do you mean 5 post avaerage (total post count / days as a member) or actually posting at least 5 posts per day?

What happens when you lose all your HP and MP?:ghost:

I like it. It amuses me. But,
what happens if my HP hits 0. Something bad? Will I die? Can someone use a healing potion on me?

_RED_ stuff


I'm joking, btw.

man these stats are really cool..........keep up the good work(whoever did them!?!?!?!?!?!?)

If your HP reaches zero, you will be forced to start at the last save point and you will lose everything you have received after you last saved.

Oh wait...*turns off FF*

If you are actually seriously worried about losing all your HP, then you just need to show up more.

this is the sickest (in a good sense) thing i've ever seen in a forum! .....EVER! It's better than SPAM! Keep up the innovation by the way. Good work admins or whoever came up with this....:shock:

My stats are low :(
what happens when i reach zero?

nothing it just mean's you havent been around here often.

hopefully i can become strong and powerful just like everyone else!!:roll:

There are many forums modifications available that add this kind of things. The stats we currently have come from two pre-existing scripts that we have slightly modified.

We are going to add more RPG like functions in these days, just to add a bit of fun into posting.

Currently, if your HP reaches 0 nothing bad happens; as someone else said, it just indicates you're not a good poster as others, or simply that you have recently joined the forums. Visit the forums, post, and you'll see the stats growing. We might modify the code a bit to make something happen when your HP reaches 0, maybe in combination with the other functions we are going to add.

any plans on making a game which uses your stats? i know that would be unfair to new memebers but maybe it could work out...

Not currently. Developing a RPG like battle system - there aren't good mods available, so we should fully program it - would be a quite long and time consuming process. It's actually not too difficult to create a simple battle system, but it means we should stop working on all the rest. Adding to that, we'd like the main focus of the forums to remain on posting.

But who knows, maybe in the future, with more resources available, we could throw in some little game.

Finally, a reason to post stuff! Yeah!:cool:

What about those that don't post so often cos they don't feel the need to reply to many threads? I know there are a few other like me who don't post a reply because they'd simply be repeating what someone has already said.

Much as though I like this new RPG thing, I can't help but think that people may judge others by their stats. Plus it may encourage 'spammy' posts in order to raise these stats.

Time will tell I guess. But please don't misunderstand - I think they are a great addition.

- S

Spank-A-Thon, I'm here a lot of time, every day and I don't post that often, also for the reasons you said. I work hours and hours on the forums with Fortune, and I have low stats. But I don't care.

It's just a funny thing that can make some people post more often, and this just means that the forums will be even richer of ideas and words to read - because the fact we included these little funny stats doesn't mean we'll be accepting spam or anything else. The rules are always the same.

I certainly don't expect you, or the other mods, to accept spam any more than you do now. I also agree that it may encourage people to post more - I just hope that the extra posts also add value to the forum.

I don't really care about my stats, or those of others - I know who the good posters are here and I certainly don't think this will change their posting habits.

Their is no doubt that something like this will encourage people to stay, and obviously you want more members (bandwidth permitting of course! Heh heh...). I'd just hate to see these forums inudated with an influx of spammy newbies who are only interested in boosting their stats. That's the reason I left FFonline (even though they haven't introduced stats).

In January, I'll have been here 1 year, which suggests you and the rest of the team are doing things right (from my point of view of course). Fact is you're the only forum I belong to now and hence I can't help but feel protective.

As I said, I think they are a great addition and will add a lot of fun to the forum - but I don't want to see people abuse this feature.

-S

I don't wanna diiiieeeeee!!!!!!!!!:ghost:

Thankfully, bandwidth is not an issue yet. We use and average just 4-5 GB per day, and we can use about four times this amount.

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean we don't need more financial resources. I'm working to create some ad plan, some donation system, something that can keep these place online as long as possible, with some income for the staff.

Going back to the topic, there is no need to be scared. This little things spice just things up a bit.