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(Message started by: Stigmata on 01/19/04 at 20:44:34)

Title: alternative to the rollers maths Q's
Post by Stigmata on 01/19/04 at 20:44:34

Instead of the annoying maths questions constantly popping up, how about a one off at the end of the rolling session.

For example, you role as normal - but when you finish you must accept the crit, then be prompted to enter a word (in a txt box) randomly selected from a database.

For added security - If a player does not accept the shown stats, or does nothing within 30 seconds the roller will be terminated. This would stop people using an autoroller, leaving it on for a bit then coming back to the required stats and then entering the word.

This might confuse some of you, hopefully JLH will understand.

Title: Re: alternative to the rollers maths Q's
Post by alone on 01/19/04 at 20:53:51

Sounds good to me, I'd much prefer it!

Random word from the server, same as stats. To save people hacking the client to cheat it?

Title: Re: alternative to the rollers maths Q's
Post by Id on 01/20/04 at 03:57:23

lol..I'm thinking of a situation when a noob came up to a good stat and don't know what to make of it...a ranger? a pally? or even a druid? then he started to log on his crit and ask around for advice (which of course nowadays you can do with class change on the web, but it's noob we're talking here --I used to do that in the old day if you're wondering who the noob is lol--) then the 30 second is up, he came back...woops...he/she lose that stat...

second, wouldn't it still be possible to make an auto-roller...let it rolls then until it is finished, a sound alert to alarm the player which sit near by waiting (could be watching tv do playing games w/e). Then he could react in time?

If you're wondering, I'm not talking about sitting for hours to wait for a 6 stats, I mean those little 4stat to 1 off 5 stat would probably take a few mins or at max an hour to roll. To the point, it's still possible to go around it.

Ps. it would be funny if one of the math question show up as
What's the volumn of y=sin(x) (-1 to 1)if it rotates around the x-axis ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: alternative to the rollers maths Q's
Post by Everlast on 01/20/04 at 05:06:50

Idea sounds like it would be effective and work very well because the only way i can see an auto-roller being able to do much is if the person leaves it on for a few hours or something while they're away.

People might use it and sit there looking at the screen to see if it stops, but i don't think they would end up doing it often enough to actually catch it...the problem would be if they coded the auto-roller to make a noise when it stopped on certain stats---i really have no idea if that would work or not, i do not have any understanding of computer coding programs and such non-sense.

Title: Re: alternative to the rollers maths Q's
Post by Pandilex on 01/20/04 at 09:22:43

I've already been informed there are some changes to this system in the next update... You'll have to wait for JLH's reply for more information though.