Happy Friday everyone. This weekend is a particular good one for me because I have the next few days off of school, today included. I do not have to go back to school until October 8th, however, I do have quite a bit of school work to get done between now and then. I do plan to actively work on the ProjectKorra plugins and forum this weekend though.
Statistics
Statistics
- 86 Servers now use ProjectKorra Core as of me typing this.
- These stats are pulled from PluginMetrics. In order for your server to be counted you must go into your PluginMetrics folder (in the plugins folder) and turn opt-in to true.
- We are now up to 679 forum users (+72 from last week)
- It seems like just about every week I am having to say something about the no advertising rule on the ProjectKorra forum, and here I go again. Advertising is absolutely not allowed on the ProjectKorra forum in any way. This means via status, wall post, threads, comments, and private message. I'm not going to be lenient on this rule anymore, anytime advertising is seen (and this includes requesting IP addresses (within reason)) it comes with an automatic 3 day ban from the forum. Additionally, if you are caught advertising and your server is on the ProjectKorra Server List, your server will be permanently removed from the list and you may not have it added again.
- Players are encouraged to report all advertising they see. The whole point of this project is meant to be a place for server admins, developers, and players to come together. It is not a place to compete for members for your server. We are here to discuss the project and the show we all love. I created a server list that I believe is fair, there is no competing, it just displays severs in a random order. There is no jockeying for the first slot, 100% random. I think most server lists should be this way, but oh well. Anyway, this should be the only place on the forum the server names and IP addresses are even mentioned, anywhere else results in a ban.
- If you haven't noticed yet, you can now see the latest news on the home page. This was always meant to be the case, and I thought you guys could see it.I had permissions for it of course, and they were set up all wrong. Turns out nobody could see the front page news all this time. Oops. Now anything posted in our news section will be automatically posted on the home page. My bad. ^^
- If you haven't noticed, I have taken away the option to post new threads in the Abilities section. All of the other sections will follow suit pretty soon. Essentially, our entire download section has sort of become unorganized and a cluster of plagiarized abilities and ugly threads, with few exceptions. I am currently working on a new set of regulations for posting abilities using our under appreciated Resources system so that the threads and downloads require approval. This hopefully cuts down on plagiarism. Once it is open for people to use, I will post a new announcement and everyone will have 7 days to repost their abilities using the new system as the old forum will be going away. I expect the other sections to follow suit pretty quickly.
- Today, The Legend of Korra Book 4 - The Final Season, has premiered online. I am just as excited as you guys to see where this story goes and what we can add to the plugin, however, I would like to point out a couple of things concerning spoilers:
- Expect them to exist on the forum, especially in Suggestion threads. I will not be banning users for posting them so long as they are in the appropriate areas of the forum. Other members are not to try to enforce or create rules about this that do not exist. People aren't expected to tag their stuff with Spoiler or anything. If you don't want it spoiled for you, just go watch the 20 minute episode online.
- When new episodes come out, we generally get a lot of suggestions to add whatever was seen into the plugin. Please note that we are not looking to add new abilities, other than Combos, to v1.5.0 of ProjectKorra (Core). You are more than welcome to suggest new things, but at the absolute earliest, new abilities will come in v1.6.0.
- There have lately been a couple of spammers that have breached our registration system. When I set up our forum, I did it in such a way to where it should be pretty difficult for automated spambots to get through, but I was unable to make it impossible. Truth is, some will fall through the cracks, it just happens. We've only had two out of 679 members, so these numbers aren't bad.
- I will warn you, don't click any links from those you don't trust or those who are posting something completely unrelated to the project (i.e. selling Viagra). This is a part of the reason why I am moving away from allowing external download links on the forum for Abilities, etc. Clicking links you don't trust may lead to Malware / Spyware. We take these threads down and immediately perma ban spammers as soon as we find them. I guess I can't stress this enough: Be careful clicking links from users you don't trust.
