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MintMan

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May 6, 2004 20:33
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  Holy carp for the fourth time this week -- you guys broke Forum, the RPG. I hope you are happy, Ice and Boyachi, 'cause it is all your fault.
  
  
  You guys posted in such excess (I guess I sorta forgot to mention posting to do RP things alone counts as spam) that you broke down the fundamental components of the game; were you not wondering why you suddenly gained, like, a thousand skills a piece?
  
  Thus, until further notice, I have to revoke FtRPG actions while I get up a moderating delete that also rids of FtRPG posts. Thanks a lot, idiots.
  
  [Editted by MintMan on May 6, 2004 20:38]
Ice

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May 6, 2004 21:34
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  Buggerit. I lost all 25 of my tokens, as well as my multitudes of class changes.
  
  Also I assumed that creating a forum specifically for the purpose of playing a forum integrated RPG would mean that at least in here that your posts could be purely FtRPG commands, because otherwise why would you creat a forum with the description thus:
  
  Yeah, I really do not want the rest of the forums filling up with useless RPG waste, so I decided to make an entire forum devoted to Forum: the RPG. Of course, I do not expect this to be used all that much, but it is here for help or challenges and the like
  
  (I guess I sorta forgot to mention posting to do RP things alone counts as spam)
  
  Yeah. What would not be considered spam, other than questions about how the game works?
  
  So, yeah, we moved our useless RPG waste here. Who knew that we weren't supposed to be interested enough to use it a lot? Plus, I assumed that when you said that stuff was idot-proofed, that you also made it intelligence-proofed. Think about it - you add new features to pique interest in your forums, call it an "RPG" and some kid gets interested. RPG = Role Playing Game. Note the emphasis. As iot was a game, the point of it is to have fun. So we did. Sorry that this wasn't what you had in mind, but the information given was properly vague enough to encourage testing to figure the system out.
  
  So in conclusion, sorry that we played your game more than you wanted us to. Next time maybe it'll be a bit more smart-* proof, too.
  
  *::In another rash of defiance:fab Intelligence for fun.*
  

  °(o.o)° (c) Ethereal Enterprises, 2004
  
  
  [Editted by Ice on May 6, 2004 22:26]
VinnyD

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May 7, 2004 15:41
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  Wow, you got some balls to tell the Webmaster/owner of the site what he said. You obviously dont understand then. Sure I could make a post where all I do is strike someone or pick an item, and that be it. But how ghey is that? I mean, thats the point of replying, HAVING SOMETHING TO ADD. Just because you have an opportunity to grab something and hit someone doesnt give you a reason. I never thought I'd have to tell somebody when they needed to talk... Sweat Drop
writer77

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May 7, 2004 17:18
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  I'm pretty sure Mintman said somewhere that FtRPG was designed to make posts better, not to become posts in themselves.
  
  And for no particular reason, I want to know if Blast is a magical attack. I don't remember reading about it, but it was probably somewhere. I just don't have a lengthy enough post, so I'm asking.
  
  And so I have.
  

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  -Bl. Mage
MadGoblin

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May 7, 2004 18:14
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  I don't think that it needed to be said in the RP forum description, "Don't post crap" since, well, Ems is constantly shooting down posts and topics that reek of spam and triviality. Not too mention that Ems said he'd never "give in" and make a part of the forum just for off-topic spammings, a la Karp Park (synomonous with the word "suck"). I mean, one-liners are deemed by him, and me and SHOULD be by everyone, as a waste of time on part of the poster and reader.
  Also, I'd like to point out the (ironic?) humor in post the exact word someone said in attempt to use them against a sayer when the quoter, in fact, did not fully understand the meaning. I mean, you even got him saying it. He didn't want the rest of the forum filling up with RP oriented topicage at random so he made somewhere for it to belong, just as he wouldn't Endless Night's Dream posts cluttering up the main forum when he could direct them to somewhere more fitting as well.
  
  ... On second thought, forget everything I said. This post was meaningless.
  * Like, for sooth, MadGoblin uses the technique Strike on VinnyD although he really can 'cuz the functionage is currently down so he's just making it look like he's doin' so and is really quite a waist of his time, literally being the waist, too, as it is betwixt the torso and legs, hrhr robble robble *
  

  
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Ice

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May 7, 2004 22:37
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  Ah. Well that does make some sense, and I didn't know that there were any Current/Former AH-ers out there. As it were, Mints posted stuff about the FtRPG on his main page, and as such, I was intrigued and visited the forums. Having never been before, I simply looked and found the board for it and read the stuff there. I've never really read any of the rest of the boards, so reiterating himself would *not* be redundant in this point. Sorry for being the outsider from hell (or Hel), but don't blame me solely for not knowing what was never said. I apologize for doing what appearently there is an unspoken tradition of not doing, but how do you expect the outsiders to learn without this sort of catastrophe happening if you don't say somewhere? I mean, for crissakes, I made an entire thread that was just supposed to be RP actions, and he was the first person to reply, not telling me that it was spam, but telling me that it wouldn't work the way I wanted to because there was some silly limit on how many actions per week you can do. I'm actually surprised that the limit didn't prevent me from getting all those tokens/experience/whatever.
  
  And in possible anticipation of someone mentioning it, I do realize that to all of you I probably sound like the person who sues over not having warning labels on coffee cups, but that would only be that case if I had never before seen or known what coffee was.
  
  In conclusion, yes, I've got some balls for speaking out, and very likely will end up getting banned. But until Kero tells me to, I'll keep blathering on.
  
  Edit: *cough*
  What would be a "challenge" other than pure RP posts?
  

  °(o.o)° (c) Ethereal Enterprises, 2004
  
  
  [Editted by Ice on May 7, 2004 22:40]
MadGoblin

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May 8, 2004 8:11
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  Wait, I'ma confuzzled. Now, how on earth could you have just read "Mints posted stuff about the FtRPG on his main page, and ... was intrigued and visited the forums. Having never been before" if you are forum member #46 with seventy posts at the moment?
  
  The forum's been in the hundred count of members for months now, if not longer, and I know you didn't make those seventy posts within the birth and collapse of FtRPG thus far. So, something about this story is making my brain hurt from the bounding inconsistency >_<
  
  Anyways, all things aside, you have to agree that when anyone suddenly got an explosion in token earning or class changing, anyone shoulda been able to recognize "Hey, that ain't right."
Ice

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May 8, 2004 10:53
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  Yeah, I'm #46. I first actually signed up for a forum account about two years ago when I first started with my LotGJ gym, because I thought they might be useful. Since then, I've popped in once or twice to make posts, but since the FtRPG, I think I'd only racked up a total of about 20 or so posts. In other words, less than one post per month since I joined.
  
  The way I racked up so many posts, and thus so many tokens, is because I (thought) I had figured out what the magical secret to getting the tokens was (Kero alluded to it in one of his posts), which was posting something, and choosing the token to learn, without doing any FtRPG commands. After doing this, the token was learned. So, yeah, I went on a posting explosion after that, because with every post I earned a new token. This also came in line with his explanation of people being able to earn 1-2 tokens even if they only post one-twice a month.
  

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boyachi

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May 8, 2004 17:25
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  Yeah, so, whats new? You all know that I go on spamming rampages. This was just an excuse for another one. How was I supposed to know that I wasn't supposed to learn stuff that quickly? Boohoo. I give up, I'm sorry.
  

   The Summer of the Dawn is here. However, Summer of the New Dawn shall be approaching... this summer.
MadGoblin

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May 8, 2004 20:07
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  Man, that's weird. I never even had to the choice of getting other tokens. Then again, my "Strike" ability had to be targeted against an opponent's item instead of an opponent themself.
  
  * wonders why Ems always seems to screw up his accounts at RE while symmutaneously pondering when his REL roster will be un-deleted Angry cough cough *
Ice

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May 10, 2004 6:54
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  Mkay. So now that things are open and ready for full blown usage (hopefully), are there any more things you'd like to tell us to do and not to do?
  
  Likewise, I'm also interested in knowing if you've implemented a better overuse protector.... I assumed the last time that the thing that said "Oh stop it, you're being ghey with all thie RPGish stuff" was the upper limit, but aparently not. Hows abouts you give us a nice round number, like 3-4 RPs a day, or something along those lines.
  
  *::While looking for a way to use an RP command while also not having a "pointless post,:fab AntiSpam for the whole Forum*
  
  [edit] Guess the front page lied when it said that the game was now back on
  

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Battalon127

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May 11, 2004 18:38
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  Gee, I make it thru a huge forums dry spell, only to lose access to the site for the biggest spammage in recent forum history. Go figure.
  The updates message said that token use must be earned (this probably also has something to do with things not actually running yet). How does one go about earning token use? And, do you people realize how many posts about things not running smoothly there are, despite the fact that Minty hasn't been on to say anything yet. Back off for a bit.
  
  
  Edit: Ok, I guess there are just 6 (counting this one). I'm just a little torqued that FtRPG was brought down before I really got to do anything with it. You guys could have at least given it a month before beating the s--- out of it.
  

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  "No Kelso, you like humping people"
  "Sometimes humping IS helping, Eric"
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  [Editted by Battalon127 on May 11, 2004 18:41]
MintMan

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May 12, 2004 12:47
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  Wow, you guys kinda rock. I should disappear for a week more often. I have very little left to say to Ice, but I shall still repeat some of it for clarifications.
  
  For the last freakin' time, Ice (if you are still around since I banned you for over-spammature in a strictly no-spam forum; and Boyachi for forgetting the fact that just because you think you can get away with something doesn't mean you can 'cause I still can ban your sorry ass), FtRPG is not a game. It is a waste of time; a joke, if you will. I mean, the only point is to have fun? Does it seem like fun? No! It is idiot-fun at the most, the sorta thing a place that lives on incompetent members and spam would thrive on.
  I added FtRPG, as I have said many times before, to complement the virtual item function implemented quite some time ago. This place is still a forum, even the FtRPG forum. Why did I make the role-playing forum? For questions on FtRPG and role playing, not using FtRPG commands back and forth. Y'know, typically when people roleplay, they do a little more than hack-and-slash. There are shiny words about typically that bounce off your head and make pretty shapes!
  
  
  Now, for what broke FtRPG. It was quite a simple thing really, and one which I really should have expected. This was all my fault, really, for not following a proper order of operations. See, I was not supposed to release FtRPG yet because something like this was almost bound to happen. Rather, I was supposed to release the full Bestiary Warrior first. (Remember that thing? I don't) It's interactive component would have tested people's reaction to such an environment of control, despite being much more limited than FtRPG's. It would have been a good -- and in hindsight, necessary -- pre-test.
  Instead, I flop this forum-feature out, and quite stupidly just a week before I go home, knowing full well I shall have lots of long, final work days and moving ahead of me, all away from my computer where I can keep a watchful eye. In just one day, the most flagrant offenders make successions of nothing more than RP posts back-to-back, which, last I checked, is not what a forum is supposed to be used for.
  Thus, the second problem comes. When I developed all the limitations and restraints, there always was a hole that existed in the case of overspam. The formula for learning had to be designed so that the normally low activity of forum members could result in something productive still, causing an immense pile-up of activity at really high activity. I worried not about it, however, since I would ban anyone who made so many so rapid posts anyway.... if I were here to ban. I was not able to keep my normal ever-vigilance, which was probably again my fault...
  So, when you now-banned guys made such rapid postings, you learned at levels normally impossible (and now rid of), which brought about the next problem. See, you were not supposed to learn that fast. I expected it. I needed it, in fact, since several functions were still untested. They could be tested later, however, since no one was going to get to them in time... or so I thought.
  
  One of the bugs I already full-well knew about (and in fact had addressed in a debug-file of mine) was the whenever the Change token was used, it did not disappear. I am not worrying much about that. I was not expecting anyone to ever get it so soon, so you did not even know its real purpose -- whenever you Class Change, you can use two RP techs in one post! C'mon, who would spend an entire action for class changing? That is a waste in the long run...
  
  So all this has nothing to do with the problems that I still had in FtRPG, but rather with the age-old enemy of spam. Well, for such spam, you two get the standard bannage of one week. As for FtRPG, it has proven too unstable to fall into just anyone's hands, so now I have to allow people to use its Techs by giving them an AdventurerToken. Throwing, Eating, and the like have proven to be used in moderation and will still be allowed by all.
  Now with those actually using FtRPG being a limited few (well, members of this forum are a limited few anyway, but still), slow-learning and all that jazz is not much of a problem since even being able to use techniques is a rare find now.
  
  I have given all old FtRPG players a fully-learned Strike Token and the Adventurer class (save Ice and Boyachi who are currently on probation Angry ). A new learning system is in place that is not based on using FtRPG techs, so we do not have to worry about those spamming up the forums. If anyone cool comes by, I just lay an Adventurer Token on 'em and all is well.
  
  
  I must say, these forums did not go half as far to Hel as I thought they would in my absence. I gots some good people workin' here. Maybe its time I start handing out some mods...
  
  
  [Editted by MintMan on May 12, 2004 12:58]
VinnyD

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May 12, 2004 14:15
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  * gives MintMan a virtual beer for the running of the forums. *
  But yes you are right, it's all your fault. No wait, I take that back, it's the mods Faults!!!!
  

No mods you say? Hmmm, well somebody should be there to take that blame....., it's a damn shame.
  



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writer77

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May 12, 2004 16:51
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  So, um... it's working again, right?
  
  I may or may not have fell asleep during that long post. It's irrelevent either way. Anyhow, does this mean that all of the super cool posts that were going on in the 'lite forum are back open for business.
  
  Because the elite forum is super cool, and none of you can come!
  
  Ha, ha, ha. ....
  

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MintMan

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May 13, 2004 24:59
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  Oh, um, right. I shoulda mentioned that. * in shiny demonstration, uses the technique Guard all up ons * The stuff is working again, or allowed again, at least. Everything should be exactly the same as it was except that forum members do not start with the ability to learn class techs and the learning system has been shot to Hel and back... twice. It no longer depends on how many FtRPG posts you make, so people will only make them when they actually want to and not just for the stuff of it.
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Lunar_Mage

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May 13, 2004 1:24
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  Thanks for fixing it so that you don't have to re-type your password everytime you open the RPG console. Or maybe it was always like that, and my computer was screwey. Dead
  
  Anyways, thanks for fixing it, and making the token learning process immune to the evil that is spam. It's more fun that you don't have to make a FtRPG post every time to get tokens too.
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Battalon127

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May 14, 2004 12:10
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  Lunar, I don't anything could ever be immune from spamnation. Wherever something cool is, there will be idiots to screw it up. The trick is to keep in step with them, to be there to counter-act whatever they end up doing. Hey, that may make an interesting RPG storyline! * eats a virtual pie in celebration of the return of a slightly more moron-proof FtRPG *
  

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Ice

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May 18, 2004 11:37
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  * As a hopeful act of contrition, fabricates a Apology *
  * gives MintMan a Apology *
  
  As for the spamming, I can't speak for Boyachi, but for myself, I can certainly say that even if (when?) I am allowed to start collecting tokens again, spamming won't step in. I can learn a lesson once, and my sense of self-preservation will keep me from doing it again.
  
  On a side note, I think from my posts in this thread show that when I stay on topic, I can at least keep a certain level of maturity, grammar, and overall non-idiotness. Many people simply won't see that because in general whenever someone disagees with your viewpoint (this goes for everyone, myself included) the initial reaction is to think of them as a damn fool for not being able to be reasonable and see it your way. Anyhow, I'll try to not incense the rest of you folks, so it'd also be nice to know who the other moderators are, because I'll be walking on glass around them.
  

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boyachi

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May 18, 2004 13:42
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  I have no tokes. Anyone have a strike blunt?
  So you can only learn a lesson once...otherwise... after that it is useless? Boggle
  but yeah, the mods are Minty, Gobbo, Vin Diesel, and ...Writer77. Must get a nickname, that person must.
  Anyway, welcome back. As you know, my spamming comes in tides. It all depends on the virtual moon.
  

   The Summer of the Dawn is here. However, Summer of the New Dawn shall be approaching... this summer.
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