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Hello everyone, and welcome to our new corporate site. This site is intended to become the new community hub for Goldhawk, while the current Xenonauts site is to be replaced with something a bit more slick and streamlined that will market the game a bit better. Why are we doing this? Well, we’ve had a tough couple of weeks where Paypal have pulled the plug on our account and the resulting story going viral sent so much traffic to our site that it crashed and sadly never recovered. Even now we can’t change the front page, which is pretty crippling. The good news is that this has proved a perfect excuse for us to upgrade our infrastructure, so here’s a list of major improvements over the last site: Forums: We’ve upgraded our forums from the creaky integrated Joomla forums we were using to vBulletin, which is far more powerful and a lot easier on the eye. The forums should now support attachments properly, and we’ve put in a few goodies like forum achievements and autopost of news items to the forums etc. You’ll also not have to re-register move forums once Xenonauts is released – our future projects will all be based out of this website too. The pre-orders will now be serviced through Desura, so the forum is no longer segregated into normal people and pre-orderers. Anyone can read the bug reports and pre-order discussions, although they obviously can’t take part until they pre-order! Blog: We’ll now have two seperate blogs, one on Xenonauts.com and one here. The Xenonauts one will be much more ‘in character’ and focused on the game than before, whereas the one on this site will be more focused on the team and what we’re up to. You’ll still be able to track both from this site, though, as we’ll run everything through the front-page news slider and boths news articles will autopost to the ‘Announcements’ section of the forums. Wiki: We’ve added an official wiki for Xenonauts on the site, which is the community is free to edit (although we’ll help you get started). This is intended to preserve the knowledge of the community – previously people would make long forum posts to explain things, but now we can just write a blog post or link to an existing one. This is going to be particularly valuable for the mappers and modders amongst you, as the game can be quite oblique at first but a couple of wiki posts should get everyone going nicely! Those are the key improvements over the last site. Our hand was rather forced on this matter thanks to the previous site imploding, but hopefully this new setup should make much easier for us and for you!

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