Cool, update time.

At 6/1/09 04:47 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Barracks Roster 1st June 2009
I've added the repeat offenders thingy, Corky mentioned it last month and I think it's a good idea :)

Good to hear, though I can't see myself ever making it onto that particular list haha.

Milestones:
Promotions:

Congrats to everyone who achieved something this month B/P wise.

Entering the list:
Insanimation
captain-dickhead

Welcome lads, hope you like it around here.

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Change / Username
15] 16,385 | 0,115 | 03.8 | + 0.10 ever-vigilant Mjr.
16] 14,640 | 0,969 | 32.3 | --1.00 RohantheBarbarian Cpt.
17] 13,363 | 0,001 | 00.0 | + 0.03 DarkSoldier Lt.

Looks like it will take at least two months to move up the list, so I'll be hanging on in at #16 for another while.

Top 5 Gainers
byteslinger - 2,545
KrevZabijak - 1,879
Little-Rena - 1,662
DumbassDude - 1,426
Coop83 - 1,342

Top gainers, repeat offenders: byteslinger (5), Coop83 (4), KrevZabijak(2)

Congrats to all, although frankly byteslinger is putting us all to shame and short of some unforeseen cause of inactivity, I could see her NEVER being knocked out of the Top 5 and Repeat Offenders lists.

Total Gain for the month = 16,573
That's 552.4 points per day, or 15.3 per day per member.

Cool, I pulled double this on average this month, so I'm happy despite relative inactivity.

May update.

Thanks for the update Ismael!

At 6/1/09 04:47 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Barracks Roster 1st June 2009
I've added the repeat offenders thingy, Corky mentioned it last month and I think it's a good idea :)

Thanks, Ismael92! Another month, another update. It's very much appreciated! :)

Milestones:
Sentio - 55,000 B/P
Little-Rena - 45,000 B/P, 30,000 Saves
Sir-Nuts - 19,000 B/P
RohantheBarbarian - 14,000 B/P
DumbassDude - 9,000 B/P
KrevZabijak - 7,000 B/P, 5,000 Blams
BenwaHakubi - 4,000 B/P
Lizzardis - 4,000 B/P

Nice! A lot of activity this month. Congrats to all those made their mark and made a milestone!

Promotions:
RohantheBarbarian - Captain
DumbassDude - Sgt. Major
KrevZabijak - Master Sergeant
BenwaHakubi - Corporal
Lizzardis - Corporal

*Salutes* Congratulations on your promotions. Well deserved, indeed!

Entering the list:
Insanimation
captain-dickhead

Welcome to the EGB - Glad to have you in the barracks! ( BTW, we'll call him Cap'n D - I don't think anyone in the EGB should be labeled a dickhead - unless they really are one!)

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Change / Username
09] 29,847 | 2,545 | 84.8 | --2.07 byteslinger Com. 1

A little slower than last month. (Out of curiosity, how do you calculate the percent up/down? Mine is -2.07 - what math do you do to get to that value?)

Top 5 Gainers
byteslinger - 2,545
KrevZabijak - 1,879
Little-Rena - 1,662
DumbassDude - 1,426
Coop83 - 1,342

Again, the usual suspects. I've slowed down a little, Krev is speeding up, and Little-Rena is not far behind. Still, it's all the ladies, 1-2-3. Guess us women-folk don't have much else to do. But when you add up all three of our totals (6,086) we account for over 1/3rd (36.7%, actually) of all the total points for the month. Now, that's a stat!

Top gainers, repeat offenders: byteslinger (5), Coop83 (4), KrevZabijak(2)

The usual suspects once more, including yours truly.

Total Gain for the month = 16,573
That's 552.4 points per day, or 15.3 per day per member.

Good job, indeed - Like to see everyone in action!

And thank you again, Ismael, for your timely and informative post!

*Salutes*

What am I completely overlooked?! Now is that really anyway to treat a fellow newcomer? Sure I may have lost my bronze whistle(again) but that still doesn't mean I'm excluded.

that's the last I'm saying about the roster.

Who wants to talk about agriculture?

At 6/1/09 04:47 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

Thanks for the update Ismael92.

Barracks Roster 1st June 2009
I've added the repeat offenders thingy, Corky mentioned it last month and I think it's a good idea :)

Happy that you think it's a good idea! I use to get on it all of the time, but I'll just be happy to get into the top 5 every now and then.

Milestones:
Sentio - 55,000 B/P
Little-Rena - 45,000 B/P, 30,000 Saves

Wow guys crazy amounts! Good dedication to the portal over the years.

Sir-Nuts - 19,000 B/P
RohantheBarbarian - 14,000 B/P
DumbassDude - 9,000 B/P
KrevZabijak - 7,000 B/P, 5,000 Blams
BenwaHakubi - 4,000 B/P
Lizzardis - 4,000 B/P

Congrats to everyone here. Hopefully next time the list is update I will be able to have a few milestones here.

Promotions:
RohantheBarbarian - Captain
DumbassDude - Sgt. Major
KrevZabijak - Master Sergeant
BenwaHakubi - Corporal
Lizzardis - Corporal

My next promotion is my last promotion. It's been a long time and still going to take a little longer, but I should be there soon. Congrats to everyone!

Entering the list:
Insanimation
captain-dickhead

Welcome!

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Change / Username
09] 29,847 | 2,545 | 84.8 | --2.07 byteslinger Com. 1

How dare you. D: Lol good job.

10] 27,752 | 0,438 | 14.6 | --23.17 Corky52 Com. -1

I'm getting closed in on fast, but thats fine with me. The person about to pass me deserves it a lot!

Top 5 Gainers
byteslinger - 2,545
KrevZabijak - 1,879
Little-Rena - 1,662
DumbassDude - 1,426
Coop83 - 1,342

Congrats to everyone. Great numbers this time around. Keep it up.

At 6/1/09 07:35 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: What am I completely overlooked?! Now is that really anyway to treat a fellow newcomer? Sure I may have lost my bronze whistle(again) but that still doesn't mean I'm excluded.

Relax. You'll be added next month. Not everyone always goes according to plan.

At 6/1/09 04:57 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: I haz 5544 saves, not blams <3

At 6/1/09 06:10 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: You forgot to put me in the roster.

Sorry, to both of you. I was on a rush, I had to go so apparently I overlooked both things. I apologize.

Here's the segment of the roster including SlntCobra1 (I'll not post the whole roster again since it's just too big).

-
36] 03,289 | ???? | ???? | + ???? captain-dickhead 1st Pte.
37] 02,843 | ???? | ???? | + ???? SlntCobra1 Pte.
38] 02,778 | 0,036 | 01.2 | + 0.87 puddinN64 Pte.
-

At 6/1/09 07:19 PM, byteslinger wrote:

At 6/1/09 04:47 PM, Ismael92 wrote: 09] 29,847 | 2,545 | 84.8 | --2.07 byteslinger Com. 1

A little slower than last month. (Out of curiosity, how do you calculate the percent up/down? Mine is -2.07 - what math do you do to get to that value?)

It's not a percent, it's the difference. You see, last month your daily average was 86.9. This time it was 84.8. Then 84.8 - 86.9 = -2.07*. So this month your average was lower.

*I know 84.8 - 86-9 is not equal to 2.07, that's because most numbers here have a lot of decimals and are rounded up.

At 6/1/09 07:35 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: What am I completely overlooked?!

No, but other members couldn't do anything and I wasn't at home. Sorry.

At 6/1/09 08:07 PM, Ismael92 wrote: *I know 84.8 - 86-9 is not equal to 2.07...

Ups, I meant to say "I know 84.8 - 86.9 is not equal to 2.07".

Thank for the new Roster Ismael92 cool to the new people on the list welcome. Good to see my rank is good slow but more b/p lately around 3.5b/p per day when I logged my stats on Newgrounds Log and I got this message Start logging on 07/23/07 - Logging rate : 67.06% (About every other day) cool. I think you doing the Roster monthly is fine no problem as you say your doing it because you want to. Wonder If I will ever reach SC not in the near future.

so I'm inactive, but i couldn't ignore this message

Around 12:00PM the Kitty Krew are gonna use the knowledge gained from the Exploiting Newgrounds issues (T.S.A. version, not S.S.) (Mass vote script) to massively attack Newgrounds and vote 0 using tor, Tor has about 250 IPs avaliable so the KK will be able to vote 250 times, on every flash that enters the portal!

from TheGhostBustas (an alt account)

anyone else get this?

I highly doubt that will happen.
I forgot my user/pass to the KK forums, and I don't feel like going in and crashing their party or even to read what they're up to.
Just too lazy.

At 6/1/09 09:44 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: I highly doubt that will happen.
I forgot my user/pass to the KK forums, and I don't feel like going in and crashing their party or even to read what they're up to.
Just too lazy.

yea, but I didn't want to ignore it just in case

At 6/1/09 04:47 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Barracks Roster 1st June 2009

28] 05,849 | 0,005 | 00.2 | + 0.10 TheThing Sgt. -1

I think the saddest part here is that I gained .1 on my daily average. But I'm surprised I even got 5.

29] 05,812 | 0,032 | 01.1 | --0.33 HeavenDuff Sgt. -1

At 6/1/09 09:39 PM, Pinoyguy75 wrote: Around 12:00PM the Kitty Krew are gonna use the knowledge gained from the Exploiting Newgrounds issues (T.S.A. version, not S.S.) (Mass vote script) to massively attack Newgrounds and vote 0 using tor, Tor has about 250 IPs avaliable so the KK will be able to vote 250 times, on every flash that enters the portal!

Extremely doubtful that they could (I don't think there's been any voting exploits since before I started B/P'ing!), but thanks for the head's up.

At 6/1/09 04:45 PM, Ismael92 wrote: People sometimes come and complain about this being a monthly update, because yeah, it's much easier to complain when there are other people doing things and it's not oneself.

I see your point, but, to be fair I used to do a weekly update, so I know what it's like, and, honestly, it's not that hard.

So, if you (people at the EGB) like it that way, I can (from now on) update the roster weekly. Maybe we should make a poll at our forums.

I think we should raise it on the forums. If you want, I could do a smaller weekly roster, and you could do the monthly one. It'd just save you time, and it doesn't matter to me, because now I'm on my holidays, I've loads of free time.

At 6/1/09 04:47 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Barracks Roster 1st June 2009

Great! Thanks for the update!

Milestones:
Sentio - 55,000 B/P
Little-Rena - 45,000 B/P, 30,000 Saves
Sir-Nuts - 19,000 B/P
RohantheBarbarian - 14,000 B/P
DumbassDude - 9,000 B/P
KrevZabijak - 7,000 B/P, 5,000 Blams
BenwaHakubi - 4,000 B/P
Lizzardis - 4,000 B/P

Congrats, guys!

Promotions:
RohantheBarbarian - Captain
DumbassDude - Sgt. Major
KrevZabijak - Master Sergeant
BenwaHakubi - Corporal
Lizzardis - Corporal

Congrats too you guys too!

Entering the list:
Insanimation
captain-dickhead

And SlntCobra1
Welcome! Except me, of course, cos it'd be weird to welcome myself..

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Change / Username
37] 02,778 | 0,036 | 01.2 | + 0.87 puddinN64 Pte.
38] 02,673 | ???? | ???? | + ???? Insanimation Pte.

Heh, right at the bottom of the list. Even Slnt, who joined after me, is above me..Meh.

Top 5 Gainers
byteslinger - 2,545
KrevZabijak - 1,879
Little-Rena - 1,662
DumbassDude - 1,426
Coop83 - 1,342

Wow! And to think that in the same period, I've gained 211 B/P. I have a lot of catching up to do..

At 6/1/09 10:53 PM, SlashFirestorm wrote:

At 6/1/09 09:39 PM, Pinoyguy75 wrote: Around 12:00PM the Kitty Krew are gonna use the knowledge gained from the Exploiting Newgrounds issues (T.S.A. version, not S.S.) (Mass vote script) to massively attack Newgrounds and vote 0 using tor, Tor has about 250 IPs avaliable so the KK will be able to vote 250 times, on every flash that enters the portal!

Extremely doubtful that they could (I don't think there's been any voting exploits since before I started B/P'ing!), but thanks for the head's up.

I got a spam PM about Exploiting Newgrounds as well, I deleted the PM but fortunately I posted it in the thread for reporting them, so I'll copy/paste the part I feel is most pertinent, which refers to using the newly-implemented medal system as a possible avenue for attacking the site's users maliciously, assuming that medals get released to the general public (unlikely but possible eventually):

We're gonna disscuss "Newgrounds Medals", more importantly, possible exploits with medals. Medals are things you 'earn' when playing games or watching flash... Not much to cover, eh? This entire exploit could be useless if using medals requires admin permission, etc. but for this issues sake, lets say they are open to the public. One possible exploit is 'award shit-storm', an idea by G.C. Simply by loading up a flash, you could then receive 50 or so medals awarded to your account. These medals could have gore pictures or goatse for added effect. Second possible exploit is NEGATIVE award values. Example, if we set an awards value to -500. Therefor, if a user WITH 500 points receives -500, his score is now 0. Third, and possibly FUNNIEST exploit (THIS ONLY APPLIES IF NEWGROUNDS USES MySQL, ETC)... Newgrounds may use a small value type "SMALLINT" or "MEDIUMINT" to store medal points... For those who know about value types, awarding a user "999,999,999,999..." might possibly reset the point score, or set the point score to the highest possible value... Either way it can cause damage to the MySQL database and thus damage to Newgrounds itself.

Sorry about the wall of text, but I couldn't be arsed breaking it down and analyzing it part by part at the moment. This probably will never happen but just be aware of the possibility of medal abuse in the future.

HAHahahahahahah. No.
The point value is set by PG or Tom, I forget who implements the API for each game now.
I looked at 6-7 game codes decompiled when it all first came out, and there is no way someone could manipulate it from within their own flash.
Unless they pay 1 million bucks and slip a roofie into PG's drink, it will never happen.
Just not possible. Take a peek at the API insertion code yourself, you'll see what I mean.

God some people are so stupid. They can't possibly expect people who know flash ON A FLASH SITE to buy into that?
Oh wait I forgot, 45 percent of the userbase is under 18. (Or was it 85 percent, I forgot.)

Anyhow.. anyone else get highly aggrivated when a person ends every post with "ciao" or "-Myusernamehere" (as if we didn't know who's posting things.)

Or like this kid's reviews. ENOUGH SAID.
http://kage26.newgrounds.com/reviews/fla sh/2

Later dates,
- KrevZabijak

At 6/2/09 12:41 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: HAHahahahahahah. No.
The point value is set by PG or Tom, I forget who implements the API for each game now.
I looked at 6-7 game codes decompiled when it all first came out, and there is no way someone could manipulate it from within their own flash.

I know some people that could do it, if they wanted to. Old school code crackers and hex editors - nothing is unbreakable. Fortunately, they just laughed when I told them about this - it's not worth the time to crack. Really, it's not...

Unless they pay 1 million bucks and slip a roofie into PG's drink, it will never happen.
Just not possible. Take a peek at the API insertion code yourself, you'll see what I mean.

A million bucks and a roofie? I think we can PG talking for about $75 and a case of twinkies.

God some people are so stupid. They can't possibly expect people who know flash ON A FLASH SITE to buy into that?
Oh wait I forgot, 45 percent of the userbase is under 18. (Or was it 85 percent, I forgot.)

My guess is that when I started college (a "few" years ago) most of today's NewGround users weren't even conceived. So, yes, I seriously doubt they have the real knowledge on how to crack an API. Everything they "learn" is by cut and paste from somewhere else.

Anyhow.. anyone else get highly aggrivated when a person ends every post with "ciao" or "-Myusernamehere" (as if we didn't know who's posting things.)

Um, didn't you just do that yourself at the end of your post - or were you being sarcastic?

(Krev sarcastic? Nahhhh - that would NEVER happen....)

Or like this kid's reviews. ENOUGH SAID.
http://kage26.newgrounds.com/reviews/fla sh/2

It's a kid. 'Nuff said

Later dates,
- KrevZabijak

We know who you are - and soon, we'll know where you live! Muwhahahaha!!!!

(It's all in good fun, Krev - you know that, right?)

At 6/1/09 03:38 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Hey, 14:30 NG time is 2:30 PM, in case you weren't aware. You're an hour late, so where's our cock(rooster, I'm taking the scientific approach.)?

He says NG Time, because some people work at different points in the world to America. For example, I'm based in the UK, so Eastern Time (NG Time) +5 hours.

At 6/1/09 04:47 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Barracks Roster 1st June 2009

Thanks for the update, Ismael. Nice stuff.

No. B/P / Gain / Average / Change / Username
01] 74,386 | 0,534 | 17.8 | --7.27 Phantom Sup. Com.
02] 57,794 | 1,342 | 44.7 | --0.60 Coop83 Sup. Com.

Just for the record, isn't Seamonky supposed to be added to the list again? If so, I'd recommend that you prep the spreadsheet for next month's update and add in the members who are due to join the list.

Top 5 Gainers
byteslinger - 2,545
KrevZabijak - 1,879
Little-Rena - 1,662
DumbassDude - 1,426
Coop83 - 1,342

Top gainers, repeat offenders: byteslinger (5), Coop83 (4), KrevZabijak(2)

I've still got it. Better knuckle down to get myself up the list some more, in order to catch and pass some of those in front of me.

I currently have a personal record of getting 79 B/P points in a single day, and that was achieved like mid March or sometime in April on a Monday. And to this day I still have yet to break that record. What's te best B/P record y'all have gotten in one day?

118, back in March.

At 6/2/09 04:22 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: What's te best B/P record y'all have gotten in one day?

801 - Clock day last year.

If you're not talking about 'special days' like that, I've managed to hit 108 in December last year. I'm hoping to be able to get something more substantial like that next Clock Day, but we'll see how the time plays out.

Yea, I wasn't talking about special days, I was just talking in general. When you had nothing better to do than B/P all day long. Man, and I thought 79 was a personal best, wow, I got a shitload of catching up to do. What about y'all's personal bests for a week? Mine was like 254 or something.

At 6/2/09 04:22 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: I currently have a personal record of getting 79 B/P points in a single day, and that was achieved like mid March or sometime in April on a Monday. And to this day I still have yet to break that record. What's the best B/P record y'all have gotten in one day?

Well, if you include last year's Clock Day (where everything passes), I think I raked in about 250+ that day (not sure exactly - wasn't logging stats then). They were coming in fast and furious, and I pulled an all-nighter. Stat whoring at it's finest.

Outside of Clock day, I think it's something like 137 - one of those rare days where I managed to actually get the blams and saves I thought should be. But that was a while ago...Blams seem to be harder to come by these days...

Yea I hear ya Byte. I'm usually a pretty easy-going guy when it comes to the portal and my sense of humor. But if something really gets me, automatic blam. That's just me.

At 6/2/09 04:55 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Hey Coop, how many of those 801 were blams?

Um... none.

Don't get me wrong, I seriously tried to get a freaking Blam all day long. 18 hours on the portal and 801 Saves and not a single blam to show for it >:(

Perhaps I can break this nasty streak of 2 straigh clock days without a blam on August 15th?

At 6/2/09 04:22 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: What's te best B/P record y'all have gotten in one day?

Well, since I've been logging stats, I think the best was 65 B/P. However, last Clock Day, I got over 100. Unfortunately, like Coop, they were all saves. In one way, I'm dreading Clock Day, as my already bad ratio will be completely messed up, but I'll also get a higher rank, so I'm undecided..

At 6/2/09 05:50 AM, Insanimation wrote:

At 6/1/09 04:45 PM, Ismael92 wrote: People sometimes come and complain about this being a monthly update, because yeah, it's much easier to complain when there are other people doing things and it's not oneself.

I see your point, but, to be fair I used to do a weekly update, so I know what it's like, and, honestly, it's not that hard.

I'm not saying it's hard, but it takes some time, and I'm having some trouble at school and I've been studying more than usual (that's my fault for slacking too much the first days). And I'll have mid-term tests next week two weeks :o

So, if you (people at the EGB) like it that way, I can (from now on) update the roster weekly. Maybe we should make a poll at our forums.

I think we should raise it on the forums. If you want, I could do a smaller weekly roster, and you could do the monthly one. It'd just save you time, and it doesn't matter to me, because now I'm on my holidays, I've loads of free time.

If you want to make the roster, I have no problem :) But there's no need for two ones, we do it either monthly or weekly.

At 6/2/09 12:41 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: HAHahahahahahah. No.

Haha, I don't know but I laughed when I read this line.

At 6/2/09 03:23 PM, Coop83 wrote: Just for the record, isn't Seamonky supposed to be added to the list again?

Is he? Because he posted a couple of times and it seemed like he was just dropping by, I didn't know he was joining permanently. If so, I'll include him next month.

Sorry.

At 6/2/09 04:22 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: What's te best B/P record y'all have gotten in one day?

Yeah, mine is between 60 and 70 too, I don't know the specific number.

At 6/2/09 05:26 PM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/2/09 04:55 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Hey Coop, how many of those 801 were blams?

Um... none.

You must have missed some then because I only got about 500 to 600 B/P that day, which included 8 or 9 blams. I can't remember the number exactly.

My biggest without clock day was somewhere around 200 give or take about 20. I think that was on one of the Madness days. I remember that day I wasn't feeling well and I just sat around on the computer for most of the day. I also couldn't sleep much so I got a lot of the early and late ones that some would miss.

Speaking of Clock Day and really bad B/P ratios, what's the big deal about someone's ratio? Mine is 2.625. So the way I figure, it's roughly two protects per blam.

URGENT MESSAGE

I won't go into details, but the NGPD is at the verge of closing down due to an incident involving a number of my members as well as two members from the Barracks. To maximize my control over the situation, I kindly ask that anyone in the Barracks refrain from posting in the NGPD until notified otherwise. We're going through very difficult times so I would greatly appreciate your cooperation.

Thanks.
*salute*

At 6/2/09 09:23 PM, TailsPrower wrote: URGENT MESSAGE

I won't go into details, but the NGPD is at the verge of closing down due to an incident involving a number of my members as well as two members from the Barracks. To maximize my control over the situation, I kindly ask that anyone in the Barracks refrain from posting in the NGPD until notified otherwise. We're going through very difficult times so I would greatly appreciate your cooperation.

Thanks.
*salute*

I just looked over at the NGPD thread - It's not a happy place. Seems like Tails has his hands full with a bunch of crap that is about to reach critical mass. It's a mess - we best stay away. I would recommend that if you want to communicate with Tails or anyone on the NGPD, use PM for now. We don't want to make matters worse for him.

Tails, if you're reading this, we support you, and if we can help in any way, let us know.

*Salutes*