Civ 2 Scenario League

[CapTVK]

Well, the graphics seem to be saved. That's some good news.

However, in the sleague cache it says "showing threads 1 to 25 of 37" 25 are displayed but I can't seem to see the other 12?

[CapTVK]

Never mind...got it now

http://apolyton.net/forums/cache.php?p=f&q=29&pagenumber=2

[Mercator]

Originally posted by fairline
Arse.

Quite...

@MarkG:
Can both those posts in the cache and on the backups be restored? Nevermind how long it takes. I think that covers most of it... I think there will be a bit of a gap between 1 week and 4 weeks ago, though.

And what about the Hints, Tips & Guides subforum? Well, if everything older than 4 weeks is on a backup, there should be only one thread in trouble and I've got that one covered.


When those posts are restored, would that also restore the post counts? If not, I look through the memberlist regularly. I've saved the relevant pages from my cache, so I have a fairly recent (a matter of a few days ago) figure of the postcount of a bunch of affected members.

[AGRICOLA]

@Mercator
You have my utmost admiration and appreciation for the lengths that you have gone to as moderator. Few, if any, would have put in the effort. Thank you.


On a lighter note in a very unfunny situation, I now have proof positive that someone does actually look out for drunks (see my previous post on this thread) and idiots (for asking dumb questions, see below). I just sent the following to the "ticket" office at Poly:

Gentlemen,

Holy sh*t! I must be about the only member of the SL who can more or less prove what his lost stats should be. On 14-03-2005 I started the following thread in the CIVII General/Help forum using my own stats at the time:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=130724

“I am curious about the Post Stats numbers found in "profile" at the top of every post.

For example, what do "A: 18 | D: 9 | M: 4 | HP: 94" mean? They do look a bit like D&D player stats (IIRC, in this case, an pretty good medium level fighter).

A search of Apolyton failed to turn up any information………………….”

My HP went to 99 a few days later (A = 19?). Within the last week, after five weeks of posting, I think I saw that my HP = 2. I assume that should give me an A = 20. I don’t give a hoot about D and M, which are derived values, but my HP should probably be around 10.

AGRICOLA
Chieftain pro tem

Mercator, if you have my numbers, please let me know if I have been smoking a controlled sustance to excess.

[Harry Tuttle]

Well, if anything, my home computer has 500MB of Civ2 data on it. Hopefully this about covers a portion of it all.....

[Mercator]

Originally posted by AGRICOLA
@Mercator
You have my utmost admiration and appreciation for the lengths that you have gone to as moderator. Few, if any, would have put in the effort. Thank you.

Thanks... But what have I done?


And those stats aren't what they're interested in. Those are all calculated from your post count and other forum statistics unrelated to this incident.
Then again, since MarkG knows the formula, I assume he could use those stats to calculate what your post count was at the time of that post.

Mercator, if you have my numbers, please let me know if I have been smoking a controlled sustance to excess.

Well, I don't have your numbers. Does that mean I shouldn't let you know if you've been smoking to excess?

[AGRICOLA]

I stand by my statement. What you did was

I've saved the relevant pages from my cache, so I have a fairly recent (a matter of a few days ago) figure of the postcount of a bunch of affected members.

I rather doubt if that is included in a moderator's job description.

And those stats aren't what they're interested in. Those are all calculated from your post count and other forum statistics unrelated to this incident.
Then again, since MarkG knows the formula, I assume he could use those stats to calculate what your post count was at the time of that post.

I was assuming that with a known formula for converting posts to HP and A values and the explanation to my question

Originally posted by conmcb25
These are dependent on your post count. A (attack) is based on how many posts you have. D (defense) is based on what your average posts-per-day is. M (movement) is based on the proportion of how long you have been registered to your post count. HP (hit points) shows how long it's till next A increase. When HP goes to 99, next increase, A increases by 1, and HP drops to 0.

there would be no difficulty in establishing my post count with more than adequate accuracy.

Meanwhile, it's back to liquid courage to control my DT's and other forum withdrawal symptoms.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by AGRICOLA
I rather doubt if that is included in a moderator's job description.

Ah, but I have to disappoint you in saying that that were just 5 pages. 3 pages from the memberlist, and 2 member profiles. I think only a handful of affected people would benefit from that.

Besides, I saved those pages in the capacity of a member of the SLeague, not as a moderator of the SLeague.

I was assuming that with a known formula for converting posts to HP and A values and the explanation to my question (...) there would be no difficulty in establishing my post count with more than adequate accuracy.

Aha

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by St Leo
The main forum was accidentally deleted and we are assessing our backups.

Not trying to be awkward, but how can you accidentally delete an entire forum?

[AGRICOLA]

@Mercator, Moderateur Superieur

Alright, you win. I know when I'm beaten.

I reluctantly and regretfully retract my intemperate statement.

You have shattered my belief in le Grand Moderateur Extraordinaire and badly shaken my faith in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and Perpetual Motion.


Nevertheless, I can bear no ill will towards a man whose heart is so obviously in the right place

Besides, I saved those pages in the capacity of a member of the SLeague, not as a moderator of the SLeague.

So, I still say:

[Mercator]

Well, thanks then.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Not trying to be awkward, but how can you accidentally delete an entire forum?

Tis an interesting question.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Not trying to be awkward, but how can you accidentally delete an entire forum?

Accidents happen.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=3735746#post3735746

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Zoid]

nm Wrong thread

[Case]

Edit: I just read Mark G's post, and have sent a message via the ticket system asking for my 400 posts back