Tscott
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I realize there's a lot going on currently with the forums/server, but I was wondering why www.caravelgames.com only has links to go to Games, Forum, News, About Us and Contact on the lefthand side menu bar? But the link at http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewsitepage.php?id=90294 provides a much more robust and informative menu, linking to downloads and other great stuff.

I had noticed this in the past, but didn't say anything since I could get to the other page through the forums. But with the forums down it became very clear that there are a lot of needed links missing on the 'offical' homepage.

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eytanz
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Those are two seperate sites - www.caravelgames.com is the company website, drod.caravelgames.com (which is the same as the forum link you give) is the product website for DROD, which, even though it's run from the official server and has official content editing, for some reason counts as a "fan" website.

That makes so much sense, it must have been decided upon by Danforth Strout.

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Tscott
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Ok, I get it. (I think??) I seems odd there's no way to get to the download page with the patches and such from the company site.

Also, sort of related, I just noticed that on the contacts page http://caravelgames.com/Articles/Contact.html it still links to the obsolete www.drod.net as the "official DROD site"

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And I can recall our caravel: a little wicker beetle shell with four fine maste and lateen sails,
its bearings on Cair Paravel. O my love, O it was a funny little thing to be the ones to've seen.
-Joanna Newsom "Bridges and Balloons"