A question

[Sienna Maiu - M T]

Why is it that my rank is always Axe-Knight? That doesn't seem very DMFA-y.
yeah... this can be deleted or allowed to die as soon as I get an answer. [eg- How would I fix it?]

[techmaster-glitch]

D-moon's gonna be pi-i-i-issed....


Half the ranks are DMFA, half are CVRPG, like Spearman, Bat, and Bone-tosser.
I think. At least, that's what I've figured.

[Sienna Maiu - M T]

What!?! Why???

*hides*

[Fuyudenki]

Actually, I'm a bit surprised, I don't see any list of ranks in the Help or FAQ files.

There's only one other board I can recall which intentionally didn't let users know the ranks, it's the forum at Irregular Webcomic, and the reason is that the forumites play a game with the administrator which goes something like this.

1: Administrator sets the forum ranks to arbitrary values.
2: Forumites logically deduce the exact values of the rank changes.
3: Administrator waits until the Forumites have nearly got all of the values nailed down, then jumbles them all up again!
4: repeat steps 2 and 3 indefinitely.

The only exception was that we once managed to figure them all out while he was on a month-long vacation.  He promptly changed the titles to chocolate-theme upon his return.

[techmaster-glitch]

Actually, Raist, that's incorrect. The list of ranks has been posted at least twice, I believe in the Outer Fortress a long time ago. I stumbled across them a few times. Dig around, you might find them.

[Sienna Maiu - M T]

but why the anger?

And I've looked... Not hard, but I have.

[Fuyudenki]

Yeah, a forum search revealed some two-dozen interesting threads, but none listing forum ranks.

you might find this interesting.  It's that game I mentioned earlier.

[superluser]

Here you go:

http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=500.0

[techmaster-glitch]

Thank you, Superluser.

[Fuyudenki]

Ah, so we now see Sienna only has 69 posts to go for sub-boss.  How many hours will that take?

And then another 1000 for Mistress Succubus.

[Sienna Maiu - M T]

Well that next one sounds plausible. but could really be either.
In either case I'm aiming for that one 

[Fuyudenki]

you can only make 999 more posts once you get it, it's the last DMFA-based title for the board.

Unless they decide to make more...

[Zedd]

Who worries about Rank really...Its mearly just shows your really bored and want to show off how cool you are among others lower than you 

[Sienna Maiu - M T]

Well duh.

But in any case it would surely take me atleast a year to reach such a title.

[Zedd]

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Oh look an eagle! *flee*

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Actually, I'm a bit surprised, I don't see any list of ranks in the Help or FAQ files.

That's deliberate. Where's the fun in finding them out if we just give them out? ;-]

Incidentally, after Master Cubi, there are at least another 3 DMFA-themed groups currently listed, including one I'm looking forward to reach in another few years or so. Provided we don't change the numbers by then.

Edit:

Half the ranks are DMFA, half are CVRPG, like Spearman, Bat, and Bone-tosser.
I think. At least, that's what I've figured.

Actually, it's not quite half DMFA, at present. Closer to a third. Although I'm not going to hand out any numbers - that would spoil our fun

[ITOS]

Actually, it's not quite half DMFA, at present. Closer to a third. Although I'm not going to hand out any numbers - that would spoil our fun

How?

[Darkmoon]

Yeah, there's still PLENTY of ranks to discover. It's just going to take you guys a LOOOOOOONG time to reach them all, especially the last one.

Trust me.

[Sienna Maiu - M T]

sounds fun.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Trust me.

No, don't. Not if you value your sanity.

He's still right, though. ;-]

[xHaZxMaTx]

Dark Pegasus at 100,000 posts.

[Darkmoon]

"4 Yaks and a Dog" is at 8 Million. Try and get there... and then tell me what it's a reference to.

[Fuyudenki]

To reach 8 million posts, you would have to make more than 5000 posts per day, every day, for 4 years.

That's more than 200 posts per hour

or a rough average of about 4 posts per minute.

If I'm not mistaken, flood control will prevent users from posting more than about once every other minute.

which drops the indicated rate by a factor of 8

forcing a user to spend thirty-two years of nonstop posting to reach 8 million posts, and the best anyone I can see here has done so far is only one day's worth of that thirty-two years.

Highest title I ever saw on a board was Lord Spambot at 10,000 posts.  Five users tried to reach it.  Only one succeeded.  None of them are still active there.

[RJ]

If only we could edit post numbers. 

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

If I'm not mistaken, flood control will prevent users from posting more than about once every other minute.

Every 30 seconds, so I think you're slightly mistaken. ;-]

If only we could edit post numbers. 

You mean you can't? ;-]

[techmaster-glitch]

What the? The "Amazon" rank has been changed to "deer in the stobe room"?


EDIT: Wait a sec, almost all the ranks have been changed? Whaaaa?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

*whistles innocently*

[Darkmoon]

Pay no attention to the box behind the curtain. It's just a box. Honest.

I will say this much. The highest rank is over three times as high as the Spam-Bot one you mentioned.

Gives you something to work towards. Not that it's impossible, really. I managed, at one forum, to rank up almost 28,000 posts.

[superluser]

I will say this much. The highest rank is over three times as high as the Spam-Bot one you mentioned.

So, less than 40,000?

I could get there in two months!

Of course, getting there without a bot would be much harder.

P.S. Any chance of adding a title at 40,000 and calling it Warhammer?

[xHaZxMaTx]

'Over three times as high," isn't very specific.  After all, 100,000,000,000,000 is over three times 10,000, is it not?