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New titles. Fantasmic.

  • 11.13.2008 12:19 PM PDT

The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's to late to stop reading it.

Posted by: YahwehFreak4evr
Posted by: Venator360
Maybe since an absent member hasn't posted in a long time.


I do believe, and I could be wrong here, that it isn't the last time that you posted that would determine that specific prefix, but rather the last time you logged in. I've gone a week without ever posting and still maintained my rank due to me logging in daily. So I don't believe that's quite it.


True,I guess it depends on how they set it up.

  • 11.13.2008 12:19 PM PDT

Community Carnage group
They call me Arch. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

Posting on the forums: 5 minutes.
Making a thread: 20 minutes.
Claiming you are the alt of a banned account: Priceless.
For everything else, there's stosh.

I like this... this will be extremely fun.

Thanks Tom!

  • 11.13.2008 12:19 PM PDT
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Oh, you bastard, I had the last system worked out and everything.

Time to break out the spreadsheets again, only this time i don't have a 4 year clean slate to base my measurements off.

Anyone with a 4 year clean ban history want to volunteer to be banned a few times so i can gauge the new system? :P

(e: intrepid? Oh, i do like that. Very nice)
(e2: Can i just be intrepid? It's a much better title than the so very plain legendary...)

[Edited on 11.13.2008 12:22 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2008 12:19 PM PDT

Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
twitter: http://twitter.com/Achronos

"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Nope, Veteran has nothing to do with bans, it just means you have one of the several prefixes that mean you have an older account.

I just tweaked the math a bit so that it will normalize a bit higher (meaning more people will have higher titles, right now there are only about 67 mythics, for example - I want it low, but not that low). Two of the prefixes are also not showing up hardly ever, whereas one of them is showing up way too often (a little prioritization bug when you qualify for more than one prefix).

By the way, since someone asked before - this release was mostly a performance related set of fixes. We made LOTS of under the hood changes to the database to fix a lot of lingering performance problems. One of them specifically is the random exceptions that happen when you're trying to post - those should be greatly reduced, if not gone. We'll see, of course, but that was the larger point here. The titles, as I said before, changed as part of this performance work - consider it "an added bonus" to a hotfix release where you probably wouldn't have otherwise seen any big differences.
Posted by: sesquipadelian
i have not looked around, but my guess is that veteran is low in terms of fanciness and results from at least a handful of bans. but, that is based only on the fact that that description matches my own history and title.

  • 11.13.2008 12:20 PM PDT

Best Song ever: You Cant Quit Me Baby by Queens of the Stone Age

Also Guns and Roses are the biggest load of pish-posh ever

Posted by: Achronos We made LOTS of under the hood changes to the database to fix a lot of lingering performance problems.


Oh yeah, I remember that update.

[Edited on 11.13.2008 12:23 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2008 12:21 PM PDT

thanks for clearing this up =)

  • 11.13.2008 12:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Achronos
Nope, Veteran has nothing to do with bans, it just means you have one of the several prefixes that mean you have an older account.


We get recognition for having older accounts now?

  • 11.13.2008 12:22 PM PDT

"A wise man once told me don't argue with fools, cause people from a distance can't tell who is who."

Lul this guy's not Veteran.

  • 11.13.2008 12:23 PM PDT

$x='print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x; ';
print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x;

I work at Microsoft. I have nothing to do with Halo and nothing I say is "the official word".

Posted by: Thunderbolt
Posted by: Achronos
Nope, Veteran has nothing to do with bans, it just means you have one of the several prefixes that mean you have an older account.


We get recognition for having older accounts now?

You possibly get the word "Veteran", if that's what you mean.

  • 11.13.2008 12:23 PM PDT

this is pretty cool

  • 11.13.2008 12:23 PM PDT

Call me Reach.

Aww....I lost Heroic status..... :-(


Does this mean if your account is relatively new, you can't get a higher rank?

Because I'm only 300 days old on this site and I was Heroic before...

[Edited on 11.13.2008 12:27 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2008 12:26 PM PDT

"Don't tell me how to live my life!"
~R.I.P. Chris Brown/D34THP1MP72


TWP
TTL Ally

R.I.P. ~B.B.

it's a good thing these ranks aren't based on IQ...i had to look up what exalted meant!

i like a little strange every now and then...change is good.

  • 11.13.2008 12:27 PM PDT

La-hoo, Za-her.

I'm just happy to know that, if I decide to take a break from the forums for a little while, I won't lose my title. I've lost my Heroic status more than once, just because I took a few days off.

Thanks, Achronos! We really do appreciate you taking the time to answer questions.

  • 11.13.2008 12:27 PM PDT
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So, you get a rank for being obnoxious?

  • 11.13.2008 12:28 PM PDT
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It looks to me like the quote box problem I've had in IE6 here at work is now gone. That's great because it was tricky at times to see who had posted what, especially when there were several quotes and some people had replied after the quote and some above it.

[Edited on 11.13.2008 12:33 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2008 12:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: BahamutZER0
Posted by: Thunderbolt
Posted by: Achronos
Nope, Veteran has nothing to do with bans, it just means you have one of the several prefixes that mean you have an older account.


We get recognition for having older accounts now?

You possibly get the word "Veteran", if that's what you mean.

It was more of a double take but yeah. I should have Veteran.

  • 11.13.2008 12:28 PM PDT

Best Song ever: You Cant Quit Me Baby by Queens of the Stone Age

Also Guns and Roses are the biggest load of pish-posh ever

Posted by: deaf and dumb
it's a good thing these ranks aren't based on IQ...i had to look up what exalted meant!

i like a little strange every now and then...change is good.


It wouldve been easier to put 'Elevated'.



[Edited on 11.13.2008 12:33 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2008 12:29 PM PDT

Flours2012
Deathcon_5 on Adelais

This is so awesome. They sound so classy

[Edited on 11.13.2008 12:30 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2008 12:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: Batzter
It looks to me like the quote box problems I've had in IE6 here at work is now gone. That's great because it was tricky at times to see who had posted what, especially when there were several quotes and some people had replied after the quote and some above it.

I just noticed. Thank goodness for that.

  • 11.13.2008 12:30 PM PDT

Call me Reach.

Posted by: Deathcon 5
This is so awesome.


You're still Heroic..... :-(....

  • 11.13.2008 12:30 PM PDT

Flours2012
Deathcon_5 on Adelais

Posted by: SpartanT1g3r
Posted by: Deathcon 5
This is so awesome.


You're still Heroic..... :-(....


I know, but it sounds cool with the new ones, even if I don't have them. Plus it probably helps to show how far you have progressed on the trust scale.

[Edited on 11.13.2008 12:34 PM PST]

  • 11.13.2008 12:33 PM PDT

Thank you for calling Authorize.Net my name is Zach

I like the new titles they confused me for a sec lol

  • 11.13.2008 12:33 PM PDT

Ah Deathcon. You are the first "normal" Heroic Member I've seen. Congrats!

  • 11.13.2008 12:34 PM PDT

Expecting something profound?

More toys! I like it.

  • 11.13.2008 12:35 PM PDT