I know there's alot of threads about glitches and everything, here in the support section. I wondered if that could be reduced, and I actually thought of something good (!). I'll write something like a common suggestions thread, but then common glitches and information about them. If this is unwanted, just remove it, I just want the feedback on it nevertheless. I want to help, but I want to know if I'm doing it the right way.
Subjects:
1: Glitches 2: Saving posts or threads 3: Chatting 4: Ranks 5: Searching 6: Fake Armor games site?
1: There are pretty much glitches around at the moment. A pity, but nothing to worry about in most cases.
This bug says the last post has been posted, for example, 2 years ago. Ofcourse, the last post wasn't back then, otherwise AG would've been really dead already. It's just a time glitch. We hope this solution is fixed with the coming of AG 3.
"It's a glitch with the server and UNIX time, seeing as UNIX time began on Jan. 1, 1970 you get a "40 years ago" error. Remember last year? It was a "39 years ago" error. UNIX time glitch."
Once again, there is no direct solution, but it might be fixed in Armorgames 3.0. This one shouldn't give problems
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Next is the problem where a new post is being put in front of an old one:
Link screenshot (as you can see, my post is between 2 posts of secretmapper. The thing is, secretmapper double posted in his game. Still, my post was put in front of his second post, whilst that was much earlier)
Once again, this shouldn't give much permanent problems. The problem is only temporarily, and should be fixed a few minutes later.
The topic was moved by a moderator, but it still appeared at old place aswell. One of the two won't show a proper last post by ... (as can be seen, last post by either Gametesta or Cenere?) Like most of the glitches, it's nothing to worry about. It is a matter of a slow server, and should be fixed within a few minutes.
2: Saving as concepts
Saving as a concept is not availeble at AG, for the simple reason it isn't needed. Just like this post, any big or important post should be pre-typed in something like word or wordpad. Then just copy/paste.
3: Chatting
3a: A chatroom?
Armorgames used to have a nice chatroom. How come we don't have one right now? Unfortunatly, there were plenty of people who thought it was funny to swear, or in any other way, abuse the chatroom. Due to this fact, the admins took the chatroom off.
There is an unofficial chatroom, but use on own risk. armorgames isn't responsible for it! Use with sense
3b: It is possible to send private messages or any other social way of contact?
No, it isn't. Armorgames isn't a mere social network. Ofcourse, we get new "friends" and we'd like to talk to them. But if you want so, you can do so on MSN, email, xfire or any other social contact program/site.
4: Ranks
One way that makes Armorgames cooler, is the Armorpoints feature. We currently have 7 ranks, each with 3 "subranks".
Wood Serf: 10 AP, Iron Serf: 25 AP, Gold Serf: 100 AP Wood Squire: 225 AP, Iron Squire: 400 AP, Gold Squire: 625 AP Wood Knight: 1200 AP, Iron Knight: 1750 AP, Gold Knight: 2250 AP Wood Lord/Lady: 3000 AP, Iron Lord/Lady: 3500 AP, Gold Lord/Lady: 4000 AP Wood Duke/Duchess: 4500 AP, Iron Duke/Duchess: 5200 AP ,Gold Duke/Duchess: 6000 AP Wood Prince/Princess: 7250 AP ,Iron Prince/Princess: 8500 AP, Gold Prince/Princess: 10000 AP Wood King/Queen: 12000 AP, Iron King/Queen: 14500 AP, Gold King/Queen: 17500 AP
Those are the current ranks, witht he needed AP. Now, how about adding a few more ranks besides those? That's a big no. Barely anyone has a golden king or queen rank, so we don't need new ranks. A quote by Knight_34:
"Adding an Emperor rank is one of the more agreed upon measures I've seen (looking at past threads). However, there are only around nineteen gold kings/queens. Do we need an Emperor rank now? If we put it in, Firetail will get Gold Emperor or whatever's highest, automatically, seeing as he has a motherload of points. Anyway, I think this is more appropriate when the number of gold kings/queens quadruples or quintuples.
As for more tiers for each rank, I think three are enough. Higher AP requirements would be unpopular hmm.. It's nice having more than three, but they aren't direly needed. "
Possibillity A:I have seen a fake armorgames site, which looks EXACTLY the same as the original, same logo's and templates for example. I am logged in at armorgames, but not at the fake site.
We've had a discussion about www.armorgame.com. People thought it was a different site, because they weren't logged in at this site, whilst they were at the "real one". This is just a matter of cookies. It is the real site, redirected.
Possibillity B:I have seen a fake armorgames site, but it has a few differences.
The only thing you can do about this report an admin. Don't report any site that redirects to a different gamingsite, like armogames redirects to mofunzone. Those are just stupid tricks to lure people away. This is not considered phising.
apparently xFire is supported, you can download the xfire toolbar and friend everyone else on AG that has it and keep track of play time and high scores that way if it's really that important to you I suppose.
I like the list of bugs, but I'd recommend updating one of the old lists with these new bugs (Some of them are already in the lists).
Plokkey has a really old one here and my list is here (A bit dusty too).
Here's an idea:
You (or another user) or a mod makes a list of all the current bugs, and the Common Suggestions is slightly updated.
Oh yeah, the reason the Common Suggestions hasn't been updated is because those suggestions are still being asked the most, and everything else can easily be answered. Be nice if a new version turned up, but the current one is still sort of good...
