At 10/9/03 07:35 AM, jonthomson wrote: Level 12 today. Yay for me!

Nice one! I'll be joining you in about a week and a half.

At 10/9/03 08:23 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: Recon is a man of many skills.....and reading talking and listening is what he is got at all at once....

If so, that's quite an admirable skill. I can't believe he can absord and process so much information at a time - that's like a freakin' computer!

Hey are you sayin people with neutrals are not as nice as well......look at me and REcon, we are nice peoples that are neutrals.........

Sure, you guys are nice, but your tastes in auras differs to ours. Hence the aural rivalry...

At 10/9/03 09:14 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote: Sure, you guys are nice, but your tastes in auras differs to ours. Hence the aural rivalry...

I went back to dark, since over 3/4 of my blam/saves are blams, and the fact that when I find someone stealing any flash (even though thats a good thing that I find out where they stole it from and get it deleted/credited under real author.) I like to rub it in and make them feel stupid for trying to fool everyone. And make them feel even worse by bringing up things that they've said in their defense about how they don't steal even though my evidence proves they do.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRank up! I managed to rank up to Elite Guard Sergeant today, which completes all the +500 ranks. Now the +1,000 ranks begin...

At 10/9/03 09:28 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRank up! I managed to rank up to Elite Guard Sergeant today, which completes all the +500 ranks. Now the +1,000 ranks begin...

Congratulations, they get really annoying when they are like.. 2,000 needed. That took me like 2 weeks over the summer for each. Now it takes a lot longer to get that many points for me :( only about 1,900 to go until last rank though.

At 10/9/03 09:14 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote: Sure, you guys are nice, but your tastes in auras differs to ours. Hence the aural rivalry...

I'm a lean, mean, green, fighting machine.

Grrrrr...

Gahh!..I've set my pace back up again, except I've been having problems

I don't get awarded blam/save points many times!

I vote on the movie, get the confirmation message of a possible point to be earned, see it get blammed/saved, and get no points. 3rd time it's happened...and I'm not liking it. It usually lasts about 15-20 minutes too, and when it starts working I do not get the points from before.

I know it hasn't been doing it, I'm not crazy! It's happened right before my eyes many times.

(sigh)
Well, I should get EG First lieutenant in at least a week, and I will be level 13 in a couple weeks, w00t! Even though the baseball bat isn't that cool, you have to get it first before you get the pipe, chain, and nunchucks..heh..

Weeeee!! Just cracked 7,000 protection points! Gotta go and check gfox's charts to see where old Joe stands. Next milestone for Recon will be 10,000 blams and that's not too far off now.

At 10/9/03 09:53 PM, RageVI wrote: I vote on the movie, get the confirmation message of a possible point to be earned, see it get blammed/saved, and get no points. 3rd time it's happened...and I'm not liking it. It usually lasts about 15-20 minutes too, and when it starts working I do not get the points from before.

One possible reason for this is that, say you give something a 3 and the confirmation message says the score of that movie is now 2.37 or whatever, there is still quite some time for other users to drop 0's on that submission. If it gets blammed, you obviously won't get a point for it.

It's happened to me sometimes, but it's usually because I vote a 0 and bring it's score to 1.65 or vote a 2 and bring it to 0.87 or whatever.

I hope all that makes sense...

At 10/9/03 09:58 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Weeeee!! Just cracked 7,000 protection points! Gotta go and check gfox's charts to see where old Joe stands.

Nice work there Recon. Will you be catching stormwarden anytime soon?

Next milestone for Recon will be 10,000 blams and that's not too far off now.

Hah! I guess with your grand totals 800 points isn't too much.

At 10/9/03 09:58 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Weeeee!! Just cracked 7,000 protection points! Gotta go and check gfox's charts to see where old Joe stands. Next milestone for Recon will be 10,000 blams and that's not too far off now.

Congrats On getting 7,000 protect points. i just reached 6,000 myself about half a hour ago.

also congrats to james on the Rank up.

At 10/9/03 09:28 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRank up! I managed to rank up to Elite Guard Sergeant today, which completes all the +500 ranks. Now the +1,000 ranks begin...

Whoops. Sorry 'bout that bud. Forgot to congratulate you on your rank up. Congrats James! Now if you could only pick a name and stick with it!

At 10/9/03 10:00 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote:

get the points from before.

One possible reason for this is that, say you give something a 3 and the confirmation message says the score of that movie is now 2.37 or whatever, there is still quite some time for other users to drop 0's on that submission. If it gets blammed, you obviously won't get a point for it.

No.

First of all, I don't vote 3 on a movie if it's going to get blammed..heh..

Second of all, I did do many tests to prove it. I voted 0 on a few 10k pieces of crap. Got the blam point message, witnessed them all go to the grave, checked the obituaries to further confirm it refreshed my profile, and nothing. 15 minutes and still nothing...forever and still nothing!

Oh well, what's a few points anyway

... .... oh my!

At 10/9/03 09:58 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Next milestone for Recon will be 10,000 blams and that's not too far off now.

Heh, that's a nice milestone.

Just think about it, people won't be that impressed..until they see 5-digit numbers in your profile! You're going strong!

At 10/9/03 10:23 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Now if you could only pick a name and stick with it!

Haha! I already know what my next name will be. I dunno, maybe one day if I happen to stumble across a really kick-ass super duper uber name I'll keep it for... longer than usual. I usually just keep a name until I get bored with it.

At 10/2/03 11:24 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote: Can somebody tell me what time the profiles are updated? I'm looking in your direction gfox...

... er... woops. #;-}>

I know other people estimated it, but here ya go anyway, just about a week late:

03:35 AM ET (0735 UTC/GMT) profile ranks & top 50 lists updated
12:35 PM ET (1635 UTC/GMT) just top 50 lists updated
10:35 PM ET (0235 UTC/GMT) just top 50 lists updated

At 10/9/03 09:58 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Weeeee!! Just cracked 7,000 protection points! Gotta go and check gfox's charts to see where old Joe stands. Next milestone for Recon will be 10,000 blams and that's not too far off now.

Congrats!

Yeah, hurry up and pass Stormwarden, damnit, I need you at my back, you and me... we can take down the rest of the top 10 if we work together! If we don't... eh. Then we're screwed. :::nods:::

Anywho, did you ever head over to check the new updates out? No one's replied to the protectors list, and that's the one you're talking about, I assume, so... head on over, damnit! #;-}>

At 10/4/03 12:45 AM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

At 10/3/03 09:50 PM, James-T wrote:

At 10/3/03 05:19 PM, leeboy105 wrote: W00t! Just levelled up and now i have a proper weapon to do some real damage with.

Haha! I noticed you were close to a level up a couple of days ago. Congrats leeboy. My level up is due in a bit more than 2 weeks.

Double wOOt! I just cracked 16,000 blam/protect points! Stormwarden better be checking the horizon 'cause I think a hurricane is on the way.

My level up is 20 points away. Well, 22 points now that HT has deposited, actually. IOW, 3 more days.

Congrats to James on the rankup, and congrats to jon and leeboy on their level ups, and congrats to whoever else ranked or leveled up. I missed out on quite a lot of 'em, didn't I! Heh.

:::will soon have to give up this nice bat for a crappy pipe... but at least the chains and nunchaku await on the other side of the pipe, just in time for the Holidays, too, I expect:::

At 10/10/03 01:32 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

will soon have to give up this nice bat for a crappy pipe... but at least the chains and nunchaku await on the other side of the pipe, just in time for the Holidays, too, I expect:::

For me, I should be getting my nice silver gauntlet sometime around mid-december. Then about a third of a year until level 19. Its times like these I wish I had deposited when I signed up.

At 10/9/03 09:53 PM, RageVI wrote: Gahh!..I've set my pace back up again, except I've been having problems

I don't get awarded blam/save points many times!

I vote on the movie, get the confirmation message of a possible point to be earned, see it get blammed/saved, and get no points. 3rd time it's happened...and I'm not liking it. It usually lasts about 15-20 minutes too, and when it starts working I do not get the points from before.

At 10/9/03 10:25 PM, RageVI wrote: First of all, I don't vote 3 on a movie if it's going to get blammed..heh..

Second of all, I did do many tests to prove it. I voted 0 on a few 10k pieces of crap. Got the blam point message, witnessed them all go to the grave, checked the obituaries to further confirm it refreshed my profile, and nothing. 15 minutes and still nothing...forever and still nothing!

Oh well, what's a few points anyway

... .... oh my!

Don't worry, man. In all likelihood, your points will credit themselves days (or even weeks) later. Sometimes the crediting mechanism fails during the protection or blam vote (or maybe it's during the movie's passage into protection or the graveyard... either way).

liljim's talked about it before. A few months ago, but at least a month or so after Drimarki left NG, he suddenly got a few points. It was due to this problem.

So don't freak out when you don't get the blams. It happens to me at least once or twice a day. But I'll refresh my profile later on after not having voted in awhile and suddenly have 5 blams I didn't have before, but should have (because the backlog cleared).

(sigh)
Well, I should get EG First lieutenant in at least a week, and I will be level 13 in a couple weeks, w00t! Even though the baseball bat isn't that cool, you have to get it first before you get the pipe, chain, and nunchucks..heh..

indeed. But mostly the chain and nunchaku. The pipe sucks. Come on, the bat's better than the pipe. #;-}>

At 10/6/03 06:41 AM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote:

At 10/6/03 12:51 AM, Jimong5 wrote: HOORAY! I finally hit L10, only 636 exp to get to L11 :/

Good work! My alternate acocunt just hit level 9 today - 634 exp to level 10. They're really close figures! 634 and 636.

(and from another post)

Which just goes to show, the difficulty increase from level to level is just the daily addition to the goal, not the initial goal itself.

There's a reason your level 9 alt account and his level 10 account, both freshly leveled up, have the same amount of exp till the next level, you know. You take HT's exp, you subtract out the 400 exp that lies before level 9, as that's where level scaling begins...

and then you divide by 21 (the number of levels between 9 and 30)... so for today, with HT at 13,846 exp... - 400 = 13,446... / 21 = 640.286 exp between each level.

So of course, anyone who hits level 10 today, or level 15, or level 20, or level 25... they all have around 640 to the next level.

Difference is... that level 10 guy's exp to the next level only increases by around 1 every day, whereas the level 20 guy's increases by 5 or so every day. THERE lies the pain of higher levels, and the reason for slow slow slow leveling past 10-11-12-13. And you could probably include 14 in the relatively fast area, but 15 is where it really starts to slow down.

At 10/7/03 03:57 PM, Jimong5 wrote: Dang, born in 1990?!? That makes me feel old... 1986 looks old next to that. oh well, looks like L19 is when my age will match my level, Looks like i wont get 8 Levels by March 04.

Yeah, no kidding. I was born in 1977.

I don't think my age will match my level EVER. By the time I turn 30, I'll probably only be around level 20 at the most.

Then again, if they add levels up to level 50... heh...

At 10/6/03 08:46 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote: It'd be nice if your level was the same as your age though, wouldn't it? I won't get level 16 in 4 months (at least I don't think I will) so I'll have to wait until level and age 17.

!!! Yeah, sure. I'd love to instantly be level 26 right now. That's about what level I WOULD be had I deposited every day since I signed up in 2000. #;-}>

Now that I think about it, if I'd deposited every day I've had this account, not only would I be in the top 10 exp users... but I'd also have either the #1 or #2 VP on NG. Right in front of or right behind Nemesis.

At 10/10/03 01:34 AM, Brian_Griffin wrote:

At 10/10/03 01:32 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

will soon have to give up this nice bat for a crappy pipe... but at least the chains and nunchaku await on the other side of the pipe, just in time for the Holidays, too, I expect:::

For me, I should be getting my nice silver gauntlet sometime around mid-december. Then about a third of a year until level 19. Its times like these I wish I had deposited when I signed up.

It's so weird seeing liljim with the bronze gauntlet, speaking of the gauntlets. Even weirder than seeing you with it. I miss you guys' nunchaku. Now no one I see posts from on a regular basis has them. (sniff)

anywho, yeah... we should both be leveling up around the same time in December, methinks. You'll get the better gauntlet you want, and I'll trade in the stinky pipe for a nice long chain linkage. Yeahhhhh..

At 10/10/03 01:57 AM, gfoxcook wrote: It's so weird seeing liljim with the bronze gauntlet, speaking of the gauntlets. Even weirder than seeing you with it. I miss you guys' nunchaku. Now no one I see posts from on a regular basis has them. (sniff)

Yeah, I know, it wasn't as weird for me leveling up, because I saw myself going through levels every 2-3 months so I was kind of used to being a new level... But liljim was 16 for a while, and now it just looks odd when he posts.

anywho, yeah... we should both be leveling up around the same time in December, methinks. You'll get the better gauntlet you want, and I'll trade in the stinky pipe for a nice long chain linkage. Yeahhhhh..

Yeah, I like level 18 more than 17, and it looks better against a dark aura than 17 does. I'll probably move up a few places from #131 in experience, because theres only about 120 exp difference between me and #123 and at least ONE of the 7 people between us probably isn't depositing or not depositing daily. I've been at 131 for about 1-2 weeks now.

At 10/9/03 09:14 PM, JamesIsDysfunctional wrote:

If so, that's quite an admirable skill. I can't believe he can absord and process so much information at a time - that's like a freakin' computer!

Yea thats what a RECON does in his book, remember his book lol........

Sure, you guys are nice, but your tastes in auras differs to ours. Hence the aural rivalry...

Ohhhhhh are you implying that we are meaner individuals compared to light auras?........

At 10/10/03 01:57 AM, gfoxcook wrote: It's so weird seeing liljim with the bronze gauntlet, speaking of the gauntlets. Even weirder than seeing you with it. I miss you guys' nunchaku. Now no one I see posts from on a regular basis has them. (sniff)

don't worry i'll get that icon in like 20-23 day's =)

At 10/10/03 02:08 AM, Brian_Griffin wrote:

At 10/10/03 01:57 AM, gfoxcook wrote: It's so weird seeing liljim with the bronze gauntlet, speaking of the gauntlets. Even weirder than seeing you with it. I miss you guys' nunchaku. Now no one I see posts from on a regular basis has them. (sniff)

Yeah, I know, it wasn't as weird for me leveling up, because I saw myself going through levels every 2-3 months so I was kind of used to being a new level... But liljim was 16 for a while, and now it just looks odd when he posts.

very very odd. I guess it doesn't help that level 17 looks really weird with the neutral aura. You may think 18 looks a lot better than 17 with your dark aura, but neutral's even worse with 17. I think 17 might be in the running for "worst icon to have a neutral aura while possessing."

Ah well.

anywho, yeah... we should both be leveling up around the same time in December, methinks. You'll get the better gauntlet you want, and I'll trade in the stinky pipe for a nice long chain linkage. Yeahhhhh..

Yeah, I like level 18 more than 17, and it looks better against a dark aura than 17 does. I'll probably move up a few places from #131 in experience, because theres only about 120 exp difference between me and #123 and at least ONE of the 7 people between us probably isn't depositing or not depositing daily. I've been at 131 for about 1-2 weeks now.

I hear ya. While I can't QUITE relate to 1-2 weeks, I was at #342 for 4 straight days, and I don't expect to move up from #340 tonight, though I may be pleasantly surprised.

In a way, though... I'm kinda baffled. There's only a BIT of exp between me and Recon, but he's #220, and I'm #340... how can there possibly be 120 people between us? Are they ALL depositing or something? Eh.

At 10/10/03 02:27 AM, _lightning_ wrote:

At 10/10/03 01:57 AM, gfoxcook wrote: It's so weird seeing liljim with the bronze gauntlet, speaking of the gauntlets. Even weirder than seeing you with it. I miss you guys' nunchaku. Now no one I see posts from on a regular basis has them. (sniff)

don't worry i'll get that icon in like 20-23 day's =)

Really? AWESOME! On that day, you will once again be my hero (last time you were was when you deposited for me #;-}>).

Yay i'm lvl 5!!!!! btw what ranks are there and how many blams and saves do you need to get them?

At 10/10/03 02:54 AM, themightywargod wrote: Yay i'm lvl 5!!!!! btw what ranks are there and how many blams and saves do you need to get them?

Try this link bud, it should answer all your questions. Just be sure to scroll halfway down until you see the list (you can't miss it).

Blam/Save ranks

Thanks mate

I just reached 12,000 Blam & Save points! Boy do i feel like celebrating........Hooray for me, I think i will go and grab a few drinks and maybe a call some shorties over or something.......

At 10/10/03 03:21 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: I just reached 12,000 Blam & Save points! Boy do i feel like celebrating........Hooray for me, I think i will go and grab a few drinks and maybe a call some shorties over or something.......

Congrats, man! You're just the 17th man to do so. Keep on truckin' right up to the rankup @ 12,500. So far, Dogma and alex haven't managed to get there yet. Think you can beat 'em? #;-}>

At 10/10/03 03:25 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Congrats, man! You're just the 17th man to do so. Keep on truckin' right up to the rankup @ 12,500. So far, Dogma and alex haven't managed to get there yet. Think you can beat 'em? #;-}>

Sounds like a plan to me.......I do want to reach the 15-16 spot or so cause chaotic1 is still a threat so I think I am going to try and see if i can get 500 points and either move up the ladder while getting the next rank......wish me luck, cause i think ima really need it..........