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Post by rawlabz on Feb 13, 2012 6:22:45 GMT -5
On this page wowironman.com/ I am confused by the fact that some of the players who are on the 'Current Standings' list have a red 'X' next to their name and some of the players on the 'Honored Dead' list have a green tick next to their name. Is this intentional or have some of the character armories just failed to update yet?
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Post by Dragon on Feb 13, 2012 10:05:29 GMT -5
Looking at some of them, it seems most who are in the current standings but have an X beside their name have broken the rules in some way. For instance, Catts on US-Kel'thuzad is 27 and has not died, but he has professions partially leveled, and Vire on US-Gul'dan has a few greens equipped. I can't speak for the others who appear to be in good standing but still have an X...especially with buggy armory pages like Nolifeisme's.
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Post by Ironlord on Feb 13, 2012 11:34:57 GMT -5
Yes, a red X means that they have not followed the currently established rules. Usually the X stays if they broke the rule already before, so that they can't cheat and put on white gear or so before the armoury updates.
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Post by casa on Feb 13, 2012 11:56:44 GMT -5
Correct, the X indicates that the character has in some way broken the rules. In a future update I hope to add some more details... ie., which rule was broken. As of right now, I check the following:
Only White or Grey gear. No Heirlooms of any kind. No gear enhancements, including gems, enchanting, and reforging. Class abilities are allowed (eg. Rogue poisons, Shaman imbues). No specialization, talent points, or glyphs. No pet talent points. No professions or secondary skills, except for First Aid. No potions, flasks, or elixirs except for required quest items. No dungeons, raids, battlegrounds, or arenas. No guilds, except for level 1 guilds created specifically for the Ironman Challenge. THE BIG ONE: No deaths. Character death for any reason disqualifies the character
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Post by Ironlord on Feb 13, 2012 12:37:15 GMT -5
Correct, the X indicates that the character has in some way broken the rules. In a future update I hope to add some more details... ie., which rule was broken. As of right now, I check the following: Only White or Grey gear. No Heirlooms of any kind. No gear enhancements, including gems, enchanting, and reforging. Class abilities are allowed (eg. Rogue poisons, Shaman imbues). No specialization, talent points, or glyphs. No pet talent points. No professions or secondary skills, except for First Aid. No potions, flasks, or elixirs except for required quest items. No dungeons, raids, battlegrounds, or arenas. No guilds, except for level 1 guilds created specifically for the Ironman Challenge. THE BIG ONE: No deaths. Character death for any reason disqualifies the character What he said
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Post by greekgirl on Feb 13, 2012 14:08:40 GMT -5
Casa,
Amazing work. Honestly. I enjoy the ease of how the website works. I did notice that there are trolls around that are posting in the honored dead and such. Are you looking into a way of removing that, or just leaving it? Either way, its amazing work.
~Janileth/Ironkilzi/Peppatrix(not a challenger toon)
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Post by Dragon on Feb 13, 2012 14:54:08 GMT -5
I also notice someone listed a 50 priest in heirlooms and greens that hasn't died yet. Perhaps instead of the X/✓ system you could make a second list for...shall we call them, Bronzemen? Thanks for putting the official listing site together Casa (and anyone else who assisted?). Stellar job, it's really appreciated. (e) I noticed that quite a few of the armory links, my own included, are coming up as "Oops - Character Not Available"...could it be that constant requests are causing the armory to block updates for those characters? There also seems to be several repeated names from folks listing their character multiple times.
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Post by casa on Feb 13, 2012 16:27:21 GMT -5
I think I've solved the problem of trolls adding themselves to the Honored Dead. As for people who are still alive but not following the rules at all (ie. Purewhite), I'm considering adding a measure of how flagrant the rules violations are, and excluding all characters which are beyond a certain level.
The repeated names are/were due to a bug which occurred after a player deleted his character and rerolled... I'm not using a unique identifier, so same region/realm/name was messing with my update function. I think I've now solved that by ordering all queries first by live/dead, then by level, then by valid/invalid. If not, I'll add a unique identifier to each entry in the DB which will take care of it.
Meanwhile, parts of the armory are down right now, so the site is largely broken until Blizzard fixes it.
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Post by Ironlord on Feb 13, 2012 16:47:18 GMT -5
Good job guys, we broke the armoury
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Post by casa on Feb 13, 2012 16:51:42 GMT -5
Actually I might have, due to a permissions error preventing me from writing to a cache file, I requested 64,000 realm lists from Blizzard over the past few hours instead of 1. Whups...
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Post by Ironlord on Feb 13, 2012 16:53:05 GMT -5
o.o well damn. Uhmm... might i suggest begging them for forgiveness and mailing them brownies?
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Post by Dragon on Feb 13, 2012 16:54:07 GMT -5
Actually I might have, due to a permissions error preventing me from writing to a cache file, I requested 64,000 realm lists from Blizzard over the past few hours instead of 1. Whups... Aaahahahaha I was wondering if something like that happened!
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Post by Ellypta on Feb 13, 2012 18:32:56 GMT -5
Actually I might have, due to a permissions error preventing me from writing to a cache file, I requested 64,000 realm lists from Blizzard over the past few hours instead of 1. Whups... Lol! Oops?
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Post by segadra on Feb 13, 2012 19:21:22 GMT -5
Yeah, my toon isn't showing up on the armory, because it's busted atm, and because of this. I'm on the honored dead list. I haven't died yet, but at the same time, I don't exist D: Segadra
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Post by Ironlord on Feb 13, 2012 19:23:12 GMT -5
I havent even been able to load my new toon up yet, since the armoury hasn't been able to register that Ironlord the shammy died and was deleted saturday
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