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FWZ needs to add this emoticonIs there any sort of executive oversight over the “add an emoticon”? Like, does ET or a mod have to approve it?
Otherwise… watch out, here comes the never ending torrent of ****. (view post) |
04/05/2009 |
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Okay, so the win/fail thingET wanted it to be just for fun, it’s not supposed to mean anything. (view post) |
04/05/2009 |
Can we get rid of the "Ability disabled for x turns" pop-up?Suppose ET follows through on his promise to make speed jobs based on “number of turns” instead of “seconds” (as well as separating them by clbum), so that the “disabled” pop-up is simply an annoyance, and not actually any sort of penalty. Would there still be a reason to be opposed to letting people turn this off? (view post) |
04/04/2009 | |
reserve pricesDoes anybody know if there’s a better way to bring “Please fix reserve prices” to Evil Trout’s attention, other than periodically bumping this thread?
The following changes would be ideal (in order of importance):
1) If “Winning Bid” < “Reserve” < “Max Bid” increase the winning bid to the reserve price, award the item to the bidder and the flezz to the auctioner.
2) For the person who is currently the high bidder, allow that person to see “Reserve Not Met” on the auction page, in case their max bid is less than the reserve price.
3) In order for #2 to be effective, allow the high bidder to re-bid in order to increase his or her maximum bid.
Those three changes would make Kyoubai much more user friendly for people who buy and sell rare items that have limited (but pbumionate) markets. (view post) |
04/04/2009 | |
Can we get rid of the "Ability disabled for x turns" pop-up?How about we make the “disable ‘effect disabled pop-up’” an account option that is unchecked by default, so people who are new at the game will get to/have to deal with it, but oldbies can turn it off. Possibly this should only become an option after finishing episode 1?
I agree that this is extremely annoying. There are times when I have to hammer on the 1 bumon several times to get the attack to happen once, and there’s times that leaving my finger on the bumon half a tick too long makes the pop-up show up and just not go away. (view post) |
04/04/2009 | |
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Why so much focus on Camwhores/Emo Kids?MeatLoafFan Posted:
At least it’s not a kind of item we’ve had before, that’s got to be worth something. Prior to today we’ve had at least one of all types of equippable items except fetishes and hardware (also except different kinds of .moars, but .moars won’t be appearing in itembuildr anymore).
So to the extent that “it’s good to cover everything” it’s good to have a fetish. (view post) |
04/03/2009 |
Church of SayantologyI believe it was originally a buildr forum that was put into episode 2 because it was considered good enough to include in the episode 2 plot.
It remains in the buildr list so that people without ep 2 can pwn it.
It is in the list of plot forums for people with ep 2 because… it’s part of the plot. (view post) |
04/03/2009 | |
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A better way to fix ItembuildrVeist Posted:
This would be great to have, considering it is entirely possible that downvoting far outpaces upvoting here. Would it be hard for ET to just track these things?
Alternatively, just remove downvoting from itembuildr. (view post) |
04/02/2009 |
reserve pricesBump. Does ET even read this forum? (view post) |
04/02/2009 | |
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Yet another special item.CrinkzPipe Posted:
I’m hoping that sooner, rather than later, ET gets around to rebalancing the clbumes because every time another item becomes widely available that offers more offense in that slot than was previously available, clbumes with high powered attacks get more comparatively overpowered and items with less high powered attacks get comparatively more underpowered.
Who’d have thought we’d get two special items in itembuildr before a single fetish or piece of hardware? (view post) |
04/02/2009 |
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Unofficial IDC Rules Debate & Criticism ThreadI think with the addition of an “ignore user” option, there really wouldn’t be any reason to have rules beyond the permaban ones. If you can /ignore them, script spammers aren’t even a problem.
But splitting IDC in half: one section for RP (i.e. anything goes) and one section for non-RP (rules apply here) would be reasonable, and in keeping with the forums. Just make it so that people can see both sections if they like (tabbed chat?), and there’s no problem. (view post) |
03/31/2009 |
reserve pricesFortunato Posted:
I think the listing fee for auctions should increase precipitously with a high reserve. I just got the dreaded “reserve not met” message from bidsquid for a file that’s on Kyoubai all the time (Ruby Scripts), with the winning bid in excess of 1.2 million flezz. Sure, go ahead and set a reserve significantly in excess of one million flezz, but the game should ding you for that.
But I’m getting off topic here. What really needs to happen is Trout needs to fix it so that the max bid is checked against the reserve before Bidsquid sends his condolences. (view post) |
03/31/2009 | |
reserve pricesIt would also be handy if Kyoubai would do the eBay thing where the high bidder can see, “reserve not met” if in fact their max bid is exceeded by the reserve. Though, for this to be useful, you’d have to be able to bid on an auction you’re winning (thereby increasing your max bid), which would be another good feature to have. Why can’t we do that again? (view post) |
03/31/2009 | |
Missing Delivery?Okay, yesterday I pwned:
Great Firewall of China 03/30/2009 7:11AM 03/30/2009 7:13AM 82s Zombie Armageddon 03/30/2009 7:09AM 03/30/2009 7:11AM 88s Wal-Martyr 03/30/2009 7:08AM 03/30/2009 7:09AM 41s Second Wife 03/30/2009 7:04AM 03/30/2009 7:07AM 174s
My Luck is 63 and my Charisma is 47, but my deliveries today consisted of: The Color Orange, a Bicycle, a Children’s Playhouse Kit, and a Remote Control. Somehow I feel as though I should have gotten more, anybody else have a problem like this? (view post) |
03/31/2009 | |
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A new idea on how to pick items.I think it might be keen to add a third step to the voting process where we vote on what sort of item is next.
So itembuildr randomly pick, say, three item types out of a pool with certain rejection criteria (i.e. reject choosing the same type of item that was just done, make things like special items significantly rarer, etc.). Then on voting day, just have people vote for whichever one they like the most, and have the one with the most votes be the next type in the hopper. At least, doing this occasionally would be fun. (view post) |
03/31/2009 |
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For the TrekkiesWell, I thought it was kind of pbumingly clever, in the way that puns are. B+. (view post) |
03/31/2009 |
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POLL: Pranking in IDCJalapeno Bootyhole Posted: |
03/31/2009 |
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Which buildr forums do you think need a style or logo makeover?Something that bugs me, in terms of buildr forums. Sometimes the hacker attacks that change the background of the forum work correctly (the new background image is, well, in the background), and sometimes they don’t (there’s a solid block of color in front of the background the attack sets.) Anybody know why this is? I’d like to see bg and bg2 function correctly on all forums, when I get back to streaking I’ll take a tally of which ones work right and which don’t. (view post) |
03/31/2009 |
reserve pricesEvil Trout Posted:
I guess I’ll have to wait patiently. Honestly, I’m not sure how a fix would be complicated, just add something like the following pseudocode:
(if (and (< CurBid Reserve) (> MaxBid Reserve)) (set! CurBid Reserve) ())
Or something in a reasonable person’s programming language (my brain is in LISP), seriously all that needs to be done is: 1) At the end of an auction, check that both “current bid” is less than “reserve price” and “reserve price” is less than “maximum bid”. 2) If it is, replace “current bid” with “reserve price” 3) Otherwise, do nothing.
I mean, it’s just evaluating a conditional that involves checking the relative magnitudes of three numbers, then either replacing something with something else, or doing nothing. I can’t think of a programming context in which this is hard, but I’m probably missing something. (view post) |
03/30/2009 | |
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Can we please fix Kyoubai?Kyoubai has one really annoying behavior that needs to be addressed: Can we please make it so that if “winning bid” < “reserve price” < “winning bidder’s maximum bid” we just set the current bid to the reserve price so the auction doesn’t fail? Every other proxy bidding system in the world works like this, or at least eBay certainly does, and it’s entirely reasonable to work like this since the winning bidder has already expressed a willingness to pay any amount up to his or her maximum bid in order to acquire the item in question, and the seller has already expressed an unwillingness to accept any less than the reserve.
It’s also troubling because, there are a lot of items (files mostly) on kyoubai that are very rare, but not very good. So the only people who are are really interested in them are collectors, of which there are comparatively few. So the problem is that if there’s a file which is really quite rare, so the seller sets a reserve of say 500,000 (entirely reasonable), I want the file so I will bid 1,000,000 except that if nobody else is willing to bid 500,000 or more, there’s no way for me to win the auction despite the fact that I’m more than willing to pay twice the reserve.
Further troubling is that if there’s a file with a reserve that only one person bids on, it’s impossible for that person to win the auction no matter how much they bid (this happened to me over the weekend, I bid 500,000 on a file that nobody else bid on, so the price never got above 338 so that I was rejected for not meeting the reserve. This is especially important to do as activity on Kyoubai dies down after the initial rush of it being new, and after people already get what they want and so stop bidding on those things.
So can we please just make this work like eBay where at the end if “max bid > reserve” set “current bid= reserve”? (view post) |
03/30/2009 |