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Post by WarningU2 on Nov 19, 2005 17:08:23 GMT -5
I have to agree with Whiplash.... although the background looks nice I would much rather have it load faster
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Post by WarningU2 on Nov 19, 2005 17:11:42 GMT -5
Hey if you get a lap dance for 8 hrs who cares if you don't get your $50 back ...
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Post by WarningU2 on Nov 27, 2005 11:26:40 GMT -5
Ok its driving me nuts.
What is that picture of in your signature Lod Serpent ?
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Post by WarningU2 on Nov 11, 2005 23:54:35 GMT -5
Many people's activation emails are not being sent due to a system wide problem with Myleague servers. They are not sending email for some reason. Its being investigated and I am sure it will be resolved soon.
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Post by WarningU2 on Sept 22, 2007 6:37:17 GMT -5
It appears some people have already discovered it and posted pictures to it so I think I better announce it now. I have (thanks to the CIV3Players Group) joined FaceBook which as it turns out (who knew) is popular with a few friends and former coworkers. Digging around Facebook I realized that a previous suggestion here to post pictures using Facebook was a good idea. I don't have to remember to do it and puts control in the ladder members where it belongs. So without further delay you can find the new place to post your ladder pics at: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7128875663 I am the creator, admin and I made CS an admin too. I disabled the discussion board on Facebook because I don't want there to be discussions there when the forum here should be used. You can comment on individual pictures of course and tag them. I would suggest you comment that this is "ladder member name" I will leave it largely unmoderated however any questionable picture (at my sole discretion) will be removed. I have left the group open so anyone can post pictures. If this presents a problem I will have to make it an invite group. There is a couple of catches though with Facebooks. 1) you have to join Facebook but I haven't had any fallout from unsolicited mail and if you are like me you may actually like the damn thing 2) it appears you have to use your real name to join Facebook as it doesn't allow nicknames. You of course can make up a name. I used my real one because of warnings when setting up the account. As a side note .. .I put something on my profile in my status to say I am warningu2 otherwise you can't tell who is who on the ladder. If you are concerned about providing too much detail you can limit who can see your profile to friends. To become your friend you have to approve them. My apologies to those that use Facebooks alot ... I'm just posting this for anyone new to the application and may not like the idea. 3) There doesn't appear to be a way to group photos in Facebook groups (ie albums) so I can't keep the 2005 2006 2007 structure. I have uploaded all he pictures from the old site to Facebooks - captions and all. The old site will be deleted today. In the meantime enjoy the new way to post pictures. BTW I really have to update my picture as I look very different now ... dropped nearly 60 lbs))
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Post by WarningU2 on Aug 23, 2007 5:03:55 GMT -5
If anyone is curious about Bantam's mug ... he provided his picture the other day.
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Post by WarningU2 on Jul 11, 2007 22:55:29 GMT -5
I haven't received any pictures for some time so if there is no longer interest in this please let me know and I will retire the website.
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Post by WarningU2 on Dec 11, 2006 21:18:24 GMT -5
New pics up of Churchill1
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Post by WarningU2 on Jun 7, 2006 0:58:28 GMT -5
New pictures Zhenon and Dreddcool added today
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Post by WarningU2 on Jun 2, 2006 21:57:09 GMT -5
Sent in my pic, whenever the moderator gets around to adding it. The last picture I was sent was from atomation. Not sure if that is you but please resend your picture if it is not
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Post by WarningU2 on Mar 10, 2006 7:05:45 GMT -5
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Post by WarningU2 on Feb 21, 2006 20:56:30 GMT -5
Please ... pictures will just be removed from this thread ... In the past we placed everyone's pictures here and it became too big and caused the thread to take forever to load. If you have a legitimate picture of yourself just email to me and I will place on the website.
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Post by WarningU2 on Feb 19, 2006 18:38:51 GMT -5
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Post by WarningU2 on Nov 6, 2005 23:20:35 GMT -5
This tradition started with CIV3Players (Nude Civvers) and continues with CIV4Players. Anyone wishing to post pictures of themselves (not nude) is welcome to. www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7128875663This is a Facebook group. You will need to join Facebook. Include your ladder name and any caption you want. Keep it clean boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen ... Bring on the pictures but please no nudity or group sex pictures please. Note: Any pictures posted here in this thread or negative comments on pictures placed on the site will be removed. DISCLAIMER:
" The Ladder Picture site displays personal pictures of it's members which are not copyrighted. The Ladder Picture site does not hold, grant, or imply any license to use these images for any purpose other than viewing them on the Web. Unauthorized use of these pictures is not the responsibility of WarningU2 nor CIV3Players/CIV4Players League (the ladders).
Persons accept by sending the picture that they foresake all ownership and agree they agree to the terms and conditions herein and are posting a legitimate non copyrighted photo. It is the sender's responsibility to ensure that they have permission to post a picture.
If you find pictures that are copyrighted please notify WarningU2. Pictures will be removed immediately upon notification of the copyright infringement. "
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Post by WarningU2 on Nov 27, 2005 11:23:53 GMT -5
Paragraphs ! You have to be kidding ... this is a wonderful note. You should see some of the emails and mailroom complaints I get. They often have no capitalization, nor sentence structure, periods or commas. Often it's not even English, even for those whose 1st language is English. It's Intenet babble with some ghetto-speak that becomes almost incomprehensible. I really feel for teachers. Anways off topic ... lets go back to flaming whoever he is.
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Post by WarningU2 on Nov 13, 2005 11:26:12 GMT -5
Yikes. Nasty thread. Lets get back to the question and try to improve things. First off ... you want a suggestion ... make it the same as GameSpy I think we are all in agreement that the MP lobby is without question unacceptable. The gist I get from this thread is Firaxis is saying like it or lump it, we're not playing games with GS. That is totally unacceptable too and they should make amends but assuming they don't we're going to have to learn to work around it. Problems with current lobby IMHO: 1) The jumpy screen... you can workaround that until the patch comes out ...by using the keyboard up arrow, down arrow. I sort on game name and can find my game a little easier by moving down or up the list using the arrows. It sucks but its marginally better. 2) No filter option. I want to find a particular game and can't. We as ladder members can work around that too ... why not create a standard game name for ladder games? ie LDR_hostname_typeof game 3) CTD ... no work around need a patch. 4) No mute option. We need Firaxis to patch this. 5) No ability to multitask to another vechicle for chatting. Use windows mode helps and you can have GS or Yahoo in the background. 6) buddy lists seem to not be retained. 7) no means to sort lobby members I'm sure there are other problems but I've list my main offendors I think the best suggestion is to use a GS user room for Ladder members. We can organize games there. I suggested this a while ago and Friedrich overruled me, so I've stayed mum until now. I think it is a mistake to not use a ladder run GS user room. People are doing it anyway through other means but not in an organized manner. Most people do not have IRC chat means nor are that familiar with it CS. The shell GS wraps around IRC is much better for noobs. Many of us are familiar with GS. Although I understand Friedrich's relunctance to abandon the game lobby, with all do respect it's unreasonable to use the game MP lobby alone given the issues. Seeing 50 games up with ladder in the prefix will still make people ask what is ldr and a someone can post civ4players. It will soon cause people to go to a place they can get games. It will soon make the civ4players user room very popular. Once a game is advertised in civ4players userroom people can bounce over to the game lobby and join ...very much like we do today with civ3players. Perhaps if Firaxis sees this they will realize what a terrible terrible mistake they have made not supporting GameSpy properly. My next suggestion is for everyone to send one email to support usa@take2support.com politely requesting they improve the lobby and have GS support it from the arcade. There is strength in numbers.
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Post by WarningU2 on Jul 5, 2006 8:24:33 GMT -5
People misunderstand - there is no 24 hr rule. People are expected to report immediately after the game however 24 hrs must elapse before a non report can be filed. I can't believe people sometimes.
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Post by WarningU2 on Jul 4, 2006 23:12:12 GMT -5
Some comments items discussed here as I've been doing non reports these last 4 weeks. I'm on vacation tomorrow and CS takes over. 1) Although it is as annoying, there is no means to enforce that players report immediately after a game. If you have to remind players constantly then it's likely a good idea to avoid playing them in future. Players should make every attempt to file their reports at the conclusion of the game before playing their next match but if not they legitimately have 24 hrs to report. 2) I can tell you that the majority of non reports filed result in a penalty. I can't quite understand how a non report is not received but the same subject line advising them they are in box is always received. Go figure. 3) There have been a fair number of protest files i.e. I just had a non report filed against me so I'll file 6 non reports against that player. I immediately suspend somone for doing this. 4) There have been a number of people that don't understand how to report so they file non reports. I suspend someone for this while they read the rules 5) The most annoying is that someone files a non report and the person disputes the charge and sends me (the admin) a burst of email in response rather than looking up the players name and communicating with them directly. I have to play middle man and forward the email to the parties involved. Imagine 15 non reports coming in and half a dozen players using me as conduit ? Wonder why I get confused sometimes ? 6) A lot players seem to think you only have to report to one person and not all in the game because of the conflicting rule from MyLeague and our ladder rules. Despite it saying that the ladder rules replace, I constantly get - I play by the rules and only report to one player. 7) The most frequent cause for non report disputes are disconnects, or one or more players not accepting the game didn't really start or someone failed to pick up a lost player. It starts a debate on whether someone went back to the lobby to fetch the person. I really encourage the use of C4F interface to check the lobby while in the game. And if the person cannot get in please reload. In CIV3 it was so much simpler but with CIV4 it allows you to continue play and makes for a non report nightmare. I encourage everyone to take screen shots when there are controversial moments in the game. It will save a huge headache. 8) I frequently get non reports a few minutes after the game is played. This annoys me to no end because it generates a backlash of emails that use me as a conduit. When I am doing non reports any non report received that is filed the same day is simply deleted. I don't follow up on it. If you're lucky I'll respond saying refile after contacting the player and waiting 24 hrs for him to report. 9) So you understand its a fairly lengthy process for handling non reports. a) When a non report is received it is filtered in my inbox to a NR Active folder. It matures for 72 hrs. I search the log from the date of non report filing date after 72 hrs, or near enough has elapsed. b) If I receive any email in dispute of the match it goes into my NR Contested Folder (Open Cases). I then move the non report associated with this case into this folder. If I start to get a dozen or more emails in response (the record for me was 48 for one disastorous match) I create a folder ie. PlayerA vs PlayerB. I immediately reply to the player filing the non report that the match is contested and proof of your win is required. If I don't get any proof in 72 hrs, the non report is void and moved to my closed folder. c) If I make a ruling on a contested match I flag it for followup 72 hrs later and when reported I move it to the Closed Cases folder d) If I find a player has non reported I force the match and advise the person who filed "match forced in your favour". I don't inform the player who hasn't reported if it's his/her first offense. We're all big people ... if you get a non report filed against you and do nothing ... well you know what will happen. If however you have 2 non reports filed you will get an email explaining in detail why you are in the box for 7 days. If its the 3rd non report you will be suspended 90 days and you might as well leave to tell you the truth. 10) Top Ten reasons for not reporting. (all actual excuses) - 10. My sister was rushed to the hospital so I had to leave the game.
- 9. I fell asleep and knocked my beer on the keyboard and I couldn't type anymore.
- 8. My joint fell on the carpet and I had to put out the fire
- 7. There was a thunderstorm and I lost power.
- 6. I don't have to report because x was cheating. It's just not possible to have that large a stack (that's what she said).
- 5. I don't report ever, so go #%#$# yourself.
- 4. I only have to report to the one player that was better than me. The rest sucked so I won't report.
- 3. How do I report ? I don't understand English.
- 2. I disconnected and they beat the CPU.
And the number 1 excuse heard recently ...
- 1. No one told me the game was over, I didn't lose so why do I have to report ?
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Post by WarningU2 on Dec 28, 2005 10:01:07 GMT -5
I wish there was a way to add screenshots while doing "unreported match" After you file a non report you will receive an email from the admin that is processing non reports that week. Respond with any screen shots if you want to submit them at that time.
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Post by WarningU2 on Oct 29, 2005 22:28:00 GMT -5
I'll add my two cents to this after reading all the negativity on CFC and now seeing it spawn here ....
The key message here is time and patience.
Firaxis folks are a dedicated and truly concerned bunch of folks that will resolve the problems.
CIV4 is not your CIV3 or PTW experience. This is likely the most changed version since CIV II. At first I went holy XXXX ! I hate it but ... after several times playing during the beta test I loved it. It's not just a beat them up and kill game. The depth of play is quite amazing.
Unfortunately to get this new depth some of the older machines out there will not cut it. This was my concern from the get go. It's very memory intensive so if you can shutdown other tasks while you play do so or go out and get 1GB of RAM. Update your video cards to support DirectX9 proper or ensure your video drivers are up to date. You need a gamer type system for this that will support high end 3d graphics ...thats what the market demands. The CIV franchise has just finally caught up
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