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[Lex]

what is this new hp and ex thing on the board?

[Slougi]

Sorry i just had to post to view my stats :P

[Martin]

It's some new hack I've implented. If people like it, it'll stay. If not, it'll go. :P

HP: This rises and falls according to how active you are.
MP: Shows how long a user has been with the forums and their level of activity.
EXP: Shows how close you are to reaching the next level.

Every time your experience reaches 100% you get a level up.

Thanks to Knoman (Avalon) for the hack and thanks to Pixeljunction for inspiring me to implent it. :)

[Slougi]

I like it. I love RPG's :D

[vampireuk]

Well I'll post to see how im doing =\

[Tk64]

Martin: Thx for the link. Search wouldn't work because it's under the min legnth.


I like it A LOT!!! No reason not to keep it. :P

[dave_luther]

looks cool

[Davemc]

Mario is not used to having hp and exp and stuff :(

mario likes circular health bars and srinking and falling through the screen :(

this is gonna confuse mario a lot

[sk8bloke22]

personally i dont like it, it confuses my simple brain. but heck if everyone likes it ill just be sheep and follow and the masses :D

[Gent]

/Me looks, /me Sees/ Me dont believe :plain:

[Martin]

Also, I deleted some parts of the postbit because they made it too huge. So, I removed Location, posts and date registered, and those dotted lines as well.

[Davemc]

:emutalk:


guess mario will have hp from now on. mario is considering being signed up by square now, to feature in the new final fantasy.

i think maybe the number of post should come back, maybe???

[blizz]

s'ok, I neither hate it or dislike it

[Martin]

Originally posted by dayve
i think maybe the number of post should come back, maybe???

Well, the number of posts are reflected in your level, kind of. Also, if you click a person's profile you'll see their number of posts. As I said, I couldn't have it all in the postbit.

It's all very simple though, if people would just voice their opionions I would get an idea if I should keep it or kick it.

[Davemc]

ok

i dont really like it that much but it wouldnt bother me if it stayed

[h-e-l-l-o]

yeah its cool:thumbsup: :cool: :)

[sytaylor]

its alright i guess, but it shouldnt totally replace the post count, although it does look pretty :)

[adi]

yeah, its amusing for the first few minutes but then it kinda loses its appeal. it'd be better if the post count could fit in somewhere though, its a pain having to click on your profile to find it. but maybe thats just because im lazy

[Tri-Force]

Originally posted by dayve
Mario is not used to having hp and exp and stuff :(

mario likes circular health bars and srinking and falling through the screen :(

this is gonna confuse mario a lot

Didn't you play one of the greatest RPG's for SNES... Super Mario RPG. many people forget that one

[Martin]

I did bring back the post count just now. Some people are obsessed by those, it seems. :o

[Tk64]

^--- Like me. I love statistics. :P Interesting to look at...

[Tri-Force]

you should put psots first then level. it's more exciting :innocent:

[Sukh]

Uhmm, not bad :) Is this forum turning into some sort of online game then...? :)

[Martin]

Originally posted by Tri-Force
you should put psots first then level. it's more exciting :innocent:

You're right, and so I switched order. :)

[Tk64]

Just thought of something. For people who don't want to see the bars, why can't there be an option in the user CP for it?

[Martin]

I wish it was that easy. :). It is probably possible to do, but I don't know how to.

[Slougi]

Originally posted by Sukh
Uhmm, not bad :) Is this forum turning into some sort of online game then...? :)
Hmm... Now that sounds leet :D
All start coding an online rpg ;)
Or we could start an Emulation64 Diablo2 Server :)
On the other hand, maybe not.... :P

[Davemc]

Originally posted by Tri-Force


Didn't you play one of the greatest RPG's for SNES... Super Mario RPG. many people forget that one


i remember that but it didnt have bars like that did it?

paper mario doesnt does it?

oh i cant remember wheather it or not :(

[Malcolm]

the only problem i have with the system is that the hp is based on your post activity, not how often your online and such. My hp would be huge :P

[Ruesselschnurps]

But after all...the Hack is awesome..i really love it..

[Martin]

You have a good point there Malcolm, but I don't really know how to do that. :(

[EdgeBlade]

How about just a HP and MP, but alter it so it is something like Active and maybe user age? or some similar thing

One message board has taken this to the extreme, kinda cool, but I'm not sure it fits here.

Look -> http://dolmant.net/~classixgaming/forum/

[Tk64]

It would be neat if HP was this: the more new posts you reply to the higher it is.

MP: Sounds like "magic power". What if it was how many hours a day (on average) you were online, a la Malcom. Someone with a higher MP would be online more often. How about a small program like Yahoo Messenger... it reports to EmuTalk.net whenever you have an Internet connection that you're online.

EXP/level #: Sound fine the way they are.

[Jaz]

It's looking sweet! :D

[rob in london]

i for one like it and would be happy if it stayed
edit: omg my stats are poor! get rid of it! lol

[Tk64]

Hey wait. Our IPs are all logged right? So just have the server ping us every 5-10 mins. :P Then you know how much everyone's online.

P.S. Thought some more... HP should be how many new posts you've read, not replied to.

P.P.S. Why do the mods have full HPs?!

[Malcolm]

Originally posted by Tk64
Hey wait. Our IPs are all logged right? So just have the server ping us every 5-10 mins. :P Then you know how much everyone's online.

P.S. Thought some more... HP should be how many new posts you've read, not replied to.

P.P.S. Why do the mods have full HPs?!

my ho isn't @ 100 :sly:

[Tk64]

Originally posted by Malcolm


my ho isn't @ 100 :sly:

A bunch of others sure are. See above posts - Jaz, Slougi, Martin, etc.



:emutalk:

:D A couple more posts and I'll be lv.6 :)

[Malcolm]

thats cause they post like 5+ times a day, click their profile and check the posts per day % :colgate:

{edit}
I just realized that its 3.5%+ for 100%
{/edit}

[Martin]

It's actually 4 posts per day.

Tk64: the problem is that I would need to get vBulletin to store the total time a member is online every day, and I don't know how to do that.

[DK64]

start a turn based battle system :p

[h-e-l-l-o]

hehe that would be great

[Josep]

nah, i think its cool that you guys keep adding stuff, just keeps this board more interesting;) Btw, i've posted quite a bit in the past few mins and i haven't leveled up at all!:)

[Martin]

Josep: It levels up alright, don't you worry about that. :)

[Remote]

What is, The matrix, the formula to calculate levels? Let's say a user has 100 posts and an average of 3 posts per day.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Remote
What is, The matrix, the formula to calculate levels? Let's say a user has 100 posts and an average of 3 posts per day.

Quite simple, here goes...

$level = pow (log10 ($post[posts]), 3);
$ep = floor (100 * ($level - floor ($level)));
$showlevel = floor ($level + 1);
$hpmulti =round ($postsperday / 6, 1);
if ($hpmulti > 1.5) {
$hpmulti = 1.5;
}
if ($hpmulti < 1) {
$hpmulti = 1;
}

$maxhp = $level * 25 * $hpmulti;
$hp= $postsperday / 4;
if ($hp >= 1) {
$hp= $maxhp;
} else {
$hp= floor ($hp * $maxhp);
}
$hp= floor ($hp);
$maxhp= floor ($maxhp);
if ($maxhp <= 0) {
$zhp = 1;
} else {
$zhp = $maxhp;
}
$hpf= floor (100 * ($hp / $zhp)) - 1;

$maxmp= ($jointime * $level) / 5;
$mp= $post[posts] / 3;
if ($mp >= $maxmp) {
$mp = $maxmp;
}
$maxmp = floor ($maxmp);
$mp = floor ($mp);
if ($maxmp <= 0) {
$zmp = 1;
} else {
$zmp = $maxmp;
}
$mpf= floor (100 * ($mp / $zmp)) - 1;

[Eagle]

Martin, this is going to cause more spam. Just like the old Ikonboard titles did. I have to strongly oppose this.

[Martin]

Eagle: Yeah, that was one of my doubts in implenting it, but I'll give it a few days. It's hardly difficult to find out it that's the case, and if it is, the hack is easily removeable. :)

[Teamz]

Originally posted by Eagle
Martin, this is going to cause more spam. Just like the old Ikonboard titles did. I have to strongly oppose this.

I TOTALLY agree with u Eagle

[Eagle]

I do like the gender thing though, maybe add an Age as well. or just put a check box option in the User CP to have it display the Age automatically calculated from your birthdate. What would be really cool is if you could have it display a special image under the name when its someones birthday.

[Tri-Force]

King Eagle you read my mind. bring on the spam as people want to see their stats rise and want to not be a low stat person

[Eagle]

Originally posted by Tri-Force
King Eagle you read my mind. bring on the spam as people want to see their stats rise and want to not be a low stat person

I've been called lots of things, but never King! :happy:

[crhylove]

i think it's fun. i mean, emulation of nintendo(s) is all about fun anyway, right? bring it on! if some lamerz wanna spam, let's not let that diswade us from our silly forum "hitpoints".

/me does want a more in depth explanation. maybe more of a storyline to describe the stats... lol

rhy
:devil:

[Macca]

yeh it is a sweet hack, we just need to make sure that the system is not abused by people poting useless crap trying to level up

[Macca]

....like this :P

j/k but don't do it :D

[sya64]

this is COOL.
just like RPG.
i love RPG....

[Doomulation]

Dammit, I just love the idea :D
I vote that it stays all the way!:P

[Martin]

Although it looks very nice and is meant to make the boards more interesting, the more I think of it, the less I want to keep it. There's nothing I'd hate more than see this board get ruined by spam like most boards tend to do.

I think we've done great so far about keeping the spam down, but this kind of asks for it. I don't know, I'll think so more.

[Macca]

martin: what you have to do is experiment with it for maybe a week or two, us mods will check over the threads and if there is a dramatic increase in spam and shit then it can be removed, if not, it can stay

[Ruesselschnurps]

Just give it a try for one or two weeks !

[sk8bloke22]

nah, i didnt like anyway...good riddance.

[Remote]

What does good riddance mean? I'm certain that I've heard it before, I'm just unable to place in in a sentence or in a context... I didn't even notice it was gone, the wow factor didn't take long to disappear but it feels good to know that we are getting somewhere but then again as long as nobody messes with the white background I'm satisfied...

[Anchel]

Well, now it's over. !!! NO MORE RPG THING!!! WHY?????????????
I liked it...

[Tri-Force]

we should have a story board were poeple can add to the adventure and post graphics of created charactors fighting and things like that. then the RPG thing could be made to only feflect that aera of the board. I know if you can ommit one section from being reflected (way off topic) then i bet that you could make it to only reflect in a certain board. that would be great ill post an example of it soon.

[Eagle]

I used to have something like that in my old Diablo Guild. We'd choose character class and start a story based in the Diablo world. But the ending of each post would be inconlusive, left for the next person to add more to the story line. It really got quite wild. Its like that old camp fire game where a person starts a story, tells it for 2 min and then passes to the next person who has to improvise for the next part.

[Remote]

He walked up to me and slapped me across the chin, later on he told me...

...the place to download roms which is...

As long as it doesn't get out of hand it's definetely a good idea, we had a similar thing in school a couple of years ago. It ended when the teacher realized that he couldn't read our stories without blusing...

[Tri-Force]

too lazy to finish it though. and no offence Gokuss4 but i just had to chop your head off



Gokuss4 shivers but Link shows No mercy as he slices his head off for what he did to (with) Zelda

[h-e-l-l-o]

LMAO!!:D

[blizz]

Originally posted by Tri-Force
we should have a story board were poeple can add to the adventure and post graphics of created charactors fighting and things like that. then the RPG thing could be made to only feflect that aera of the board. I know if you can ommit one section from being reflected (way off topic) then i bet that you could make it to only reflect in a certain board. that would be great ill post an example of it soon.

that's sounds like spam creation, it a nice idea but I'm sure there are message boards (probably for Star Trek and Star Wars at least) dedicated to online RPGs.

[Tri-Force]

so then you want us to go to other boards. i would mod it myself if i was alloud to. i have nothing but time on my hands.

[Doomulation]

The RPG-hack went away :cry:
Hmmm, but I want it back. Just take the hard methods! :P
Spam = ban

[pj64er]

inspiration?