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[Marked]

Points System
http://www.rmxpunlim....php?app=points
The points system is back, but this time it's a little different.

The points system works like this:
For every character in your post, you get 0.01149 points. In other words, "characters in post x 0.001149". The minimum points per post you can get is 1, the maximum is 10. So for a one-worder, you'll 1 point, for an essay you'll get 10.

To work out the "weight" of the points I found a post that I thought would be worth about 2 points, so I divided 2 by the characters. I think that the short-posters will benefit most from this weight, you don't have to type that much to achieve 10.

EDIT: yeah, this topic was an easy 10 points...I'll see how things go and may decrease the weight a little.

Tracker
http://www.rmxpunlim...php?app=tracker
This is an idea of mine. For those who didn't stop reading at the last sentence: this is for reporting bugs around the forum, things that need changing and fixing. We'll try it out, hopefully it will work to the forums benefit. We'll see.

The Rest...
I've given the header a bit of a re-working. For some reason they thought it was a good idea to have all your mods show up in a long line, there is obviously not going to be enough room. So I added in a little bar like before below the main bar, so we can have a lot more links. On that main bar is a "New Posts" button for you lazy members who don't want to read the board index. Admittedly the forum structure isn't the most user-friendly out there, and this should make it easier to find the new posts.

The downloads manager works again. No one could download anything before. After an hour of working on it, I just googled it. That worked.

More updates to come

[LovePhoenix]

It looks like you really worked hard on this, Marked. Great job. =D

[Polraudio]

I love the new features. What can we do with the points system?
To me is seems like its just like the 1st shop system we had.(In a good way)
Maybe we can get a shop system where we can buy items and give them to other members and have some items that only staff can give out to members. Like rewards or tokens you can use to give to people and when they get enough rewards or tokens they can trade them for a prize.

[Wyzrd]

I like the ideas. Only thing I have a bone with is the name of the points system. >_< iPoints lol, this isn't your fault I'm just tired of people putting "i" in front of things like that. There might be a way for you to rename it, I know on vB I could do it. I would like a little more detail on how the points are going to work.

The tracker could be a good/bad thing. We'll see how it turns out.

I was watching the header this morning before I went to to bed, I was thinking it looked a lot better. I just think now that if the New Posts is going to be up top you should get rid of the "New Content" button right below the "tracker" link.

[Nisage]

So the point system is back? Yeah the name "iPonts" isn't really a good name..... Just "Points System" is fine. The Tracker seems interesting. Oh right, I only saw one error since the upgrade, and that was then I was trying to log in. I forgot what most of it said, but refreshing the page fixed it.

[CrimsonInferno]

What do points do? Do they just show how much work a person puts in their posts....?

[Marked]

polraudio, on 27 August 2009 - 03:56 PM, said:

Maybe we can get a shop system where we can buy items and give them to other members and have some items that only staff can give out to members. Like rewards or tokens you can use to give to people and when they get enough rewards or tokens they can trade them for a prize.

I agree. I really hope we can give this system more functions, even like a rmxp unlimited currency, including services from members. Perhaps we should have a place to show off services for those who are willing?

Nisage, on 27 August 2009 - 07:58 PM, said:

So the point system is back? Yeah the name "iPonts" isn't really a good name..... Just "Points System" is fine. The Tracker seems interesting. Oh right, I only saw one error since the upgrade, and that was then I was trying to log in. I forgot what most of it said, but refreshing the page fixed it.

That's not exactly what I call an error. There are random errors that occur, keyword being random. They may or may not be related to rmxp unlimited. Everyone seems skeptical of the tracker so far... it can be used for any kind of project though. I hope to have my script submission component in there when i have time to finish it. But if you see something wrong, no harm in using the tracker.

CrimsonInferno, on 28 August 2009 - 12:52 AM, said:

What do points do? Do they just show how much work a person puts in their posts....?

Perhaps. Spam goes both ways, either too short or way too long. That's what the min/max points are for. I wouldnt call the points a measure of the quality of posts a member makes, even though they're based off the length of their posts. For example, points may be an incentive to make more spam-like posts by either posting more, or more pointless information in each post. But I dont think the points will influence anyone on their posts on this forum.

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I was watching the header this morning before I went to to bed, I was thinking it looked a lot better. I just think now that if the New Posts is going to be up top you should get rid of the "New Content" button right below the "tracker" link.

That's awfully observant of you Wyzrd.
I was meaning to get rid of it when i was working on the header. 'tis gone now.

[Wyzrd]

Marked, on 28 August 2009 - 02:47 AM, said:

That's awfully observant of you Wyzrd.
I was meaning to get rid of it when i was working on the header. 'tis gone now.

I'm slightly OCD so things like that stick out to me. And I noticed a few minutes ago you got rid of it. I went to click it and was like WOAH it's gone lol.

[Polraudio]

Marked, on 28 August 2009 - 02:47 AM, said:

I agree. I really hope we can give this system more functions, even like a rmxp unlimited currency, including services from members. Perhaps we should have a place to show off services for those who are willing?

Yea up where it says Blogs, Members, Tracker, Points we could have a new button called services that leads to a page that has a list and a PM buton the side of the names. OR maybe an add-on of some sort for the gallery or Downloads where it costs points to download.