DemonGoddess
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Okay, how the cards generate interest is this...
First the bank allocates interest per day based upon the rate set. This accrual is based on your points in bank total. So, say you have 1000 points, the interest rate is set at 2% (as an example), it'll give you 20 points in interest.
Then, the card takes the interest amount generated, and ADDS to that by the percentage set in the card options. So, if you get 20 points in interest, you'll get an additional 10 points because you have a card that allows it.
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Okay, I tried to issue a challenge to see if I could duplicate this. You have to go into your user CP (My Controls) and ENABLE the challenge system first.
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What were you doing to trigger that?? Had no idea it was there by the way.
Okay, do me a favor, step out EXACTLY how you went about challenging someone else. That'll help me find out what went wonky.
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urgh....missed the member group when setting permissions...got the rest of 'em tho earlier. try again.
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have another support request in with the modmaker regarding the various issues. We'll see how long it takes for me to get a response.
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Just as with the arcade, you can increase your points by playing.
Basic instructions--
Deposit to your wallet (click the wallet link) from your points balance
Select a game
Once you're done, be sure to cash out before finishing the game, otherwise you lose your points.
You can then either transfer your winnings back to your main points account, or keep 'em in your wallet. The casino games by default have a set limit of up to 500 points in your wallet at any given time. So, once you've cashed out, and want to play more, you have to be sure to transfer back to your main points any points over the 500 limit.
Just as with the arcade, I am limited as to how many games per day I can download and then install. So, I'll increase what's there, it'll just take awhile....
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I'll add these too. Many thanks.
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There are some additional features I forgot to mention, and how they work.
- tournaments
I can set up tournaments for any of the individual games listed, depending on if you guys want 'em or not. This would be set up with jackpots for points as well, determined by placement. - sit and go
Sort of a multi player thing. You create one, select how many players to allow (up to 15), select a game from the dropdown (there are games available ONLY for this particular function), and there you go. - points earned
Your points will be updated 1 point for every 100 scored in game, up to a maximum of 10,000 points.
- tournaments
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Forum RegistrationFirst of all, so there is no misunderstanding, this is not truly an open forum. This is for the fiction portal users to be able to communicate with one another, get social, whatever they feel like doing.
Because it's not an open forum, registration is generally restricted to users who have a pre-existing archive login. There are some exceptions to this, but they are few and far between. Read this topic that covers the exceptions. For the most part, if a user registers for the forum, and I cannot find a link in archive for that user (if it's not already been provided), that user will be deleted from the forum database.
What is required
1. Fill in ALL parts of the registration form as asked for.
- Where it asks for birthdate, the information must be filled out. Otherwise, the user will be restricted to the guest accessible parts of the board, and be unable to use the rest of the board. Remember, this is an age restricted site after all.
- Where it asks for "AFF Author Page", that is where you provide the link to your fiction portal user page. i.e. http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/profile.php?no=50. The number at the end of the path changes, of course, to the one which is your actual user ID. The path I listed is simply an example.
- Where it asks for "pen name" please fill that out with your actual pen name in the archive.
- Where it asks for email, be sure to include a valid email address. Invalid email addresses cause your forum membership to be deleted without warning.
Frequently, I come across registrations where all that is listed is the pen name. Not a huge problem, as I will then search the archive for that user to verify whether or not they are one of our users. That also points out why that information must be accurate.
User Validation
This is a two step process. Self validation and administrator validation.
There are reasons for it being this way. Most importantly, to protect the site and its members from spam mail harvesters, bots, and spamming users which love to troll the internet and create memberships in forums (this happens all the time) so that they can post their linkage to their various sites (usually pill sites and the like). A spam mechanism doesn't register with a real email address, so it has no way to validate its membership.
First step is to click on your validation link you'll recieve after registration. Be sure to check your junk/spam folders for this mail, as many mail handlers filter this type of mail out as spam. Once you click that link, you then move the admin validation queue.
While in the admin validation queue, there are things that I check for, and this determines whether or not the user is approved to use the board the software.
- real email address - If a user registers with a fake mail, it bounces back to the forum email, and that user will not be validated. Be sure to use the email that you use in archive, as a non match from there to here will also cause the registration to be deleted from queue.
- Fiction portal (archive) link/pen name - I check to see whether or not the user has an actual archive page, if he/she does not, that user is not validated.
I have the validation queue set up to auto delete anyone who has not validated after 7 days. So, if one does not validate their initial registration, that user is deleted regardless by the forum itself.
Melrick or I check the admin queue at least once a day, depending upon my own work schedule, and other things that crop up in my offline life. If the user is not validated from the admin queue immediately, don't panic, I will get to you. The time I have scheduled for checking that queue is from 3pm to 5pm EST. So, please be patient, it will be gotten to. Having said all that, please allow up to 24 hours for the admin validation to occur.
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Rather than having the selection for groups to collect interest with cards as "Allow ALL", I manually selected each group. Hopefully, that fixes the problem.
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At the top of the topic, click "options", then "track this topic". You should be emailed when there is activity on the thread.
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hehe I am WAAAAAY out of practice with that one.
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Have installed a game arcade. There's a few games there, will get some more.
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The government is certainly not using this cash cow to their benefits now are they? Personally, I'm allergic to the stuff, but don't see any reason why it can't be legalized with stipulations like for alcohol.
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Well, I think you guys can see my quandary with this. I have no idea what all the different items DID, as I never really played in the store. What made me stand up and take notice of the points system was that weird accumulation I had. I wasn't SUPPOSED to get those points simply by visiting the board.
If you had a bank account before, open up another, let me know, I'll reimburse the 100 points to open it. Your banks points are actually still there, not accessible until you open a new bank account.
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Sure, I guess I missed it.
Not hard to do, considering there are something like 250 titles in that section. -
With the way the upgrade worked, and how everything changed, the cookies stored for the board ALSO changed. So, if you are having problems staying logged in, you have to clear your browser cache and history, close the browser, reopen the browser and log in. That should correct any difficulties because the old cookie will be overwritten with the new one.
If you are using Internet Explorer, you may have to do this more than once. Also, I would restart the machine as well, to ensure clearing everything. No need to do it for Firefox, it's got a much cleaner function for clearing cookies.
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Sure, they can be restored. It's a matter of my editing your file. However, given that there were problems with the calculations algorithms before(which is WHY I had to run utilities specific to the store), I'd also ask that you explain to me how you accumulated so many points when the thing was set up to grant x points for x actions. I can also point out to you what happened with my own account, maybe a month ago or so. Three days, no posts, no topics, and I accrued 25,000 points. Open points, not bank points. Obviously, something was very wrong.
Also, please bear in mind that this was a MAJOR forum upgrade. There are over 30 versions between this one and what was here before. The table structure is different, the scripts entirely rewritten for the board itself. That the points even existed after the upgrade was a bit of a surprise. It's the only modification pre upgrade that actually had ANY kind of data that came forward with the board upgrade. I EXPECTED (and posted that) that ALL prior board modifications would be LOST entirely. For the store, the only part of it that correctly transferred forward with the upgrade was the member bank points.
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Will the personal photo size remain at 150x150, because if so, awesome?
Also, I like it too!
Yep, or could make it bigger even
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Also the Support forum, and the Bug Tracker
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For future contests and what have you.
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It's added to the forum base gallery B)
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hehe thanks
The "virtual brownies" are sure to give me the sugar rush I need to finish some stuff up B) -
You want it for forum or archive? If you want it here, email it to me. For the archive, email it to manta2g B)
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I'll observe consistency of high scoring per game before doing that. I have to set it first for all games, which I did. When I can see a pattern of scoring, I will then adjust the points awarded per different games.
If any of you want tournament, make a post in the suggestion forum for the forum. Let me know the duration you'd like to see for it, if you want to limit it to x amount of players, that sort of thing.