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Poor Man's Starbound? in Richard White Games
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #86
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Sour greps.
That hurt.

By the way, this IS the longest active topic on Spiderweb (greatest time span between first and last posts). I've been tossing tables around like crazy in the last few days, and here's another.

+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
| topic_id | forum_id | title | years |
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
| 8 | 13 | Poor Man's Starbound? | 3.0995 |
| 191 | 15 | Wish list for BoA | 2.5173 |
| 197 | 15 | Leaders of the Empire? | 2.4819 |
| 1104 | 1 | Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") | 2.4626 |
| 7 | 15 | Refined Wish List | 2.3690 |
| 19 | 15 | We should slim down the wish list | 2.2396 |
| 76 | 15 | Newbie Question: Dual-Wield/Ambidexterity | 1.9272 |
| 5 | 17 | Pathfinding | 1.8341 |
| 898 | 7 | Where should I start designing? | 1.6490 |
| 1810 | 1 | For those who are interested... | 1.4996 |
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+


[ Wednesday, January 11, 2006 07:22: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #86
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Sour greps.
That hurt.

By the way, this IS the longest active topic on Spiderweb (greatest time span between first and last posts). I've been tossing tables around like crazy in the last few days, and here's another.

+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
| topic_id | forum_id | title | years |
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
| 8 | 13 | Poor Man's Starbound? | 3.0995 |
| 191 | 15 | Wish list for BoA | 2.5173 |
| 197 | 15 | Leaders of the Empire? | 2.4819 |
| 1104 | 1 | Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") | 2.4626 |
| 7 | 15 | Refined Wish List | 2.3690 |
| 19 | 15 | We should slim down the wish list | 2.2396 |
| 76 | 15 | Newbie Question: Dual-Wield/Ambidexterity | 1.9272 |
| 5 | 17 | Pathfinding | 1.8341 |
| 898 | 7 | Where should I start designing? | 1.6490 |
| 1810 | 1 | For those who are interested... | 1.4996 |
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+


[ Wednesday, January 11, 2006 07:22: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Displayed name duplicates... in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #4
Especially with punctuation marks, I've realized. You can have them in the middle, but not at the end, or something?

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Displayed name duplicates... in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #2
Is your login name Thuryl?

Edit: Jiggered indeed.

—Alorael, who is not in fact Alorael.

[ Wednesday, January 11, 2006 00:34: Message edited by: OMGAlorael ]

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Displayed name duplicates... in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #0
I was under the impression that you cannot set your displayed name to one that is already taken by someone else.

However, when I attempted to make a unique index in my member database, I saw that on the contrary there are quite a lot of duplicate displayed names - I first figured this was a mistake on my end, made while gathering the data or when entering it into the table.

But then I checked a few of them, and found that they really do have the same name:

+--------------------+------+
| displayed_name | id |
+--------------------+------+
| Sadie | 1471 |
| Sadie | 1472 |
| Sadie | 1473 |
| Angarahad | 5820 |
| Angarahad | 5821 |
| Archdragon | 5114 |
| Archdragon | 5115 |
| armando | 5387 |
| armando | 5388 |
| Bartz | 45 |
| Bartz | 1237 |
| clstem4ever | 5052 |
| clstem4ever | 5382 |
| Da Angry Pineapple | 3333 |
| Da Angry Pineapple | 3334 |
| Drizzt | 84 |
| Drizzt | 2475 |
| Ed Barnes | 1292 |
| Ed Barnes | 1293 |
| Exiled | 1411 |
| Exiled | 1574 |
| Fergus | 1440 |
| Fergus | 1458 |
| GvB Dragon | 1837 |
| GvB Dragon | 1838 |
| HappyNephil | 1426 |
| HappyNephil | 1427 |
| HeiltotheThief | 4375 |
| HeiltotheThief | 4601 |
| Ilumas | 3534 |
| Ilumas | 3535 |
| Jenson | 1547 |
| Jenson | 1548 |
| Mystery Man | 2350 |
| Mystery Man | 5823 |
| Nate | 1613 |
| Nate | 1614 |
| nick | 1404 |
| nick | 1632 |
| Saunders | 21 |
| Saunders | 5563 |
| sifright | 116 |
| sifright | 858 |
| Tim | 845 |
| Tim | 1598 |
| Titania Price | 2444 |
| Titania Price | 2447 |
| void* | 3856 |
| void* | 3857 |
+--------------------+------+
Am I missing something?

Edit: Well, Saunders and Mystery Man are obvious, but the rest?

Edit: On another note, I just combined tables to find out the most prolific topic starters:

+------+------------------------------+----------------+----------------+
| # | Name | Topics started | Average length |
+------+------------------------------+----------------+----------------+
| 4 | Kasumetoru Sai | 128 | 25.2422 |
| 4506 | Archmagus Micael | 125 | 17.5360 |
| 4045 | Kelandon | 70 | 25.4143 |
| 15 | Silent Motion | 65 | 12.1231 |
| 2210 | I'll Steal Your Toast | 61 | 23.4918 |
| 3431 | Student of Trinity | 56 | 17.6786 |
| 2339 | Zephyr Tempest. | 54 | 12.0556 |
| 3349 | Happa Tai Yattai | 54 | 20.9074 |
| 1 | Spidweb | 48 | 18.6667 |
| 4614 | Uhh... ben? | 48 | 21.5833 |
| 40 | A Hexagram Cel | 47 | 20.2340 |
| 3151 | Custer | 47 | 49.4681 |
| 2984 | An array cat | 44 | 41.8636 |
| 1528 | IRA Witch Herd | 43 | 21.5581 |
| 6 | *i | 42 | 22.5714 |
| 5991 | The Forgotten | 42 | 14.9762 |
| 5977 | Thralni, chicken god prophet | 41 | 40.9268 |
| 1993 | spy.there | 39 | 18.1795 |
| 5450 | Spring | 39 | 31.1026 |
| 4682 | Nicothodes | 35 | 14.7714 |
+------+------------------------------+----------------+----------------+


[ Wednesday, January 11, 2006 00:15: Message edited by: The Piper of Hamlin ]

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Organized Wishlist in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #2
I swear this is the last one.

This topic, on a completely unrelated note, is the oldest topic (by start date) that remains unlocked and undeleted to this day.

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Swords or Spears? in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #69
quote:
Originally written by Prometheus:

quote:
Originally written by Imban:

With Divine Aid, I had like 85% to hit him. :P
You're right. A caveat:

If you don't see anything wrong with cheating, then he's easy to hit.

Divine Aid is cheating?

And yes, I meant Lyfan. I really appreciate TM's sense of humor. :rolleyes:

I've never entered a cave or peeked aroud a corner without saving first ever since.

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project 3: Revenge of the Boards in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #18
Sorry for the double post, but...

IT IS DONE!

The next step is to zip all this stuff to make it available for download and offline viewing, later perhaps to enter it into a database to make it more interactive and searchable.

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project 3: Revenge of the Boards in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #17
This is related how? :P

Anyway, nearly there. Only Avernum 4 (#20) remains:

+-------+--------------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+----------+
| Forum | Name | Posts | Average length | Average page count | Topics saved | Topics total | Progress |
+-------+--------------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+----------+
| 1 | General | 43805 | 34.71 | 1.94 | 1262 | 1262 | 100.00% |
| 2 | Tech Support | 2643 | 5.26 | 1.01 | 502 | 502 | 100.00% |
| 3 | Announcements | 7 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 7 | 7 | 100.00% |
| 5 | The Exile Trilogy | 2765 | 9.19 | 1.06 | 301 | 301 | 100.00% |
| 6 | Nethergate | 1093 | 8.54 | 1.05 | 128 | 128 | 100.00% |
| 7 | Blades of Exile | 2594 | 10.02 | 1.10 | 259 | 259 | 100.00% |
| 10 | Geneforge | 744 | 8.18 | 1.05 | 91 | 91 | 100.00% |
| 13 | Richard White Games | 2264 | 22.87 | 1.54 | 99 | 99 | 100.00% |
| 14 | SubTerra | 375 | 10.71 | 1.11 | 35 | 35 | 100.00% |
| 15 | Blades of Avernum | 18718 | 11.86 | 1.15 | 1578 | 1578 | 100.00% |
| 16 | Geneforge 2 | 2111 | 9.42 | 1.14 | 224 | 224 | 100.00% |
| 17 | The Avernum Trilogy | 5300 | 9.43 | 1.07 | 562 | 562 | 100.00% |
| 18 | Blades of Avernum Editor | 8127 | 9.85 | 1.10 | 825 | 825 | 100.00% |
| 19 | Geneforge Series | 8402 | 9.16 | 1.09 | 917 | 917 | 100.00% |
| 20 | Avernum 4 | 59 | 29.50 | 2.00 | 2 | 187 | 1.07% |
+-------+--------------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+----------+
Meanwhile, this lovely interface has been shoddily implemented to allow you to more or less easily browse the archive. Basically, look for threads on the forum page, then mouse over the link, watch the destination in the status bar, then copy the thread number into the form in the control panel. It's awkward, but under the circumstances I didn't have time for anything more fancy.

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project 3: Revenge of the Boards in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #13
We thought they'd never end, we'd sing and dance for ever and a day!

Each of the years I've been here have had a distinct feel - 2003, back when Scorp, Djur and the lot were around, 2004, with its great BoA craze, 2005 with the moderator elections...

Goodness, 2005 seems so awfully distant now, already 10 days past.

And a board will always resist change. Old members don't die off as inevitably as old people die in real life, and different members almost inevitably come from outside (or has anyone here had their children join Spiderweb yet?) and are therefore suspicious. Why, way back when, if Jeff would announce a board purge, we had to save those threads by hand, and uphill both ways! And we liked it! <_<

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
*raises flag* in Geneforge 2
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #1
Is there a reason that the board is invisible, but not locked?

Ah well.

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
help me in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #49
@@ is now tied with @@! Long live Justice, equality and @@ (pronounced atat)!

Sorry, I'm mildly euphoric today because the archiving script works so well.

(Which reminds me that polls aren't saved, and there really is no way to do it unless people save them manually after voting in them.)

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #175
And in this case, there is actually valuable information that is only partly entered on the encyclopedia site. Can we keep this on for reference material?

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Wish list for BoA in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #107
There are some topics that should die, preferrably unnoticed. There are others whose deaths we regret, when they are deleted without the chance for archiving them. There are yet others that will live on in the archives once they are deleted.

And then there are some choice few that I want to keep. I figure that's not too much to ask, is it?

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project 3: Revenge of the Boards in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #11
Actually, I was quoting it as it appears on a thread page on this forum.

If I ever used it myself, I probably would use it correctly. But I've never, ever used it. I'd probably say "consists of" or "has" or whatever else seems appropriate. In fact, the only time I've ever seen the word comprises in any context is on this board.

As a side note, after mentioning the word comprises here I actually had to rework my program to check that the word "comprises" actually occurs at the top of the page, rather than anywhere - usually, I could be sure it would not be anywhere else in the thread.

+-------+---------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+
| Forum | Name | Posts | Average length | Average page count | Topics saved | Topics total |
+-------+---------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1 | General | 43805 | 34.71 | 1.94 | 1262 | 1262 |
| 2 | Tech Support | 2643 | 5.26 | 1.01 | 502 | 502 |
| 3 | Announcements | 7 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | Exile Trilogy | 2765 | 9.19 | 1.06 | 301 | 301 |
| 6 | Nethergate | 1093 | 8.54 | 1.05 | 128 | 128 |
| 7 | Blades of Exile | 2594 | 10.02 | 1.10 | 259 | 259 |
| 10 | Geneforge | 744 | 8.18 | 1.05 | 91 | 91 |
| 13 | Richard White Games | 2264 | 22.87 | 1.54 | 99 | 99 |
| 14 | SubTerra | 750 | 10.71 | 1.11 | 70 | 70 |
| 15 | Blades of Avernum | 3407 | 11.71 | 1.14 | 291 | 1578 |
+-------+---------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+
This might take a while.

[ Tuesday, January 10, 2006 06:12: Message edited by: The Piper of Hamlin ]

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in Richard White Games
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #75
Of all these graemlins I've probably used ' :P ' most, and ' :) ' second. I like that smiling face more than the corresponding one on any other board - for some reason it looks so friendly. :)

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #75
Of all these graemlins I've probably used ' :P ' most, and ' :) ' second. I like that smiling face more than the corresponding one on any other board - for some reason it looks so friendly. :)

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Spring cleaning the forums for the New Year. in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #38
No matter, it's gone now. It would have been better if deletions had been held off until after the archiving process, but there's little that can be done about it.

Unless someone knows what threads are gone and can get the Google cache or the Wayback archive for them. If so, mail the topic number and the title to me at arancaytar.ilyaran@gmail.com .
If you can't find out the topic number, leave it out and I'll find it.

On another note,

+-------+-----------------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| Forum | Name | Posts | Topics saved | Topics total |
+-------+-----------------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| 1 | General | 43805 | 1262 | 1262 |
| 2 | Tech Support | 2643 | 502 | 502 |
| 3 | Announcements | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | Exile Trilogy | 2765 | 301 | 301 |
| 6 | Nethergate | 1093 | 128 | 128 |
| 7 | Blades of Exile | 1966 | 207 | 259 |
+-------+-----------------+-------+--------------+--------------+


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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project 3: Revenge of the Boards in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #9
General is done, Tech Support is nearly done, and there does not appear to be a problem with these threads.

There may still be errors I don't see, and now is the last chance to find them.

To anyone who has time and cares, please go to

http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/flute/index

and

http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/flute/threads

and verify that the index pages of the forums (first link) and the threads themselves (second link) have been saved correctly.

The threads are saved in a folder corresponding to forum number (1 for General), then a folder corresponding to thread number (3110 for this thread). Pages are saved as html files named page1.html,page2.html...

All threads that are listed in the index pages should also be saved completely. If not, we're in trouble.

Later today I will make a rudimentary thread index available that will query the database I have now. For now, anyone who has a Linux machine or some kind of command-line Mysql client can log into the database as follows:

Server: mysql2.websitesource.net
Database: Burschk_piper
User: Burschk_reader
PW: czif46

The privileges are supposedly set to read only, but if I made a mistake or there's a security hole, please don't exploit it. :rolleyes:

Edit: There's only one table in the database. I figure that if you're smart enough to log in, you can also find the table (show tables;) and find out what fields it has.

Edit:

Status

1 - "General" - done.
2 - "Tech Support" done.
3 - "Announcements" done.
4 - "Moderator Board" inaccessible (duh).
5 - "The Exile Trilogy" done.
6 - "Nethergate" done.
7 - "Blades of Exile" in progress.
8 - does not exist
9 - does not exist
10 - "Geneforge" done.
11 - does not exist
12 - does not exist
13 - "Richard White Games" done.
14 - "SubTerra" done.
15 - "Blades of Avernum" done.
16 - "Geneforge 2" done.
17 - "The Avernum Trilogy" done.
18 - "Blades of Avernum Editor" done.
19 - "Geneforge Series" done.
20 - "Avernum 4" done.


All done.

If I missed anything or there are unclarities, please tell me. I'll update this list as I get more forums done.

Edit:

+-------+--------------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+----------+
| Forum | Name | Posts | Average length | Average page count | Topics saved | Topics total | Progress |
+-------+--------------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+----------+
| 1 | General | 43805 | 34.71 | 1.94 | 1262 | 1262 | 100.00% |
| 2 | Tech Support | 2643 | 5.26 | 1.01 | 502 | 502 | 100.00% |
| 3 | Announcements | 7 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 7 | 7 | 100.00% |
| 5 | The Exile Trilogy | 2765 | 9.19 | 1.06 | 301 | 301 | 100.00% |
| 6 | Nethergate | 1093 | 8.54 | 1.05 | 128 | 128 | 100.00% |
| 7 | Blades of Exile | 2594 | 10.02 | 1.10 | 259 | 259 | 100.00% |
| 10 | Geneforge | 744 | 8.18 | 1.05 | 91 | 91 | 100.00% |
| 13 | Richard White Games | 2264 | 22.87 | 1.54 | 99 | 99 | 100.00% |
| 14 | SubTerra | 750 | 10.71 | 1.11 | 70 | 70 | 100.00% |
| 15 | Blades of Avernum | 18718 | 11.86 | 1.15 | 1578 | 1578 | 100.00% |
| 16 | Geneforge 2 | 2111 | 9.42 | 1.14 | 224 | 224 | 100.00% |
| 17 | The Avernum Trilogy | 5300 | 9.43 | 1.07 | 562 | 562 | 100.00% |
| 18 | Blades of Avernum Editor | 1213 | 24.26 | 1.50 | 50 | 825 | 6.06% |
+-------+--------------------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+--------------+--------------+----------+
Blades of Avernum is the board with the most topics, although General beats it in terms of posts. This indexing might take a while yet.

[ Monday, January 16, 2006 06:23: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project 3: Revenge of the Boards in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #7
I am still a great sucker. ^_^

16045, more than a third done. If there's still a special case somewhere in the remaining threads that I haven't taken into account, then, well, Murphy wins. I'm going to bed, I have a presentation to prepare and two weeks worth of Java homework to check.

Edit: Even if there *is* a special case and the archiving process breaks down as soon as I switch off the screen, sitting here won't be of any use. It won't make the error go away, and I'm too bloody tired to code by now.

[ Monday, January 09, 2006 16:05: Message edited by: The Piper of Hamlin ]

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Runescape anyone? in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #405
I've managed to get to level 34, but what I'm really proud of is my Mining level of 48.

Still, I won't have time to play for the next few weeks. Will probably do it anyway, but I will feel ashamed while doing it and that is what matters, right?

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project 3: Revenge of the Boards in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #5
Eureka. Or Heureka, it depends on where you're from.

I am as of this moment merrily archiving away at well over 10 posts a second - already 5000 posts archived while writing -, and therefore expect to be done within an hour. Except I don't have that much time.

So I'll stick around to see if my script runs into any errors in the next couple of minutes, and then leave it in peace while it spiders the entire General forum all on its own.

Don't worry about posting new threads or replying to old ones. All threads that are available have already been listed, meaning that new threads will not screw it up by messing with the pages. Also, the newest threads have already been archived (163 of them, and 6300 posts while I'm writing), so most likely your posts won't be in the backup from now on. This is hardly anything to worry about, since anything you post in from now on is not going to the trash pit anyway. But I just thought I'd point it out.

6519 and counting, 168 threads. I love my job. Except it isn't. But I wish it was.

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Encyclopaedia ErmarianaForum ArchivesForum StatisticsRSS [Topic / Forum]
My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in Richard White Games
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #68
Fortunately, Tech Support is unlikely to get purged. While it remains unpruned, I will always be able to say: "I have been here x years, but my very first post STILL EXISTS!" :D

Also, this topic has just celebrated its third birthday. We're talking about a topic older than myself here... (and it is probably due to my feeling of noobishness that I feel drawn to use the most noobish emoticon available, :eek: ).

*shudder* I haven't used that thing for a year or more, I'd like to think.

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I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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Poor Man's Starbound? in General
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Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #68
Fortunately, Tech Support is unlikely to get purged. While it remains unpruned, I will always be able to say: "I have been here x years, but my very first post STILL EXISTS!" :D

Also, this topic has just celebrated its third birthday. We're talking about a topic older than myself here... (and it is probably due to my feeling of noobishness that I feel drawn to use the most noobish emoticon available, :eek: ).

*shudder* I haven't used that thing for a year or more, I'd like to think.

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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Swords or Spears? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

Or just have a reasonably talented mage cast Haste on everyone twice, and they'll be faster than anything they're likely to run into anyway. :P
Exactly so. For me, the only exception was that weirdo in Emerald Mountain, and he arguably doesn't count.

[ Monday, January 09, 2006 14:38: Message edited by: The Piper of Hamlin ]

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