Are you a GM or a player?  If you're a GM, the system automatically shuffles some of the login info so that players can't immediately identify any characters you might also be playing as GM-run characters.  That's been in place for a while, now.

It's probably not obvious, but they're grouped by access to the game.. in a way.

GMs are their own separate entity, and as such the primary alias for GMs are listed at the top.  NPCs are separated because... well, they're NPCs (they could be pushed to the bottom, I'm not bothered either way).  Every other alias is just a standard character, no matter what you label (tag) it as.

Explains things (yes I'm GM). Well if it suppost to be like it is presented then I guess it works :)

ok, not trying to beat a dead horse, but below is a capture of my cast listt, in which I have tagged every character.  Any listing not Player is an NPC no moderators or co-gms.

My question is, is this the way it is supposed to be?

<img src=http://i40.tinypic.com/2cqxl6r.jpg>

http://i40.tinypic.com/2cqxl6r.jpg

And of course, love RPOL, there is no better board for RP
This message was last edited by the user at 06:43, Wed 26 Oct 2011.

Yep, that's the way.

Tell me if the new format (just done) makes things better.  Decided to throw NPCs back down the bottom while I was at it.

Well, its exactly the same, except, as GM I am on a higher seperate bar.

http://i42.tinypic.com/i4l6v9.jpg
This message was last edited by the user at 07:07, Wed 26 Oct 2011.

It seems that any NPCs who have not received custom tags are in a third section, while those that have are clustered with all the players.

Oh, and PM'ing should be better.  No more "not in the same group" errors.  I hope.

In reply to lensman (msg #137):

Seems sorted by alphabet to me.


In reply to Shei-kun (msg #138):

If you don't use the "NPC" tag for NPCs then the system has no choice but to assume that you're using a hidden NPC, and thus lists it with the normal players.

I love the new colours and HTML options. Other changes... eh. The [first|last|new] just bugs me.

Some actual problems:

I can't re-order characters in any game I'm a GM. The 'Re-Order' button takes me to a re-ordering screen, but clicking 'Set as new Primary Character' does nothing.

Maybe it's not a bug, but I miss the option to re-order all of a player's characters. In games where I'm a GM, play two or more characters, and own NPCs and characters belonging to ex-players, it was handy to sort them by priority, for choosing who to post as and to sort out a very big PMs list.

The first|last| new thing is just pretty ugly.  Also I don't get the point of having the 'first' option - you get that just by clicking on the thread anyway.  The 'last' function also isn't that useful as you could just click on the last page anyway.  I'd rather just have 'new', or at least 'last' and 'new'.

Otherwise I love the changes.  I'm also impressed by the speed at which bugs have been fixed.

Edit: Nevermind, misremembered the old way already ^^ I guess I just don't have much use for 'first'.
This message was last edited by the user at 10:49, Wed 26 Oct 2011.

I personally like the first/last/new ability :-)  That said, I'm not sure why the 'new' posts don't correctly show when I move between devices.  It's almost as if the status is stored in a cookie and not on the server associated with the user.

Jase, my game limit has gone back up, so your tweaking has worked, at least from where I stand. Thanks!

Love the changes, especially the row and col span for tables.  Now my fancy character sheets can be fancier!

It doesn't appear to be happening anymore.  If you did nothing to fix it then it might have been something on my end.  It was on The Cast page, which it looks like you've been tooling around with.  Perhaps something else you did fixed it.  Thanks regardless, it's very appreciated to see you hammering out these bugs so fast!

I personally like the first/new/last thing :)


One other little thing I picked up today:  when I edit a post, as well as having the edited on blah at the bottom of the post content, it also changes the date and time in the left hand column to the date/time the post was edited, rather than leaving it the date/time the post was originally created (like it used to do).
Hope that made sense.

Other than that, everything seems to be working well.
This message was last edited by the user at 11:08, Wed 26 Oct 2011.

Can anyone please link me to where the instructions for the [Dice=...] command are in the help section as i can't seem to find it in the RUBB code section

EDIT: apparrently the help section hasn't been updated since the 15th of june. it's now time to guess how a new code works
This message was last edited by the user at 11:12, Wed 26 Oct 2011.

In reply to jase (msg #136):

OMG!  I love the new layout!  Very pretty.  And you have them ordered by importance: GMs, PCs, and then NPCs.  :)

The First/Last/New thing is just awesome for me with my iPod, and the Top and Bottom links actually take me to the top or bottom of the screen now!

Did the auto-color for text thing being bandied about a while back get into the update?

Also to add to the list of bugs is anyone else gettingt this

in the W:P thread if you cick to have alook at others games by the advertising GM then you are taken to either an error you need a game id screen or the game being advertised.

In reply to PushBarToOpen (msg #149):

Those links seem to be working just fine for me.

Ron, it doesn't work, but I seem to remember Jase saying it's not meant to work.

Another question about W-P. What are the green A,M,P flags? I assume A is adult and M is mature, but what's the P for? I thought 'requesting players' but this doesn't seem to match. Some games without the 'P' are still looking for players.

Sorry, I'm saying that, yes, those links do work for me.  I just went over and clicked on a couple of them, and they took me directly to the games that they refer to.  Maybe it's a browser thing?

The P flag means that the GM has set the game as his personal property, also known as "sole ownership".

Ahh that makes sense Ron cheers.

I've tried it a few times, Chrome & IE, and it takes you to a "must supply game ID" screen.

I'm sure Jase said that was how it's meant to work though - if the game is deleted that is?

Okay, checked again.  With most games it works (including some deleted ones), with other deleted ones it doesn't.  Maybe something to do with when they were deleted, and whether they even exist any longer.

In reply to bigbadron (msg #154):

Isn't there a script that 'properly deletes' deleted games at some point?

So I guess the links work if the game has been 'marked for deletion', and doesn't work if its actually been deleted? Although how the site then knows that I was the GM of those games is another mystery.

As far as I understand games can be Active, Inactive, or Deleted.

They move through the states, then once a month or so I run a script to permanently remove games which have been in the Deleted category at least a month, but usually longer.

At that point, any game so removed should not have any presence on the site whatsoever.

I'll poke around in WP and see if I can find a broken link and suss out what's going on with it.


EDIT: I found a game which had a broken link in one of the listings.  The game had been Deleted, but was still on site, but it had not been upgraded. The link from WP was: http://rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=&date=1319639820 -- it had no game ID in it.  When I searched for the game on the Main Menu and found it, then followed the link from there to it, I got the UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE message.

So I suspect it's a problem with deleted games which have not been visited, and so have not upgraded and that somehow mangles the WP listing for the deleted games by that GM.
This message was last edited by the user at 14:42, Wed 26 Oct 2011.