We use mkportal, phpbb, phpraider & gsdkp. Used to run eqdkp, but gsdkp simply.. works. For looks; :: Coregamers.

e: the above is no longer accurate, now running on vbb&vba cms which is basically the same as EJ.com uses.

I started off the decision making process for our current guild website by deciding on what the main site would be. I had tried a few different CMS packages (Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, e107), and in the end didn't find one that I liked enough to keep. As I had experience using WordPress for my own personal website and like it, I decided to use it for the main site. After that, it was a matter of looking for a forum that would integrate well. After testing a few different software, I decided on PunBB and punBB Integrator for having a single unified log-on. DKP is handled via eqDKP, as we needed to import previous data from old website, and the lack of integration with WP really isn't an issue since only raid leaders and administrators need to register.

All in all, I'm reasonably satisfied with our site. I still would prefer a more consistent visual look for eqDKP and WWS sections, but I've been too lazy to edit them.

Our site: Echelon.

Just saw one of the suggested tools in the advertising banner. Has anyone used any of these since the suggestion?

mmoguildsites (the one advertised here) looks like they built most everything from scratch and so I would tend to think the pieces like forums, dkp and such would be less mature software light on features and robustness. Thoughts? I've seen a lot of meh options out there and not many have come across as robust enough to rise above.

I know this thread is a few weeks old, but since it's already been bumped, I can offer some advice if you haven't already fixed this or picked an alternative: We had a problem a while ago where one of the EQDKP MySQL tables had an index column set up using a signed TINYINT, which maxes out at 127, capping the number of raid events we could have. I ended up going into the backend and modifying it to an unsigned MEDIUMINT so we could continue using it. Not sure if this has been changed in recent versions, but worth checking out.



Anyways, just to throw my opinion out there, EQDKP is great - if you're satisfied with their default settings and want to do exactly what EQDKP wants you to do. Making any kind of changes at all is just killer (the version we use used to color Shamans the same as Paladins; finding the correct spots in the php code to change took me about six hours since the colors are hardcoded in three(!) different php pages, plus the above mentioned problem with the SQL tables).

I would have loved to have a better solution from the getgo, but I have managed to coax EQDKP into being stable for the past few months, plus I spent the time to write a mod that reduces DKP management and loot distribution down to about 30 seconds with minimal involvement on my part. I guess if it ain't broke...