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You will be missed Hebi, you were starting to become a solid member in Unlimited's community. I'm sure everyone's just a little curious for a bit more info on your spontaneous exit. I'll look forward to your return.

Welcome to RMXPUnlimited. Hope you enjoy your stay.

Not too complicated. A complicated part in particular was getting the average posts per day because it's not actually stored in the database on its on, and the info used MUST come from the query. But once i figured out you could use math operations in queries i was able to do it, it looks like this(selection of the posts per day, just a snipped of the full query): (posts/(($now-joined + 1)/86400)) As for remedies, perhaps so. I hope that this will give some of our loyal members recognition for what they have contributed to RMXPUnlimited. Writing this component, even though it appears simple but the way it is done is not, has boosted my php and sql knowledge a ton. And I think I'm nearly ready to start writing components to submit scripts, projects, reviews to the website. And then I will have completed my goals here. Ah, that is a work in progress. I cannot complete the part of the component because I need to know members final member efficiency value, and I cant do that until I have completed writing all of the stat modules. This system is basically like your reputation ranks. If you have 10+ reps you get the title 'Good', over 20 'Great' and so on. This is a similar system, but it will always be unofficial because of the inaccuracy of it. However, you will always have the title 'Amazing' because your member efficiency value is over the mark i have set(the mark being your average points per stat module where your rank is counted toward your member efficiency value). Your average is rather high, it clears the mark rather well, as well as 3 other members. The 4 of these members will always remain in the 'Amazing' ranks. The difference between the 4th highest and 5th highest is large, a big margin, so i have made the middle of that margin the cutoff point from where you go from 'Great' to 'Amazing'. I wanted to include all the titles, with your own highlighted. This way members can see where they are, and newbies can watch as they advance up the list. I hope that wasn't too complicated. I tried to keep this post short but ended up writing far too much again :sweatdrop: EDIT: I just changed the formula that calculates the member efficiency value. But don't worry Kiriashi, you will still qualify for 'Amazing'. The new formula is less bias towards #1 ranks. Due to using the square of the rank to calculate points, you got 20 points from rank 1 and 10 points from rank 2, so you needed very few #1's to get a high member efficiency value. I won't say how many points each rank gives you with the new formula, but the formula is much more fair now and the effects of the dominating members is smaller.

Haha, perhaps your absence has been longer than you think. I haven't actually finished creating the stat modules, probably not even close. But this is actually the easiest thing to do because I'm working on the member features of the component. This is actually a reasonably complicated and smart code, utilizing a lot of the websites php framework. I have finished most of the member efficiency part of the component(i may add more). You guys should go on the page and check it out, I have written down how it works. The numbers are going to change as I add more stat modules in. The number is calculated literally from the code of each stat module, so every time a stat module appears, it adds to the member efficiency variable. It is difficult to calculate other members member efficiency value, but you can do it if you use a calculator and the formula i have provided on the page. Unless you are a smart and wrote the component, its hard. But I can tell you at the moment EmilyAnnCoons has a decent winning margin from the 11 modules on the page at the moment.

Finally :) It's great to have you back :alright:

As a previous free forum hosting user, these features are very good in comparison. I've been off them for a few years, but they never used to offer any where near the amount of disk space, or even choices of forum software. No ads would be very attractive in the eyes of a potential user. I wonder though if you would be able to sustain your servers once the service becomes really popular.

Thanks guys, 3 columns it is. @RKO: Ah I see. Well I am definitely making this a member-orientated component. I have been working on it since I started this topic. The active members and staff will certainly get the most out of this component, so in a way this is for them. At the moment I am working on a 'members overall effectiveness' section. You get points for each rank, the higher you rank the higher the points. Add 'em all together and you get a nice number, which is a measure of your overall contribution to RMXPUnlimited.

I need some advice from you guys... http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/index.php/stats.html There are examples of 2 columns, or 3. Which do you like the best? I really can't decide.

Glad you like it ^_^ Yep I'll add those. The trouble is which section to get the top authors from. For example, the scripts in the downloads manager, or scripts archive. The tools and utilities from the page on the website, or download manager. And the other thing is, this page is going to be HUGE. But we'll see how it goes. I'm thinking at the moment of having 3 columns instead of 2 to decrease size.

Very helpful indeed, thank you miguel. Each of your suggestions will be included except avatars and trend starters. Reason being is that no information of these are stored in the database, and obviously someone would have to choose the avatars by their own preference. You see all the stats come from information from the database and as a result the stats change by themselves once the code is written. Ok I finally started work on this. I had to keep myself awake so early in the morning... LINK Alright I've only done the hard part so far, the styling. It's a pain. Complete forum styled tables. I have it set to top 50 at the moment, just for demo purposes. The code is written so you alter the one variable(top x stats) and then the title, ranks and table cell styling(white,blue,white,blue etc.) is done automatically. So I decided that when I learn how to, I am going to have a drop-down box where you can choose how many stats to display. The default will probably remain at 5, and a max of 100. I will continue adding stats over the next couple of days. It takes a very long time to write all the sql, so it will take me a while. And you guys know how i like to pace myself :)

Yeah they do. Members should be viewing the full images before saying this looks like RMXP.

This looks really interesting. I'm a bit surprised everyone else is saying this looks so much like RPG Maker. I'll admit the interface looks very similar from a thumbnail but apart from that this is its own engine. You guys should look at the screenshots in full-view. What I would really like to see is a sample game made from the engine. I don't see any XP tilesets. Link?

I upgraded the Downloads Manager. Hopefully this will help...

Hmm well do you have a download manager add-on? If so try disabling and use the default firefox downloads manager to test if thats the issue.

This page? http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/index.php/tools-a-utilities.html Or this one:? http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/forums/index.php?app=downloads&showcat=6 And are you using IE or Firefox?

I would strike up a conversation next time you see her, exchange names and basically make sure she knows you exist. I would just go for it, its better having a bruised ego than never knowing.

Oh yeah, I was meaning to do that. I was going to have one that said multi, but now that i think about it not a many topics aren't going to be XP/VX. Oops :sweatdrop: Thanks for pointing that out, changed it to DS.

Last week I wrote in my blog about creating a category for an Engine Support category and the feedback seemed to be in favor. I hope everyone by now as noticed the category, complete with Engine icons. I had planned to do this a while ago, but I wasn't really sure if it was a good idea. Eventually I gave in to my doubts and made the category active. This removes the topic prefixing(adding [XP] and [VX] to topic titles) which I thought was rather inconvenient and new members often forgot. But this only removes prefixing in that category, what about all the other forums such as Tutorials, Projects, etc? Well as topic authors in recent days have seen, I have added post icons right below the topic title and description fields. They're unmissable, so you guys will be immediately reminded each time you post a topic whether or not you should be using an icon. The icons look like this: Nicked 'em from Enterbrain :sweatdrop: But these are not to be used in the Engine Support Category. And only to be used within the Game Making category. If you're wondering why that is, i'll be happy to explain it to you. I have not finished moving all the support topics into their forums yet, it is very tedious work moving al the unmarked topics. I will do it over the next few days. If you reported any topics that still in the old support forum(now named Tools & Utilities, mainly thanks to evil cabbages contributions), i would be really really grateful. Also you will notice support forums for RGP Maker DS and Indie Game Maker. These are all Enterbrain products after RPG Maker XP. I don't expect enormous activity in them, but why not. But if RPG Maker DS isn't released in english then I'll remove the forum. The Game Making forum structure may change a little over the next few days and then I will retire from forum-structure change, I promise! Hopefully this one will do the trick. I am wanting RMXP Unlimited to be more about making games.

Except Dragon Ball Z, which I used to watch everyday after primary school. Or perhaps it's just that I saw dubbed DBZ before subbed and therefore like it better. Perhaps there is some psychological process at play here, you like the one you see first. Obviously subbed comes out first. Although I will agree a lot of dubbs are comical. I watch the Bleach. Apart from that, no cartoons.

Why? No no, thank you for your suggestions, I am going to include them.

Most of these are nice ideas. Although things like longest games and closest to being banned are impossible to do. I don't know if you will understand this or not, but all statistics are drawn from our forums database using SQL queries, so no one even knows what any of these stats will be until we query the database for them. Top Necroposters I think I can do, quite a complicated query i would imagine, although I think I will leave them out. Reason being that they are likely to be random members who on one knows. I like the rest though, very good. @pol: All good ideas, will include them :alright:

Great, topic closed.

I don't quite get what you mean. The page will just contain statistics made from lists. For example: Top 5 Posters. Top 5 most view topics. Stuff like that. It can even be something like most topics started in the contest forum, so it would be called "Most Contests Started" then a list of the top x topic starts in the contest forum. Sigh.

Thank you. Yes well, I am on holiday so I didn't have anything that I really needed to do on a computer.

Hi all, I was thinking about creating a Hall of Fame component. Actually now that I think about it, Hall of Fame probably isn't a fitting name. This component is a page of global forum statistics. It will be written in a similar way to the User Stats component, but I'll probably use 2 columns for stats. I hope you guys don't mind the forum-type components on the website. It may look a bit odd since they look completely different. One day hopefully they will look identical. So what I need from you guys is statistic ideas. What do you want to see? The obvious ones are top posters, most topics, most points, etc. Remember they can be from anything around the forum, including downloads, gallery etc.