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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:04 am    Post subject: 1 Reply with quote

'Kay let me paint the picture for you.

I know how you must be irritated on how I keep reminiscing about this, but a while back, I created a game called 'Points to play', rules were pretty simple enough, person with the most points awarded to them, got to eliminate someone.

During a round, there were only 6 players left, wordcross had won, and was given the duty to eliminate, he meant for the desicion to be made up by a diceroll.

MatthewV gave a dice-tag, that had accidentally landed on wordcross's number, when wordcross did an appropriate diceroll, it had landed on MatthewV's number.

After a few months or so, heck, maybe even half a year, I look back on the thread for a slight glimpse, only to shockingly find that the numbers had pulled a sigfried and roy on me. This making MatthewV's diceroll land on himself, and wordcross's diceroll thus eliminating Samadhi.

Evidence can be found right here:
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=11822&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=280

No, I don't think there is any intention of replaying those last few rounds and looking at what might've been. Razz

Though this does confuse me, puts me in an akward spot, as though a wrongdoing had been done, is there any way to know WHY the dice-roll numbers switched their original places? Confused
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:20 am    Post subject: 2 Reply with quote

We had a similar thing on scum, after a server upgrade. I'd expect it's related to the move. (I'm not sure how the dice tags are coded, so I can't say more than that.)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:34 am    Post subject: 3 Reply with quote

I don't know why they changed, but I know my post took several tries to get it to land on wordcross. Any moderator could theoretically change the results of a dice roll without anyone knowing about it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:43 am    Post subject: 4 Reply with quote

MatthewV wrote:
I don't know why they changed, but I know my post took several tries to get it to land on wordcross. Any moderator could theoretically change the results of a dice roll without anyone knowing about it.
Not *any* dice roll.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:26 pm    Post subject: 5 Reply with quote

MatthewV wrote:
I don't know why they changed, but I know my post took several tries to get it to land on wordcross. Any moderator could theoretically change the results of a dice roll without anyone knowing about it.


MatthewV wrote:
I should edit those dice to prove they are flawed!


Hrmm...

But anyways thanks for the answer though, was rather confused on that part.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:23 am    Post subject: 6 Reply with quote

Samadhi wrote:
MatthewV wrote:
I don't know why they changed, but I know my post took several tries to get it to land on wordcross. Any moderator could theoretically change the results of a dice roll without anyone knowing about it.
Not *any* dice roll.


Can you find me one on this site that I couldn't change?

[edit: Sam]This one:
Dice Roll:
Original Roll String: 10d10
10 10-Sided Dice Results: 7, 1, 8, 1, 5, 8, 1, 2, 1, 9 (Total = 43)
Dice Roll:
Original Roll String: 5d6
5 6-Sided Dice Results: 3, 5, 6, 3, 1 (Total = 18)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:25 am    Post subject: 7 Reply with quote

Dice Roll:
Original Roll String: 2d6 Fixed
2 6-Sided Dice Results: 1, 3 (Total = 4)


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:25 am    Post subject: 8 Reply with quote

(Hey, is the total new?)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:37 am    Post subject: 9 Reply with quote

mattv: see above Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:46 am    Post subject: 10 Reply with quote

Do administrators have an "edited" note placed at the end of their own posts?

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:04 am    Post subject: 11 Reply with quote

Test

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:05 am    Post subject: 12 Reply with quote

Yes, there is an edit note there, as you can see.

It works like any other user. If I edit a post before anybody else makes a post after it in the thread, there is no notification. If I edit the post after additional posts have been made, there is a notification.

However, admins (and mods, I believe) can edit other people's posts at any time, and the notification doesn't show up, as is evidenced by my vandalism of Courky's previous post.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:08 am    Post subject: 13 Reply with quote

The one that had a total of 7? Felicitous

No, the Total isn't new.

Surprised
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:20 pm    Post subject: 14 Reply with quote

How do you subtract die rolls from die rolls, like 10d10 - 5d6? Is that supported?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:45 pm    Post subject: 15 Reply with quote

Sure that's supported. You do it like this:
Dice Roll:
Original Roll String: 10d10
10 10-Sided Dice Results: 6, 4, 6, 6, 7, 10, 5, 7, 8, 1 (Total = 60)

-
Dice Roll:
Original Roll String: 5d6
5 6-Sided Dice Results: 6, 2, 5, 3, 5 (Total = 21)

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:46 pm    Post subject: 16 Reply with quote

39

*nudge*
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:39 pm    Post subject: 17 Reply with quote

43-18=25 Felicitous
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:02 pm    Post subject: 18 Reply with quote

But the strings are seperate.
Code:
[dice]10d10[/dice]-[dice]5d6[/dice]=
is two strings. Is it supported in one string?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:52 am    Post subject: 19 Reply with quote

No. That would be too much work to code for what it is worth. You should have learned subtraction in elementary school.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:46 pm    Post subject: 20 Reply with quote

So, in short, I'd have to double post if that situation ever came up. Nice to know.
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