At 9/19/12 09:12 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

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.

In all fairness, I probably only made a statement about red strikethrough text users just once on the site and that was the first post-2012 redesign EXP update. What I have thought of doing a few times is writing a FAQ for the site to cover both EXP and hexalist updates. Would be nice to give information to the more recent viewers on that site. Well, however many new visitors I even get on my site for update needs nowadays.

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: NEXT UPDATE: 14th October 2012

Will it include all the latest Halloween level icons?

At 10/6/12 03:15 PM, Painbringer wrote:

At 9/16/12 02:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: NEXT UPDATE: 14th October 2012

Will it include all the latest Halloween level icons?

Indeed it does. I did spend an hour cropping all the level icons and putting them all in aura backgrounds. Granted, some of them have been updated since but I'll take care of them sometime before the update. Hopefully we can be successful with having holiday special level icons (providing they do it) for December. The 2010/11 holiday icons always had bad timing for them as they weren't up until after the last EXP update of those years were posted.

At 10/6/12 05:46 PM, Bahamut wrote:

I think I should be almost on the list now. Slowly but surely getting there.

At 9/17/12 08:29 AM, Bahamut wrote:

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.

Still got a little way to go yet Bahamut.

Well I have just passed the Top 160 mark (currently 159) but I just had a quick browse again of list update #55 and if peoples deposit rates remain where they currently are it will still take another 3 to 4 months to hit the Top 150. Most annoying since if I had not taken a 2 year or so sabbatical from NG I could be Level 57 and somewhere around 33 or 34 on the Top Exp list. Disappointing!

EXP Update #56 (Spooky Scary Edition) is now available!

Hello all and welcome to the 56th EXP update. The NG staff have introduced Halloween icons for the 2012 redesign and unlike the last two years, there is more than enough time to use special icons for an update. Hopefully they give the holiday level icons the same amount of time providing they will go ahead with that plan as well.

NEXT UPDATE: 11th November 2012

At 10/14/12 02:04 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #56 (Spooky Scary Edition) is now available!

Thanks for the update Bahamut.

Another reasonable update for me. +3 spots on the list. Still going to be a while before I hit the Top 150 though. 3 to 4 months if things go to plan.

159 gamejunkie 26,745 50 280 +3 74.50% 12/16/02

I did notice a small error on the list though.

149 tigerkitty 27,130 50 390 +5 92.56% 10/05/04

NEXT UPDATE: 11th November 2012

Looking forward to it as always.

At 10/7/12 10:59 AM, Decky wrote:

At 10/6/12 05:46 PM, Bahamut wrote:

I think I should be almost on the list now. Slowly but surely getting there.

We'll give you two months and hopefully you'll be with us then and just in time before 2012 ends. Depending how it's going to work with the uploads of the holiday icons (if any), I might want to make a final 2012 EXP update on the last Sunday of the year. That would actually be nice to do every year for a better display on how users have been from the end of last year through the current one.

At 10/14/12 02:33 PM, gamejunkie wrote: I did notice a small error on the list though.

149 tigerkitty 27,130 50 390 +5 92.56% 10/05/04

Amazingly enough, that's legit... Well, somewhat. Like Coop, it was just deposit recovery so tigerkitty and DHT got a crazy boost of +390 this time.

At 10/14/12 02:04 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #56 (Spooky Scary Edition) is now available!

Awesome update Bahamut! Nice to see you got all the Halloween icons in place.

141 | Auz | 27,700 | 50 | 280 | +2 | 99.28%

Another two ranks up. Can't complain. In other news I'm going to level up somewhere next week to level 51. It seems like ages ago since I got to level 50. I would've had the awesome Master Sword icon in the old system. It's a shame I had to miss out on it, but at least I got greasemonkey so I can pretend :p

At 10/14/12 02:39 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 10/14/12 02:33 PM, gamejunkie wrote: I did notice a small error on the list though.

149 tigerkitty 27,130 50 390 +5 92.56% 10/05/04

Amazingly enough, that's legit... Well, somewhat. Like Coop, it was just deposit recovery so tigerkitty and DHT got a crazy boost of +390 this time.

I'm really not happy with this deposit recovery thing going on. I can't blame anyone for trying, but I can blame the admins for doing it. What's the point in trying to deposit every day (and even setting the alarm clock on the day of the redesign) if I can just ask Tom to give me my deposits back? I should ask him to recover my last missed deposit. And while he's at it, why not recover the 2 years I already missed? This is some serious bullshit and realy contradicts the "only 10 Exp per day" rule. Right now, I'm feeling like stopping to deposit altogether...

I wish I had this Halloween icon because it would have been so fitting to my username:

At 10/14/12 02:04 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #56 (Spooky Scary Edition) is now available!

155 DoctorStrongbad 26,960 50 280 +1

Up one spot to number 155.

At 10/14/12 02:04 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #56 (Spooky Scary Edition) is now available!

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. Looks nice.

I'd much rather have the visage of the reaper, than this shitty bowling ball of a pumpkin, carved with angry faic. Oh well, not far from that now...

Still, closing the gap on ORKarate (130 points) and iWalker (280 Points), with Ineritus a mere 2 deposits ahead of me. Dopefish being inactive at 670 points ahead is starting to hove into view, but I'll focus on the top 90 (I hope) before that point.

Happy Hallowe'en

At 10/18/12 10:20 AM, Cootie wrote:

At 10/18/12 04:31 AM, Coop wrote:

I'd much rather have the visage of the reaper, than this shitty bowling ball of a pumpkin, carved with angry faic. Oh well, not far from that now...

Oh, don't be like that now. At least your icon actually had a noticible change.

I just didn't realise that pumpkins were being grown by Spalding now, that's all...

EXP Update #57 is now available!

Hello all and welcome to the 57th EXP update. No more spookiness here and I was late-ish for this update due to having a party last night. I crashed for the night so no time to even sort this out until I got back home all the way from Liverpool. Worth it, though.

NEXT UPDATE: 9th December 2012

At 11/11/12 05:50 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #57 is now available!

141 | Auz | 27,980 | 280 | 0 | 99.29%

No rank ups this time, that's quite unusual. Though I am slowly starting to enter the regions where rank ups are more of a rarity than a regularity.

No more spookiness here and I was late-ish for this update due to having a party last night. I crashed for the night so no time to even sort this out until I got back home all the way from Liverpool. Worth it, though.

Hmm well you must be something right then. After a night of partying hard (for my standards) I always get this feeling that it was NOT worth it in the end.

At 11/11/12 05:50 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #57 is now available!

Better late than never!

Thanks.

At 11/11/12 05:50 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #57 is now available!

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. Nice, as always.

I've made 1 more position and so thanks must be given to ORKarate, who has now joined the legions of Cooped accounts.

Looking ahead, Inertius and FIGMENTUM continue to frustrate me, with their depositing, but I remain confident that I will cstch them, at some stage. That said, Dopefish and iWalker will probably fall first, which suits me fine as after them, I'll be top 90, so all good.

Rank 933 if I keep depositing everyday like I am I should get up there!

Damn, I need to start depositing every day again or I'll be off the list!... In a few years time.

Aiming for that top 1000.

I'm just a couple weeks away from 8,000 exp, which should put me right at the bottom of the "people who are almost cool enough to be on the list but not quite yet" part of the list. Spoiler alert: once I get to the shark with a freaking laser beam attached to its head, I'm stopping.

At 11/11/12 06:01 PM, Auz wrote: Hmm well you must be something right then. After a night of partying hard (for my standards) I always get this feeling that it was NOT worth it in the end.

Maybe because I was able to have some jokes throughout the night and into the morning. That saying, I've got another party today that my friend is actually wanting to start as early as 2:30PM (10 minutes time as I'm typing this) but I'll get there a bit later.

At 11/14/12 09:00 AM, DumbassDude wrote: Damn, I need to start depositing every day again or I'll be off the list!... In a few years time.

Not likely. Just because the thread title from 2005 states it's top 2,000 doesn't mean it's like that now. I count all users who are at least 8k EXP, although there's a wonder if it should eventually be raised to 9k EXP due to heavy load on the size of the updates.

At 11/14/12 10:54 AM, DiMono wrote: I'm just a couple weeks away from 8,000 exp, which should put me right at the bottom of the "people who are almost cool enough to be on the list but not quite yet" part of the list. Spoiler alert: once I get to the shark with a freaking laser beam attached to its head, I'm stopping.

I used to like stopping alts at a certain level because of the level icons but with the redesign changing it all around entirely and the chances of them changing it again whenever it comes to another layout change, I wonder if it's even worse stopping them for level icons now. My new plan is to simply stop them at big milestones.

EXP Update #58 is now available!

Hello all and welcome to the 58th EXP update. This is the last EXP update for 2012 (or maybe forever if 21st December takes us all but I know jack shit will happen). The EXP updates end on a high note for 2012 for me as only today I reached level 53 and not had to wait another four weeks just to see my level update so the odds were in my favour this time.

On a more general note, Wylo deserves a mention for being the first mod to reach the final level. According to Wade regarding the 2007 redesign, there was a special level icon for mods who reached level 60 but whatever that was we'll never find out now that level 60 is more generic than the special global icon (which sadly wasn't liked that much).

NEXT UPDATE: 6th January 2013

At 12/9/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #58 is now available!

Excellent, thanks.

Gained nearly 50 ranks this update with plenty of inactives ahead to pass. Looks good!

(or maybe forever if 21st December takes us all but I know jack shit will happen).

BUT WHAT ABOUT MY STATS!? :O

On a more general note, Wylo deserves a mention for being the first mod to reach the final level.

I hadn't actually noticed that there weren't any level 60 mods yet, I would have figured there would have been at least one. Big congrats to him, anyway.

According to Wade regarding the 2007 redesign, there was a special level icon for mods who reached level 60

How about the level 60 icon holding the level 57 ban hammer instead of the spear/short sword thing? :P

At 12/9/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #58 is now available!

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. Lovely work, as always.

Looks like I'm on the cusp of 90th place, as I'm within 7 deposits of iWalker and 18 of dopefish. Since I closed the gap to both of these by more than that this time around, I should be able to Coop both of them within the next 4 weeks.

Conversely, it looks as if Inertius has started hitting deposits with regularity again, so he remains 20 points ahead of me. Lovely.

At 12/9/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #58 is now available!

141 | Auz | 28,260 | 280 | 0 | 99.30%

Zero ranks gained this round and sadly most of the users directly above me deposit their experience frequently. There's still a chance I'll pass nothere before the year closes though, if he keeps going at this rate. We'll see.

According to Wade regarding the 2007 redesign, there was a special level icon for mods who reached level 60 but whatever that was we'll never find out now that level 60 is more generic than the special global icon (which sadly wasn't liked that much).

Perhaps it was the golden banhammer icon? I don't know. We'll never find out I guess.

At 12/9/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #58 is now available!

Thanks for the update Bahamut.

157 gamejunkie 27,305 50 280 +2 74.89% 12/16/02

A gain of 2 for the month is good at this stage. I'm starting to get into that zone where everyone above me is voting 250 to 280 a month so it's hard to catch them now. I don't think I'll gain any spots next month and probably only 2 spots the following month. Cracking into the Top 150 is still some time away unfortunately.

NEXT UPDATE: 6th January 2013

Sweet! Not that I have much to look forward to.

At 12/9/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #58 is now available!

Thanks for the update!

161 Haggard 27,140 50 290 +1 67.82% 12/25/01

+1 is good. Very close to the top 160 now. But there are many many active users around me, so I don't expect to climb too many ranks in the near future.

As usual, thanks for the timely update.

At 12/9/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP Update #58 is now available!

Thanks Bahamut.

On a more general note, Wylo deserves a mention for being the first mod to reach the final level. According to Wade regarding the 2007 redesign, there was a special level icon for mods who reached level 60 but whatever that was we'll never find out now that level 60 is more generic than the special global icon (which sadly wasn't liked that much).

Oh wow, I didn't realise I passed ramagi and at the same time, I've lost a lot of places since I last checked. That current level 60 icon really hides the aura though.