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Community => Feedback/Suggestions/Problems => Topic started by: HaXtOr on December 01, 2005, 05:20:07 PM
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I have a few questions about the store:
1. What is a credit card? Why would you need it?
2. How often can you collect interest? How does this work exactly?
3. How often does the Auto collect collect interest? <- it seems to be broken for me...
4. how can i help develp the ib store?
5. Why are things in the Ib store not documented better?<- possible Faq could fix this
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Hmm, I've wondered about those things myself. I half tempted to suggest you go grab the source code and tell use. ;)
Yeah with auto collect interest, does the timer reset whenyou deposit? And if so, how do you know when to deposit? You might have been just about to get interest when you make a deposit.
Also, it seems like you can collect interest in a little less than a day. Is it based on a timer simply? Or is there some sort of time of day where things get processed?
And why the heck do you need to "use" items that you buy before they work. <_<
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I have a few questions about the store:
1. What is a credit card? Why would you need it?
2. How often can you collect interest? How does this work exactly?
3. How often does the Auto collect collect interest? <- it seems to be broken for me...
4. how can i help develp the ib store?
5. Why are things in the Ib store not documented better?<- possible Faq could fix this
Answers:
1. What is a credit card in real life used for? That should explain the purpose in itself.
2. You can collect interest once every day. It compares against the last time you collected interest.
3. It collects interest once a day, automatically. It seems to be working as there are log entries saying that you are receiving interest. (I checked the IBStore log)
4. Tell me what you want, and maybe write some code for it. If it's good, maybe it will get included.
I can send you a fresh copy of the IBstore for you to work with if you want.
5. Because the person/people who wrote the IBStore are horrible coders. So don't expect that they would document it well either.
It measures the time since you last collected interest. I think 24 hours has to elapse before you can do it again.
Yes, depositing money resets the timer, I believe. It's sorta stupid, perhaps I'll change that at some point.
The reason you have to use items, is because it's possible to 'trade' items off to other people without using them. The effects only happen when you use them.
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if the counter is every 24 hopurs how come I can collect interist more then once a day some times?
does it work how long you have been logged in or how may different links you click?
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when I put my credit card in the hole envisaged to this end, I tip the code and I get dought...
op2hacker, you say that the credit card of the ibstore is as the real credit card: she is used for put off money without pay the fee?
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There is no ibstore dredit card (that I am aware of, and I played with the IB Store on a forum)
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this one has one; and yes siqueule it acts as a real one would.
http://forum.outpostuniverse.net/index.ph...E=buycreditcard (http://forum.outpostuniverse.net/index.php?act=store&CODE=buycreditcard)
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I tell me a question... the item "increase interest", if I can buy several "interest increase", there effects will be add? I can have 50% of interest, for example?
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yep thats the way it works. But it would take a lot of money.
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no; you are only allowed one interest upgrade.
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oops, it's a pity... I would have as rich as Stormy! (but how he has do to have all this money?! :lol: )
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i did notice that i could collect interest more than once in a day but that was quite a while ago. ive timed it and it is exactly 24 hours between interest collections. i dont think theres a need for a debit card when we have a credit card.
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You can buy multiple interest upgrades. I'm sitting at 11% I believe.
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sounds like a load of crap to get that much interest when the idea of the Store is to post to get ore not to sit around and collect the interest.
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Well a Store FAQ page can be started on the wiki.
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11%? it's great! when the items will be restocked ?
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The items get restocked.. well, pretty randomly. For example, if I see that an item is out and a bunch of people are asking for it, I'll probably restock it.
I would turn on auto restock, but then you'd have too many of the people who live to gain more interest. ;)
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All the "Useful Items" are... destocked... I think...
Not very useful anymore.
And we (I) want more user effects! And effects we can use at the same time!
Like glitter names! Or something. Just agreee with me and it will all bowl over.
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yea I remember back in the days of xfir and I was ritch, I had a cool glow effect for my name
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I think the IB Store is a waste of time. But that's just my opinion.
You get pretend money, put it in a pretend bank, buy pretend products, and use pretend credit cards. If you think about it, then it's very similar to a children't "store" game, where they draw money on paper then give it to the 'cashier', and buy items that you already own at your house.
It seems to me that the IB store was created for forums that were fundamentally boring, and people wanted something to do while on them. Our forum is not the same. It is about Outpost2, the best game on earth. There are many topics you could discuss with interest, and not get bored.
I'm not saying that you should remove the IB Store, but I think that spending so much time worrying about it's correctness, ease of use, or enjoyability. It's there, and if you're bored, go and fool with it. If it's too basic for you, then go and post some thoughtful, involved post that will keep you busy pondering the meaning of things.
I mean no offense, and I intend to sound calm, not angry or ranting. Well, that's all I have to say. Thanks for listening ^_^
zhukant
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it's fun to manage his money; and to have a glow effect or another think, it should be deserved, that support the people to come more often in the forum B)
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We will probly restock it next at reunion time.
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wow zhukant, ya really hit the nail on the head for me. complete same feelings here
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I am glad that you agree with me, Zzj.
Siqueule, that is a double edged sword. On one side, you are right, that it will draw more members to the forum. By gaining money from the Posts they make, and having something to do with it, they will be more interested to post. However, on the other side, they can begin to post just for the purpose of posting and gaining money, and we don't want that either. We might get people that have no interest to join the conversations, and post incomprehensible, off topic replies. That is why I disagree with the IB store acting as a device for attracting more members.
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You have reason Zhukant, but the money gained can be send to other members to maintain virtual social relations! :blush:
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You have a good point. If people can share money (something I did not know) then they can gain trust for other people, and increase their affinity for them.
With that said, however, I relate back to my first post on this topic, which stated that the money does not really have value, and so the whole system is fundamentally flawed.
I realize now, that some people don't mind this fact, while some do. It is a good thing that nothing negative happend to a user if he completely ignores the feature. Thus, all those who like it can use it, and those who don't, do not have to.
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I got a bit of a complaint.
Bought the "Rob the bank" item, so I could try it out on a specific person...
Seems I'm told I can only steal !15! ore? Whats the point of buying it if you can't even steal back the cost of it???
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I got a bit of a complaint.
Bought the "Rob the bank" item, so I could try it out on a specific person...
Seems I'm told I can only steal !15! ore? Whats the point of buying it if you can't even steal back the cost of it???
:P
thanks for the warning.
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I had tried to rob the bank, on me... I have won 200 ore and lose 400, and they've don't get me the 200 ore
-> 600 ore losed :huh:
someone know what is the item "upload an emoticon"? I haven't understood what is it
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It lets you upload your own emoticon (smiley) to be added into the forum database of smilies.
Just a small (16x16) gif, jpg, or png file will do.
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waaa
I can uploading an emoticon of the forum that I want and only me can use this emoticon in fact?
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I find the ibstore pretty fun actually, but im just a kid
Also, where did xfir go???
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Oh boy.
xfir is out of the picture. If you didn't notice, the domain doesn't mention him. This happened a long time ago. You could probably find stuff about it at the rest of the forum. I don't want to give out any information in case I say something wrong and spark the argument we seem to have settled with great difficulty long ago. Good luck to you, and try not to do what I mentioned above.
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well, ok, i pmed you as not to start a cuffufle, im really confused, but mayb you could explain in a pm... :blush:
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i dont know anything about it but i think im right for people who werent there..... the less you know about it the better it is for the community
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waaa
I can uploading an emoticon of the forum that I want and only me can use this emoticon in fact?
Well, anyone can use the emoticon if they want.
And yeah, probably best to explain about xfir in a PM. Let's not get started on that again. It was almost a year ago.
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Yea Zhukant talked to me on IRC and because he wasnt sure what to say to OP2Rules. And lordly_dragon its not that its better for the community or a person to know less about the past, its that it is irrelevant. What matters is where we are today (still alive cuz op2 rox so much), and where we are going!
Anyway, majorly off topic.
If you have questions about the store, post em :)
To get to the store use the drop down menu at the top right.
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couldn't there be more items? like mayb make a research lab (lets you buy more items) A diploma, you pay for it so you can get a job, a place where you could work, i dunno, couldn't the IBStore be more fun than it is? Or do you just put your time into other things?
Also, where is the link where i can get an IBStore for 1.3.1?
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its not around anymore
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Can we have more credit cards than the sucky one that we have right now? ANd with better names?