Hozzászólások - ImLittleJon

Idézet: Phalanxii - 2011.03.07. 16:56:07

No, it was stopped due to people cheating. A bunch of people were using a script during their normal quizzes which sent in the questions and answers into a big database. Then, during the olympics, their script could just look up the answers in the database, so it would automatically mark the correct answer for them, unless nobody had ever gotten that question before. A long time ago, I posted an approach that I think would solve the issue without too much programming - the key being that instead of displaying text for the questions and answers, you would generate images with unique urls.

Idézet: Phalanxii - 2011.03.07. 16:56:07

Last I heard, those were just held up by a minor bug or something. I thought they would be launched a long time ago. Kethios, any news on that front?

Yeah, but malaria:

Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemosporida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species: P. malariae

OK. I just went through every post in this thread and picked out what I think are the best suggestions that haven't been either implemented yet or officially shot down.

Repeat suggestions:
- ability to PM multiple players. See posts 19,81,93,123,124,237,337. Effort: Low.

- in-game chat. See posts 68,92,93,169,223. Post 230 says it's on the todo list, but we haven't heard anything since. Effort: Medium (search for "open source php chat" shows a gazillion options)

- ability to see duel targets while resting. See posts 314-316,319. Effort: Trivial.

- edit clan forum post. See posts 148-153. Effort: Low.


Epic discussions:
- fix clan wars. See posts 161-163,167-168,181. Effort: unknown, needs discussion.


My favorite minor tweaks:
- auction closing times are not convenient for all time zones. Posts 47,237,238. I propose three possible solutions. 1) instead of waiting 120 hours between auctions, wait 121. 2) wait 108 hours + random(0..24). 3) assign a time of day for each major slot, so 1 ends at 0:00, the next at 6:00, etc.

- better coordination of clan building. Post 118. Post 222 says this is on the todo list, but nothing further.

- remove default radio button for building from personal SE. Posts 441-445


Other minor tweaks:
- delete inactive accounts. Posts 41, 419
- ability to equip no weapon at all. Post 41
- awardable medals. Posts 84,115
- a la carte premium options. Posts 114,397
- challenge championship. Post 145
- make secondary attack/spell optional. Posts 164-166
- higher level catacombs. Post 187
- show what type of item the entity rewards are (ring, necklace, etc.). Post 254
- call all pets to fight/rest/exercise/heal. Posts 348,430
- some display for time remaining to fight infection. Post 348
- notice when new auction items arrive. Post 348
- notification if overbid in treasury. Post 406
- ability to interrupt pet exercise. Post 434
- save up mana construction points. Post 438
- display focus crystals by what they go in. Post 440

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.03.01. 07:31:36

Great! That's good to know.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.03.01. 07:31:36

True, I could have been more precise: It is fortunate that you are reading the forums at the moment, but unfortunate that you don't have time to read all the past posts.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.03.01. 07:31:36

Oh, we chew on him plenty, believe me. My job involves moderating social media, so I can say that this setup is absolutely typical. The people who can make decisions about the product don't have time to read all the posts. But there need to be procedures in place so that the loop gets closed, which too often doesn't happen here. There are a number of possible points of failure in the loop:
- Kethios could be busy and not read the post
- Kethios could fail to forward it on to you
- You could fail to respond to Kethios
- Kethios could fail to forward your response on to us

Sometimes, all that happens, and then we're happy. Even if the response is "that's just too hard to implement". But most of the time, we make a suggestion, and either there's no response, or the only response is Kethios saying he will forward it on, and then we never hear anything more back. Ideally, every post in the suggestion thread should have a response. That thread has been up just over a year, and it has a total of 450 posts. There's a lot of discussion there, so there's probably only about 100 actual suggestions or so, which is less than 10 per month.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.26. 14:23:16

It is unfortunate that you don't read the forums, as that all has been discussed, and some of the suggestions were proposed with that history in mind. The one that I think would be most useful would be to add some kind of appeals process. That shouldn't add much workload for the evaluators, as it would only come up for questions that got rejected, and the author felt strongly that it was a good question. The process could even be to come post in a thread here on the forums, but for this idea to work, there needs to be a way for stekkos or one of the other evaluators to manually credit someone with extra questions as compensation for having a question wrongly rejected.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.26. 14:23:16

Stekkos and CG are already coming to the forums to post their explanation every time they reject a question. Adding that as a feature in-game would actually save work on their part. Likewise, there is already a "customer service" line...these forums. The only thing missing, as mentioned above, is some mechanism for handling the rare case when a good question got rejected.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.26. 14:23:16

As you say in another thread, you never said the system is perfect. But your attitude is clearly that the system is good enough that there is no point in spending any time improving it.

Idézet: stekkos - 2011.02.28. 04:43:01

It's vaguely familiar from my nuclear physics class in college. I was under the impression that the guideline stated up through high school for academic questions, though. Perhaps if Googlability got factored in....

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.25. 13:17:51

Viridel is not the only person who has made suggestions.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.25. 13:17:51

OK. If most of them are unnecessary, how about commenting on the others?

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.25. 13:17:51

In other words, the way it is now is perfect and can't be improved, so why should we have any discussion about ways to improve it?

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.25. 13:17:51

First, we should be careful about terminology. As far as I know, there is currently 1 admin and 4 evaluators. The evaluators are the ones who are responsible for doing the accepting and rejecting of questions, so I think the suggestion would be for the evaluators to do the correcting as well. If the only objection to that is workload on the evaluators, that's easy to solve by expanding the pool of evaluators. There are plenty more volunteers. But that's just one minor suggestion. If we do have a conversation about how to improve the quiz system, it would be far down my list.

Idézet: Sbart - 2011.02.24. 14:12:09

Agreed. But in the meantime, that info is available at http://doomlord.wikidot.com/epicitem.

Idézet: Dolp13 - 2011.02.22. 11:31:25

I think you have the intent of the question backwards. What they must have meant is: is Swahili a garment, a weapon, an animal, or a language?

Idézet: Dolp13 - 2011.02.22. 11:31:25

(x + 2) = 2 (x - 5)
x + 2 = 2x - 10 --- here's your mistake. you did 2x - 5, forgetting to multiply the two on both numbers
2 = x - 10
12 = x

Idézet: LydonB - 2011.02.11. 19:25:00

Yes, but your units are SE. Mine were build points. I believe the amount of SE it takes per build varies by level. I'm level 48, and 100k SE translates into about 1500 build points at 40 per build. Presumably, a level 90 character would get a lot fewer build points for their 100k, while a lower level would get more (assuming they were high enough level to have a noticeable build skill).

So, to give a concrete example, let's assume that the level 45 and 55 queens on W3 have been imprisoned and killed. Then, I'll be assigned to the level 35 queen. I expect that my SE per build will stay the same (if that varies, that's another way that our progress might accelerate). But what I don't know is if my build points will translate to a different percentage of the prison, given that there are a different number of active players in that level bracket.

Back of the envelope, it looks like at the current pace, W2 will finish off 5 of the 7 queens. But that rests on an assumption that may not be valid - that it takes the same number of build points to imprison each queen on a given world. If each queen has a different threshold based on the number active players at its level, that might mean the highest and lowest levels might be easier to imprison. What I'd really like to know is the exact threshold for each queen on W2, but failing that, Miklos, can you tell us whether each queen's threshold is the same or not?

Idézet: Charon - 2011.02.10. 12:57:41

I'd prefer it go the other direction. Every time we kill a regenerated queen, I'd like to see a small increase in the percentage built of the prison, reflecting that the regenerated queen comes back a little weaker and is easier to imprison.

Idézet: V3nG3nC3X - 2011.02.09. 10:38:02

That was from a different, unrelated thread. I just was too lazy to go back and make a whole separate post in the correct thread.

Idézet: V3nG3nC3X - 2011.02.09. 10:38:02

See http://forum.doomlord.net/index.php/topic,77.520#hsz523.

Idézet: V3nG3nC3X - 2011.02.08. 21:48:15

It's a transliteration issue. The real spelling is Möbius. Since English doesn't have umlauts, that can be transliterated as either Mobius or Moebius, and both are considered correct. Mobius is certainly the more common one, though.

P.S. On the whole noon/midnight thing, every piece of software I've seen that can display time in the 12-hour format with am/pm follows the American standard of noon = 12 pm, midnight = 12 am. We've got Silicon Valley, and you don't, so we win!

Idézet: MartinBV - 2011.02.08. 15:01:48

At least in the US, schoolkids are taught that 12 am is midnight, and 12 pm is noon. For us, this is the hard and fast rule, and it is not ambiguous at all. Since this is an international game, though, the question should at least specify the country.

Idézet: V3nG3nC3X - 2011.02.08. 14:09:20

At a minimum, you need a year, as the answer could change over time.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.07. 20:39:11

3 days is enough to get some sense of our velocity, and right now, it looks like the killing part will be accomplished easily, but the building part will likely fall short. I expect a lot of people will stop building at all once they achieve 1600 builds, so the building velocity will slow with time, if anything.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.07. 20:39:11

Although some people are complaining about the fight rewards (you can't please all the people all the time...), I think the main complaints are on the building side of things. At least in the case of a hunter, there's no cost to fighting with AP, and in fact, there are a number of benefits compared to normal hunting, like pet XP. But the building involves actual sacrifice, in the form of SE or lack of clan building. My prediction is that when the event is over, only a few players will be over 1600 builds, whereas nearly all the active players will be over 400 victories.

Idézet: Miklos - 2011.02.07. 20:39:11

Amen!

Idézet: baggybag - 2011.02.01. 18:20:33

My best answer to that question has to come in the form of a story.

Once upon a time, there was a game with no end. It was a good game, and in the beginning, everyone was happy. As new players found the game, however, they were unhappy. They saw how powerful were the players who had been there longer, and they knew they could never compete. So the admins looked down from on high, and they said unto the masses, "We will launch a new world." And they did. Then, all the newer players moved to the new world, where they could start on an even footing, and for a while, everyone was happy again. But then the cycle repeated, and a third world was opened, then a fourth, then a fifth. Meanwhile, on the older worlds, players gradually dropped out, as they got bored, had kids, changed jobs, and so forth. No new players could replace them, and slowly the game felt more and more dead, leading to more players dropping out. Until one day, someone said, "Hey guys, I found this new game, let's all go there."

In my experience, that is the end game for all games without a built in end game. It's just a question of how long it takes before the death spiral kicks in. If, on the other hand, there is some defined limit, after which the whole world starts over, you might lose some players at reset time, but that would be more than made up for by the newer players you'd keep because they knew they'd have an opportunity to compete to be one of the leaders, or to try a new strategy.

Idézet: ChaoticGemini - 2011.01.29. 02:40:40

And just to be clear, I believe that Drain Soul is a percentage of the amount of damage you caused with that hit. Not any kind of percentage of the SE of the opponent.

Idézet: D00ml0rd - 2011.01.28. 19:32:11

Yeah, that's what I'm using now. But it would be that much easier if I could just mark it in-game. And it would provide some justification for the whole evaluation bit.