Tuttle
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The "Buy now!" button for Smitemaster's Selections on the main Caravel Games page (here) goes straight to the CD preorder page. I reckon it should lead somewhere that also mentions the option to buy download credits.

Jatopian
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That... would definitely be good.
I really think someone should go through the site and look for ways to make it more intuitive.

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Malorie
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To add to this, a few things confused me when I first found the site...

- No apparant link to the page with the 'proper' sidebar (with downloads and such)... caravelgames.com only shows the page with the sidebar with only five options on. The only way I could find the actual sidebar was by manually entering 'drod.caravelgames.com'...
- No news page. It's just blank! Kinda makes the website look completely abandoned or something...
- Holds page is hard to find... it's in tinytiny small print at the bottom of the download page!
- I mentioned this on another thread, but if you click to buy the CD version of a game it says 'out of stock', but if you click to buy the download version, then change the dropdown box to the CD version, it doesn't say out of stock.
- Explanations and listings of smitemaster selections... it took me a long time to work out how they worked, and even longer to find out what smitemaster selection 'packs' were available! It wasn't until I registered to the forum, clicked my profile, and saw the 'purchases' tab, that it made any kind of sense.

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mrimer
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Tuttle wrote:
The "Buy now!" button for Smitemaster's Selections on the main Caravel Games page (here) goes straight to the CD preorder page. I reckon it should lead somewhere that also mentions the option to buy download credits.

Thanks! I added mention to this page that you can also order downloadable content.

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mrimer
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Malorie wrote:
To add to this, a few things confused me when I first found the site...

- No apparant link to the page with the 'proper' sidebar (with downloads and such)... caravelgames.com only shows the page with the sidebar with only five options on. The only way I could find the actual sidebar was by manually entering 'drod.caravelgames.com'...

Yeah, I agree these things are confusing. Well, not all these links belong on the sales site, so I've added a mention and link to the official DROD fan site at the bottom of the main CG page. So, at least there's a direct link now.

- No news page. It's just blank! Kinda makes the website look completely abandoned or something...

Not sure what you mean by this. The News link works fine for me on both sites...

- Holds page is hard to find... it's in tinytiny small print at the bottom of the download page!

Hmm...where do you think would be a more appropriate link to downloading usermade holds than the Downloads page?

- I mentioned this on another thread, but if you click to buy the CD version of a game it says 'out of stock', but if you click to buy the download version, then change the dropdown box to the CD version, it doesn't say out of stock.

I'm not seeing this. Is this only happening for a particular game or link? Please send me the URL of the source page and a description of which link has this issue, and I'll look into it.

- Explanations and listings of smitemaster selections... it took me a long time to work out how they worked, and even longer to find out what smitemaster selection 'packs' were available! It wasn't until I registered to the forum, clicked my profile, and saw the 'purchases' tab, that it made any kind of sense.

Yes, I can see how the SmS setup could be confusing. Do you have a suggestion for how to explain it more simply or clearly?

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NiroZ
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Promise me that this isn't your usual reponse time...

mrimer
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NiroZ wrote:
Promise me that this isn't your usual reponse time...

I promise. It's different every time.

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