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Title: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: CmptrWz on March 13, 2008, 11:09:32 AM
Congratulations to Feared_1 and Total Oblivion Omnis for their promotions to Global Moderator status.

Congratulations to Sonic and Red Devil for their promotion to Pseduo-Admin status.

Yes, I said Pseudo. Most administrative rights, including approving people, banning people, powers akin to global moderators, but none of the "actual board settings" stuff for the time being.

Also, thanks in part to a couple of sizable BZScrap donations, I am in a good mood. Drunken Scavengers (10 posts) and up can now select server stored avatars. Sober Scavengers (20 posts) and up can upload a static image to the site. Drunken Constructors (30 posts) and up can now select remotely stored avatars.

1.3 patch board members, global mods, admins, and pseduo-admins are exempt from the post requirements.

Signatures are still turned off, though.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: lucky_foot on March 13, 2008, 11:18:12 AM
Congrats to the promoted!!!!

May you rule long and well!
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Angstromicus on March 13, 2008, 11:31:42 AM
Thanks CmptrWz. Much appreciated :). Congrats to everyone else.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Spawn on March 13, 2008, 01:16:54 PM
Doesn't you being in a good mood mean the apocalypse is coming?
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Warfreak on March 13, 2008, 01:18:38 PM
 THANK YOU!!!!!, now i REALLY need to get you those $5.  :-D
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Nielk1 on March 13, 2008, 02:00:10 PM
I can use my creepy MacGyver NOW!
Hmm, off site avatars lose aspect ratio...
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: bigbadbogie on March 13, 2008, 03:22:31 PM
Quote from: Spawn on March 13, 2008, 01:16:54 PM
Doesn't you being in a good mood mean the apocalypse is coming?

maybe it does after all.... (apocalypse mod = the sequel to fleshstorm)
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Feared_1 on March 13, 2008, 05:40:40 PM
I feel so blue.

Gotta find my avatar again though...
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: OvermindDL1 on March 14, 2008, 11:25:13 AM
You could pay him and he would dig it up for you. :D
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Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Steeveeo on March 14, 2008, 02:02:56 PM
yayness! my planet says hello
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: General BlackDragon on March 14, 2008, 02:11:28 PM
Yay...zorz...*waves hi to planet*

*sends furies to eat planet*
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Steeveeo on March 14, 2008, 04:14:46 PM
They would burn up in the troposphere :P
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Angstromicus on March 14, 2008, 04:17:32 PM
*presses the easy button; the star your planet orbits around goes nova*
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Steeveeo on March 14, 2008, 04:46:36 PM
*PLANET EXPLODES!* (for some reason)

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Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: EvolutionX on March 14, 2008, 05:40:48 PM
congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-)
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Commando on March 14, 2008, 05:47:47 PM
CmptrWz, do you know what's up with my rank?  It says I'm scrap with a post count of over 5k.  I don't believe it has ever changed since I registered.

It's nothing major, I'm just curious why others have other ranks based on their post count while mine is locked at scrap.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Zero Angel on March 14, 2008, 05:54:19 PM
What comes from scrap, must eventually return to scrap. Its the circle of biometal.  :-)
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: CmptrWz on March 14, 2008, 06:14:09 PM
There are a few different post labels.

You start off as Scrap.

After ten posts, you go on a drinking binge as you are assigned scavenger duty.

After twenty posts you sober up.

Thirty posts and you get transferred to constructor duty, with a required drinking binge.

After fifty posts you are sobering up again, and we can't have a sober constructor, so you get stuck in a rattler.

After a hundred posts you have proven yourself worthy of scouting, and get jammed in a Thunderbolt.

Two hundred posts and it is decided that you are worthy of danger, and get to move up to a Sabre.

Five hundred posts and you get to move to the heavy weapons, a Bull Dog.

Then, at a thousand posts, you get the big guns, an Attila.

At five thousand posts you get cocky, and blown up, thus returning to whence you came, scrap.

And, finally, at one hundred thousand posts, you get Recycler status.

(yes, there is a bit of a jump there at the end, and I probably could have gotten away with just posting a <required posts> - <label> list, but meh.)
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: VSMIT on March 14, 2008, 08:46:08 PM
Your list makes me wonder if anybody is ever going to get recycler status...

VSMIT.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Nielk1 on March 14, 2008, 09:30:06 PM
If commando can't set an avatar, it might be broken, since his scrap group would realy be another group with the same name.

My question is, if his group never changed, how would that be fixed?
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: CmptrWz on March 14, 2008, 09:56:57 PM
If his group had truely never updated (which is not the case, mind you) then I am fairly certain that the "re-evaluate all post groups" that happened as part of updates, post removals, etc. would have fixed him.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: anomaly on March 14, 2008, 11:14:21 PM
Quote from: VSMIT on March 14, 2008, 08:46:08 PM
Your list makes me wonder if anybody is ever going to get recycler status...

VSMIT.

Well, it looks like RD will be getting an upgrade some time soon...
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: VSMIT on March 14, 2008, 11:30:41 PM
If he keeps posting at the rate he is...  It should be done in a couple days :lol:!

VSMIT.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Zero Angel on March 14, 2008, 11:34:05 PM
The global mods should be armouries, the psuedo-admins factories, and the admins can be recyclers.... or extractors because where would we be without extractors? ;)

QuoteAnd, finally, at one hundred thousand posts, you get Recycler status.
I'm sure bbb will get there someday. That spammer.  :-P
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: bigbadbogie on March 15, 2008, 12:42:19 AM
hehe - spam is yummy
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Nielk1 on March 15, 2008, 12:45:12 AM
hehe - mods will eat your spam... Then, your post count will start to go down!
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Red Devil on March 15, 2008, 08:35:51 AM
Probably not feasible, but there's those who might like to be associated with races other than the one that spawned the traitorous General Braddock, like the Scions (Av wants to be a Mauler, of course), Hadeans, Cerberi, Mechana, Phaer Rhan, Swarm, Black Dogs, etc.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: CmptrWz on March 15, 2008, 09:59:58 AM
But the code itself only supports one name per group.

Which means to get multiple names per group a mod would have to be installed.

And given that I have yet to see a mod that does that, I would have to write the mod.

And that would take time.

And time is money.

And you should see where I am going with this by now...
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: Zero Angel on March 15, 2008, 10:00:57 AM
It doesnt take a genius to figure out where you're going with this.
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: TheJamsh on April 25, 2008, 06:52:59 PM
in simple language

<statingtheblatantlyobvious>No</statingtheblatantlyobvious>

:D
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: CmptrWz on April 25, 2008, 08:36:32 PM
/me thinks that TheJamsh missed something
Title: Re: Promotions/Avatars
Post by: TheJamsh on April 26, 2008, 02:55:55 AM
probably, but this is an old post :D and in my defence it was very late