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Keeping track of a streak
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As it stands, there are three columns under the forums tab: All forums, streak, and visit history.
So when a streak gets a bit complicated, you have to keep checking the streak tab, which is rather arbitrarily listed alphabetically – if you want it listed by date, you go to visit history.
Couldn’t this be simplified by simply marking the forums in a streak in the forums tab? Maybe just putting a green ticks next to the ones already in your streak? That way you can clearly see which ones to go to next, and the streak tab wouldn’t be needed. It’d also minimise the chance of accidentally pwning one that’s in both the forums AND the community forums tabs. |
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| Posted On: 12/14/2008 11:13PM |
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That’s not needed. |
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| Posted On: 12/14/2008 11:15PM |
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Yeah, this would make things much more simple, especially when your looking at streaks of 40+, 50+, etc. CZ could do completely do away with the streak tab, if they wanted to. |
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| Posted On: 12/14/2008 11:21PM |
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yeah, that would be nice. alternatively, ill probably just write a script to do this when i’m bored sometime since its annoying. but if they did it for me thatd be nice too. =D |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 12:16AM |
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Fran Posted: No improvement is ever ‘needed’, but this one would be damned helpful. Would help absent-minded morons like me from redoing the forums that show up on both tabs like Paranoid Panorama and ruining a streak. |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 1:26AM |
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Solid idea. |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 1:36AM |
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Normally I am for things that streamline the game and ease play, I just don’t think this is necessary. If a player cannot keep track or pwn the forums in order, they are pwning at the risk of losing their streak. It is seriously not hard to go down each list of forums and just skip the dupes and G! One does not need to make special spread sheets or bookmarks, just pwn in order for heaven sake. If you start a streak by either pwning G! (the death resets the streak) or pwning your first forum twice in a row (also rests the streak) and then just going straight down the lists all you need to do to keep track is look at your visit history to see which forum you pwned last and move to the next in line. |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 1:39AM |
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I do have to say I think the current attempt at a “streak” tab is worthless, and I wonder who if anyone looks at it. Since CZ apparently tried to help people, I consider this a failure and maybe it should be re-looked at or removed.
I’m not for or against making it easier to streak, but the streak tab is useless as it is now imo. |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 1:59AM |
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Eventhough having the forums already pwned listed in the forum overview would be really helpful, I’d be already satisfied with a much less significant improvement: Please make it possible to sort the Streak tab by forum difficulty seperated into forums and community forums. So you can at least see if you already pwned a forum or not when you go to the streak tab. |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 8:06AM |
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I think the entire table should use the uniform table design and programming set forth by the List of Forums in the wiki. You can just click a header and sort by whatever criteria you darn well please. That framework is so extensible it’s compatible with Wiki-editing, so why can’t CZ (or ET, rather) put it to use in the forums list?
Hell, he could even add an “in streak” indicator, then you could sort by that column and BAM, ALL your streaking work is done for you. Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 8:11AM |
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Or just change the color for forums already pwned in this streak in the forums list. |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 8:18AM |
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scullyangel Posted:
I have to agree with this. As much as I HATE IT when I lose a streak, 99% of the time, it’s due to my own stupidity or not paying attention. There should be some risk to this instead of making it *that*damned*easy* to do.
Wylin Posted:
I use it to know what number I’m on in a streak. And if you don’t pwn the forums in order, it’s helpful to have an alpha list that tells you exactly what you’ve already done instead of going through the visit history and praying you don’t miss that you re-pwned the same one somewhere. When I was using Excel to figure out my streaks and not just running them in order, this tool would have been SPECTACULAR to have. God only knows how many times I forgot to mark something off and screwed my streak.
FalCoN Posted:
The ability to sort would be nice, but that negates the ability to separate regular forums and community forums. If you’re looking to see if you’ve pwned xyz forum already, isn’t it better to have it straight alpha so you know exactly where to look? |
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| Posted On: 12/15/2008 9:17AM |
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spacekadt Posted:
This.
Also, I asked ET when it was first implemented about just putting a flag next to the forum in your list, but he indicated it would be a significant performance hit to do the individual table joins on each player every time they went to those tabs. Right now the three tabs are just straight database dumps. |
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| Posted On: 12/19/2008 10:10AM |
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MC Banhammer Posted:
Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the info x |
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| Posted On: 12/19/2008 11:55AM |
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HAARP Posted:
This. Highlighting them in yellow or something if they’re already pwned in the current streak would be awesome. |
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| Posted On: 12/19/2008 12:03PM |
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Fingerz Posted:
MC Banhammer Posted:
Coloring them differently is the same as putting in a flag: You have to do a database join to determine which records should be colored. MC Banhammer edited this message on 12/19/2008 12:11PM |
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| Posted On: 12/19/2008 12:10PM |
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If they’re both simply straightforward database queries, then you don’t really need to do complicated joins… just do the specialized comparison in the code based on two simple (existing) queries, instead of having the database try figuring out exactly what you want out of it. Retrieve both sets of information (since they’re already both requested most of the time anyway), and present it to the browser for the client-side scripting (JavaScript) to put the marks on the table (if you’re worried about server performance)... or just do the comparison on the server and present it all at once.
I’d think the issue might be making it “too easy” to streak, not that it’d be a performance or implementation problem, but that’s just me. Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 12/19/2008 1:05PM |
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