At 8/3/04 06:09 PM, BonusStage wrote:

P.S. i don't know how to make how to make screenshots on my Mac you meany poo poo :P

There's a program called "grab", or something like that. That's what I use.

At 8/3/04 04:02 PM, D0GMA wrote:

At 7/31/04 10:45 PM, j00bie wrote:
I need to be on the list :D

You're on the EGRL :-P~~~ Your best bet at present to make any of the top 50s is pick up the pace on blamming, but not saving, and you'll make the D list. 429% is the low end on that one and you're at 300%

Which list are you talking about?
A blam to protection percentage list of some sort?
Whatever it is... ive never seen it before...

Or i have, i just completely forget :\.

At 8/3/04 05:56 PM, BonusStage wrote: Voting Power: 6.66 votes
well to dark aura i go, that is until i go up of course ^_^

Oohhh, that was ever so fun to be dark :D.

It was only a few weeks ago when i went through that phase, surely you remember, I only made about 10 posts about it :P.

At 8/3/04 08:25 PM, BonusStage wrote: then i can be ultra light (omg lame, but i still like it :D)

nah, try UBER light.
Ultra light sounds like a mayonnaise brand for some reason :\

At 8/3/04 04:27 PM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: Than maybe normal green to 75-99? (R- 0, G- 255, B- 0)
Or maybe #5EFF72 (R- 94, G- 255,B- 114)?

Don't forget the orange and red ;) I'll run some tests and see what those look like. I still have to semi-manually go through and change the font codes, but the new cell codes I developed make the process much smoother than before ... font changes down to ~20 minutes from about an hour with significantly less chance for me to whiff on someone.

On the 50 B/S lists, I'm going to remove the Total column and use a bpd/spd column instead. Depending upon how much time it takes, there may be colours used for those sheets as well. To preserve the current 50/100 colours, it would run 35/70 for bpd and 15/30 on spd, but no clue where I'd drop in that middling level.

Anyways, where's the next update?? (I did and average of 92 since the update :P....)

Target has been every two weeks, so this weekend sometime is when I expect to do it.

At 8/3/04 04:42 PM, BonusStage wrote: How in the hell ...

IIRC it was the tail end of last summer ... long before the enforced vacations to Banaland. I got home at midnight and started voting. I had tons of things I needed to do on-line, everything from weeding through the 1800 e-mails that had piled up over the last few days to doing updates to sub sites.

One of my friends likes to sign me up for newsletters and promos to let me know they are not entirely off the grid yet, so I would get 200 e-mails on a slow day ... kind of like when I'd come home to my answering machine full of everything that is written on the cereal box,

"... and OH LOOK there's a special offer on the inside. Just a second while I rip it open so you know what that says, just in case you want me to save the offer for you. It's a special offer, you know, and you're a special person. Hey, I bet they wrote this knowing that I would get it and read it to you ... "

Anyway, the only real times I actually noted that day were as it was approaching the 4am recalc, and 9:30am and 4pm (open and closing bells). The next time I looked at a clock it was 4am, when the recalc shut down NG ... yes, those heady days of NG when the site shut down for an hour every day, and 3 hours every other day. About that time I realized I hadn't eaten anything since lunch two days ago and wandered off to take care of that and some things around the house, but I occasionally popped back upstairs to vote the rest of the day. My "days" are normally whacked anyway, as I'm typically up for 20-26 hours then sleep for 6-10, but even for me that "day" was just ... out there.

Lastly, to bad you missed the flood, it may not have helped someone with your vast amount of points that much :P, but it was fun to see them, and to see two of them pass as well, that was the most surprising part

My B2S rate finally started going back down again, so maybe it's a good thing I missed out, but points always help ... until you get to EGSC, after which it's rather useless to keep going without some ulterior goal in mind. I've already stated the target at which I expect to "retire" this ID, and it's quite a bit above the 30k minimum. gfox has mentioned a number of times, as likely wishful thinking as real insider information, the possibility of new rank levels being added. It's always been odd that the ranks stopped at 26 (or 25, depending upon how you look at it), while the levels stopped at 30, so it's more possible that they would add ranks than levels, with the possibility increasing as the number of SCs grows.

At 8/3/04 08:54 PM, D0GMA wrote: so it's more possible that they would add ranks than levels, with the possibility increasing as the number of SCs grows.

the admins would be stupid not too (dont band :D), but seriously... the SC usually have the highest Voting powers (if not pretty damn close), and when they hit the SC, I find they tend to 'slack off'.

If they has some more inspiration to keep on truckin, I find that they could very well be the difference between life and death to a submission.

I think there should be more ranks, plain and simple.

At 8/3/04 04:42 PM, BonusStage wrote:
Can you please tell me what that means because with that statement, even after reading j00bie's i was very confused o.0

At 8/3/04 06:32 PM, j00bie wrote:
Which list are you talking about?
A blam to protection percentage list of some sort?
Whatever it is... ive never seen it before...

Or i have, i just completely forget :\.

When you click on Current it used to take you directly to the EGRL. Since I've begun doing the Top 50s, it now takes you to a menu, from which you can get to the EGRL, the four Top 50 Blam lists, and the four Top 50 Save lists. Reminder: By my EGRL definition, inactive is anyone who has gained zero BPs over at least the last 30 days. They appear on the EGRL in italics.

The two top 50 groups are set up identically, with the link from the menu, and the interlink between the blam and saves lists, starting at the "A" list. Each of the files links within itself to "A", "B", "C", and "D". On any page, the BIG, BOLD, BEIGE letters will tell you at which list you are looking, while everything else is in small font and in link colour codes.

The "C" list is the one to which I have been referring when I mention SantoNinoDeCebu. Last August he asked if anyone would run a top 50 list based upon percentage saves, as he did not have a lot of points, but did have a high percentage of saves. I did a run of it in September and found it extraordinarily difficult to reformat what I had established for posting in my EGRL thread to what I needed it to be for a % based ranking, so it was simply a one-shot deal. When gfox mentioned he was stepping down from the Top 50s and I considered doing them, I remembered that list and hunted up the old thread. The percentages I used in that post are B2BP and S2BP, hoping that by restricting everyone to 6 characters for their percentage it wouldn't throw everything off. As you can see, it didn't work and it looks like crap. With the move to the website, it was fairly easy to convert the spreadsheet to manage the top 50s and set up table that are readable and interlink seemlessly.

For both the Top 50 Blammers and Top 50 Saviors set of lists:

The "A" list is the A.html file listing the top 50 to which we are all accustomed from gfox' list. It is a rank list, by total of that stat, of everyone. You can get to this list from any of the other Top 50s, by clicking By Total Blams/Saves or cross over to the other Top 50 A list by clicking the link above that to Top 50 Blammers or Top 50 Saviors, whichever one you are not currently viewing.

The "B" list is the B.html file listing the top 50, ranked by total of that stat, but anyone inactive is excluded (hence the title Active Only). Additionally, this allows you to see a few slots down the "A" list as well. To get there from the A list, click on the link labelled Active Only.

The "C" list is the C.html file listing the top 50 of everyone, ranked by percentage of blams divided by saves (B2S) or saves divided by blams (S2B). These ratios are a carryover from gfox's lists. To get there from the A list, click By % Blams/Saves.

The "D" list is the D.html file listing the top 50 of the B2S or S2B ratios, but anyone inactive is excluded. To get there from the A list, click By % Blams/Saves, then click Active Only.

At the bottom of the Blammers D list is krowdick, at 429.81%. At the bottom of the Saviors D list is matt274, at 83.08%

For j00bie (currently 2740 blams, 891 saves, 307.52% B2S, 32.52% S2B) to get above krowdick, taking 50th place, you would need to get 0 saves and 1090 blams. To get above matt274 would require 1385 saves and 0 blams. Neither total would get you on an A or B list.

For Bonus (currently 5423 blams, 1593 saves, 340.43% B2S, 29.37% S2B) to do so you would need 1424 blams and 0 saves, or 0 blams and 2913 saves. That many blams would not be enough to get on either A or B, but that saves total would place you, in the current listing, at 44 on the A list, and 43 on the B list.

At 8/3/04 09:29 PM, D0GMA wrote: stuff about lists

I dont think I plan on JUST blamming anytime soon, I dont think it's worth ignoring save points and trying to JUST get blam points.

I think i'll stick with my current method of simply trying to rank up as fast as I can, :D.

Not too long ago, D0GMA wrote:
j00bie's on the EGRL because he's so amazingly sexy (edited version).

Wow, i've managed to jump 90 spots since the last update.

I've ranked up since last update, and im more then half way to my next rank up.

Depending on when you do your next update, I doubt ill get a double rank up >:(/

At 8/3/04 09:09 PM, j00bie wrote: when they hit the SC, I find they tend to 'slack off'.
If they has some more inspiration to keep on truckin,
I think there should be more ranks, plain and simple.

More ranks wouldn't solve the problem. There will still be a final rank, and people will still slack off once they hit it. If they had a Contest involving b/p'ing similar to the one involving depositing, that could provide an ulterior motive to continue voting on new movies.

Besides, who says the ranks will continue on from EGSC? They might mix a few minor ones into the mix and still have EGSC as the final rank. After all, Supreme Commander is an awesome name for the final rank.

Wow i just changed two spots in the b/p and one in the exp! :)
25 more places till the top 50!! :O

Woot 7000 exp, sure has been awhile haha...

~X~

At 8/4/04 05:34 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Woot 7000 exp, sure has been awhile haha...

~X~

Congrats that is an excelent thing to have. Only 300 more days until you get 10k.

Congrats Wayne, glad to see you back mate, hope you feel better.
Congrats to anyone i missed recently aswell.

X now lnly 1,298 more reviews until 10k. Then you'll be on the Quadlist bor something else and be the first reviewer to be that high. Also I can post my pic that I got a day or two ago.

I just remembered I wanted to congratulate Carmilla for finally making it to level 15. Your halfway in the levels. But Not XP. Congrats. Even though I don't know if she checks here or not.

At 8/4/04 08:54 AM, IM_KOOL_R_U wrote: I just remembered I wanted to congratulate Carmilla for finally making it to level 15. Your halfway in the levels. But Not XP. Congrats. Even though I don't know if she checks here or not.

Thats awfull nice of you IKRU, she might check just not post you know, meh. Also congrats on getting 3k posts, well done.

At 8/3/04 09:39 PM, j00bie wrote:
I dont think I plan on JUST blamming anytime soon, I dont think it's worth ignoring save points and trying to JUST get blam points.

I think i'll stick with my current method of simply trying to rank up as fast as I can, :D.

At 8/3/04 11:06 PM, BonusStage wrote:
but i DEFINETELY probably won't be getting on either of the % lists, with the numbers you just presented to me, that would take forever it seems, anyways i always try to vote according to what i see, and what i see has so far brought me to my current percentages, too bad ^_^

In the long run, IMO, it's better off continuing with voting on everything as you have decided. I wanted to at least present the idea of making one of the percentage lists, just in case it was more important to you to make another list. Since you didn't "get it" when I first brought it up, well ... two novellas later, there ya are ;)

By the way, does

DEFINETELY probably

have any relation to a "possible maybe?" ^^

At 8/3/04 11:12 PM, j00bie wrote:
Depending on when you do your next update, I doubt ill get a double rank up >:(/

This weekend, as I mentioned last page :-P~~~

At 8/4/04 04:22 AM, FlGMENT wrote:
Besides, who says the ranks will continue on from EGSC? They might mix a few minor ones into the mix and still have EGSC as the final rank. After all, Supreme Commander is an awesome name for the final rank.

IMO I think this is the route they will take if they do add more ranks. It's entirely possible a Field Marshall or some such will get inserted between General and Supreme Commander, but I think that's the highest they would insert a new one. What the values required to reach a rank in any new system is an open question, but a lot of them would be going up ... in the worst case scenario, scaling against the SC. The real headache for them would be developing a new VP bonus system for them if they wished to maintain 60% as the max ... along with all the people who start whining about lost VP when it is implemented.

At 8/3/04 10:33 PM, BonusStage wrote:
... DEAR LORD 20 hour days, let alone 26, i'll have to try that sometime :D, and though you may be used to it, i can't imagine living like that, though of course i'm just a student, and i really can't :\, and the fact you can have 6 hours of sleep, i can understand that though, i've done that all but to many times ^_^.

In the five years I've subsisted on my trading income, my normal patterns have simply had the chance to come to the fore. Like everyone else, my natural inclination of a "day" has only a passing resemblance to a calendar day, but I'm a little worse than standard. Like the "normal" body temperature is 37 (98.6), all it is is an average. If I'm at 37, I'm running a mild fever, since my norm is 36.6. In the same way, you can only figure out what your normal "day" is by having the ability to let your body do its thing and observe what happens.

Although the calendars work out fine for solar cycles, "normal" people have a "day" cycle of slightly over 25 hours, which is part of why you'll find it well nigh impossible to get to sleep some nights, or get up some mornings, at your "usual" time. What you normally blame now (too much coffee that day, too much liquor the night before, etc.) still plays the larger part, but that cyclic change is a factor.

I don't subscribe to the theory of biorhythms, but everyone seems to be at least familiar with how they are laid out. Start with all of them at nadir value at midnight on 1 January, and dividers every 12 calendar hours. Presume the red sine wave is the solar day, running 24.015 hours (it's actually been less since the late 60s, when the Soviets slowed the earth's rotation by 1/4 second, but that's another story). The green is the average "normal" value for people, 25.25 (I think). The blue is whatever your value actually is ... best guess is mine is about 28. As you can see, by noon on 4 Jan. I actually think it's midnight. It takes ~800 days for the red to offset like that, so you don't see much difference, but you can already see blue heading towards being skewed.

Meh, nothing much to add at the moment. Haven't paid that much attention to NG over the past couple of days. Have been jumping around from 64-66 in b/p, it's quite close around where I am at the moment, and will hit the top 300 in experience within a week.

Have got a week off work right now, it's great just having a bit of time off. Also have a day off next week when I'm watching the cricket, woo hoo!

At 8/4/04 04:22 AM, FlGMENT wrote: More ranks wouldn't solve the problem. There will still be a final rank, and people will still slack off once they hit it.

Yes, but the people currently at the final rank would have more motivation to get to the NEW final rank(s).

Besides, who says the ranks will continue on from EGSC? They might mix a few minor ones into the mix and still have EGSC as the final rank.

True, that is sensible as well

After all, Supreme Commander is an awesome name for the final rank.

They could always change the names and icons of the current ranks :\.

Check it out one more day and I'm finally level 9! It's not much but level 9 in a month and a week + about 310 b/p that's not to bad. Or is it? I'm going to try to get as many b/p points from now till monday then it's back to school and I'm going to just have to get my daily 10 points. For the first few weeks I can get points on Mon., Tue., Thurs., and Fri-Sun, Bonus Stage said he'd help me by depositing on Wednesday.

P.S. Hey BonusStage starting September I'm going to need you to deposit for me every day except for Fri-Sun(Well everyday that you can I don't mind if you miss a few) Anyways can you help me till christmas break? I don't want to put to much of a load on you since you have to deposit for two other people. If anyone can help me out from January to May that would be great!

heh, 50 exp level gaps are over for you!

1,183 is what you need forlevel 10, - the 400 you start off with at level 9.

1183 - 400 = 783 exp until your level 10.

+78.3 assuming HT add's one more to the amount needed every day = 861.3 exp until level 10 = 87 days of depositing everyday till your next level up.

Good luck!

At 8/3/04 09:09 PM, j00bie wrote:
the admins would be stupid not too (dont band :D), but seriously... the SC usually have the highest Voting powers (if not pretty damn close), and when they hit the SC, I find they tend to 'slack off'.

I think they should add one that only future platinum accounts will have access to:

Elite gaurd secretary of defence - 40000 - 70%

At 8/4/04 12:52 PM, JerkClock wrote:
I think they should add one that only future platinum accounts will have access to:

What are the platinum accounts? I saw the page about them, but was to lazy to read it. What do they do?

That page was a joke, but wade says he wants to create real platinum accounts so that would cost $5-$10 a month but be way better than gold accounts.

At 8/4/04 12:52 PM, JerkClock wrote: I think they should add one that only future platinum accounts will have access to:

Elite gaurd secretary of defence - 40000 - 70%

I was thinking 50000 - 75%

maybe both :D

75% may be a little too much, especially if platinum accounts come with 10%-20% more voting power. We want it to be kickass, not excessive, and while 70% is pushing it, I think it's only fair to those who will pay up.

At 8/4/04 01:10 PM, j00bie wrote:

At 8/4/04 12:52 PM, JerkClock wrote: I think they should add one that only future platinum accounts will have access to:

Elite gaurd secretary of defence - 40000 - 70%

I was thinking 50000 - 75%

maybe both :D

How about the top rank be Elite Guard Dictator - 100000 - 100%

At 8/4/04 01:15 PM, Dire_Wolf9 wrote:
How about the top rank be Elite Guard Dictator - 100000 - 100%

Hitler will work to! lol :p