Hozzászólások - ImLittleJon

Idézet: Kethios - 2010.10.15. 17:29:55

I have enough mana. Transplantation is just not listed as one of the options anymore. It's not maxed out. I'm doing everything the same as when it used to work, but now that skill is just not listed.

Eeek! Suddenly, I can't boost transplantation anymore. What gives?

Idézet: Viridel - 2010.10.14. 20:21:27

I'm agnostic on that. But I do think the closing time of the Auction Hall slots should be more variable to support people in different time zones. Right now, the closing time only varies based on the amount of sniping that goes on, which means that some users have never been able to snipe unless they get up at like 4am or something local time. So I think every time a new item comes in, the system should select a completely random closing time, independent of any past history of that slot.

Idézet: Viridel - 2010.10.14. 20:21:27

Post #123 in this thread (http://forum.doomlord.net/index.php/topic,39.120#hsz123) has some examples of places where sending to multiple people (not necessarily whole clans) would be useful, and there is no adequate replacement at the moment. It also has a few technical details for how it could be implemented.

Yes, kudos to everyone involved. You have made one customer much happier. In fact, I went and bought 100 ancient stones just to say thank you.

And as long as I'm complaining, what's wrong with this one?



Mr. Spacely is a major character in the Jetsons, and the Jetsons is not some obscure cartoon. Even people who have never seen an episode know that the Jetsons are associated with space age technology, so they'd get the answer correct. And the wrong answers were chosen to be obviously associated with other famous cartoons - Flintstones, Roadrunner, and Batman. This question passes any reasonable "special group" test. By which I mean that whoever rejected it is unreasonable. I hereby call for whoever it was to resign as an evaluator and be replaced with someone who is reasonable.

Idézet: ChaoticGemini - 2010.10.13. 18:28:26

I just resubmitted it, reworded as "Which of these is widely accepted as the origin of the name of the country Brasil (Portuguese spelling of Brazil)?" and it still got rejected. Was that the wording you rejected, or was it the original submission? The widely accepted origin is that it was named after the tree, which was named after the noun meaning "embers". Wikipedia does list another possible meaning, but that was not listed among the possible answers, and I specified "Which of these" in the question. Wikipedia also says that the answer I marked correct "is taught as official in schools of Brazil and Portugal", which should be sufficient to qualify as "widely accepted". So, with my wording, there is precisely one clear answer.

Idézet: Sacrosanct - 2010.10.13. 17:52:25

Sometimes the spelling status is given when there are no spelling mistakes to avoid penalizing you a question. I don't see anything obvious to explain the rejection, but I can make a few guesses. First, I don't think evaluators like fill-in-the-blanks. It might be better to say "A full moon is how many times..." and end with a question mark. Second, most people say "half moon" instead of "half full moon". Third, I don't think evaluators like periods on the answers. None of those seem sufficient to reject it to me. So it could also be an evaluator trying to tell you to stop submitting that question without actually costing you a question.

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.10.13. 16:57:41

Had you read posts #182 - 204 in this thread, you would have been forewarned. I guess you were too busy trying to stay in both top 10s.

Idézet: Cruel01 - 2010.10.13. 15:29:18

That's a lot to expect of the evaluators, to get to that level of detail in a 5 minute hunt.

Anyway, if you're not going to re-submit, I'm willing to take the chance to get that question in the database.

Idézet: D00ml0rd - 2010.10.13. 05:55:44

OK, that's 6 of the 7 abilities accounted for. Hope you don't do your own taxes.

Idézet: Cruel01 - 2010.10.13. 12:30:48

That's just an awesome question. The evaluator rejected it, but you get an attaboy from me!

Wikipedia says that a few scholars believe that the name of the country comes from some legendary Irish island Hy-Brazil, so that's probably why it got rejected. That seems to be a very minority view, and it was not among the options, so to me, it should have been accepted. I would suggest re-submitting, adding an "Officially" in there somewhere.

Idézet: Kyril - 2010.10.13. 04:37:58

Keep in mind that when they say "Used SE", they don't mean that's how much SE you actually used. That's how much SE you put towards freeing Zarknod, which depends on your level and horde. Since Phalanxii is way higher level than you, he put in a ton more real SE than you did. My guess is that the rewards are based much more on SE contributed than number of creatures defeated.

Idézet: D00ml0rd - 2010.10.12. 22:57:29

How do you figure those stats are worth less than 900k? My ability bonuses were +16 or +17, and I estimate the total value a bit over 800k. You have higher (and thus more expensive) total stats than me, and you got higher bonuses, so your total value should be over 900k, I would think.

For my part, I think I put in about 650k, so I got a profit of roughly 150k. I killed 135 critters, which means 270 APs. So that translates into a bit over 500 SE / AP over and above what I got at the time of killing the critters. Overall, I think it turned out to be very close to break-even for me. The relics were definitely worth it, though, so for any W3'ers out there, I would recommend at least participating enough to get all the relics.

Idézet: Hatsepsut - 2010.10.07. 20:52:31

Thanks. That's what I wanted to confirm.

Idézet: Kethios - 2010.10.08. 04:55:24

I just mean whatever's easiest for you. If it would make your life easier, we could create a new thread and put everything in there that we would like you to discuss with the admins. The idea would be that when you went to talk to them, you could just look in that thread, and it would have the whole list in one place. Maybe it would be confusing having bug reports and feature suggestions all in the same place, though, I don't know.

Idézet: Viridel - 2010.10.08. 21:25:34

Right, I was definitely intending the special order to be visible only to clan members. The existing mechanisms (clan messageboard and the clan events list) have not been sufficient, in my experience. Every once in a while, someone spaces it while building and accidentally puts the SE towards another level of something we had completed recently. Plus, it would eliminate a whole lot of scrolling to find the current building. If it absolutely has to be visible to non-clan-members, I would probably still find it to be worth it, but I'm not sure I would be in the majority. So I would say it's probably better to leave it as is unless it can be restricted to only clan members.

Idézet: ImLittleJon - 2010.06.02. 15:34:39

This is the last suggestion I'm resurrecting for admin consideration right now. It is not as trivial to implement as the others I resurrected, but it should be doable in a matter of hours, not days.

Idézet: Viridel - 2010.06.02. 23:13:09

Resurrecting this one, too, for Kethios to discuss with the admins.

Here's how I would spec this out for the programmer:

1) Completing a clan building should generate a line in the clan events page and turn the clan menu item red. This should be trivially easy to implement and not particularly contentious.

2) Building from the clan soul well should not turn the clan menu item red
3) Whether building from the clan soul well should generate a line in the clan events page at all requires more discussion. If #2 can not be implemented without also changing the behavior on #3, then #2 should be regarded as requiring discussion as well.

4) I would add one other related item that Viridel did not mention. Highlighting a forum topic should turn the clan menu item red. If that requires generating a line in the clan events page, I would find that acceptable, but I would prefer it to just turn the menu item red without generating a line in the clan events page.

Idézet: ImLittleJon - 2010.06.11. 15:10:10

I'm resurrecting a couple of old suggestions to see if/how the new admin communication process works. I'm picking this one because the basic request (showing the number of questions on the quiz page) should be trivially easy to implement, and I doubt anyone would raise strenuous objections to it.

So, as I understand the process, Kethios will read this the next time he comes to the forums. He will then mention it to the admins, and he will post their reaction. Is that correct? Kethios, would it be easier for you if we had a special thread just for stuff that we would like the admins to see?

Idézet: Hatsepsut - 2010.10.06. 15:54:45

What if it's obvious which answer the submitter thought was correct (resulting in 75%+ correct), but the answer is factually wrong. Here's a possible example (I have no way of knowing whether it's at 75%+ correct or not, or whether this specific question has been deleted or not - please treat this as an illustration of my point, not the point itself) that I posted a long time ago: