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Hey guys,

I got a finance assignment due tomorrow at 5pm and I gotta show some algebraic rearranging. I've got the equation to start out with and what you have to end up with, but I just need the steps in getting to that point...

Here it is, rearrange to find r₀

It seems to be the new thing websites are doing: forcing you to have a password with both letters and numbers, and sometimes forcing you to start with either a letter or a number.

But really, what is the point of it? If you're gonna get hacked you're gonna get hacked. Meaning the method used to find out your password is going to reveal your password no matter how complex you want to make it.

Unless your password is 'password' or 'qwerty' (in which case you deserve to be hacked) then what is the point?

What this is doing is forcing us to change our perfectly secure passwords to a string of numbers and letters that we're probably going to forget, and a lot of people may not be bothered returning to that site.

There appears to be a few spambots that registered today.

It's not normally an issue because we can delete their posts, them,etc. But there have been at least 1 bot that I know of that has sent PM's to members.

The issue with this is they're obviously pretty hard to find, so if you get a PM from a bot please reply to this topic so I can remove the PM from the database and delete the bot.

I was originally not going to make a topic for this because I know I'm opening it up too soon... but I thought it was needed to replace the old chat system.

This topic is mainly for reporting bugs, but feel free to give suggestions for the final version.

This chat uses sockets, and at the moment I don't think it is accessible with google chrome. Please post your errors in this topic.

Oh, and you guys can login too I've blocked off everything but chat so its a bit pointless.

http://www.gdunlimited.net/chat

With the release of GDU approaching, here is a post on the theory behind the system. Please note that this is the theory behind it, and a lot of these features will not be included upon release. But this is what we are building to.

From RMXP site to Indie Game Development – with support for specific engines
RMXP Unlimited started out as a site for RPG Maker XP and has since struggled to keep up in developing a community for its successors. GDU will be a site to incorporate indie game development in general with no specific engine or class of engines at the centre of it. This is not to say that our majority of members, RMXP users, will no longer find a home here. There will still be sections for specific engines.

Quality content
GDU will aim to produce good quality content that is exclusive to the site and offer incentives for the authors who choose GDU to host it. RMXPU being a home to 2^nd hand resources had long-term benefits but was overall damaging to building the community. No more content will show up on GDU that was coped form somewhere else, unless by a member.

Central content system
At one point in time on RMXPU (although not the case at the present time) there were 4 locations where you could find a script. This included on the website, on the forums and in the downloads manager. Similar for tutorials, specific content was not located in one place.
Sections for each class of content will be created based on the needs of each and to allow all visitors to the site to find what they want as easily and efficiently as possible. This means that content will not be posted in forum topics anymore.

Forum topics are temporary
Many indie game development sites setup a forum and leave it at that. Forums for everything – graphics, scripts, tutorials etc. It works but its not the best way to do things. Certain content needs different things – more than just a single textbox filled with bbcode. The theory behind the GDU forum is temporary benefits. The best example of this is a support topic. A member makes a topic requesting help, another member answers the topic, the topic is closed and forgotten about. It never needs to come up again except in searches for those who have the same problem. The specific forums on GDU will be determined based on this temporary benefits theory, with long-term benefits content in their own sections.

Integration
With the need for many more sections that just a forum, a lot more coding and new sections must be developed. For this to happen, member integration and theme integration must be seamless. On RMXPU the theme is made to look identical but there are different images and different CSS styles for both of those themes. Similarly members have a forum account and a website account that used to login at the same time. On GDU, there is no duplicate code – globally across the site the theme is generated from the exact same file, and the members use their forum account everywhere. The website and forum are essentially one system.

Finding the content you are interested in
You will be able to manage and keep track of the things that interest you on a dashboard. You will be able to find content based on your personal set of tags/keywords, see who has replied to your topics or see replies to topics you have posted in, keep track of new/updated content that you choose, see the activity of members you choose to follow, etc. All the possible activity across GDU will be in one centralised location so you don’t miss out on anything.

Value in your account
Your GDU account should be valuable and worth something. This is the point behind the points system and an awards system.

Effective collaboration and hosting of games
The games section is for you to upload your games for the visitors to download and play – think of it as your own website for your game. You will have a large range of options to customize your games pages and attract visitors to download it. On top of that, you will be able to add ‘team members’ to your game to have access to your own control panel. The control panel is a collaboration/team management system that is used to develop your team project online with other members of the community, rather than through PMs or topics posts. This system will also include a recruitment system which will available publically so you can attract members to your team.