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Posted in This is Not a Government. • 8th July 2015, 11:17 PM

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Damen is like the president.
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Posted in Teams in Mod. Comp. • 8th July 2015, 05:40 PM

Sam wrote on 8th July 2015 05:36 PM:
Team Kacket, Team Topaz, Team Fireworks, etc.
Team etc. all the way
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Posted in Recent Radio Issues • 26th May 2015, 09:54 PM

I agree with you, but this actually goes both ways. While people hated on older music, we equally complained about newer music. While some of us don't like Iggy or Selena Gomez, it's likely that it's just because we haven't grown up with the music and so we don't enjoy it. The majority of people on this chat are actually growing up with this music, so they like to hear it more and probably don't mind listening to it millions of times.

So yes, people should stop and give old school songs a chance and not immediately talk trash about it, but those (including me) who hate on newer music should pause and take a second to adjust to it. Right now I don't like the newer music and probably never will, but I should open my eyes and see that one size does not fit all.

I believe you handled the situation well as you eventually switched to more modern songs when requested to do so. Let's try to play more than 5 songs on the radio and be more open to the requested songs. That's all I gotta say.
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Posted in Advice • 4th January 2015, 12:21 AM

Okay well what you're asking is pretty broad, so my response will be a bit lengthy here.

First off, you kept saying HTML scripting when scripting usually refers to programming while HTML is a markup language. When you said <html></html><heading></heading>(which isn't a real tag), you should look into web design. I don't know why Danni recommended you learn JS (JavaScript) before learning about CSS, since CSS is what makes a site's design, but be sure to know CSS shortly after HTML. It would probably take just a week at most to learn HTML, but CSS is where more technical terms come in making a web site.

It's best not to learn from just one site, as someone recommended Codecademy. You should learn from many sites, since some may contain wrong information or just bad practice as Codecademy is often found to do so. Also, some information on some sites may be outdated, since I believe the latest versions are HTML5 and CSS3. The World Wide Web Consortium is considered by many an official site to find up-to-date information, but some people say that site is bad in some areas as well. I have about thirty sources I saved on my computer if you want to see a variety of lessons to learn from (after about 3 sources, the information can get repetitive). For me, I must have went through about 50+ sources just to make sure the information I looked into was right. Javascript is also widely used among websites, so be sure to look into that. One big thing is the difference between scripting languages and programming languages, which you might want to look into. Many people will call JavaScript and PHP scripting languages ONLY while others will call them scripting and programming. It gets technical at that point.

If you ever get interested in programming languages, there are hundreds. Java is a popular one and is considered to be an easy one to understand as well. If you're looking into making games or something, don't go towards the road of programming languages for things like Excel like Danni is doing. It's fine if you want to, but that's not the type of programming that you use for games. That's if you're looking into organizing files and stuff Excel is normally used for, mainly a language used by people in companies to keep in track their financial progress. However, this is all useless anyways if you're not even interested in going that path.

Just message me if you have any questions. I don't know all the answers but I can point you in the right direction. Also some earlier posters seem like they know what they're talking about as well, so if I wasn't that clear to you, be sure to ask others as well.

EDIT: Apparently there is a header tag, but it's not used a lot. If you see it, someone probably was using one of those editors to make your own website.
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Posted in PenguinIsles - Fishing vs. Mining • 12th January 2014, 03:12 PM

The two most popular ways to earn money is probably known to you by now: fishing and mining. However, if you wanted to make more money, which one would you ultimately choose?

Let's first start with the starting prices. The fishing rod costs 20 coins while the pickaxe costs 10 coins. In this case, mining obviously wins.

Now let's see how easily accessible it is to reach the clubs to determine which club can you sell your items faster. The fishing club is closer to the spawn point of the Mainland, and although there is a Mining Club west of spawn that's very close, it is no longer in use. Therefore, fishing wins in terms of selling your items faster (assuming you start out at spawn).

We should also determine how much one fish costs vs. how much one piece of treasure costs. Fishing gives you 7 gold per fish and mining gives you 11 gold per treasure, so mining gives you more money in this situation.

Another decision is how easily accessible mines are as opposed to fishing holes. Long story short, fishing holes are more commonly placed around the map as well as players being able to create their own fishing holes, so fishing wins for accessibility.

Getting things complicated is the rough statistical facts: a ratio of how much fish/treasure you obtain in a given period of time. This information has been changing overtime, but here's what we have so far:

Fishing gives you a range from 0-10 fish. So far, it seems that every time you fish, it takes approximately 30 seconds, no more and no less. Also, the chances of getting a large amount of fish is generally very low, with the average amount of fish caught is about 3 fish per try. This means 21 gold per try.

Mining gives you a range from 0-4 treasure. While it is a low amount, mining differs greatly from fishing. First off, you can mine for about 30 seconds at most when finding treasure, meaning you can actually find it in less time. Again, the amount of treasure you get per try is pretty low, but the chances of getting treasure is relatively high as compared to fishing. The average amount of treasure someone may find would be about 2 pieces of treasure per try. This means 22 gold per try; very slightly beating fishing for this scenario.

So which is better, fishing or mining?
The answer would be mining. Until more results are made, it will be said that mining is less expensive in the beginning for required materials, more gold per treasure, and more treasure per try.

However, there is one more thing. If you so happen to become more lucky at fishing than mining, you will actually get more from fishing. It all depends on how well your cards play out.

One thing before I finish is that I want to remind users that the information gathered in this discussion was made in less than 24 hours. More tests are being made and I'm seeing if different mines/fishing holes/going lower in mines actually does affect the rate of fish/treasure you gather. If anyone would like to assist in determining this, that would be helpful and please mail me.

That's all.
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Posted in PenguinIsles Help • 11th January 2014, 09:01 PM

Hopefully this will help new users for PenguinIsles in-game:

Q: How can I get coins?
A: When starting out on PenguinIsles, it's best to focus more towards fishing and mining. Specifically, you will need to do the following:
Fishing
  • Obtain a fishing rod by entering the Mainland and head Southeast to the town of Byriver:

Note: Map is not drawn to scale

The fishing rod is located near the main entrance, at the bottom. It costs 20 gold.
  • Equip fishing rod
  • Find a fish hole to start fishing and click "extract fish"
  • Wait approximately 30 seconds and then you will receive 0-10 fish
  • Repeat the last two steps until you have a comfortable amount of fish
  • Sell fish at the Fishing Club located Southeast of the spawn of the Mainland, directly above Byriver. (Fishing Club is labeled on the Island Guide but not on the edited map above)
    Mining
  • Obtain a pickaxe by entering the Mainland and head Southeast to the Mining Club:

Note: Map is not drawn to scale

The pickaxe is located near the top of the Mining Club. It costs 10 gold.
  • Equip pickaxe
  • Find a mine to enter (should be a little hill with wood planks covering the entrance) and, well, enter it
  • Wait approximately 30 seconds and you will receive 0-4 treasure
  • Repeat the last two steps until you have a comfortable amount of treasure
  • Sell treasure at the Mining Club, slightly to the left of the pickaxes.
There is a third way of getting coins, but it is not for beginners (may or may not be explained later)

Q: How much is one fish?
A: 7 gold

Q: What's the wizard code message?
A: You will most likely never see the real message on the forums or in public. It is best to just answer the question yourself. The stones around the center stone give hints to help you out. While you can view these messages in a random order, here's an order that will hopefully help make the riddle easier to understand: "Two words in one - Color - Blood - Werewolf howling at - Shining in night sky"

Q: What if I accidentally buy stuff or send all my money down the wishing wells?
A: If you bought useless items, you can sell them at Byriver (location described above). Go at the top near the front entrance of the left and you will see where you can sell those items. However, if you left your money down a wishing well, you unfortunately cannot regain that 50 gold and, until another update is available, you must create a new character (update to make this possible shown here http://forums.damenspike.com/view/?id=8932 ).

Q: Can I change my penguin's skin?
A: No

See the official PI guide here: http://forums.damenspike.com/view/?id=8917 . In a way, this is the unofficial PI guide.

I hope this helped and much more will be added soon. I just left it as is to hopefully stop some discussions from flooding the forums. I owe much of my answers to Damen's replies and discussions.

- Off Topic -
If you notice, I've been putting many of my posts in list format. I don't wish to do this to all my discussions, but if I need to explain something or inform people, I will most likely have it listed so that it becomes altogether easier to read. However, if you feel this discussion or any future/past discussions don't require listing, please mail me and let me now.

That's all.
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Posted in Bringing Back Discussions • 8th January 2014, 03:56 PM

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Nice idea, but if you want to see the post by the person type in there username on the search and then click view posts after that, find the post that you wanted to see from that user ~Luke ;)
This involves much more than finding posts from a specific user. The idea was to have your own posts distributed into a separate feature so that it can easily be viewed by others, not so you can search up other people's existing discussions. The discussions that would be put into this feature would actually be ones that have rarely been seen but have large value. This, of course, excludes prep talks and focuses more towards announcements and help/support.

In other words, this suggestion is about finding forgotten discussions that you've made and may become useful for other users, not about finding a discussion (whether it being useful or not) from a specific user.
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Posted in Bringing Back Discussions • 7th January 2014, 07:45 PM

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There's a much simpler solution to threads quickly being "buried". Simply change the way discussions are ordered in the categories. Instead of discussions being order based upon the original date they were posted, they should be ordered by the time a post was last posted on that discussion. That way user's threads won't be lost and forgotten.
The only problem with that is most discussions that have the least amount of posts would usually be the discussions that are either pointless or rarely favored. Newer posts would still be in the front because they have zero posts, meaning the last time a post was last posted was never for that discussion. Besides, changing the order of posts in categories would be an even less of an improvement than the idea here. I've had a discussion of mine locked in the Help and Support category and no one has replied, liked, or disliked it since I've changed it greatly 2 weeks ago. This idea revolves around either the main forums page or a tab. Since the main forums page is always viewed by all users and tabs have much less of a decisive choice than categories, this feature would work much better. New users tend to look at these options more as well.
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Posted in Bringing Back Discussions • 7th January 2014, 04:53 PM

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Wait. Seperate sections of the forum? How would you do that? Like, make the new discussion area smaller, and the other side smaller, also? Wow!
That can be a possibility, but again it might not be possible or too complicated. Another alternative is to just put a separate tab for the whole feature.
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Posted in Bringing Back Discussions • 7th January 2014, 04:47 PM

I'm sure many people can relate to having their own discussions become immediately ignored as soon as 6 discussions are made after theirs (meaning it's no longer shown in the "recent discussions" section of the forums).

I was thinking that there should be a separate section of the forums where people can put up discussions they've made that they believe are really important or that should be said again because people are repeating the mistakes that were specifically told not to do.

If this would be set up, there would be strict limitations so no one would keep posting discussions that would seem useless to other users. My choice of restrictions are as follows:
  1. One discussion put up per user a day
  2. Discussions can only be put up by the person who created the discussion
  3. NO discussions can be brought up that are in the following categories:
    • The Lounge
    • Feedback
    • Cool Stuff
    • Introductions and Leaving
    • Forum Games
    • Arts
    • Entertainment
    • Club Penguin
    • Minecraft
      (PI and Snailschat would still remain in case any announcements are put up there)
  4. Discussions found to be unnecessary can be removed by Mods/Admins
  5. Any rank below Member cannot post discussions on here

Some issues addressed:
Q: Where would we put this section?
A: If no room seems to be open, it can be accessed by a tab at the top
Q: How will this ensure my discussion will be seen?
A: It won't, but it will at least improve the rate of users seeing discussions that seem great but never actually seen. There also won't be an abundance of discussions because only a few selected categories can be posted as well as other strict rules that can be listed by Admins.
Q: What if I found a discussion by another user and I wanted to post theirs?
A: This wouldn't be a bad idea, but because of the risk of people posting random discussions, it would be better to limit users to a good extent. If you feel that post should be seen, try messaging the user and see if they'll post it themselves.

Any other questions you may have can be asked by posting below or mailing me.

Also, these rules I listed above are suggestions, so these rules may not apply if this does actually become a real thing. I just wanted people to know that if this were to be brought up, there would have to be several limitations to it.

Another reason why I've asked for this is because if you search up "reminder" in the title area of Search, you'll notice I've put many reminders on quotes, replying to discussions and other posts, and more. I still see people saying, "Make this discussion longer -10000000," meaning they never read my reminders or anyone else's messages about the topic.

Again this is just a suggestion and if you don't like it, you have the freedom of speech to say so. Because of the beta testing for PenguinIsles, I honestly don't expect this feature to be up anytime soon or even at all, but I decided to make it anyways.

That's all.
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Posted in Bad snail • 7th January 2014, 03:18 PM

I wouldn't consider this sufficient evidence to ban this user. The proof you showed for the first two could've been him talking about something totally unrelated to the conversation you mentioned. As for the last piece of evidence, for all we know, you could've said something that may have directly or indirectly offended him, such as a "you're mean!" comment that you mentioned earlier. I'm not against you and I'll take your word for it, but next time show the chat log so we know how the conversation went.
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Posted in Using URLs in Posts/Discussions • 6th January 2014, 01:10 PM

People seem to be using URLs more and more to redirect users to other discussions either relating to that discussion or to help point the user in the right direction (e.g. giving a new user the URL for the rules page). Since the tags seem to not work (at least, when this discussion was made), people happen to just copy the URL of a discussion and paste it after a colon, hyphen, etc.

Short Explanation
    How to Solve:
  1. Find the category the discussion is in, find the discussion, click the link to the discussion, copy the URL
  2. Search the discussion via title or tags, click the link to the discussion (more than one discussion may appear, so be careful), copy the URL
  3. (not recommended) view the user who created the discussion's posts, find the discussion, click the link to the discussion, copy the URL

Detailed Explanation

The issue I'm wanting to address is the minor problem occurring when a user posts a URL that doesn't automatically link to the page that has that URL. an example of this would be the rules page. If you were to go to the "Rules" tab and copied the URL straight from there, you would get this:

http://forums.damenspike.com/view/161-Official - Forum Rules/ .

If you notice, the URL isn't cooperating as it should by not turning into a link (only part of it is).

The reason this problem happens is because the URL experiences too many percent signs and unusual text that makes it think the URL ends too early and so it stops abruptly.

There are two ways of fixing this. One way is by clicking the category that the discussion is in, find the discussion, click the link to it, and copy the URL from there. You can see the category of the discussion directly above the actual discussion:



The URL should be much shorter and should end with a "view/?id=[discussion id]". The other way of fixing this issue is first going to the "Search" tab:



After you click the tab, you will be given to enter either the title of the discussion, tag/tags of the discussion, or the user of the discussion. The easiest way to find the discussion you want is to enter the title of the discussion, as tags in discussions are complicated and finding the user will only lead you to the person's profile page.

Note: When typing in tags or the title of the discussion, it does not require you to enter the entire title/list of tags. However, you must be exact when typing it in. This means if I were to use the Rules discussion, I would have to search "Official - Forum Rules" in that order, starting with whichever character I may choose. This means I can search "cial - For" and I will still be able to have the discussion listed. You cannot say anything out of order nor add anything to the existing title, otherwise you won't find the discussion you're looking for. This means you cannot search "Rules Forums", "Official Forum Rules", nor "Official - Forum Rules by Damen". The resulting URL should be the same URL that the first way does.

There actually is a third way, but it is highly not recommended for when users make multiple posts/discussions. The third way is to click the user's name of the discussion, which will take you to their profile page. Then you click "View Posts". If the discussion was made a while ago and the user has made many posts, you'll have to search for quite a bit to find the discussion, which is why this isn't recommended. When you do find the discussion, click the link, then copy the URL. the URL should be similar to the other two ways, but without the "?id=" and instead does "[discussion id]-/"

I know this is a lot of things to remember for such a minor error, but I see it happen frequently and people never seem to get it right. I'm sorry there weren't many visuals to this, but I didn't want everything to look too spaced out.

I hoped this helped and thanks for reading.
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Posted in New Year's Resolutions for 2014 • 1st January 2014, 12:52 AM

I'm sure many people have been asked what their new year's resolutions will be for 2014. For those who don't know what this is, a new year's resolution is when people make a goal to change one or more things in their lives throughout the new year. Usually many people have these goals last for only 4 minutes, but it's fun to say them anyways.

Feel free to describe your new year's resolutions below. Here's a short list of some of mine:
- Learn to write with both hands
- Attempt to learn about 3 different languages (lingual languages, not programming)
- Solve a rubik's cube in under 2 hours D:
- Catch up on popular shows I haven't watched yet

I know it's a pretty lame list of resolutions, but I have tons of personal ones that I'd rather not share. I'd love to see what resolutions you have and please keep them appropriate!

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