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[Neo]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Sorry to double post but I have an entirely different question.

In the Cash out section there is a "Buy a present for a friend". Any vague info you can give as to why I would want to spend/waste 425 doubloons on someone else

You won't be able to see them until you can afford it. Look at one of Dyne's posts...

[Jonbo298]

I can afford it but I dont want to spend 425 doubloons to find out and just wanted vague info. on what it was but since its a gift, I guess its hard to find out

[GameMaster]

Why'd Dyne get a donut and not us?



How about someone make a GT shirt at pixeltee.com and we can add that to our uShop arsenal? Neo could buy about ten of them and then he could sell them for a high doubloon amount to compensate for his loss of $150.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Neo

I just discovered a flaw with the dblns given per positive rep, so that has been disabled for the moment.

I was wondering, while reading your first post, if you realized members could rep themselves if they just made a new name. :P

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Xantar

Well hey, why stop with sticky threads, then? I want to be able to buy spam! For a certain number of doubloons, I'll be able to buy, let's say, a dozen two word posts. Yeah, it'll be great. I'll be able to use them in whatever thread I want.

Oh, and let's give people the ability to buy advertisements with their doubloons, too. Buy the option and you can make a thread dedicated solely to pimping your fansite. Combine it with the sticky option to ensure that lots of people will see it!

Oooh! I know! Let's give people the option to buy post edits. This will be a really privileged item, obviously. Make it worth something like 2,000 doubloons. For that amount, you will be able to edit anybody's post to say anything at all you want. You can get Perfect Stu to admit to lesbian tendencies. Or get Fingersman to hit on underage girls in the forum. It would be so worth it!

Edit: Ok...actually, the staff is ahead of me. For 2,555 doubloons, you can be moderator for a month. Which I suppose includes not only editing ability but moving, deleting and closing threads as well.

You do know I was kidding, right?

It's kind of funny you tried to use satire by being overly sarcastic, and then the overly sarcastic stuff had already happened. >_>

And if I was being "absurd", I'm obviously not the only one, because Neo is the one who made that a product to buy. How often do you think people are going to get enough doubloons to buy that? We aren't going to end up with a whole forum of stickies.

And besides, once a sticky thread does die out, and no on has posted on it in a long time, it can just be unstickied.

I just don't see what's so absurd about. No one who sticks around long enough to earn that many doubloons is going to waste them on something stupid, they are really going to want what they have to say to be important and worthwhile.

Just don't be so cynical.

[Xantar]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

If the forum look never changed, people would then complain about it never changing. Once in awhile you have to give a forum a new coat of paint.

But to each their own. You can't please everyone in the world

Jonbo298 has now convinced me that we need to institute [metaphor] tags. They would indicate that a particular phrase is a metaphor and indicate what exactly is being compared to what so that confusions won't happen too often. You know, so that people can realize that when I spoke of a coat of paint, I was referring to the doubloon system and not the forum skin (which I've never commented on).

And Vampyr, yes. Neo is apparently being absurd.

[Jonbo298]

Damnit all, I've screwed it up again

[Neo]

• Cost of Ribbons increased to 100 from 75.
• Cost of Gifts decreased to 400 from 500.
• "Join Date" replaced with "Now Playing" in postbit
• "Stool Warmer" title replaced with "Bard"
• vBookie now active in store

Dyne is working on updating the graphics to make threads with new posts more visible.

[Neo]

Update

• Arcade and Trivia halls of fame threads merged
• Welcome thread and doubloon explanation thread merged
• Welcome thread updated
• New forum descriptions added

[Dyne]

* Signature area limit changed to 550x200, from 450x125.

[Neo]

• CamFuBot replaced by the less offensive GT News bot.

[Neo]

• New smiles added
• Smiles organized into categories for your convenience

[Neo]

• Doubloons given for referrals increased from 100 to 400. Click on "Refer a Friend" at the bottom of the page.

[Neo]

• Two horrible games added to the arcade.
• "Download Thread" feature added. Now you can download your favorite GameTavern threads directly to your computer as a text file! Click on the "Thread Tools" drop-down menu and select "Download Thread."

[Neo]

• Added a ton of new smilies
• Created "Holiday" smilie category