A little bit after work on the forum.travian.in staff bars I was approached by the lovely Faith (MH manager & forum mod) and tasked with creating a set for forum.travian.no which has a slightly smaller team and some small variances in role. In some way the resulting bars are a combination of the .in work and the much, much earlier bars for .co.uk staff (and users), being less extravagant than the .in theme but retaining a fancier bar design and taking up the shields that are familiar to .co.uk users. As a matter of interest, that simple shield was first made as part of some ideas I had for another browser game called Dawn of Myth… I think it still functions in some form but hasn’t really gone anywhere development wise for years, in which time is has bored/scared off pretty much all the community it once attracted.
Version 1
Requested edits after that were a red bar for the overall game server admin, and a short time after they were implemented there was a request for Norsk characters on the Translator and Operator bars…
Version 1 w/ Modified Game Admin bar
Example of Norsk character addition
Staff ranks: Active (Can be seen in use on http://forum.travian.no)
They decided to add ranks for the IRC staff under the moderator theme but in discussion we opted for a lighter green and additional imagery to make the difference between the two a little clearer, those ranks are as follows:
…and I really need to remark on how much I love the way Tullia has used them on the team listing page here.
-Tom
I’m melting…
Current mood: 
happy.
Tags: Forum ranks, Norway, rank bars, staff ranks, Travian
