Today I edited the "Story so far" post located in the "World of Former Glory board". It now tells what the role play is about at the top of the topic, and then goes on to tell about the story.
I have also added the playlist back for that forum, but not from playlist.com because they decided to stick by their decision and not let people embed on other sites. Now I am using Hypster for the new playlist. I edited the code, shrunk it down, and embeded it into the "World of Former Glory" board as a test. The Site's theme song is back up and will play while you read the story. I'm not sure yet if I want to add the playlist back for every board, so for now that will be the only one that has music.
I know not everyone likes when music automatically plays on websites, but there is a certain point in the story that really needs it to play so that the players will experience the desired effect. When that time comes, all boards will have a playlist going with the "Special" song selection. I'll continue to update the site throughout the week, so make sure you check in often.
Thank you.
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Today I have updated the FAQ, the Rules page, and the Humans VS Sensitives page. I have mostly fixed spelling and grammar issues, as well as a few confusing parts with the wording of certain sentences. I wanted to make sure that the getting started board was clear and easy to navigate. I may edit it again in the future just to make sure that everything is perfect.
Thank you for reading.
Last Edit: Aug 25, 2012 20:33:11 GMT -5 by FG Admin
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It was recently brought to my attention that there was a problem with the registration and sign up process on the site. Members would sign up but Proboards was not sending the validation email, so they had no idea that their account was activated.
"Disable account activations" was set to "No", which was causing the problems. Oddly enough, you are suppose to say Yes to disabling account activations in order for Proboards to send the validation email. I don't know why, but this confused me. Anyways, the problem is fixed.
I also removed the Admin manually validating accounts so that members will have full access to the boards. I will still RED name new members and disable the IC boards so that a random member can't sign up and start posting in character. I want members to still send in their bio first and read the rules before posting In Character.
To sum it up, the sign up process is now easier for new members.
Thank you.
7/13/12
EDIT: Small update. The final FMW in the armory now has 200 HP, before it only had 20 HP. I'm not sure why its life was so low, but now it has been updated and the problem fixed.
Last Edit: Jul 13, 2012 17:42:55 GMT -5 by FG Admin
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Today I have added a new weakness to the weakness list. Colorblind will effect players for life skills dealing with sight and observation, as well as in combat. How is being colorblind a weakness? Well I will explain.
In real life, I am in fact colorblind. I realized it was a good weakness to add just the other day when my brother and I were playing Ghost recon. A enemy soldier was standing right in front of me and I thought he was a tree blowing in the wind... At the last second my brother looked in my screen and told me to shoot, which saved my life.
If that was real life, I would have died because I wouldn't have been able to see the guy because my colorblindness perfectly blended him into the background, which in the RP would translate to a failed defense roll.
In total we are now missing about 6 weakness to complete the entire list. I will continue to add more weakness as I come across them.
Thank you for reading.
Last Edit: Jul 19, 2012 14:43:15 GMT -5 by FG Admin
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I've been wrestling with this idea but I decided to go ahead and put it into effect. The battle rules, Human's VS Sensitives, and the Skills page has been updated so that you no longer need to win a battle to gain the +1 skill point bonus. All successful combat hits when you are in battle and chance rolls higher than 50 (when out of battle) will count as a way to earn skill points. If you do 10 successful rolls in one battle then you will get a full (10/10) counter. Just make sure you don't die...
I figured that it is just easier this way that you "Level up" just for doing something right instead of having to survive the battle and win the battle as well. With the old system you could fight for two weeks in a single battle and only gain +1 point.
Using this new system for both combat and life skills seems to make more sense to me because it is one system for both roll types. I have also removed the +1 bonus for winning the battle, I will instead give out loot and money as a reward. If you need more detail about this system read the Humans VS Sensitives page or the Skills page, both are located in the Getting started board.
That is all for today.
Thank you.
Last Edit: Jul 23, 2012 1:04:44 GMT -5 by FG Admin
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I updated the skills list and added the advanced driving skill, so that players will get a combat/speed bonus when driving and using that skill. I have also changed the basic combat suit, the hero shorts, and the swimsuit gear. For most of them I combined them together and lowered the stats to even out the stats for Hydra's combat suit compared to something like a swimsuit.
You can read more about the driving skill in the skills page located in the getting started board, and you can learn more about the combat suit stats in Hydra's labs, the Megomart, and the Underground boards.
Thank you.
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During the week I fixed some spelling and grammar issues that I found scattered around the site, and I also updated the picture for the Hydra SMG-10. If you look at the new picture you will see it is the same gun, it just looks better. The old one had problems, so I decided to fix them. Well that is all.
Thank you.
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Er... Anyways! I updated the site today and added a new skill. I was talking with our member Bernard and he suggested a skill that allows you to charge skills like T1 combat. I made a bit of modifications, but I decided to add a special charge skill called focus that all players will obtain after completing a special task. You can read about the skill in the skills page located in the getting started board.
I have also updated the rules page. I moved all of the skill use rules to the "Life in Osiris" rules page. The idea is to have everything about the rules, combat, and skills all in one place. I have also removed the FAQ and put it into the past post place. I didn't really see the point of it so I removed it. It just made the board look more complicated. That is about it for now.
The last and final thing I will add is that I will be changing the boards default skin to a new one. I'll post again when the update is finished. That's all for now.
Thanks for reading!
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Today I am proud to announce that the third site theme is up! This one is made to reflect our good hero Glory and her colors. So we have a yellow and dark grey theme to match her suit and mask. It still needs a bit of work here and there but for the most part it is done. I even made a new banner for this one, so enjoy. (If it makes the site move slow, sorry about that!)
In other news! I fixed those pesky images on the side bars. I couldn't get the transparency to show up right when I uploaded them online. It was really annoying to fix because it showed up transparent on my computer but as soon as I put them online giant grey boxes would show up. Anyways, they are now fixed. I also fixed a couple of grammar and spelling errors that I came across. I'm sure there are still more floating around but I'll get around to those later. As you may have noticed the main page now has music again. That may or may not stay. I still haven't made up my mind yet if I want to keep the music player. I may put up a poll for the site as soon as we get some consistent members and ask them what they think about the playlist.
Because our main hero for this story starts with Glory, the newest theme will be set as the default theme. If you prefer the Hero or Villain themes you may still choose theme by editing your profile settings.
You may notice that some of the text on the site might be a bit hard to read. I'm messing around with drop shadow code, so if you are using a firefox, chrome, or similar browser you may see some funky looking colors. Internet explorer users may not see the new text change. For those of you that can see the text, if any of it looks odd or hard to read, post a comment about it in the Heroes lounge Hangout and let me know.
The reason this is so hard to edit is because the drop shadow code is a general code for the entire forum, but because I have multiple themes to choose from some of the colors with the themes are clashing with the shadow text code.
I'm trying to find the magic number to have a general shadow text color that blends well with all the skins. If all else fails I'll just delete the drop shadow text and set it back to normal. So just keep an eye out for any eye hurting text and report it for me.
Thanks.
Last Edit: Oct 5, 2012 16:15:16 GMT -5 by FG Admin
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