Yes, they need to.
Right now the setting is so that for people without avatars, you get the coloured first letter of their user name.
We can change this to a default avatar, but there is always something displayed.
Please change it. Letters in a circle make this place look like YouTube and my news site.
In grey style
Blue is not so good.
The mod text shows up perfectly in the Black theme. The red isn't too dark to read (just a comment).
Ah, yeah, let me tweak the blue. EDIT: Done.
For the costs, that seems to range between 10 to 100$, with a majority around 30-35$. Only the license holder seems to be able to buy them though (so that is TF).
Yep, 150000.
There's a warning there though that this should not be set to high for performance reasons, although I wonder now what "too high" could be.
I'm still interested in trying to make something, or at least try.
As for post length... I have lots of difficulty loading posts with multiple videos. Posts with lots of text aren't usually a problem.
That is certainly way too high. It's something like 63 pages of typical font text.
I'd suggest limiting it to 15.000.
The_J said:
I quickly checked some Civ5 war academy posts, and the longest I saw (random selection) was 37.000. So I guess maybe we shouldn't mess with the current post length, might have consequences for older posts.
Some of the Iron Pen competitions in A&E have very long posts, since I included rules and submissions all in the same posts. In the contests with 3 contestants and/or longer length requirements, limits could mean completely messing these up.
One reason why the post lengths and poll options increased is because I requested it years ago, to accommodate Iron Pen. Petek was the admin who I discussed this with, and he kindly increased the limits as I'd asked for. So I sincerely hope you will not lower these limits. It would really mess up so many long posts not only for that, but for some other types of posts.
Another tiny nit pick I stumbled across recently: once a thread's responses reach 4 digits, it simply says "1K". There's a big difference between 1001 and 1999. Is there any way to change it to show the actual number?
The only reason I ask is, I like to check the number of responses before I click on a thread, so I can get an idea of just how far behind I am and how much reading I'll have to do to catch up.
We should perhaps be closing these anyway and starting another one.
Not what he's talking about
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ut given that anything with more than 1k posts will simply show how many k posts there are, it might be an idea to close all thread after 1k posts, and make them serial.
OK, as far as I'm concerned, in OT, but I would not do that for any of the long-standing "mega-threads" in the game forums (most notably the Welcome New Members, Quick Q&A and the Funny/Strange Screenshots threads in General Discussions and Design Your Own Civ and Ideas Not Worth Their Own Thread in Ideas & Suggestions, but also lesser known, but popular threads, like the New Music thread in Civ VI-GD (2K posts)). If and when Civ VII is announced, I predict we will end up with several "mega-threads" about that, even before anything concrete is released/announced.
While there are some traditions associated with serial threads in OT (ie. the Random Rants/Raves/Thoughts, Cool Pictures, and others) that say the poster of #1000 gets starting and naming rights of the next thread, there are some threads in OT that are well over 1000 posts but are not serial threads. My weather thread is one; Mary's shopping thread is another, and there are others. The reasons for previously capping threads at 1000 posts no longer exists, so I hope that these longer posts won't suddenly find themselves broken up.
@The_J: I've found a problem with the Black theme
. If I try to adjust the spacing between quotes when multiquoting, the identifying information of who made the post I'm quoting disappears. Even if I can remember who wrote it, the link to it vanishes along with the name.
(otherwise, I'm still loving it!)
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