DemonGoddess

I think it may also have to do with the weapon that the module picks at random for the other guy to use against you. If they use a more powerful weapon (even when they don't have the stats), the thing gives them the battle.

HUGE improvement. HUGE. Coding by committee SUCKS

This disparity has been ongoing for a number of years. I even remember when the book lists changed a fair bit to this sort of thing, if you can believe it. In any case, I can remember when as a kid in grade school, the books we read had heroes and heroines, but slanted more towards the men. As I got a little older (think about 5th/6th grade) and the ERA movement became so prevalent, the book lists and such changed (for lit classes and whatnot), with the focus becoming more so towards strong women, but nowhere near to the degree it is now. If I asked my mom about it, I'm sure she'd tell me the high school lists were vastly different from when I was in high school, and she was in high school. I noticed that the book lists changed AGAIN when my own children were in school. So, how to fight such a thing? It takes proactive PARENTS who take a genuine interest in what their children are reading. It also takes a parent who encourages a child to have a broad area of reading interests, not focusing on just what the schools say they can and cannot read for class. I was lucky in that respect. My parents never agreed with the published school book lists, and encouraged me to read whatever I enjoyed within reason (age appropriateness applied ). I did the same with own kids (funny how you apply to your own what your parents did with you). But, that's just a small drop in the bucket, so to speak. Regardless of WHEN in time you're talking about; in education, those book lists for allowed reading have always been a bit skewed. Whether to promote an administrator's personal views and beliefs, or whatever. They've certainly never been tailored to an individual CHILD'S needs.

Nia, email me the particulars so we can start searching for you. What will be needed in that email are any email addresses you may have registered with, and your password, so it can be searched out that way. Also include which main archive you publish in (i.e. Books, Original, Harry Potter, etc). That will help narrow things down.

N.I.B - Black Sabbath

Actually, we're kicking around a few ideas to streamline the whole looking for a fic thing to begin with. Part of which would actually use the forum; and kill it entirely in the archive. (That section is guest post/view enabled btw). Also, in the near future there is going to be some serious restructuring of the ENTIRE archive, to make it easier to navigate in general. However, we ask for patience, there are only THREE of us who actually do any kind of coding. As to people posting "looking/searching for a fic" in the storyboards, I would imagine that those can and SHOULD be deleted.

A troll, generally speaking, is a user who seeks to cause problems with other users for no other reason than because they'll get a response. General rule of thumb in forum, if you see a troll...DON'T feed it. In other words, if you ignore him/her, they aren't getting what they want, and they either stop or go away. If not, I can always HAMMER 'em. As to other stuff, I'll defer to the archive mods as to what they are using as the definition for trolls in the archive.

I'd say it was initial damage as well

Did you guys notice that the mod gives the person you attack a random weapon choice, and that it can often be a weapon that isn't even available to that user yet? Just got killed by an exploding chili........

yessssss massssterrrrrrrr

ugh, do I know how that goes. I usually work both second and third shift in any given week. This week is the first week in TWO MONTHS where I'm not working a 3rd immediately followed by a 2nd. On those days, I'm lucky if I sleep at ALL before I go back to work. I average about 4 hours sleep a day.

unfortunately that's not how the script was written. *sighs* I'll have to look more into the time limits thing tho

Okay, first of all, there've been a few times I've run across where someone has found a story that is in the wrong category and needs moved. At this point in time, it's not the easiest thing to do, but can be done. So, what I've done is make this forum so that we have a RECORD of stories that need to be moved to the appropriate category/subcategory, once that particular tool is in place. Please bear with us, it may take awhile to get that going, but it will get done. User accesses Guest posting is allowed in this forum.

I believe the root category is supposed to be view only, as in see the subcats only; not for posting. As to the structure, we're working on changing that around a fair bit, but that is some time away yet.

Not maniacs, just have more free time I think

Click the tab called "member tools", then select "Author Panel". As long as you're logged in, you'll go straight to your profile and user panel

Currently this seems to be 4, even though I set it to 10. So, I've posted a question in the mod maker's forum to see why it's doing that, and what I need to do to fix it so it allows the number of attacks I actually specified.

This is set so that you can attack anyone who is above you in level, no matter how much higher the level they are. Of course, I wouldn't recommend a level 1 player attack a level 10, for example, as that's very likely suicide . Here's the catch tho. In fairness, so that the newer players don't get constantly thunked on by higher level players, you can only attack at MOST 2 levels below yourself. So, for example, if you are a level 5 player, you can attack a player level 3 or above. But not a level 2 or level 1. I could even make it so that is reduced to ONE level below you, if you like.

nah, not at all. I'd have to make some graphics, and determine what stats are necessary to use these "weapons", because they would still be weapons. The battle mod is set to attack, so this would just be a different attack, which would still reduce hit points. So, since this is your idea, you have thoughts on the strength required to use each different one? Keep in mind, though, I'm in the middle of a few different projects so I very likely won't get to this right away. Next thing is skins, so after that, I can play around with adding new weapons and other things.

Depends on what you want it to look like Oh, doublechecked all the directory settings this morning for the upload. Found out where I did NOT adjust the permissions, so now that's done. You should now be able to upload the images.

This is the right place, actually. It requires tech access at this point in time to move it. Isn't there a Crossover subcat for Final Fantasy? If so, that's actually where this would go.

Back in Black - AC/DC

I'll get to the bottom of it, and figure out why exactly it's not working. Unfortunately I gotta nap before work, so it's likely I won't get to it until tomorrow

To raise stats requires attacks. But to make it so that your stats are at their highest requires a potion. did you notice that if a user attacks you and loses that they LOSE experience points?d As to the potion, I've taken to using the general restorative (I forget the name) which restores both HP and STR stats at the same time. Those seem to work better. There are some addon items I'm looking into as well, but I probably won't get to them until tomorrow sometime.

Yep, was me testing it. I will do again what they said should be done before, and then you should try again. Let me know if you still have problems.