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Title: User levels
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-05-01 19:11:13
You might have noticed every user now has a level, display next to their rank in the post. At the moment, this level is calculated solely on a user's post count, but it will be extended in the future to prevent flooding just to get better levels. Also, expect further trinkets that'll help enhance the feel of the board  :D
Title: User levels
Post by: ShinRa Inc on 2002-05-01 19:21:20
Hmn....  Now to find some poor low-level poster to challenge to a battle....Must master that last Shield materia...!

::feels growing stronger:: ahhhh...

(inside joke)
Title: User levels
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-05-01 20:07:58
Wow... Cool. Right now, it looks like I'm one of the top 4 people not to mess with, in terms of lvl count...  :wicked:  :wink:

Sephiroth 3D

"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

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Title: well done !
Post by: The Skillster on 2002-05-01 21:41:46
I have to congratulate u on the new forum, it finally looks similar to the gem that was once the swipnet forum (i think) this has more features and looks nicer, but the original was easier on the eye :)
Title: User levels
Post by: Caddberry on 2002-05-01 23:38:15
Levels.. hmmm... I like the whole level idea.. but stars rocked too..
Title: User levels
Post by: Darkness on 2002-05-02 00:41:29
number 2 here :) im sure qhimm is changing it to include something like # words / post. probably just for me too :) ill be level 2 instead of number 2 :)
Title: User levels
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-05-02 02:05:27
I like the setup now that the posts you havn't read have that little red thingy next to them (when it works I might add)

Kendrilian
Title: User levels
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-05-02 08:35:59
Darkness:
Code: [Select]
Level = (Round(Posts / 5)) - (100 - WordsPerPost)
Or something like that... :wicked:

Sephiroth 3D

"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
[email protected]
Title: User levels
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-05-02 09:00:16
Sorry, no words-per-post calculations. Levels are calculated real-time, so one would have to screen through every single post on the board and count the words each time your level was to be displayed.
Title: User levels
Post by: M0T on 2002-05-02 14:38:08
So what can these levels actually be  used for?
Title: User levels
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-05-02 14:46:42
Well, in an arguement...  your opinion would be taken more over mine :wicked: , if no one else actually knew the material we were arguing over... I guess?

Kendrilian
Title: User levels
Post by: M0T on 2002-05-02 14:47:55
So My opinion that all Xbox's should be smashed would be taken over your opinion that they shouldnt?
Title: User levels
Post by: Aaron on 2002-05-02 14:48:31
Heh, just another way of showing rank by posts.

I miss the stars :-p
Title: User levels
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-05-02 17:42:53
Actually I would agree with you Sir MOT!  Remember you have managed to mind control the lower level slimes such as myself into smashing all X-Boxes that we come across.

Kendrilian
Title: User levels
Post by: Alhexx on 2002-05-02 18:02:05
So how is the level calculated?
Is it something with the user-post-percent-of-all-posts ?

 - Alhexx
Title: User levels
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-05-05 00:46:09
Quote from: Sephiroth 3D
Wow... Cool. Right now, it looks like I'm one of the top 4 people not to mess with, in terms of lvl count...  :wicked:  :wink:


LOL.....

*Uses GF Eden's "LVL Down" ability on Seph3d*

That oughta even the odds down a bit.......

RENZOKUKEN!!

heh heh.
Title: User levels
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-05-06 19:06:49
*Uses MASTER level "Knights of the Round" on Goku7, and watchs him die.* :wicked:

*Then Seph3D takes his Phonix Potions, all his revival items and a few Ether potions off of Goku7's body before casting "Life" on him. Then Seph3D tosses him a dime.*

Go get a drink & come back in about 15 levels.

Sephiroth 3D

"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
[email protected]
Title: User levels
Post by: vvalentine on 2002-05-06 20:19:29
I like the levels, but wouldn't it be cool to have some description title other than the newbie, crazy poster, no life titles.  I mean, we can keep those titles, but we can have something that describes us, like for example, Alhexx "a heartbroken cyberstalker", Caddberry "tripped out dude", Qhimm "the forum deity", something like that.  We can be able to edit those descriptions.

-vvalentine
Title: User levels
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-05-06 20:41:33
Forum deity... I like it! As thanks for the idea, I'll look into it.
Title: User levels
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-05-06 22:40:50
Quote from: Sephiroth 3D
*Uses MASTER level "Knights of the Round" on Goku7, and watchs him die.* :wicked:

*Then Seph3D takes his Phonix Potions, all his revival items and a few Ether potions off of Goku7's body before casting "Life" on him. Then Seph3D tosses him a dime.*

Go get a drink & come back in about 15 levels.


*staggers as he gets up*

I knew I shoulda followed up with Lion Heart......  :oops:  

Wait a minute!  I forgot!  I'm a clone of Goku!  So you wanna wait till I gain levels, eh?

*Uses Keioken x20, level is boosted past 99..*

Is this high enough for 'ya?

anyway, as for Qhimm: "Forum Diety"?  LOL!  Brillant!
Title: User levels
Post by: Aaron on 2002-05-07 01:10:43
Yeah... "Forum Diety" sounds cool.

It's be cool to be able to give us a little description to put next to our rank or something... I have no idea what I'd put though.
Title: None
Post by: Intel-Xeon on 2002-05-07 06:41:18
Seph: Does the background color of your avatar keep changing or am I crazy? ................................ Or both?
Title: User levels
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-05-07 18:18:01
Actually, It's in a PNG format, that only Netscape 6 currently supports natively with the Alpha channel. If you were to look at my avatar with NS6, you'll see the image transparent, lookig near-perfect, like it'd been rendered for that background.

I like NS6. :D

Sephiroth 3D @ School
Title: User levels
Post by: Alhexx on 2002-05-07 18:58:50
This possibly goes a bit off-topic, however:

Qhimm or SaiNt: Is there a Rank after "No Life", perhaps at 2000 posts (or 5000)?


 - Alhexx
Title: User levels
Post by: Aaron on 2002-05-07 21:11:49
The old forum let you go to the FAQ and see the ranks.  "No life" was the last on the list, but since some people are nearing 2000, I think a new rank would be kinda cool...

Maybe Qhimm could make one up but it'd be a surprise until someone passes 2000.
Title: None
Post by: Intel-Xeon on 2002-05-07 23:27:03
Netscape... That is... CRAP! I hate Netscape.
Title: User levels
Post by: Aaron on 2002-05-08 02:55:16
Netscape 6 is actually pretty good (and fast) - - or at least, 6.1+ is (when they released 6.0, it was still crashing all over the place).  The Netscape 4 series is still around, and it's ok, but lots of new flashy stuff on web pages isn't supported in it correctly.

I prefer IE just because it's here, all nice and tied into Windows and stuff... convienient.  Not to mention its folder-like FTP thing.
Title: User levels
Post by: ShinRa Inc on 2002-05-09 07:15:44
Quote
Actually, It's in a PNG format, that only Netscape 6 currently supports natively with the Alpha channel. If you were to look at my avatar with NS6, you'll see the image transparent, lookig near-perfect, like it'd been rendered for that background.


Uh.  Dumb question, but why not just convert it to GIF format then?  I haven't run into PNGs before, don't mind me.
Title: User levels
Post by: mirex on 2002-05-09 11:22:51
PNG is great ! it has best loseless compression.
Title: User levels
Post by: Aaron on 2002-05-09 12:16:05
If he converted it to GIF, I don't think it would look as good in Netscape 6.  Probably would be the same in IE.
Title: User levels
Post by: ShinRa Inc on 2002-05-09 19:28:51
You can fiddle with Alpha channel stuff in GIF formats.  In addition to Animation and all that.

I never used Netscape much, but I don't remember it ever having problems with Gifs.
Title: User levels
Post by: sfx1999 on 2002-06-04 01:40:53
I thought PNG was a linux format... Ot at least Conqerour new of it. I like Conquerour! I want to see it ported to Windoze and also GnoZip.
Title: User levels
Post by: Aaron on 2002-06-04 04:17:28
Conquerour had problems with many web pages i tried to view with it.

I don't know if PNG was originally a Linux format, but I think it has been adopted as the main Linux format recently.
Title: User levels
Post by: mirex on 2002-06-04 11:24:19
I dont know if it is linux format, but maybe it is associated with linux because it is free.

For you programmers who want to play with png go to http://www.libpng.org
Title: User levels
Post by: chowderhead on 2002-06-09 01:11:28
PNG is open source, which is why some people associate it with Linux.  There was a bit of fluster going about with the PNG group and Apple, after an Apple patent having to do with Alpha Channels came to light-doesn't really effect the PNG format itself, just some applications that use it.  So far, Apple has yet to announce any intentions with it's patent, so it may just let it be (esp. since progs like Adobe Photoshop use alpha channels, and it's doubtful Apple wants to tick off such an important developer of apps for their platform).

Konqueror is getting better, though it still has a long way to go.  Mozilla is about the best way to go on a Tux box (IMHO), though Opera does fairly well, as does Galeon (Gnome's browser, based on Mozilla...)
Title: User levels
Post by: mirex on 2002-06-09 10:13:45
I dunno if i get it right, somebody wants to register 'alpha channel' ? Somebody wants to register transparency ? This cant be.
Title: User levels
Post by: chowderhead on 2002-06-09 17:18:00
Not the transparency, but the technique used to display it (masking).  Here, these two articles explain it better than I can:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/22898.html

http://pmt.sourceforge.net/SVG-patents/apple.html
Title: User levels
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-06-09 18:40:34
A patent on alpha-blending using mask images. That's pretty heavy. Practically *everything* image&alpha-related on computers is dependant on that little technique.
Title: User levels
Post by: chowderhead on 2002-06-09 19:14:07
Exactly.  Since Apple's been relatively quiet on the subject, I take it as a good thing-Not shooting their own feet by stirring up major developers like Adobe (I wonder where the Mac would be without the graphics developer community).  Of course, they could be biding their time, waiting to see what happens later on-then Apple might consider enforcing the patent if it thinks it's in it's own best interest.  

Heh, just noticed the topic review displays in reverse order.  Pretty sweet!