Hozzászólások - ImLittleJon

Idézet: ImLittleJon - 2010.08.04. 17:04:44

Not only that, but it turns out it's a duplicate.



If you're going to have a question about this subject, this is a much better form. At least here, you can get the correct answer by eliminating the others, making it much less ambiguous.

First, how did this possibly pass the specialized knowledge test? Second, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_River, the answer is 2824 km.

When I was in school, 1 was a prime number. Now, it's not. It's like asking whether Pluto is a planet or not. If the definitions are changing, it's not a good quiz question.

Would this question be accepted as is? If not, what's the minimum context that would need to be added? (I'm sure it's bumping up against the character limit already)

If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood / Who ya gonna call? If it's somethin' weird and it won't look good / Who ya gonna call?

The answer, of course, would be Ghostbusters.

Grams are a unit of mass, not weight. 1 kilogram on Earth is 1 kilogram on the moon. When someone answers a weight question using kilograms, there is an implied "on the surface of the Earth". Pounds, on the other hand, are a unit of weight. 1 pound on Earth is 1/6 pound on the moon.

Idézet: Lottoferi - 2010.08.02. 14:47:55

Technically, the question doesn't specify where the Euro was introduced. I agree, though, that clause does make the question awkward. A better form would be what was the currency in 2010 and have Euro as one of the incorrect options.

Idézet: Kethios - 2010.08.02. 13:57:00

Well, he posted 6 hours after MsPiggy's post. The previous post with any suggestions was 4 months older. I'm pretty confident that his intent was to reply to MsPiggy's post specifically. That's not really the point, though.

Idézet: Kethios - 2010.08.02. 13:57:00

I understand that they are very busy. But listening to the feedback of your customers and letting them know that they have been heard are extremely important for any business. The fact that the admins have been too busy to perform that function has built up a significant sense of frustration among the players. That might be about the only thing we can all agree on. I've seen that same sense of frustration be a contributing factor to other good games dying. I like Doomlord, and I would like to see it avoid that fate. The whole MsPiggy thing was just my attempt to couch my message in a gently teasing framework, but let me restate what I mean as clearly as possible:

Thank you for (finally) responding to someone's suggestions and letting us know we are not operating completely in a void. Please, please, please continue.

Idézet: Kethios - 2010.08.02. 13:57:00

Thank you for your efforts. They are noticed and appreciated. Do you have any contact with the people who do have permission into content? If they are too busy to come to the forums, but not too busy to chat with you, perhaps you could let them know as suggestions come through, and then let us know that our concerns have been heard. That's all we (well, I anyway) want.

Idézet: stekkos - 2010.08.02. 04:31:45

She wants the other direction - convert SE into real stones. Which is what the (English translation of the) description of the Energy Crystallizer implies it does.

Idézet: PerrinAybarra - 2010.08.02. 04:08:36

One word: thievery.

1) Approximately is spelled wrong
2) Nullarbor is spelled wrong
3) Correct answer is the only one with punctuation

Idézet: stekkos - 2010.07.30. 19:18:32

I think the idea is that only people who are not fighting the infection would bid on this item. I also expect that she halved the effect on purpose. She also proposed cannibalism, which is a similar item for the flip side - allowing users to attack the same horde as them, but with a penalty. Her idea seems to be to make it so (for the users who can afford these items at the AH), you can have your cake and still eat a little of it, too.

Idézet: LydonB - 2010.07.28. 23:03:20

I think you misunderstood the idea. She wanted it so instead of a set of 4 radio buttons where you had to pick one answer, you had 4 checkboxes and could check 2 of them, and if either one was correct, you would get the bonus.

Idézet: LydonB - 2010.07.28. 23:03:20

If the powers that be agree that this is gamebreaking, they can pick a number that they think isn't gamebreaking.

Idézet: LydonB - 2010.07.28. 23:03:20

No, turn it around. What it would mean is only players who are fighting the infection would bid on this item. It's not like everyone would be able to just go down to the soul huckster and buy one.

Idézet: LydonB - 2010.07.28. 23:03:20

If the powers that be really are looking at implementing some of these, I would suggest that you be more specific and list all the ones that you think are destabilizing. You never know, maybe they'll actually take your opinions into account, even if you're not pink and cuddly.

Idézet: Miklos - 2010.07.28. 20:47:48

Oh, I see how it is. Viridel and I post suggestions with no reply, but along comes a cute, pink muppet with a vicious karate chop, and suddenly you're looking into implementing her suggestions.

Idézet: Viridel - 2010.07.28. 15:19:09

Within the demographic of people who play online computer games? Hardly.

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 14:35:39

How about an item that would increase your chances of finding an item on each DG victory?

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 14:35:39

I would change this to a straight bonus to your intelligent pet skill. Much easier to implement and affects both kennels and duels.

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 14:35:39

Again, it would be simpler to just have a bonus to your continuum diminution skill.

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 14:35:39

Transcendal projection this time.

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 14:35:39

Seems a little redundant with the bag of ancient stones.

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 14:35:39

This one would be a pain to implement. I'd rather they put the work into a solution that would allow them to actually run the Olympics again. All they really need is something that can generate an image containing text. Display the question as one image, and each answer as individual images. Then take the quiz id and the answer ids, append a separator character and a timestamp to them, and run them through a basic encryption algorithm. That will make it so every time you get the same question, it will appear as a new id, so the hackers' scripts won't be able to tell it was the same question, and they won't be able to just compare the text of the question or answers (the image urls will need the same treatment, so they can't just compare the urls).

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 14:35:39

If the epic has 10% less HP, they will also implicitly regenerate 10% less, so I'd just pick one of those.

Idézet: MsPiggy - 2010.07.28. 12:57:24

I do know a lot about programming, and I also see no reason why we couldn't have a live chat integrated here.

In the game I played before finding Doomlord, they had an in-game chat that was only available to premium users. Back in the heyday of that game, people paid real money to be premium just because they couldn't bear to live without the camaraderie of that chat. To be effective, though, the chat has to appear on every page, so figuring out the screen real estate on Doomlord might not be easy.

Where is the grave of Friedrich Engels?
Manchester
Unknown
London
Barmen


Isn't "unknown" the same as "none of these"?

Idézet: Kethios - 2010.07.22. 13:24:01

That would be a lot easier if there were a way to go back and see (a few) past questions and answers.

Idézet: MartinBV - 2010.07.20. 22:52:41

Ultimate Fighting something or other. Boxing with no rules. I think drinking lots of beer might be required to understand the appeal.

In the UFC 116 main event, who won the match via submission in the 2nd round?

Does UFC really qualify as a broadly known sport to be included in the quiz???