detect wether the Game Panel is running within an iframe or not. If within iframe all Forum Links shown on the panel will be directed to the embedded version of the game forum. If running on forum.arcgames.com then the forum links on the Game Panel will use direct links.
Added a link within the Arc section to direct users to the ARC subforum (this one) and adjusted styling for that section to compensate.
The Game Panel icon will currently not scroll with the page within the iframe.
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True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
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Can you update the link for the "forums" button for Champions Online to point here
http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline/categories/championsonline
The link it currently sends you doesn't show any of the boards, because PWE.
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If it is, then this is what I see there.
http://i.imgur.com/LB2PU0T.jpg
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They have different layouts... This is what I see at that address.
http://i.imgur.com/hO4CO0j.jpg
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True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
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Thought it'd be worth noting that the layout I see at that last url is the same layout the embedded forums have. So I'm not sure what URL you're at that you're seeing a completely different layout.
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
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Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
Check my GitHub for details on STO forum themes: https://github.com/khamseen/PWEVan
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However when i click on the categories or home link on that page it shows me the image I posted previously (which is why the link currently in the panel points directly there). The direct link to http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline works fine for me in Firefox, chrome (and even in Edge) Why you are seeing a blank page is beyond me.
@Liath | My PRIMUS Page | Altaholics | New Vehicle Models | New Emblems | Flag Tights
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Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
Check my GitHub for details on STO forum themes: https://github.com/khamseen/PWEVan
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!</center>
@Liath | My PRIMUS Page | Altaholics | New Vehicle Models | New Emblems | Flag Tights
Asterelle's Forum Enhancement Extension | Game Side Panel Add-In* | Game Server Status Add-In
*Updated to work on Embedded/Non embedded forums post August 2015 Changes
I can browse ok from http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline/#/categories/championsonline on the embedded forum, which is where the "forum" button on the Champions Arc page takes me.
I really don't get it. It's a nightmare how bad they've made the hubs with the "upgrade". Somebody from PWE really needs to get their finger out and actually confirm which addresses are supposed to be in use and which aren't, along with making things more uniform. I'm seeing posts on the version I can see from as recently as 20 minutes ago so at least I know some people are using it, I'll just plod along with it in the hopes that they at least use the same back-end and it's not a repeat of the initial issue with the old perfectworld url versions where they aren't showing the same posts.
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
Check my GitHub for details on STO forum themes: https://github.com/khamseen/PWEVan
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!</center>
I tried un-hiding them from their broken down view via the other URL I linked, but that didn't work so I added ?ShowAllCategories=true to the end of the URL http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline/categories/ and was able to get them to show up so I could go about un-hiding them. I'm now able to browse them fine.
Totally random issue, and something they may not have considered when migrating back out to separate hubs. I'll have to let one of the CMs know about that one.
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
Check my GitHub for details on STO forum themes: https://github.com/khamseen/PWEVan
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!</center>
@Liath | My PRIMUS Page | Altaholics | New Vehicle Models | New Emblems | Flag Tights
Asterelle's Forum Enhancement Extension | Game Side Panel Add-In* | Game Server Status Add-In
*Updated to work on Embedded/Non embedded forums post August 2015 Changes
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
Check my GitHub for details on STO forum themes: https://github.com/khamseen/PWEVan
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!</center>