New exp bars?

[watashiwa]

Keep them?

[Davion]

What are they and how do they work?

[watashiwa]

HP is based on user activity.

A user's current HP is based on the user's posts per day.
A higher post per day (ppd), the more HP they will have.

MP is calculated by how long the user has been around and how often they post.

Max MP is based on level, and increases with level
Each post a user makes costs them mp, and a user regenerates mp proportional to how many days they have been registered.

Experience is determined by how far the user is away from the next level. This is expressed as a percentage.

Of course, you gain experience by posting.

To break it down simpler, HP is increased by posting whereas MP is decreased. A person with high HP and low MP probably = post whore. A person with low HP but high MP probably doesn't post much at all.

[Rhete]

Ditch them, they're ugly and they make short posts (like the 2 at the top of this topic) larger than needed

[watashiwa]

Haha, yeah. Oh well, was just trying something.

I could just try to shrink the size of each individual bar as well...

I dunno, probably better to just remove them. =P Just thought it'd be sort of fun.

[neko-chan]

I like the idea! ^_^

Maybe you can try to make them a little smaller and valign="top" the post cell.



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[Dangerous55]

Meh, just as long as people dont make topics saying: I leveled!

[ABDUR101]

...I own.

XD

I think it's nifty. It's interesting to see really, I say keep it, it's not a big drain on the bandwith, nor does it mess up the page layout.

[watashiwa]

lol, doh, removed them. I just wanted to see what they looked like. I don't think it's a problem if people made worthwhile posts anyway.

Well, okay, I'll leave them on for like a day or something and you guys can vote in this topic then I guess it'll be decided via the outcome of the poll.

[KodiaX987]

Bug report! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

Someone who isn't logged in will see everyone as a post whore. All HP and no MP. o.O;; Somehow, XP isn't affected.

Oh, and I say yay to this. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Nidarrock]

I say keep them. Very nifty idea.

[watashiwa]

Fixed the bug. Sorry about that.

I was using the current logged in user's registration date for calculation instead of the poster's registration date for each post.

My bad!!

[TedEdFred]

I think they are good, keep em.

[rbf2000]

I think they look pretty spiffy.

[Parn]

Eh, I considered adding a similar thing to RPGFan's boards, but then decided against it for the very reason Rhete's against it... makes the left bar much longer than it needs to be, and it'd look goofy spread horizontally.

It's novel at first (as is anything that's new), but eventually people won't care about this a month from now, especially since most of us will be playing PSO E1/2 at that time, and we'll be posting with questions and comments about the game, and how many HP/TP/XP we have on the boards won't make much difference.

Let us use custom avatars in the meantime though, and then we'll talk. =P

[Reno]

Interesting idea, I say keep em

[Ash1ey]

those are pretty cool, i like the idea

[Blue-Hawk]

eh they are ok. i say keep em. but i also agree with parn.... to a point. the only real problem i have seen with custom avatars is the loser kiddies that just have to have their porno pics as an avatar. i like mine at other boards that i use though lol. *wishes he could use it here*


*requests a trimate from someone to restore his lifebar*


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[pixelate]

More incentive to raise post counts. Naaah.

[Ziggy-san]

"HOLY CRAP!!

Since when did they add the HP bar thingys? Oh man, I LOVE those things!! I've seen em on other boards and stuff...oh man this ROCKS!!"

I was going to post that in a random topic when I saw these things for the first time, but I controlled myself :P

Dammit, I think these are freakin awesome. Sure, they'll become boring a month later, but what's the harm in keeping them? I think they make the site look a lot prettier. Plus the fact that you can instantly identify the "forum whores" on the site is very nify ^0^

Uhhm...does lengthly posts do anything positive for you? *sweatdrop*

[Moo2u]

Dang nabit, just like the ramar's a got a low hp! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

I say http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_yes.gif to the bars. They look cool. And custom avatars? Heck that would be cool too!

[Shadow_Blade]

I like the idea. It will cause people to start posting more to catch up to abdur's extreme lv...http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[watashiwa]

Hehe, every time something's added to PSOW, everyone requests custom avatars again. =P

[ChibiMyu]

I don't know about other people, but this low HP bar makes me want to kill myself with a damage trap and lvl up already... don't I at least have enough tp for resta? Oh, and I'm a fonewearl, so shouldn't I have more TP than HP? lol

[X-thirteen]

sorry but i think they are just stupid.

not like my opinion matters though..

[jazzyfox]

Now I know who posts nada but spam, and thus to ignore. (Mainly abdur)

[Darrin]

I personally think there great.

[Ness]

On 2002-08-21 13:59, watashiwa wrote:
HP is based on user activity.

A user's current HP is based on the user's posts per day.
A higher post per day (ppd), the more HP they will have.

MP is calculated by how long the user has been around and how often they post.

Max MP is based on level, and increases with level
Each post a user makes costs them mp, and a user regenerates mp proportional to how many days they have been registered.

Experience is determined by how far the user is away from the next level. This is expressed as a percentage.

Of course, you gain experience by posting.

To break it down simpler, HP is increased by posting whereas MP is decreased. A person with high HP and low MP probably = post whore. A person with low HP but high MP probably doesn't post much at all.



How convient, I was just about to make a thread asking about them. I say keep them.

[Rylios]

I think they're Phat looks cool
Soemthign new to the site
Keep it up wata http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[SnAPPUrU-nyan-ko]

They're lovely. Might need to add a section to the FAQ explaining them to new users, though =>_>=;

[yashichi]

Hmm I was wondering what this was so I looked here and lo and behold! it was all explained! Thanks Watashiwa.

Me Likey, even though it makes me feel like a lil' fish in a big pond! =D

-Y
@094

[Shadow_Blade]

Oh btw, wata, is there a lv limit? (not that any would would attually have some 300 million posts) but just curious. ^_^

[watashiwa]

There's no max level. 555 kthk.

[rbf2000]

I would have to say about 90% of people have full TP. Maybe that should be tweaked some...



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[Shrevn]

hahahaha I i just read watas description
if more hp and less mp "posting whore"
i scrolled down and looked at otakus bar
hahahaha!!!

I love them do! KEEP KEEP KEEP

[Ayame]

Hmm...interesting! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

I like them, although I'll almost always have low HP and high TP... -.-;

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

[watashiwa]

Another thing I forgot to mention is that if you see a user at a same level as another user with a higher max HP, it's because their average numer of posts per day is higher than the set board average and that user's average post per day, which I set at I think 5, plus that user's average.

If your post per day is high and you are lower leveled, your HP max bonus is higher than what would be received for a higher level person as well. So if you see a level 5 person with 500 HP and a level 10 person with the near same amount of HP. It's because the level 5 person is:

A) New to the boards.
B) Has been posting quite a bit. (Probably has like 25-30 average posts per day.)

If they don't post, their HP bonus will deteriorate over time.

Make sense? 'Course it does.

[HC82]

I like the whole "Spamers have high HP, low MP" idea.

Would be interesting to give some sort of stat boost to TP like how you have the HP boost set up. Maybe in some sort of reverse fashion based on date signed up to posts per day.

[Blue-Hawk]

On 2002-08-21 17:06, watashiwa wrote:
Hehe, every time something's added to PSOW, everyone requests custom avatars again. =P



yeah, but if we know you, wata, your never going to let us have them. personally, i can live without em... *really wants his avatar he uses on 'other' boards*

[Ron]

heh I like them a little kooky plus adds to the whole PSO/W experience I say yay... but looks like I need a trimate or even a scape doll I'm falling fast XD



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[ABDUR101]

On 2002-08-21 17:16, jazzyfox wrote:
Now I know who posts nada but spam, and thus to ignore. (Mainly abdur)


Appearently, high post count automatically = spam

However, if Jazzy visited more often and read my posts(which he doesn't do, since appearently my post count means I'm a spammer with nothing worthwhile to read), he would know that I have some rather insightful and long posts. =O

Oh well, guess he'll have to ignore this post, since I'm such a post whore =)

[Riel]

Now where have i seen this before... http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif,i like it looks cool.

[BWS-1]

Hmmm, keep them. It's a fine lil upgrade to the site's look http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif Plus, it happens to be usefull ... sorta http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[HarleyQuinn]

I like 'em! As a RAcaseal it's the only chance I get to experience what it's like to have a full TP bar!

*attempts to cast Razonde*

I do agree with the idea of having cutom avatars too (sorry watashiwa http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif).

[Sciler]

I like em, I say keep em

[rena-ko]

well, the bars show who's active, and who's not, but do they show a difference between inactive (rarely logged in) and passive (logged in, but not posting very much) users?

just a thought...


ack... abdurs HP bursted the format o_o;;;

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[googles]

i like them http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Dabra]

I don't know if it has been posted but isn't this a rip off of greg's Omegahour site?

I mean come on it's the same thing.


[EDIT]Nm, didn't realize it was a common rpg hack...soz



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[FinalMasterM]

http://pixelized.forgiven5.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi

I signed up this forum a while back ago, I like they layout they got, very RPGish and laods of fun, but again it won't be long before people start spamming/forum whoring just to be "better" than other people.

[Meteor]

Well it's not bad, it looks okay i suppose.

But it really is totally pointless!

Seriously, pretty much everyone i have seen (except Abdur of course) has very low HP and very high TP, so there's not enough difference between individuals.

And it's way too complicated.

For Example:
"Another thing I forgot to mention is that if you see a user at a same level as another user with a higher max HP, it's because their average numer of posts per day is higher than the set board average and that user's average post per day, which I set at I think 5, plus that user's average. If your post per day is high and you are lower leveled, your HP max bonus is higher than what would be received for a higher level person as well. So if you see a level 5 person with 500 HP and a level 10 person with the near same amount of HP. It's because the level 5 person is..."

It took me around 10 minutes to work this out. Maybe i'm just stupid or something...

And another thing. Because I've been here a long time, but hardly ever post anymore, people will look at my 'stats' and think i suck compared to Abdur.

It's not a game, it's a forum!!

[ABDUR101]

On 2002-08-23 12:51, Meteor wrote:
And another thing. Because I've been here a long time, but hardly ever post anymore, people will look at my 'stats' and think i suck compared to Abdur.


I could'nt help but laugh at that XD

Well if we're judging people by post count, posts per day and "activeness", then yes, everyone sucks compared to Abdur.

But it's just something to add spice to the forums. It's not a big deal who posts often or not, it's the contents of your post that matters.

It's when you make it out to be a big deal that it turns into one. =)

Nothing big everyone, it's just to add something interesting to the forum. It's no different than looking at post counts, it just gives you a better idea of who's more active.

[Shadow_Blade]

On 2002-08-23 13:21, ABDUR101 wrote:

But it's just something to add spice to the forums. It's not a big deal who posts often or not, it's the contents of your post that matters.

It's when you make it out to be a big deal that it turns into one. =)

Nothing big everyone, it's just to add something interesting to the forum. It's no different than looking at post counts, it just gives you a better idea of who's more active.



*Narrator voice* This ABC after school special moment was brought to you by abdur and everyone at abdur inc.

[ABDUR101]

On 2002-08-23 13:26, Shadow_Blade wrote:
*Narrator voice* This ABC after school special moment was brought to you by abdur and everyone at abdur inc.


I double as a Surgeon General =O

And I serve riot duty...when I'm not inciting a riot. >_>

[amoralist]

I am a little bit concerned about how the system will work out too. It'll give people reasons to spam the hell out of it. Well, I'll probably end up with high TP.

[ScAReCrOw]

they're pretty cool. it was enough to get me log back in and actually post. now i think i might end up playing this instead of actual pso, since i'm not online anymore. Gaaa!

[IceBlink]

Looks pretty nice. I say keep it. ^_^ Even though I'm like posting at the most 10 times per week, I still look like a spammer. ^_^; Not as much as Abdur, hehehe. ^_^;

As for custom pics, the usual story. So many people would abuse it...

<-- custom-pic-less but has a title

o_O

[SPECIAL_WEAPON_FOmarl]

Lol,someone needs to hit me with a moon.I lurk most the time to read up on info,I kinda post from time to time.I don't mind these there not messing up my screen or anything.

Can I get a moon plz?

hello?

......I hate dying...


...so alone...

...moon me somebody!...

[Shrevn]

I dont know why ppl are bitchin if you dont like em then don >.< stop yer bitchin!