I last posted on page 182... and now it's up to 200. 18 freakin' pages! This topic is nearly as bad as level up! is... well, okay, that's a stretch... but it's the next worst topic on Wi/Ht? to keep up with. That didn't mean much in the past, but it's beginning to. O_o
At 1/12/05 02:35 PM, Denvish wrote:
At 1/12/05 02:11 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
People, we're not supposed to pick our auras based on the ratio of blams and saves in the portal, we're supposed to pick it based on our outlook towards rating movies. #;-}>
I did. Blue and green just aren't me...
Ah well... yer all a buncha negative nellies.
I like to call it realistic, rather than negative
Yes, but see... dark/neutral/light, if you're going to set them according to how YOUR blams and saves stack up against each other (instead of, as I said, your general outlook towards rating movies), then you should first take into account the current ratio of blams to saves in the portal. For instance, if it's 4:1, then anything around 3:1 to 5:1 might be considered neutral... anything less than 3:1 is light... and anything more than 5:1 is dark. Just as an example.
I think if people chose their aura that way, we'd have a much more even mix of neutral and dark (if not light as well, sadly). I just get tired of seeing the countless legions of red level icons on the BBS... I think it's mostly due to people thinking that the red colour OR the notion of being one of teh "evil" ones is cool. But it might also be due to a lot of blam-happy peoples. Either way... it ain't good. ;_;
People who change aura based on how they think the colours look with each specific level icon are fine by me, though, I should clarify that.
I just happen to:
A) feel I am a neutral voter, first and foremost
B) love green above all other colours
C) think that green looks best with 90% of the icons, so not feel it's worth it to change it for the few levels that look better with blue or red. #;-}>
I might look into VB for destroying harddrives, though, it does sound highly entertaining.
!!!!! Remind me never to DL a program written by you ever again. ;_;
At 1/12/05 05:24 PM, ShittyKitty wrote:
Indeed. That's why I'm doing all sorts of stuff to my program for version 2.0, to make it super-easy to make little changes like this. I've basically written an entire scripting language to handle each piece of data.
BTW, I tried out 2.0, and it seemed to pull data a lot slower than 1.6.1 (or whatever was the last one before 2, I can't remember anymore) did... as a result, I reverted back to the old version (that still knows how to deal with the review-link-change, of course). And things returned to normal. I think your 2.0 coding and my P2-266 CPU don't get along well. ;_;
At 1/12/05 02:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
And that's where making it look for the [/A] or whatever comes in, eh?
Yup. HTML tags are perfect because nobody can include them in messages and whatnot. I also like looking for tabs and line breaks.
How do you signify tabs or linebreaks in the program, though?
And wait, I've never tried that... what happens if you put a HTML tag in the "message from user" slot? #;-}>
Oh teh noes, I pulled a gfox and replied to old posts. :-P
Har har. #;-}>
At 1/13/05 03:39 PM, MPA wrote:
Exp is a different story in my opinion. You can't spend a lot of time depositing to get more exp points a day. You spend the very little time it takes and you get just as much as everyone. With b/p points you can either grab a few here and there and be very low ranked or you can dedicate a large chunk of your day to get a ton of points and climb way up the ranks (obviously). I've gotten all of my 37,500+ on my own and would be pissed if a communal account passed me and got #5 before me. Depending on how many people vote, they each could've spent a half, a third, or even a quarter amount of the time I did to get as far as I have.
Hm. Okay. Well, I don't entirely agree, but I see what you mean, and how you and others could have a problem with that.
Still, as I think I tried to point out, it's not usually much of a problem. The last truly communal account that was passed around to more than two people was that Sonic_Youth account or whatever, that's been dormant for... hell, seems like a year now. Maybe not quite that long.
Whatever, you get the point. Communal accounts tend to die, eventually, as they find their way to a person who doesn't care about stat collection. Now, if one with 20k+ b/p were to get into the hands of some stat-happy newbie who's gotten like 1000 b/p in the first month of his account's life and decides he'd like to have a 20k boost, so fuck his new account, he's going to use the old one he just inherited somehow... then yes, that might be a concern.
Eh. I have no problem with communal accounts, as long as they aren't the 200 bppd type that's just totally owning everyone. ;_;
I think that would annoy everybody.
Yeah. :::looks at all the 200+ bppd people from yesterday::: DAMN FIXITS! #;-}> (Seriously... FIVE 200+ bppd users and an ADDITIONAL TWENTY-FIVE 100-200 bppd users?!?!?! YOU'RE ALL INSANE! #;-}>)
At 1/21/05 01:04 PM, ramagi wrote:
Well I do agree at one point the lsit was easy to get on and move up. A lot of the old people got burned out, moved on, etc. There are more people going forpoints these days then before. Eventually everyone on the top 50 will be the last rank. Then it really going to look dull.
Not likely. By the time the top 50 b/p list is all EGSCs, there likely will be a top 1000 (or whatever) b/p list instead of a top 50, so... the list won't look dull because there will be plenty of General and Colonels of all sorts and so forth in the 50-200 range, even once there are 50+ EGSCs. These new NG lists may be taking a bit longer than some of us may have expected... but they'll get here sooner than we get 50 EGSCs (unless for some reason liljim or the Fulps decide against them after all, and scrap all the plans for new profile/top XXXX lists).
At 2/12/05 10:08 AM, EKRegulus wrote:
At 2/12/05 08:04 AM, D0GMA wrote:
Ya_Ya finally making it into the Top 50.
Awesome, my virtual hero finally made it to top50. Hopefully, he will pass BonusStage in a few weeks :D
... (sniff) I thought *I* was your virtual hero. And I passed BonusStage long ago, damnit! ;_;