At 8/19/12 09:04 PM, Painbringer wrote: BTW, I think you forgot to put in the 4 year special update at the bottom.

I gotta say, I do like how you're very observant with the EXP updates. Being out of routine can cause mistakes but I did need to correct a few things as a lot of users further down had their links screwed up so they should all be corrected now. I will need to remember that name change updates are required for the other spreadsheets.

At 8/19/12 02:24 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #54 is FINALLY available!

160 DoctorStrongbad 26,400 49 560 +6

Up six places to number 160. A very nice update for me.

At 8/19/12 02:24 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #54 is FINALLY available!

Thanks for the patchwork issue, Bahamut and thanks to byteslinger for getting the programming gremlins back into line.

Looks like I've managed to Coop DekarKaine, so I'm now up to 93rd. FIGMENTUM and Stormwarden are starting to loom on the horizon, so 91st is a vague notion for the moment. I'll get there, sooner or later, I just need to close in on the marks, who are probably a little too far ahead at the moment. (30,610 should be where I land for the next update, breathing down Stormwarden's neck)

Wait, how could anyone get 590 experience on this update? Nobody has 580, but two people have 590.

At 8/20/12 06:04 AM, Knuckstrike wrote: Wait, how could anyone get 590 experience on this update? Nobody has 580, but two people have 590.

I've heard Coop's story but the other one has some explaining to do. I'm beginning to wonder if there's some sort of exploitation going on for depositing. There's really no other possibility as to how one gets more than you should have for 28/56 days.

Bahamut for the update, thanks!

I almost reached the golden chainsaw, and I might actually pass some people before the next update. Can't wait!

At 8/20/12 09:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/20/12 06:04 AM, Knuckstrike wrote: Wait, how could anyone get 590 experience on this update? Nobody has 580, but two people have 590.

I've heard Coop's story but the other one has some explaining to do. I'm beginning to wonder if there's some sort of exploitation going on for depositing. There's really no other possibility as to how one gets more than you should have for 28/56 days.

What was Coop's story? I always assumed the deposit system wasn't exploitable. Besides, it's just 20 points above the max, it's not like someone earn 1000 points in one month or something. There must be a logical explanation for it, me thinks?

My apologies for the double post, but I just noticed the other user has a deposit rate of 101,49%. At the time of the update, he was a NG member for 940 days. This means his max points should be 9400 and some points you get after registering (50, right?). His experience at the time of the update was 9540 points. This means he has 140 (or 90?) points more than he could possibly have. This is obviously not an insane amount, but it's still very questionable. Any thoughts?

At 8/19/12 02:24 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #54 is FINALLY available!

Thanks for the update!

174 Haggard 26,030 49 560 +7 66.92%

I climed 7 ranks, which is pretty awesome. There are some inactive and some semi-active users in front of me. Most notable name should be humantarget52, who currently is #151 on the Exp-List. Only 63 days until I pass him.

At 8/20/12 02:55 PM, Nijsse wrote:

At 8/20/12 09:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/20/12 06:04 AM, Knuckstrike wrote: Wait, how could anyone get 590 experience on this update? Nobody has 580, but two people have 590.

I've heard Coop's story but the other one has some explaining to do. I'm beginning to wonder if there's some sort of exploitation going on for depositing. There's really no other possibility as to how one gets more than you should have for 28/56 days.

What was Coop's story? I always assumed the deposit system wasn't exploitable. Besides, it's just 20 points above the max, it's not like someone earn 1000 points in one month or something. There must be a logical explanation for it, me thinks?

I missed a deposit when the redesign was launched. I had work in the morning and stayed up until 2am, so as not to miss a deposit, chatting to Tom on AIM, as the redesign came online, then the servers fell over, as is apparently customary.

I went to bed, as there was no sign of things coming back on and Tom's ETA was "hours". I slept, woke up next morning and found that I had missed a deposit, when the servers came back and stayed back. I politely sent Tom a PM, asking if I could have my missed deposit back (hey, a guy's got to try, right?)

Three months later, I suddenly notice that my experience has gone above the total that my spreadsheet predicts each morning. 30 points gained above and beyond the deposits. I'm not going to complain about that, am I?

For those of you that play Munchkin (Nope just me, then), convenient addition error - go up a level.

At 8/20/12 03:10 PM, Nijsse wrote: My apologies for the double post, but I just noticed the other user has a deposit rate of 101,49%. At the time of the update, he was a NG member for 940 days. This means his max points should be 9400 and some points you get after registering (50, right?). His experience at the time of the update was 9540 points. This means he has 140 (or 90?) points more than he could possibly have. This is obviously not an insane amount, but it's still very questionable. Any thoughts?

This is what I've been scratching my head over as well. While the odd excess happens, this one has been occurring a few times now and it's hard to pinpoint where this is happening.

At 8/21/12 07:39 AM, Coop wrote: For those of you that play Munchkin (Nope just me, then), convenient addition error - go up a level.

More reasons to bring you over to that Liverpool shop. Not that I play Munchkin, though but there are people there that do.

At 8/20/12 03:10 PM, Nijsse wrote: My apologies for the double post, but I just noticed the other user has a deposit rate of 101,49%. At the time of the update, he was a NG member for 940 days. This means his max points should be 9400 and some points you get after registering (50, right?). His experience at the time of the update was 9540 points. This means he has 140 (or 90?) points more than he could possibly have. This is obviously not an insane amount, but it's still very questionable. Any thoughts?

If there are questions then this user should be looked into. If there is a way to cheat the system, it should be found out and fixed.

At 8/21/12 08:02 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/21/12 07:39 AM, Coop wrote: For those of you that play Munchkin (Nope just me, then), convenient addition error - go up a level.

More reasons to bring you over to that Liverpool shop. Not that I play Munchkin, though but there are people there that do.

I'm the only player I know of, who has killed the entire party with one turn. Took them all with me, by passing some of their monsters onto other folks, when the level 1 pot plant turned into a level 20 Plutonium Dragon, which was a baby, with a mother and it's mate, it happened to have a doppleganger with it and there might have been one more. Two transferral potions and the kneepads of allure really helped me to get everyone involved.

I only ever noticed today that I was on this list.

I always thought that you had to have at least 2000th place.

At 8/19/12 02:24 PM, Bahamut wrote: NEXT UPDATE: 15th September 2012

I'm not seeing it.

Please tell me you're not dead.

At 9/16/12 04:04 AM, Painbringer wrote:

At 8/19/12 02:24 PM, Bahamut wrote: NEXT UPDATE: 15th September 2012

I'm not seeing it.

Please tell me you're not dead.

Hardly. I usually have it set up in the evening so give me about 7 hours and you will get it. Stat pulling is an extremely slow process these days, especially when I have over 3,000 users to cover for one update.

my EXP rank is #954

EXP Update #55 is now available!

Hello all and welcome to the 55th EXP update. It feels much better to be back to the 28-days routine for the updates.

NEXT UPDATE: 14th October 2012

See Painbringer, not dead at all!

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #55 is now available!

143 | Auz | 27,420 | 280 | +1

No deposits missed and another rank up. Sweet!

Thanks for the update Bahamut!

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #55 is now available!

Thank you Bahamut.

I'm happy to see that I didn't miss a single deposit. In fact, I am one of the only 15 people of the over 2,000 who got 290 exp on this update.

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #55 is now available!

Thanks for the update!

167 Haggard 26,300 49 270 +7 67.13%

Should've been 280, but I missed a deposit on Monday. First time this has happened in years.

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #55 is now available!

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. The only problem with the 55th update was that I didn't go up a rank. What with 55 being the best of numbers, on a purely Coop basis, I feel that I should have

*checks further*

Oh, wait. Tomorrow morning, I'll advance to 92nd, having Cooped Stormwarden. Now there's a blast from the past. Then it's a case of waiting for members like ORKarate, iWalker and Dopefish to miss enough deposits for me to catch them. A good job that I have other hobbies, isn't it?

thanks for the update Bahamut!

322 | Powerage | 21,940 | 240 | +7 | 87.51%
835 | Egarewop | 15,630 | 240 | +25 | 64.22%

up 7 on the main and up 25 on the alt, not too bad! the top 300 is still pretty far away it seems, though. i did miss a few deposits due to me being busy, and being sick, but hopefully things will be going back to normal soon.

thanks bahamut I am looking at the activity of exp users it looks like its gonna be a race to rank up but I might be able to go up 10-15 ranks by the next update due to me depositing every day.

Wow, ever since exp rank was hidden on the profile page I haven't been noticing how much I go up. Top 900 now. Thanks for the update!

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #55 is now available!
156 DoctorStrongbad 26,680 50 280 +4

A good update for me, up four spots to number 156. :)

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #55 is now available!

Thanks for the update Bahamut.

162 gamejunkie 26,465 49 280 +6 74.30% 12/16/02

Not a bad month at all. +6 is very nice. Should gain 3 spots on the next update, taking me into the Top 160 but even better I will finally have reached Level 50.

NEXT UPDATE: 14th October 2012

Looking forward to it as always.

At 9/16/12 02:43 PM, Knuckstrike wrote:

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #55 is now available!

Thank you Bahamut.

I'm happy to see that I didn't miss a single deposit. In fact, I am one of the only 15 people of the over 2,000 who got 290 exp on this update.

The correct amount should really be 280. 290 is if you deposited later on the day for the previous EXP update but deposited earlier on this time.

At 9/16/12 05:20 PM, Coop wrote: Oh, wait. Tomorrow morning, I'll advance to 92nd, having Cooped Stormwarden. Now there's a blast from the past. Then it's a case of waiting for members like ORKarate, iWalker and Dopefish to miss enough deposits for me to catch them. A good job that I have other hobbies, isn't it?

Sorry about that little blip but at least the 56th update will look good, right? I can't say for sure when I'll get a +2 on an update again so I made the most of it. I don't even expect to go up a rank on the next update.

At 9/16/12 07:25 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: thanks bahamut I am looking at the activity of exp users it looks like its gonna be a race to rank up but I might be able to go up 10-15 ranks by the next update due to me depositing every day.

Actually, considering where you are right now I expect you to get more than 10-15 by the next update. There are plenty of inactive users around you there so those rank gains will look big. At times I miss passing so many users but I've got to move forward and aim for the top 100.

At 9/17/12 01:49 AM, Bobogoobo wrote: Wow, ever since exp rank was hidden on the profile page I haven't been noticing how much I go up. Top 900 now. Thanks for the update!

And this is why I use NG Log for my daily stats needs. It tells me my EXP and B/P ranks there when I log my stats for the day. It's a nifty site that I've been using for years now.

At 9/17/12 03:43 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Not a bad month at all. +6 is very nice. Should gain 3 spots on the next update, taking me into the Top 160 but even better I will finally have reached Level 50.

You don't sound that far off from the top 150.

already up 20 ranks!

At 9/19/12 12:17 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: already up 20 ranks!

Keep in mind that NG ranks do not reflect the rankings on my updates. My updates include ALL users with 8k+ EXP whereas the NG rank listing for EXP excludes deactivated accounts. If you check the users marked in red strikethrough text above you, you'll see that they have 0 for EXP rank and therefore not part of NG's stat listings.

At 9/19/12 09:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Keep in mind that NG ranks do not reflect the rankings on my updates. My updates include ALL users with 8k+ EXP whereas the NG rank listing for EXP excludes deactivated accounts. If you check the users marked in red strikethrough text above you, you'll see that they have 0 for EXP rank and therefore not part of NG's stat listings.

ahh didn't know that.