The public site is live at rookeryisles.com. Built fresh this week on top of the existing AAEmu 3.0.3.0 server stack, separate from rookery.pro so the marketing identity has its own home.
What shipped
- Landing page with the full splash art, server status badges, and download CTA pointing at the existing installer at rookery.pro.
- Section pages for Lore, Houses, Classes, World, Trade Routes, Guides, and Downloads. The data-heavy sections are placeholder copy for now (the encyclopedia content is being inscribed); the Downloads page is real and walks you through the install.
- Custom 404 with the same hero treatment so a wrong URL still feels like part of the realm.
- Design tokens eyedroppered from the official splash: deep plum, cream, warm gold. No bright Trion red.
- Fluid typography that scales from phones up to 4K. No breakpoint cliffs.
Under the hood
- IIS site bound to
:80:rookeryisles.comand:80:www.rookeryisles.com. Catch-all from rookery.pro stays intact; IIS routes by Host header. - Dedicated app pool, PHP via FastCGI, web.config handles pretty URLs, HTTPS redirects, and gzip.
- Cloudflare in front, orange-cloud proxied for the apex and www. Game ports stay grey-cloud as before.
- No Echo modifications. No game-server modifications. Read-only consumer of existing infrastructure.
What's next
Trade routes built out with live supply/demand data. Lore pages start landing. House pages once we lock the ten banners.