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December 24, 2019, 09:33:09 PM Fox: Even just plain Editor work can make some difference. = At least these forums are indexed on the Search engine. I was also curious about whether to um... go through all the topics on these forums and take all the important stuff out/placed into a folder for a bit of organization. Would be a bonus since if something ever happened to this forum, or if we ever wanted to start afresh again, it wouldn't be that difficult to do so. December 24, 2019, 09:23:03 PM Fox: One thing is for sure. This place has become completely dead. (Mostly because of Discord.) = I don't think much will happen with this forum unless I, Salanewt, or someone else does a thing. December 24, 2019, 09:18:05 PM Fox: Probably not? December 24, 2019, 06:51:08 PM Luna_blade: I suppose this is the last Christmas of this forum? December 24, 2019, 06:50:51 PM Luna_blade: Yay thanks for the coins December 19, 2019, 04:39:45 AM Fox: Okay, another thought... "gsmagic" could be the code name/project name... and "Golden Sun Magic" could be the more formal official name... (As in using both names.) - I still need to look into these other games as well... so who knows if it could be better to call it Camelot Magic if those should ever be supported to a decent standard. Would probably be a long time from now, though. As I can be pretty lazy. December 18, 2019, 10:01:39 PM Foreclosure: gsmagic is fine December 17, 2019, 05:44:32 PM Fox: Also. I call my program "gsmagic" and not "GSMagic" =P (Not asking for correction/I being silly)... Had to call it something, so picked something short. Maybe I should rename it to Golden Sun Magic later. *shrug* December 17, 2019, 05:35:04 PM Fox: (And "Golden Sun" instead of "GS" to reduce confusion that would likely not be there anyway... when "Golden Sun" doesn't take up much space to start with. (Imagine being new and thinking GS meant GameShark, or some other oddity. Ew.)) - All just thoughts...I'm still going with most of this not mattering that much, though. December 17, 2019, 05:12:55 PM Fox: "Misc. GS Hacking" = That name looks odd, so I'd probably just go with "Golden Sun Hacking" December 17, 2019, 05:08:05 PM Fox: I tempted to also suggest the Editors can go in the first category. Since the Editor is the reason this place exists in the first place. (I think.) December 17, 2019, 04:53:19 PM Fox: (combined = Not meant to be taken literally... but rather.... to generalize things more, since it apparently looks like we don't need the extra space no one is using.) December 17, 2019, 04:48:49 PM Fox: Worse still... we've only used those for Golden Sun content.... and there's not much there. December 17, 2019, 04:45:53 PM Fox: E.g. Maybe everything in "Assets & Discussion" could be combined with "Creative Works".... I don't feel like sound and art apply to general hacking anyway... that only comes into play when you have tools to insert them. December 17, 2019, 04:40:26 PM Fox: categories and/or forums December 17, 2019, 04:36:48 PM Fox: Everything else seems to be about right, though. Perhaps some categories could be combined(?), but doesn't really matter that much. December 17, 2019, 04:33:03 PM Fox: (I still think The Community section fits best at the bottom. =P) December 15, 2019, 05:10:04 PM Salanewt: Heya! I'm planning to get the demo up today, but if you can't wait then it's already available on the Discord. December 15, 2019, 04:12:27 AM Fox: (Then sell the badges on the Trade Center for a very high price... and give a lot of active people coins to buy them with, so they can basically transfer the coins to me if they want something... Gosh I could be a naughty hoarder. =P) December 15, 2019, 04:06:19 AM Fox: I'd buy up all the stock for each item too... but man... I think I'm too lazy for that. =P December 15, 2019, 04:01:24 AM Fox: There we go. That should be all of them. December 15, 2019, 03:25:32 AM Fox: Duplicates will still show up as separate entries on the profile as well. Interestingly enough. December 15, 2019, 03:18:25 AM Fox: (Well, one of each badge, at least.) December 15, 2019, 03:18:08 AM Fox: Now I can buy up the whole shop. :3 December 14, 2019, 08:58:08 PM Foreclosure: Guys, I really want to see the AI overhaul demo... please fast! :D hehehe December 14, 2019, 08:57:33 PM Foreclosure: I sent 2 thousand coins for ya bro December 14, 2019, 01:31:38 AM Fox: In my opinion, even with the old system where it was set up so you could only coin people once per hour... I think it would have been far more fair if we could have also coined ourselves hourly.... since people have favoritism for certain people.... I feel like that could mitigate it some. At least to get badges that people care about the most. - Unlimited coining sounds like a step further than that, which is interesting... :) December 14, 2019, 01:12:00 AM Fox: Do note, that people can't coin themselves... but I feel if you got someone who's willing to transfer the coins you give them back to you... it is as though you have that coin option on yourself anyway.... December 14, 2019, 01:07:29 AM Fox: Go to any of my forum posts, look for where it says Coins... under that, you'll see [increase] , clicking that will give me coins. You won't lose anything for doing so. Click it as much as you like... Under that, you should see Send Money (a faster option if you got the coins). Use that link to transfer your coins to me of any amount you want. (e.g. Put in 2000, means I get 2000, you lose 2000... but if I've already given you 2000+, you don't really have to see it as actually losing anything.) December 13, 2019, 03:42:39 PM Foreclosure: How do I return favor, sir? |
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