At 9/5/08 05:17 PM, Coop83 wrote: Still, it's fun to climb the ladder, isn't it?

It's really what keeps me on the site. I can take breaks from the BBS no sweat. But depositing... I dunno what it is about these damned points. They're nearly worthless here, it's ultra challenging, so I love it.

I mean... it's been three full years since I B/P'd actively. And that was only because I had a job where I could keep on the portal while working to vote. Exp is so much of a slower gain, but for some reason I'm smitten with it. Until lvl 56, that is. 5 years from now when I reach that amazing looking skull, I may well stop. Well... maybe 10 exp from the next level. Just in case they redesign the site again.

At 9/5/08 08:07 PM, Evark wrote:

At 9/5/08 05:17 PM, Coop83 wrote: Still, it's fun to climb the ladder, isn't it?

It's really what keeps me on the site. I can take breaks from the BBS no sweat. But depositing... I dunno what it is about these damned points. They're nearly worthless here, it's ultra challenging, so I love it.

Fun, but ultimately pointless. Isn't that the real irony of this site?

I mean... it's been three full years since I B/P'd actively. And that was only because I had a job where I could keep on the portal while working to vote. Exp is so much of a slower gain, but for some reason I'm smitten with it. Until lvl 56, that is. 5 years from now when I reach that amazing looking skull, I may well stop. Well... maybe 10 exp from the next level. Just in case they redesign the site again.

You mean if there will only ever be one Level 60 user and we start on that ridiculous climb, where the experience parameters keep on getting further and further apart? That was one of NG's more dark moments.

At 9/6/08 05:21 AM, Coop83 wrote: Fun, but ultimately pointless. Isn't that the real irony of this site?

I don't know that I can find anything ironic about it... but I'd say fun and ultimately pointless about sums this place up. And that's 5 years talkin'.

You mean if there will only ever be one Level 60 user and we start on that ridiculous climb, where the experience parameters keep on getting further and further apart? That was one of NG's more dark moments.

I was talking about compared to most games or sites where you gain points toward higher levels. Newgrounds is the only one I can think of where it takes three months of daily visits simply to gain ONE.

But that's because it's not the primary purpose of the site. Anyway, I dunno about abandoning the old exp system. I supposed it's allowed me to reach my leveling goal faster... but I'd now only have 13 years left to get to the level 26 I so desired. Except, redesign. : (

At 9/5/08 02:24 AM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote: Well unfortunately I didn't get to post here when I did it, but I've finally hit the top 1,000 EXPers on Newgrounds, and I'm pretty proud of myself. It's been a long fight to get here, and now I'm happy to be here! Woot!

I offer my congrats to you wholeheartly. Keep on Farming those ground golds pieces.

At 9/5/08 08:07 PM, Evark wrote:
I mean... it's been three full years since I B/P'd actively. And that was only because I had a job where I could keep on the portal while working to vote. Exp is so much of a slower gain, but for some reason I'm smitten with it. Until lvl 56, that is. 5 years from now when I reach that amazing looking skull, I may well stop. Well... maybe 10 exp from the next level. Just in case they redesign the site again.

I can definitely relate. Many users may see depositing as a "pointless" jesture but for some of us, there's a certain small fun factor in reaching the next step. I too have a goal of reaching lvl 55 and timely ending my deposits but as gfox and Coop pointed out a while back, the balance of power may be in effect again by then. I guess in the end, it may just come down to how much devotion/time you may have for Newgrounds.

Anybody have any regrets? ;-)

I missed a deposit a couple weeks ago because my girlfriend was making a lot of drama that day.

Now I fall behind a rank every time wismty deposits in the early AM and I don't.

GOD MY LIFE IS LIKE THE WORST!!!

Can everyone just like, take a break for one day? Let me catch back up?

At 9/7/08 02:41 AM, RageVI wrote: I missed a deposit a couple weeks ago because my girlfriend was making a lot of drama that day.

Now I fall behind a rank every time wismty deposits in the early AM and I don't.

Why if isn't RageVI. . . Are you sure you've missed a deposit? I've always noticed you were 40 points behind me for quite some time... unless I missed a deposit as well. Hmm.

GOD MY LIFE IS LIKE THE WORST!!!

LIEK GET OVER IT, IT'S ONLY A GAME!

Can everyone just like, take a break for one day? Let me catch back up?

Sure.

here's to next year.

After thinking about the Pentalist and EXP update schedules, I have decided that after the two updates are made on 27th September, the two will no longer be updated on the same day. So after the next update, there'll be an EXP update in two weeks time. A fortnight later, the Pentalist will be updated and then both updates will be done four weeks later after their latest ones.

However, due to real life events, there are some Saturdays where I won't be able to make the updates, so the first EXP update on its own had to be delayed by a week. Regardless of whether I go out on the 20th or not, I decided to delay both updates by a week since the schedule seems to work better that way. So here's the dates for the upcoming updates:

27th September - Both EXP and Pentalist updates
18th October - EXP update
25th October - Pentalist update
8th November - EXP update
22nd November - Pentalist update
6th December - EXP update
20th December - Pentalist update

While I said the updates would be done every 2 weeks, it's not very likely for me to make an update on the 11th October due to real life events, so I resorted to delaying that update for a week and then doing the next one three weeks later (after that, it'll be done every four weeks).

OK, that's enough of the update schedules, about switching webservers, I have done that and you can now find the EXP list on my Bravehost site as well as my Pentalist updates. The only thing that's been bothering me are the ads and other crap put on the site. I can pay to have these ads removed, but I'll only do that if the ads are a pain for the majority of you. If you all can deal with the crap put on the site, that's fine, but if not, I'll be willing to pay some money to make it look better.

Another thing, you can still see the EXP List on Lycos, but I don't intend to remove any stuff from the site just yet incase everyone prefers the lists on Lycos rather than Bravehost. I'm thinking of posting the updates on both sites incase one fails to work for anyone here.

At 9/5/08 08:45 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 9/4/08 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: How many years ago is THAT exactly? I need to know since for me, it'll probably be double that for me to go from 200 to 50. :P

You should be receiving quite a boost shortly - I was stuck outside the top 300 and the top 250 for a while with slow patches of no missed depositers. When I cracked the top 250, I've steadily gone up quite a few ranks in quite a short space. Maybe you'll catch them in the next few months and we'll see that improve your standing greatly.

We'll see what happens in the next few months then. Right now, there are some people I am certain to take over by 27th September. I should pass 5 or 6 more users by then. :)

But there's so many damn users above me that aren't missing any deposits. Of course, some will give up eventually, but right now, it doesn't look like any of them are going to give up anytime soon. Oh well, I'll just focus on the next few users in front of me and see how they do.

Like the scenario with myself and KWAS then :P

Yeah, I'm surprised but glad KWAS stopped depositing. I'd love to pass him soon. :D

He'll get it if he mentions it to me once more.

What, the top 50?

...Must I make that huge picture?

Also, I'm a top 50 Protector, top 50 Reviewer, top 50 Audio Reviewer, top 50 Flash Review Response gainer and a top 50 list maker.

They're easier to get. Top 50 is almost impossible for the both of us. XP

I never mentioned anything about the top 50 for experience, which I'm slowly closing in on...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

At 9/7/08 02:41 AM, RageVI wrote: Can everyone just like, take a break for one day? Let me catch back up?

That would be an advantage for myself, Coop and Evark, but despite we have less EXP than you, do you wish for us to take a break for one day as well? :P

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote:

OK, that's enough of the update schedules, about switching webserversng the updates on both sites incase one fails to work for anyone here.

Would you be interested in a real web host? I pay for a rather large webhosting service but don't use a fraction of it. I have 250gb of web space and 2.5 terabytes of monthly bandwidth. I used to have a few domains associated with this service, but the only one that remains is dragonstrength.com (I'm sure you wouldn't mind the name either).

That would be an advantage for myself, Coop and Evark, but despite we have less EXP than you, do you wish for us to take a break for one day as well? :P

I wouldn't mind having a larger cushion in case something were to happen, so yes. Take a break, big guy, you've definitely earned it. Well done!

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: OK, that's enough of the update schedules, about switching webservers, I have done that and you can now find the EXP list on my Bravehost site as well as my Pentalist updates. The only thing that's been bothering me are the ads and other crap put on the site. I can pay to have these ads removed, but I'll only do that if the ads are a pain for the majority of you. If you all can deal with the crap put on the site, that's fine, but if not, I'll be willing to pay some money to make it look better.

I can see! For the first time in I-don't-know-how-long, I can actually see the update! And, like I said before, I have some a few easy rank gains coming up too, which is always nice. However, I also noticed something scary: I'm only about 800 exp (which is more than two months away, but still) from overtaking Vash-The-Stampede!

X_X

After Wade and bigbadron, he's probably the biggest "scalp" I've ever (well, technically, "will, in the near future, ever have") managed collect. Never thought I'd overtake a guy like him, to be honest. Still, many thanks Bahamut, for maintaining the list and, specially, for taking the time to re-create the site in a new host. Cheers!

At 9/7/08 01:30 AM, BR wrote: Anybody have any regrets? ;-)

Oh, I'm guessing quite a few of us (possibly myself included) will have regrets sometime in the future... but right now, we're so caught up in the <exageration on> adrenaline rush <exageration off> that we don't notice things we might have reasons to regret.

<j/k>But seriously, I also imagine that a few of us will wear the levels, ranks and badges we've earned proudly as, well, err... as badges when NG becomes the multinational, VR making corporation (akin to Blade Runner), complete with standing army that will come to dominate the world in a couple of years thanks to its hipnotic flashes (think hipnotoad of Futurama fame, but nastier).

After all, in this "bright future", old users such as ourselves will become the ruling elite! I mean, that's the reason we all keep depositing, right? To become the ruling elite in the new world order? I mean, no one in their right minds would keep depositing for X (where X equals to 3, 4, 5...) years straight just for fun, right?

At 9/7/08 03:21 PM, RageVI wrote:

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote:

OK, that's enough of the update schedules, about switching webserversng the updates on both sites incase one fails to work for anyone here.

Would you be interested in a real web host? I pay for a rather large webhosting service but don't use a fraction of it. I have 250gb of web space and 2.5 terabytes of monthly bandwidth. I used to have a few domains associated with this service, but the only one that remains is dragonstrength.com (I'm sure you wouldn't mind the name either).

Sorry I didn't get back to this question sooner. I had thoughts about it and while I greatly appreciate your offer, I won't be taking it. I'm a bit concerned about some unfortunate events that might happen and I feel having a web host of my own is the best for me. Another reason why I'm not going to take the offer is because my friend has given me a web host on his site and I feel one of these offers is enough. However, I will not be using his site for stat purposes, but rather for Flash purposes whenever I've got several good ideas on what to put on the site.

Still, thank you very much for your offer, but I'm fine with what I have right now.

That would be an advantage for myself, Coop and Evark, but despite we have less EXP than you, do you wish for us to take a break for one day as well? :P

I wouldn't mind having a larger cushion in case something were to happen, so yes. Take a break, big guy, you've definitely earned it. Well done!

Well, there might be a slip up when I'm away in London or anywhere else, but besides that, no breaks. Infact, I wouldn't have been bothered missing three deposits in July when I went to see Iron Maiden as a present from my sister. The missed deposits would have been well worth it, but my depositer was able to get his job done, so I can't complain. Another missed deposit I would have been OK with was when I went to Alton Towers a few weeks ago. :)

At 9/7/08 05:35 PM, Vert wrote:

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: OK, that's enough of the update schedules, about switching webservers, I have done that and you can now find the EXP list on my Bravehost site as well as my Pentalist updates. The only thing that's been bothering me are the ads and other crap put on the site. I can pay to have these ads removed, but I'll only do that if the ads are a pain for the majority of you. If you all can deal with the crap put on the site, that's fine, but if not, I'll be willing to pay some money to make it look better.

I can see! For the first time in I-don't-know-how-long, I can actually see the update! And, like I said before, I have some a few easy rank gains coming up too, which is always nice. However, I also noticed something scary: I'm only about 800 exp (which is more than two months away, but still) from overtaking Vash-The-Stampede!

I've heard a lot about Vash-The-Stampede. I know he was active in the old NG days, but seems to be a forgotten user nowadays.

Still, many thanks Bahamut, for maintaining the list and, specially, for taking the time to re-create the site in a new host. Cheers!

No problem. :)

EXP update #4 is now available! (for the Lycos site, click here)

Like I said on the Pentalist thread, I'm updating this today rather than tomorrow due to real life stuff happening. Therefore, I won't have the time to make the updates tomorrow, so today is a better time.

Oh, and incase you're not sure yet, anyone who've gained 320 EXP or less have definitely missed at least one deposit. :)

Like I said a few weeks ago, the next EXP update will be on 18th October!

Ah, no more updating both the Pentalist and EXP updates on the same day!

At 9/26/08 09:59 AM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #4 is now available! (for the Lycos site, click here)

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. Very tasty :)

222 bigbadron | 16,195 | 0 | -14
223 deckheadtottie | 16,190 | 340 | +7
224 moongod | 16,166 | 0 | -12
225 agent66 | 16,142 | 0 | -8
226 PlasmaRadio | 16,110 | 320 | +6
227 TimScheff | 16,090 | 200| 0
228 Coop83 | 16,090 | 340 | +7
229 Speed24601 | 16,080 | 270 | +2

A good spread here, with bigbadron, moongod and agent66 all ripe for the picking over the next few weeks (or is it a month, I can't remember). Still, I've got TimScheff taking the role of my tormentor this month, now that long time occupier of this role, AnzRage has fallen from pace, to move 1 deposit behind me. I get the feeling that Tim won't be in front of me at the next update.

Of course, a little mention should be made of how I passed KWAS this month, as that's 1 more guy on the VP list that I've gotten ahead of. 8 more deposits and I've cleared the next one, moongod :P

At 9/26/08 09:59 AM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #4 is now available! (for the Lycos site, click here)

Thanks for the update!

581 Haggard 11,790 340 +20

No deposit missed and there are quite a lot inactive users ahead of me. So, UP the way goes! :D

583 FatBadger 11,780 300 +14

Seems as if I finally passed FatBadger. I know that I used to be quite some exp behind him.

589 Heinrich 11,740 300 +13
591 Atalaya 11,720 310 +14

It's a bit strange to see them falling behind so much. It took me quite some time to pass them.

At 9/26/08 09:59 AM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #4 is now available! (for the Lycos site, click here)

As always, thanks for the update! It's nice to see that I still have two or three rank gains coming up, but after that I'm going to get stuck on aprox. 82 for a long time. Which means that things are back to normal.

On other news, I've just noticed two very closely related facts: ramagi is getting very close to overtaking no less a person than Shrapnel! And humantarget52 is also getting <very> close to leaving the top 10 users too.

Such is the high living on the top 2000 user list: you never know what madness you'll see next...
=]

Ok, what the fuck, gfox? How the fuck are you the only person on the list to apparently gain 360 experience over the last 34 deposit days?

Anyway, it looks like I'm gaining 5 spots tops this upcoming month. The crawl to top 200 is lengthy. I really hope I break it by '09.

At 9/27/08 01:25 AM, Evark wrote: Ok, what the fuck, gfox? How the fuck are you the only person on the list to apparently gain 360 experience over the last 34 deposit days?

Because he hadn't deposited on the day that the stats were pulled last time, which he subsequently went on to do, plus he has deposited on the day that stats were pulled this time. People who collect their experience in the same window each day - a metronome like me, for example, will always gain a uniform amount.

He's not getting any cheats, trust me. Hurricane Ike has messed about with his deposit schedule :P

At 9/27/08 05:53 AM, Coop83 wrote: He's not getting any cheats, trust me. Hurricane Ike has messed about with his deposit schedule :P

It was a rhetorical question. Meant to point out his obscene commitment to depositing where he's the only one who managed to get the maximum allowable experience points in a given update period.

At 9/28/08 01:31 AM, Evark wrote:

At 9/27/08 05:53 AM, Coop83 wrote: He's not getting any cheats, trust me. Hurricane Ike has messed about with his deposit schedule :P

It was a rhetorical question. Meant to point out his obscene commitment to depositing where he's the only one who managed to get the maximum allowable experience points in a given update period.

That's not a display of commitment, to be honest. His commitment to depositing in the aftermath of Ike is, considering the power outages he's suffering from

Not that I really want to look down my nose at anybody here, but I haven't missed a single deposit in over 2 years. Surely that's commitment?

At 9/27/08 01:25 AM, Evark wrote: Ok, what the fuck, gfox? How the fuck are you the only person on the list to apparently gain 360 experience over the last 34 deposit days?

Funny enough, I didn't notice his 360 gain until you brought it up. It's very strange for him to get that much considering the most anyone should have got is 350 (for depositing later on the day the previous update was done and depositing before this update was done on the day). All I'm guessing is how he timed it very well whilst I was pulling the stats. But here's the weirder part: He gained 280 EXP on the previous and gained 360 EXP on this update. He shouldn't have more than 350 EXP, so really, it must be his timing.

HE WAS AFTER THE FUCKING 360 GAIN FOR HIS FUCKING LOVE FOR 36!

At 9/28/08 04:07 AM, Coop83 wrote: Not that I really want to look down my nose at anybody here, but I haven't missed a single deposit in over 2 years. Surely that's commitment?

It's nothing to do with his deposit dedication, it's to do with the fact that he managed to get 10 more EXP than (what I thought was) the maximum limit.

Just so you know Bahamut, I'll be hitting 9000 exp in 4 days, so don't forget to add me to the next list ;)

^___^

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: So here's the dates for the upcoming updates:

8th November - EXP update

You know I checked what day I pass a very old friend of mine and it is this exact day.
So depending on my mood I may or may not be +1
It shall be a happy yet sad day for me.

6th December - EXP update

BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
3 days.......3 days more
12/9/2008 is a much better date :)
Yes that my last know +1 at this time ....unless some else stops depositing in font of me.
Which at current trends of the others left doesn't look so good.

Anyway I'll just look forward to 5 days from now :)

ramagi, if it weren't for you... I would have quit newgrounds 3 years ago or so....

Thanks for the updateage, Bahamut. Still puttering along at #58 here. Nammuch new. ;_;

At 9/2/08 01:37 PM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, as Coop's skills of perception would have it, he's got exactly the required Exp for Level 39. I've got a great tracker as to how close I am, but never realised that he had already reached that bloody chainsaw.

Who are we talking about again? 4 layers of nested quotes didn't say the username, hence my snippage. #;-}>

At 8/31/08 01:25 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Whoa. Your quoting of me was massively fuxxed, like happened to me a few times several months back. ;_;

It still happened though. So long as you're not denying the existence of the missed deposit, then I'm happy :)

But of course.

Again, missed deposit*S*. You got a nice 20 exp gift, not just 10 exp, never forget. #;-}>

OH NOE. That's who you predict Recon's gonna de-top50? Couldn't it be someone else? How ill-fitting. ;_;

....

So your prediction was someone-else, wasn't it? I'll look into it and get back to you...

No, I just think it blows that Recon might boot bila out of the top 50 when he enters, as they are teh Wi/Ht?y friends from way back, that's all.

"Cartman doesn't know the difference between a rainforest and a Pop-Tart.

Yeah I do, Pop-Tarts are frosted!"

Good point there, Cartman. O_o

Oh dear.

You knew something like that was on it's way!

Top 50 blizzard ahoy!

At 9/4/08 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/1/08 06:55 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Of course. Doesn't matter what's on the spreadsheet, man, it's all about what gets published for us list consumers. This is the #1 rule of listmakery.

Alright, fair enough.

:::nods:::

Dude... all of this is because a month ago you said this:

lol yeah. XP

INSANITY.

You're fine with talking about the Top 50, Coop's fine with talking about the Top 200 EXP and I'm OK with talking about the Top 300 EXP. However, myself and Coop should shut the hell up about getting into the top 50 until years time.

I see.
This is all very funny only because a couple years ago I was ranked #200 in exp, yanno.

How many years ago is THAT exactly? I need to know since for me, it'll probably be double that for me to go from 200 to 50. :P

Uh... good question. NG log doesn't go back far enough, of course... lemme see if I can find any records, but I don't think I've got my old NG shit on this new desktop...

:::rummages:::

Hmm... this is the oldest exp-related record I can find on my new hard drive:

"21 #82 gfoxcook 15,780"

... from a 20070215 saved copy of BBB's top 2000 list's 4 500-chunk html files.

Soooo... around 2 years ago I was in the 80s or 90s.

When was I actually back around #200? I guess it was a little longer than "a couple of years."

Maybe.... late 2004 or early-mid 2005, I'd guess? Thus..... probably 3-4 years, TBH.

So it may not be as far away for you and Coop as you seem to think, that's all.

But there's so many damn users above me that aren't missing any deposits. Of course, some will give up eventually, but right now, it doesn't look like any of them are going to give up anytime soon. Oh well, I'll just focus on the next few users in front of me and see how they do.

;_;

The problem's fixed (by itself according to liljim o__O), but due to a user having all his posts erased, the thread was shown to have 1625 pages, but it actually had 1611 pages.

Wild.

I find it hard to believe that in 5 years, 50 users ahead of you in exp will not fail to deposit at least once. So... just make sure you're one of the <50 who manages to make every deposit in that timespan, and all shall be well.

Of course I'll make sure I'm one of those users, but what about that odd one missed deposit that might happen due to short breaks (i.e. Going to London while my depositer misses a deposit by accident)? Meh, I'll be fine anyway. :)

NEBAR MISH ENY. ;_;

EW EAR MI?!

DRAGGIN'Y BASTICH!

Yes. I picked up most of them for 25 cents at the newstand. Yours and Coop's is the only one I actually have a subscription to because it's so much cheaper at 5 cents each.

You're going at prices here? Well, just as long as you enjoy our newspapers, it's all right. :)

It was meant to be a compliment. You devious bastards undercut the competition and thus outsell them. :::nods:::

COOP/BAHAMUT CATFIGHT TIEMS.

Nuh-uh, it'd be:

COOP/BAHAMUT HUMAN/DRAGONFIGHT TIEMS.

Yes, but if it's sexy to anyone, they'll call it a catfight. So let's cover all the bases.

At 9/5/08 08:45 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 9/4/08 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: COOP/BAHAMUT HUMAN/DRAGONFIGHT TIEMS.

*scene shatters, coupled with Final Fantasy fight music* Coop parries with mentioning the top 50 he mentioned earlier was in fact the top 50 for B/P, which he is close to.

Hahahaha.

Also, I'm a top 50 Protector, top 50 Reviewer, top 50 Audio Reviewer, top 50 Flash Review Response gainer and a top 50 list maker.
I never mentioned anything about the top 50 for experience, which I'm slowly closing in on...

Oh dear....

At 9/5/08 02:50 PM, Evark wrote:

At 9/1/08 06:55 PM, gfoxcook wrote: This is all very funny only because a couple years ago I was ranked #200 in exp, yanno.

Sigh... It's unfortunate to me that it's likely going to take me as much time as it took you to get from where I am now to where you are now just to get into the top 100.

;_;

You're well ahead of my alt alt gfox and of Coop, if it makes you feel any better.

I've been looking forward to top 200 for ages now. I love experience because it's like the Senate of NG's voting congress... every state's got equal opportunity.

And it's the highest prestige/reputation, too. Great metaphor... the Senate... heh.

Hitting top 200 after almost 5 years of activity on the site really makes you feel like you at least did something with the time spent here, but it's kind of obscene to me that there are 200 other users who have been equally as dedicated as I, only perhaps over LONGER spans of time.

But a few of them over just around as long as you, too.

It takes all kinds of deposterers.

Anyway, I popped in and saw this topic on the front page and was like "woah... did the list get revived? Sweet." I'd been wondering to whom the most immediate thorns in my side belonged for ages now. Really weirds me out to see that I'm getting close to passing people like bigbadron and Miikro. Users that used to be thousands of experience RANKS ahead of me.

List's been back up and running for awhile, before that me and iscrulz would occasionally just touch base with a portion of the list, but no serious regular updating was afoot for awhile, no.

Welcome back aboard the good ship explistipop.

And yep, that feeling of passing teh famed NG legends is always great.

At 9/5/08 08:07 PM, Evark wrote:

At 9/5/08 05:17 PM, Coop83 wrote: Still, it's fun to climb the ladder, isn't it?

It's really what keeps me on the site. I can take breaks from the BBS no sweat. But depositing... I dunno what it is about these damned points. They're nearly worthless here, it's ultra challenging, so I love it.

Bah. They're not worthless. They're as worthwhile as you feel they are, in your mind.

And VP may not really matter that much.... since such large volumes of people vote on shit in the end (and even the bulk of the first 200 votes even out the VPs of their voters).... but come on. Depostering = a higher exp stat, which is cool in and of itself, higher levels and level icons... and then the higher VP as well.

It's all "meaningless," but there's so many shiny things, who cares? #;-}>

I mean... it's been three full years since I B/P'd actively. And that was only because I had a job where I could keep on the portal while working to vote. Exp is so much of a slower gain, but for some reason I'm smitten with it. Until lvl 56, that is. 5 years from now when I reach that amazing looking skull, I may well stop. Well... maybe 10 exp from the next level. Just in case they redesign the site again.

Good idea in case of scaling beginning again, yes. Stop just short of level 57, and that way as long as you check the site every month or so, you'll never leave level 56 (unless you want to).

At 9/7/08 01:30 AM, BR wrote: I can definitely relate. Many users may see depositing as a "pointless" jesture but for some of us, there's a certain small fun factor in reaching the next step. I too have a goal of reaching lvl 55 and timely ending my deposits but as gfox and Coop pointed out a while back, the balance of power may be in effect again by then. I guess in the end, it may just come down to how much devotion/time you may have for Newgrounds.

Mmmmmm. level 55.

I look forward to that, too. But honestly... I can't see myself ending deposits.

I've still got February 2000 to January 2003 to make up for.

Meaning I've got to deposit forever, and then tack 3 more years of deposits on top of that.

It's a tough proposition. #;-}>

Anybody have any regrets? ;-)

I regret that I didn't deposit even just a FEW months more prior to discovering all the nifty daily things to do on the site in January 2003.... because then maybe I woulda tasted the greatnesses of levels 24 and 25 on the old 30-level NG system pre-redesign.

Now I never will.

Though I did once deposit for a level 24 account for Bedn for awhile, so that was... somewhat nice.

These regrets are offset by the relief of never having been level 23 on the old system.

Yay!

At 9/7/08 02:41 AM, RageVI wrote: I missed a deposit a couple weeks ago because my girlfriend was making a lot of drama that day.

!!!

Now I fall behind a rank every time wismty deposits in the early AM and I don't.

OH SNAP.

GOD MY LIFE IS LIKE THE WORST!!!

Okay, you've gone a bit TOO over the top even for me, now. #;-}>

Can everyone just like, take a break for one day? Let me catch back up?

It's a great idea in THEORY, but... um.... no, I'm afraid not. #;-}>

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: After thinking about the Pentalist and EXP update schedules, I have decided that after the two updates are made on 27th September, the two will no longer be updated on the same day. So after the next update, there'll be an EXP update in two weeks time. A fortnight later, the Pentalist will be updated and then both updates will be done four weeks later after their latest ones.

Wild.

But isn't it easier to combine the statpull for the exp and the exp part of the pentalist?

I guess the listage assembly is your main problem these days, anyway. So makes sense that you'd want to space them out a bit more.

You could always just update the lists less often, BTW. Do both every 2 months or something.

27th September - Both EXP and Pentalist updates
18th October - EXP update
25th October - Pentalist update
8th November - EXP update
22nd November - Pentalist update
6th December - EXP update
20th December - Pentalist update

:::brain explodes:::

All I know is that my pre-order of Far Cry 2 unlocks on Steam on Wednesday 22nd October, right in between your next two updates, so... my my my, that week is gonna kick ARSE. #;-}>

At 9/5/08 08:45 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 9/4/08 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: How many years ago is THAT exactly? I need to know since for me, it'll probably be double that for me to go from 200 to 50. :P

You should be receiving quite a boost shortly - I was stuck outside the top 300 and the top 250 for a while with slow patches of no missed depositers. When I cracked the top 250, I've steadily gone up quite a few ranks in quite a short space. Maybe you'll catch them in the next few months and we'll see that improve your standing greatly.

We'll see what happens in the next few months then. Right now, there are some people I am certain to take over by 27th September. I should pass 5 or 6 more users by then. :)

You crazy bastards with your complaining about being outside the top 200. At least you can actually pass 5-6 users in a week or two's time.

I have to be content passing 1 or 2 users ever few months, if not every YEAR. ;_;

At 9/7/08 03:21 PM, RageVI wrote: Would you be interested in a real web host? I pay for a rather large webhosting service but don't use a fraction of it. I have 250gb of web space and 2.5 terabytes of monthly bandwidth. I used to have a few domains associated with this service, but the only one that remains is dragonstrength.com (I'm sure you wouldn't mind the name either).

HOLY SHIT.

http://www.dragonstrength.com/bahamut

Perfect addy for Bahamut's Central List Bank!

I wouldn't mind having a larger cushion in case something were to happen, so yes. Take a break, big guy, you've definitely earned it. Well done!

LOL.

At 9/7/08 05:35 PM, Vert wrote: I can see! For the first time in I-don't-know-how-long, I can actually see the update! And, like I said before, I have some a few easy rank gains coming up too, which is always nice. However, I also noticed something scary: I'm only about 800 exp (which is more than two months away, but still) from overtaking Vash-The-Stampede!

THE BLIND CAN SEE AGAIN, HUZZAH!

After Wade and bigbadron, he's probably the biggest "scalp" I've ever (well, technically, "will, in the near future, ever have") managed collect. Never thought I'd overtake a guy like him, to be honest. Still, many thanks Bahamut, for maintaining the list and, specially, for taking the time to re-create the site in a new host. Cheers!

Yep. Ol' Vashu.

After all, in this "bright future", old users such as ourselves will become the ruling elite! I mean, that's the reason we all keep depositing, right? To become the ruling elite in the new world order? I mean, no one in their right minds would keep depositing for X (where X equals to 3, 4, 5...) years straight just for fun, right?

That's just the icing on the cake, my man.

At 9/11/08 01:51 PM, Bahamut wrote: Sorry I didn't get back to this question sooner. I had thoughts about it and while I greatly appreciate your offer, I won't be taking it. I'm a bit concerned about some unfortunate events that might happen and I feel having a web host of my own is the best for me. Another reason why I'm not going to take the offer is because my friend has given me a web host on his site and I feel one of these offers is enough. However, I will not be using his site for stat purposes, but rather for Flash purposes whenever I've got several good ideas on what to put on the site.

Awwwww.

Still, thank you very much for your offer, but I'm fine with what I have right now.

:::dream of dragony-URL pentalist goodness dies:::

I've heard a lot about Vash-The-Stampede. I know he was active in the old NG days, but seems to be a forgotten user nowadays.

He was not only a major depositer, of course, but also a BBSer from back in the first year or so of the BBS's history. i.e. he predates my BBS participation, which didn't begin in January 2003.

Though there may have been some overlap. I mostly knew (of?) him by reputation, and by reading old threads he had posted in.

Legends of NG.

At 9/27/08 01:25 AM, Evark wrote: Ok, what the fuck, gfox? How the fuck are you the only person on the list to apparently gain 360 experience over the last 34 deposit days?

:::shrugs::: The gods love me and bestowed me with a 36y present? #;-}>

At 9/27/08 05:53 AM, Coop83 wrote: He's not getting any cheats, trust me. Hurricane Ike has messed about with his deposit schedule :P

Yeah, I basically went 46-47 hours between deposit times, then would deposit twice in 1-2 hours at my parents' place... then rinse and repeat.

Lovely fun.

Not.

Anyway, if there's something wonky with my exps, it's news to me, so... yeah. I've missed a couple NGlogs in the past few months, but no deposits, hurricane be DAMNED!

HAHAHAH, IKE. YOU FAILED. YOU FAILED AT DEPOSTER-BLOCK. You is failure. Eat it.

At 10/11/08 05:31 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 9/2/08 01:37 PM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, as Coop's skills of perception would have it, he's got exactly the required Exp for Level 39. I've got a great tracker as to how close I am, but never realised that he had already reached that bloody chainsaw.

Who are we talking about again? 4 layers of nested quotes didn't say the username, hence my snippage. #;-}>

We were talking about KWAS71KCK. He's since fallen behind me in the Experience scheme of things, as has he for Voting Power :P

At 9/5/08 08:45 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 9/4/08 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: COOP/BAHAMUT HUMAN/DRAGONFIGHT TIEMS.

*scene shatters, coupled with Final Fantasy fight music* Coop parries with mentioning the top 50 he mentioned earlier was in fact the top 50 for B/P, which he is close to.

Hahahaha.

A move taken from your playbook, methinks :P

Also, I'm a top 50 Protector, top 50 Reviewer, top 50 Audio Reviewer, top 50 Flash Review Response gainer and a top 50 list maker.
I never mentioned anything about the top 50 for experience, which I'm slowly closing in on...

Oh dear....

I know and you know that you laughed at that. I think Bahamut feels like he's won something by getting me to focus on the top 200, which I'm now 24 places away from.

At 10/11/08 05:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 9/27/08 05:53 AM, Coop83 wrote: He's not getting any cheats, trust me. Hurricane Ike has messed about with his deposit schedule :P

Yeah, I basically went 46-47 hours between deposit times, then would deposit twice in 1-2 hours at my parents' place... then rinse and repeat.

Lovely fun.

Not.

You've got to do what you've got to do. It meant you never missed a single deposit, so it's all good, but to a lesser extent.

Anyway, if there's something wonky with my exps, it's news to me, so... yeah. I've missed a couple NGlogs in the past few months, but no deposits, hurricane be DAMNED!

HAHAHAH, IKE. YOU FAILED. YOU FAILED AT DEPOSTER-BLOCK. You is failure. Eat it.

See, after all that Ike threw at you, you still ended up walking away from it without losing your home, your loved ones and your deposits.

At 9/28/08 02:39 PM, bifgis wrote: Just so you know Bahamut, I'll be hitting 9000 exp in 4 days, so don't forget to add me to the next list ;)

^___^

Don't worry, you were already on the EXP spreadsheet. Infact, anyone who reaches level 29 will be added to the spreadsheet, even if you haven't reached 9k EXP yet. :)

At 9/29/08 10:04 AM, ramagi wrote:

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: 8th November - EXP update

You know I checked what day I pass a very old friend of mine and it is this exact day.

You pass Shrapnel then? :o Wow.

6th December - EXP update

BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
3 days.......3 days more
12/9/2008 is a much better date :)

And you pass humantarget then? Wow, kinda funny to think he used to be #1 in EXP and has stopped depositing for over a year now. Ah yes, back in 2004 - 2006, he was on top of the spot. I know you know this shit, but I just wanted to look back.

At 10/11/08 05:31 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Thanks for the updateage, Bahamut. Still puttering along at #58 here. Nammuch new. ;_;

Look at the bright side, you're ahead of the majority of NGers in EXP. :)

At 9/4/08 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: How many years ago is THAT exactly? I need to know since for me, it'll probably be double that for me to go from 200 to 50. :P

Uh... good question. NG log doesn't go back far enough, of course... lemme see if I can find any records, but I don't think I've got my old NG shit on this new desktop...

Yeah, NG Log only goes back to redesign launch date now. :( I wish I could see my very first log and compare it to now.

When was I actually back around #200? I guess it was a little longer than "a couple of years."

Maybe.... late 2004 or early-mid 2005, I'd guess? Thus..... probably 3-4 years, TBH.

Quite a long time for NG. :P

But there's so many damn users above me that aren't missing any deposits. Of course, some will give up eventually, but right now, it doesn't look like any of them are going to give up anytime soon. Oh well, I'll just focus on the next few users in front of me and see how they do.

;_;

Well lucky me, some active depositers in front of me have been slipping over the last week. Let's hope things stay that way, although I'll feel sorry for IvanTuroc when I overtake him.

Of course I'll make sure I'm one of those users, but what about that odd one missed deposit that might happen due to short breaks (i.e. Going to London while my depositer misses a deposit by accident)? Meh, I'll be fine anyway. :)

NEBAR MISH ENY. ;_;

EW EAR MI?!

DRAGGIN'Y BASTICH!

Is this some Star Wars accent?

COOP/BAHAMUT HUMAN/DRAGONFIGHT TIEMS.

Yes, but if it's sexy to anyone, they'll call it a catfight. So let's cover all the bases.

Fuck catfights, human/dragonfights sounds more epic.

At 10/11/08 05:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 9/7/08 11:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: After thinking about the Pentalist and EXP update schedules, I have decided that after the two updates are made on 27th September, the two will no longer be updated on the same day. So after the next update, there'll be an EXP update in two weeks time. A fortnight later, the Pentalist will be updated and then both updates will be done four weeks later after their latest ones.

Wild.

But isn't it easier to combine the statpull for the exp and the exp part of the pentalist?

I tried that, but things really fucked up with the EXP list, so I do a separate pull for them.

You could always just update the lists less often, BTW. Do both every 2 months or something.

No, I want both lists to be updated once every 4 or 5 weeks, depending on real life events.

We'll see what happens in the next few months then. Right now, there are some people I am certain to take over by 27th September. I should pass 5 or 6 more users by then. :)

You crazy bastards with your complaining about being outside the top 200. At least you can actually pass 5-6 users in a week or two's time.

Uhh, what about when I was #335 or something for THREE WEEKS?!?! I mean, being stuck that rank for three weeks isn't good. Of course, you rank up even less often now, but it's more reasonable for you. When I enter the top 200, I'll then start accepting myself being stuck at certain ranks for at least 2 weeks.

At 9/11/08 01:51 PM, Bahamut wrote: Still, thank you very much for your offer, but I'm fine with what I have right now.

dream of dragony-URL pentalist goodness dies:::

Well, some dreams have to be destroyed like that.

At 9/27/08 01:25 AM, Evark wrote: Ok, what the fuck, gfox? How the fuck are you the only person on the list to apparently gain 360 experience over the last 34 deposit days?

shrugs::: The gods love me and bestowed me with a 36y present? #;-}>

It's still a mystery. I swear, I didn't alter your EXP in anyway to get that +360 gain.

HAHAHAH, IKE. YOU FAILED. YOU FAILED AT DEPOSTER-BLOCK. You is failure. Eat it.

Glad you were still able to get your deposits done. I've come across a few problems that might result in myself missing deposits, especially when my Internet goes down for a while. Good thing I keep on my toes and do my best to make sure I deposited my EXP for the day. Infact, when I was in Lanzarote for a week back in June, I went on the Internet cafe daily and checked if my EXP was deposited. However, for when I'm in London at my sister's flat, I don't bother checking NG and just hope my depositer gets my EXP done everyday until I'm back, although that'll change whenever I get a laptop.

At 10/15/08 05:57 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/28/08 02:39 PM, bifgis wrote: Just so you know Bahamut, I'll be hitting 9000 exp in 4 days, so don't forget to add me to the next list ;)

^___^

Don't worry, you were already on the EXP spreadsheet. Infact, anyone who reaches level 29 will be added to the spreadsheet, even if you haven't reached 9k EXP yet. :)

Sweet, I was meaning to remind you about myself but glad to see that you have it covered :)

Looks like I am making my way onto all of these fancy lists around the same time!

Slowly inching closer to the top 500. :P

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EXP update #5 is now available!

From now on, I should be able to catch all the users who are level 29 or above, so no-one else should reach 10k EXP unnoticed.

If any users in front or behind you have gained 200 EXP or less, then they've definitely missed a deposit since the last update.

Enjoy the update everyone.

NEXT UPDATE: 8th November 2008