I have been trying to design and build a forum plugin that you can create accounts in the User CP. I have a good start on it with one big snag. When you go to the User CP you can select pages via tabs up top. Now in these tabs you have an additional set of tabs (if you call em that) to the left. I can not for the life of me figure out how to get these second set of tabs to show up let alone use them in my new mod. Currently I have a good base written up for display of the elements I need and a database interaction. Next step is to make this look good and finish up the whole function of it, including the security aspect. The main reason I want it in the User CP is for direct control via admins and user level for game accounts. Along with being tied into the fourm login (can't make a game account without a forum account). So if anyone is good at phpbb I could use some assistance in getting this 2nd tab situation resolved. I only need 2 tabs, 1 called "Existing" and the other called "Creation". Just find the phpbb theme we use and mod that then please send me the example mods. Adding this to the forums is quite obnoxious in phpbb as a plugin, but its getting there. Rob and I agree that once this account creator is done to the level we want, and the security aspect of it passes, we will probably allow open single account logins. So if you don't currently have an account in game, here is the chance to change that
Welp, I gave up on embedding it into the User CP. But, on the plus side, I am getting close to finished on it being it's own page. I had some major break throughs in figuring out some things and I worked on it for far too many hours lol.
There is a menu link to it now, but I have it locked out for now. Still some bug fixing yet, but getting there
Getting very close to release. Get your posts in and sig/forum avatar now so that you don't have to wait or attempt to pad posts to get a game account as there is built in measures to require certain activity levels to create game accounts. These limits are subject to change to adjust for any abuse attempts to bypass these measures. ANY rule changes in the account creator will be retroactive. So if you only post the minimum and someone prompts us to raise these limits, you will have to adjust to comply with these rules in order to log into your existing account. I will make this live for a couple days to make sure it works right for you all, and then there will be an account/character wipe and we will officially be in open alpha. Don't confuse this with open beta. We still have stability bugs and all accounts will be limited to 1. ONLY exception to the 1 account rule is GMs and Admins. For those that were granted a second account this will not carry over to open alpha. Shady will be removed on open alpha. So he is available for now. Provided there is no major overhaul in the server/database during alpha there will only be 1 more wipe after this. Beta will be a clean slate with restrictions lifted or relaxed. The only way this will ever be considered full release and not in beta is if the server is completely bug free and all content is verified complete. So consider Beta being the bulk of the life of the server for any foreseeable future once we get this far.
Sounds good, worried I don't have too many worthwhile things to post until I actually am able to start playing to figure things out. Seems like a bit of a catch 22 eh?
Just found this thing. What exactly do we have to do to be eligible to make an account in open alpha? i've been looking and i can't find any info on that. Sorry I failed at forum browsing =(
I have hard coded checks to help keep each sign up as a valid person. Not some automated bot signup or what not. Just basically got to be active and have a forum sig and avatar. It will inform if anything is missing. Sorry it is so cryptic, just trying something new and non-client side intrusive. Nothing is fool or complete hack proof but w/e
Under this definition, AK was beta for its entire existence and so too will TAK. Seriously, aiming for as few bugs as possible, good. Bug free, not likely in this quasi black box world we live in with the lack of SOE code. It also begs the question, if we left beta after all those months/years; would everyone's ever from that be wiped too? Or is there just the one wipe now after alpha?
In a way I was making a joke to iterate just that type of irony the thought of ever getting out of beta. I highly doubt there will be a wipe beyond entering beta tbh. But I can't fortune tell at all. Code breaks, hard drives die etc... that is a HUGE long way off. Likely a bit of a ways off to even get to beta honestly. But we can hope. BTW Placer, get your avatar and sig done...it will be checking for those.
Oh man, someone gonna have to help me on signature builder. So far, I get this <a href='http://www.takproject.net/magelo/character.php?char=Neea'><img src='http://www.takproject.net/magelo/cbsig/vulgar-5-FFFFFF-0/vulgar-5-FFFFFF-0/0/0-FFFFFF-0-0-0-0-0/0/2A2A2A-0-0/Neea.png'></a> It does display in the signature builder as Neea 29 High Elf Officer of Discovery
I muddled through it yesterday and was finally able to get my old sig to work here, but couldn't for the life of me duplicate whatever I finally did to make it work. Was a lot of trial and error and then it finally appeared... I ended up hosting it on PhotoBucket as a JPG I believe.
I get the idea of a sig being needed. Like a reverse Capthca (?) where you give them the picture to prove you are human. I don't typically do sigs though so it is a bit of an odd thing to ask cause lots of others don't either. I'd consider adding both a post measure and an account time measure. Notes could also be measured for words and even quality of writing if you passed it to a sample reader out there. Have not used one in a while but some can tell you an approximate indication of the education level of the writer. A simple filter might be at least 3 messages separated by at least 24 hours where you do a little voodoo to compare the posts for cut and pasting.
hmmm, I don't know how to do signatures either. Any suggestion how to build one? or any tools to use?
The sig and avatar req is not ment to be a pain in the butt that I want to force ya all through like a rat in the maze. It's more of a thing to make sure that each account is a active and live person. It is a small part of that method to check. Sigs can be just a simple string of text with some witty comment.
I built mine quite a while ago using an EQ screenshot and Paint. I'm sure there are lots of better creation tools, but Paint is just plain easy to use. I opened the screenshot I wanted to use, cropped it, saved it in it's cropped state (save as JPG) and then added type using the fonts available n Paint... then save again. Only tricky part was playing with the size of the image to get it to be within the allowed size for most signatures. For your best image quality, do all your designing and saving in the largest possible image, and then reduce the final version down to where you need it to be to fit within forum guidelines. If you start too small, it only get's worse as you go.
You're welcome Rob! I need to make mine a bit bigger, looks tiny compared to yours Just hope I can find my original (larger) image somewhere.
you could probably use paint and resize. =D I had to do that with the avatar since it can be no bigger than 200 x 200 pixels.
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