Tech Support and Feature Requests

[High Command]

This thread is for feature requests and to report problems. There is no guarantee you will get any other features before the new board software can be rolled out.

If you have a problem, IM and PM VV and I about it as well.

[Tiree]

Lucid_Red theme, I have been having problems with. Switch to a new theme, till I can figure out what is failing.

[High Command]

well change the icons on ProSilver so there is a bigger visual diff when looking at Read and Unread then

[Qoat]

I used the die roller in the adventure thread, http://www.savagerifts.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=58#p373, the function didn't trigger.

[Jackal]

I used the die roller in the adventure thread, http://www.savagerifts.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=58#p373, the function didn't trigger.

Same / Same

[Venatus Vinco]

Fixed

[Timothy Hernandez]

Is there a way to make the blue print look better in the yellow and black background?

[Tiree]

Is there a way to make the blue print look better in the yellow and black background?

I have really no idea...

I am going to say no...

This is a tough one to get a hold of... and that is trying to deal with the whole, what colors work with other colors. Blue just doesn't work on Black, it's just too dark. But a lighter/brighter blue doesn't look good on lighter backgrounds.

[Tiree]

[dice]0[/dice] * [dice]1[/dice] / [dice]2[/dice] dfjdlfjdljf lfjldjfldjfldj jdfljdfljd [dice]3[/dice]

[Timothy Hernandez]

that looks great

[High Command]

wooot!

[Cory Tetrascroll]

wooot!

[Cory Tetrascroll]

Reposting here for shits and giggles.

Hey everyone,

Our amazing admin, Tiree, managed to get dice rolls in line with text, so no extra line breaks or characters!

We can now resume posting as normal

Notice: [dice]456:0[/dice] / [dice]456:1[/dice] (wild die)

Mylatest post in the adventure forum still had the line breaks. But reposted here it's fine. Stupid computers.

Notice:[dice]467:0[/dice]+[dice]467:1[/dice] Wild Die [dice]467:2[/dice]
Wounds: 0 | PPE: 16/20 (recharge 1 per/30min) | ISP: 19/20 (recharge 1/hour)
Constant Effects: Alertness; Auto-Mega Damage; Danger Sense; Sense Supernatural Beings (with Notice check)
Temporary Effects: Name (Duration)
Bennies: 3

Mysticism [dice]467:3[/dice] / Wild [dice]467:4[/dice] Entangle, Med Burst Template centered in front of herd
Explode [dice]467:5[/dice]

[Venatus Vinco]

Try it in the adventure forum now.

[Crunch]

Hey can we up the character count in the signatures? If not oh well, figured I'd ask.

[Tiree]

Hey can we up the character count in the signatures? If not oh well, figured I'd ask.

We can probably do that.

Make sure your signatures are limited though. It should reflect what is most important about the character. What is the character count that you think is appropriate?

[Ulysses]

It seems to be about half the count that is allowed on EU. I like EU's sig sizes.

[Crunch]

Hey can we up the character count in the signatures? If not oh well, figured I'd ask.

We can probably do that.

Make sure your signatures are limited though. It should reflect what is most important about the character. What is the character count that you think is appropriate?

A thousand tops.

[Tiree]

It has been set to equal that of EU's: 5,000 characters

Enjoy - but keep it brief

[Krozog]

A paladin, priest of the Light probably shouldn't be practicing necormancy, but...

Is strikethrough s /s an option? It has its uses.

[Ndreare]

1) Is it possible to Give GM's the ability to edit other peoples signatures? A lot of players do not keep their up to date and i have to deal with the extra effort of a tracking spreadsheet. it would be good to be able to help people out by populating theirs for them (and make sure they are in OOC tags and help out my players who have trouble with staying on top of their signatures.


2) Is it possible to remove the limit to 5 hyper links in signatures? I was hyper linking where I spent and gained bennies until I exceeded the limits. But if i had them back that would be awesome.

[High Command]

The only way to do that is to be an administrator Rob.

[Ndreare]

I know currently. However as someone who works with DBs and as a former DB administrator I know there are a lot of permissions that can be assigned by creating roles with permissions.

Sometimes all it takes is investigating. Other times it just is not possible. I am hoping this is more the former and less that later.

[High Command]

No, I mean the interface to do so is only available from the admin control panel to my knowledge. It can't be done in the main interface.

[Freemage]

Pity, I would've liked that, too (directly linking all my PCs in my sig was very useful, til I hit 5 and was still wanting to do the direct-edit link for my GM Bennies.)

[High Command]

Oh I don't know about the hyperlink limit. that's definitely a Tiree question.

[Tiree]

I'll take a look at the signature limits

Edit: You should be able to add more to your signature now.

[Ndreare]

I'll take a look at the signature limits

Edit: You should be able to add more to your signature now.

Thank you.

Now that we have standardized the expectation for signatures to be in OOC tag, I do not think it will hurt to have larger ones or multiple links.

[Ndreare]

I have been having an issue where emails are not being sent to me when people post.

Mike has also reported signing up for a new account and no email comes to him for activation.

Johnathan also has had email issues with emails not being consistent sometimes he gets them and other times not.

[Tiree]

I have to admit, I am surprised that the e-mail functionality is actually working.

Right now SavageRifts is sitting on a VPS, with no mail server. The database is sitting on a hosted domain. And the e-mail is going through the hosted domain's mail server. Wonkiness was expected.

Now I am working on migrating SavageRifts back to the hosted domain, but it's taking me a lot longer than I anticipated (mainly because I don't have any time to work on it). But once it's migrated back (with newer board software), you should see some massive improvements.

[Ndreare]

I have to admit, I am surprised that the e-mail functionality is actually working.

Right now SavageRifts is sitting on a VPS, with no mail server. The database is sitting on a hosted domain. And the e-mail is going through the hosted domain's mail server. Wonkiness was expected.

Now I am working on migrating SavageRifts back to the hosted domain, but it's taking me a lot longer than I anticipated (mainly because I don't have any time to work on it). But once it's migrated back (with newer board software), you should see some massive improvements.

Strangely last night I got about 20 emails for all the threads. So something must have auto-magically happened in the background.

[Tiree]

RFT - that is good to know. There can be hiccups in the system, as EMail is not real time. EMail messages could be held on a variety of mail servers throughout the world, waiting for a log jam to clear and let them through. This did happen last night, so it may have been the cause:

Brief disconnection event
May 30 2018 12:20:41 AM PT
A short while ago, we experienced a temporary (approximately 1-minute-long) interruption in Seattle related to our troubleshooting of a serious routing problem caused by an upstream issue (INAP). This routing problem caused many scheduled payments to fail this morning.

We have worked around the problem and do not expect further interruptions.

Now, I understand this caused a payment issue on their end. But Mail servers tend to get ignored if they are not the primary mail server, just a hop along the way. Plus this was a routing issue, and a server that normally goes through that route could have been causing a log jam because it couldn't get through it's normal path. I hope this was the fix, but for the most part because we are on a hosted environment, and have limited support - I can't really lean on my provider.

So, here is the deal. If this becomes an issue again I want the following:

What is your EMail Provider when it works?
What is your EMail Provider when it fails?
Is your EMail Provider one of those free hosting ones (Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc...)
Is it intermittent?
Are the e-mails in your Spam, Junk, or Clutter folders?
Can you provide the headers of the EMail (if you don't know what it is... don't bother) - if so, send a PM with the information.

[Ndreare]

@Tyree,
The problem resolved itself. I assumed you did something to fix it. My gmail is 'ndreare at'

---

I would love it if we used a WYSIWYG editor. They are pretty common, but I do not know if it is compatible with the current vendor.

They also typically include simple table makers.

[Krozog]

...Strikethrough text formatting? I have had several opportunities to use it to good effect. Is that a difficult/impossible addition?

[Tribe of One]

+1 to strikethrough. [/ s] is (relatively) standard BB code, I thought, so maybe just needs to be enabled?

[Venatus Vinco]

Strikethrough enabled

Code: Select all

[s]{TEXT}[/s]

Or, use the "s" button right next to "OOC"

VV

[Tribe of One]

Strikethrough enabled

Code: Select all

[s]{TEXT}[/s]

Or, use the "s" button right next to "OOC"

VV

Sweet!

[Koshnek]

Neglected to thank you, so thank you for enabling strikethrough! I greatly appreciate it. Its not always useful, but it is highly useful when the time comes .

[Freemage]

Neglected to thank you, so thank you for enabling strikethrough! I greatly appreciate it. Its not always useful, but it is highly useful when the time comes .

Yeah, I've made heavy use of it in helping to keep track of my NPCs in my signature.

[Tiree]

[dice:3szlwm5k]42290:0[/dice:3szlwm5k]

• This is a header of the list
• item 1
  • item 1a
• item 2
• item 3
  • item 3a
  • item 3b
    • item 3b1
    • item 3b2
• item 4

[Venatus Vinco]

Code: Select all

this is a simple paragraph that is meant to be nice and easy to type which is why there will be mommas no periods or any capital letters so i guess this means that it cannot really be considered a paragraph but just a series of run on sentences this should help you get faster at typing as im trying not to use too many difficult words in it although i think that i might start making it hard by including some more difficult letters I'm typing pretty quickly so forgive me for any mistakes i think that i will not just tell you a story about the time i went to the zoo and found a monkey and a fox playing together they were so cute and i think that they were not supposed to be in the same cage but they somehow were and i loved watching them horse

[Pender Lumkiss]

Will we have the mention functionality? And the ep payment?

[Venatus Vinco]

Will we have the mention functionality? And the ep payment?

Yes, mentions for sure.

I would love to use the points system but I have to really think about deployment.

VV

[Roderick Wolfram]

In the post: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2120#p31510

The bullet list looks correct for the patron item, but upon adding it to the post, all the other bullets stopped working, along with some of the OOC tags and font size tags. I tried reducing the number of nested lists in the patron item to see if there was a limit, but that didn't seem to work either.

[Ilija Borisov]

Have you folks considered a one-stop-shop macro for SW check rolling that can both explode dice as appropriate and roll a properly modified Wild Die from a single input? These things happen for every attribute and skill check; handling it all automatically would save a lot of keystrokes. My code chops are rusty and I don't know php, but something like...

Code: Select all

User variables: <dieSize>, <checkModifier>

checkResult = 0
dieValue = roll(1d<dieSize>)
checkResult = checkResult + dieValue
for dieValue = <dieSize> until dieValue != <dieSize>
     dieValue = roll(1d<dieSize>)
     checkResult = checkResult + dieValue
checkResult = checkResult + <checkModifier>
wildResult = 0
dieValue = roll(1d6)
wildResult = wildResult + dieValue
for dieValue = 6 until dieValue != 6
     dieValue = roll(1d6)
     wildResult = wildResult + dieValue
wildResult = wildResult + <checkModifier>
if checkResult >3 or wildResult > 3
     then output "Success"
     else output "Failure"

[Venatus Vinco]

Have you folks considered a one-stop-shop macro for SW check rolling that can both explode dice as appropriate and roll a properly modified Wild Die from a single input? These things happen for every attribute and skill check; handling it all automatically would save a lot of keystrokes. My code chops are rusty and I don't know php, but something like...

We would LOVE such a thing.

However, phpbb extensions, require more coding knowledge than we have.

If you have a suggested implementation I'd be happy to hear about it.

VV

[Ilija Borisov]

We would LOVE such a thing.
However, phpbb extensions, require more coding knowledge than we have.
If you have a suggested implementation I'd be happy to hear about it.

Hmm. As I said, I don't know phpBB, but I have always wanted to learn. I'll look into it.

[Venatus Vinco]

Hello,

Made some administrative changes.

1) Reverted post editor to old style with no drop down menus.

2) Enabled Quick Reply on all forums

3) Add new poll creation options (show voter, view results without voting, set specific poll end date, etc.)

If you see any bugs please let me know.

VV

[Ndreare]

Awesome thank you!



of topic, but give me am inch I will take a mile...
Any luck worth the upgraded roller we tested m

[Venatus Vinco]

@RFT

No, the dice roller requires a number of other steps. I have done what I need to do on my end and have to wait for Tiree to have a block of time sufficient to do the rest.

VV

[Ndreare]

Cool, i can understand that.
It was just such a cool utility and I liked it a lot.

Perhaps we can bribe @Tiree with cookies and pizza delivery. I am sure they have Uber Eats in California.

[Radecliffe]

When I do a table the bottom border is missing. When I look at the CSS info in the browser it looks like the bottom border definition is missing from the style used.

The

bottom

line

is

missing,

see?

[Tiree]

testing posting after changes

[Tiree]

Folks - You may notice some missing attachments or avatar's. If you notice anything of that nature, please reupload them, as I can not get those back for you.

[Tiree]

testing some die rolling

4d6-L: [3, 4, 5, 5]-L = 14 + 1d6!: [4] = 4
4d6-L: [3, 4, 2, 5]-L = 12 + 1d6!: [1] = 1
4d6-L: [4, 6, 3, 2]-L = 13 + 1d6!: [3] = 3
4d6-L: [5, 2, 5, 4]-L = 14 + 1d6!: [6!, 2] = 8
4d6-L: [1, 1, 6, 4]-L = 11 + 1d6!: [3] = 3
4d6-L: [2, 2, 5, 4]-L = 11 + 1d6!: [6!, 1] = 7
4d6-L: [4, 3, 5, 5]-L = 14 + 1d6!: [3] = 3
4d6-L: [5, 2, 1, 2]-L = 9 + 1d6!: [2] = 2

[Tiree]

5d6-L: [1, 5, 4, 5, 5]-L = 19

[Venatus Vinco]

[roll]3d6[/roll]

[Tiree]

4d6!: [4, 3, 4, 6!, 5] = 22

[Tiree]

testing

[Tiree]

testing with the quick editor

[Venatus Vinco]

FYI, our IT people purged over 1000 probably spam accounts. If one of yours got caught on the cross fire let me know.

Also new dice roller is coming online and will likely be installed in the next two weeks.