NC Game Day - Important new info!

[Shemeska]

*grin* Can't wait till the end of the month, I've already had to suffer through three weeks of no gaming because of Xmas vacation with my folks. I need to run and I need to play. I'll get to run before then or my players will hunt me down, shackle me to the gaming table and force it on me. But I'll finally get to play once the game day rolls around, and I'm getting hyped up about it. This should be fun... *grin*

*goes back to lurking with too much Planescape related writing to do* (not that its a bad thing)

 

[Lord Ravinous]

This thread got more *bumbs* than Diddy's Yukon.

 

[LGodamus]

one more bump for diddy then

 

[Belen]

a bump-bump here and a bump-bump there

 

[Rel]

A little Christmas present for the Game Day crowd:

Howdy folks. Thanks as always for the frequent bumps. Next time maybe I won't start the thread three months in advance, no matter how much I'm pressured to do so (I'm looking at you, Lola ). That should cut down a bit on the required bumping.

We've received a gift from Neal Haggard of Trinoc*coN. He has fashioned a wicked website to aid us in organizing this and future NC Game Days. You can find the site at:

http://ncgameday.dhorizon.org/

It contains a schedule page, forums and lots of other cool tools that we can use to get and stay organized for future game days as well as a means for us NC gamers to stay connected without having to keep constant threads going on ENWorld. I encourage everyone to sign up and give feedback on the design of the site. Neal would love to get some input from the folks who will be using it.

One thing I should emphasize is that there is currently no ability to actually sign up for a game on that site. Unless and until we have most of the folks who are scheduled to run and play in games signed on as members there, we won't use that feature for NCGDIII. Perhaps we can utilize that feature for NCGDIV. It would certainly cut down on folks having to rely upon myself and Henry to add, delete and move people from game to game.

I've already told Neal this via e-mail, but I'd like to take the opportunity to thank him again here for all the work he's put into that site. Certainly it will benefit the Trinoc*coN folks as well. But considering that we here at ENWorld are going to be holding our Game Days three times as often, we will get tons of use out of it. Thank you, Neal for your tremendous support!

When you get a chance, please go check out the site and let Neal know what you think.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

One thing I should emphasize is that there is currently no ability to actually sign up for a game on that site. Unless and until we have most of the folks who are scheduled to run and play in games signed on as members there, we won't use that feature for NCGDIII. Perhaps we can utilize that feature for NCGDIV. It would certainly cut down on folks having to rely upon myself and Henry to add, delete and move people from game to game.

I've already told Neal this via e-mail, but I'd like to take the opportunity to thank him again here for all the work he's put into that site. Certainly it will benefit the Trinoc*coN folks as well. But considering that we here at ENWorld are going to be holding our Game Days three times as often, we will get tons of use out of it. Thank you, Neal for your tremendous support!

When you get a chance, please go check out the site and let Neal know what you think.

I went to take a look at the site and sign up, and found a few problems that should be fixed. I've sent an email to Neal to let him know, but thought I should post them here as well, in case anyone else runs into the same things.

1. When regestering, don't "Tab" from one field to the next. When I get to the State field, my browser crashes on me. I'm not sure if it is because I am using Mozilla Firebird for my browser (never had this problem elsewhere), if it is because I am using a state different than the default (VA vs. NC), or if the fields just don't like Tabs. If you select the fields with the mouse, there are no problems.

2. The regestraion won't accept my user name.

It won't allow me to use spaces or non-standard characters (which I can deal with, I can just use CthulhusLibrarian), but it also tells me my name is longer than 15 characters (true, it is 17). I don't want to be CthulhusLibrari... Maybe I'm the only one who will have a space, a non-standard character, and a too many characters in their name.

Hopefully these things can be fixed. I think the website is a great resource for the gameday.

 

[Rel]

I went to take a look at the site and sign up, and found a few problems that should be fixed. I've sent an email to Neal to let him know, but thought I should post them here as well, in case anyone else runs into the same things.

1. When regestering, don't "Tab" from one field to the next. When I get to the State field, my browser crashes on me. I'm not sure if it is because I am using Mozilla Firebird for my browser (never had this problem elsewhere), if it is because I am using a state different than the default (VA vs. NC), or if the fields just don't like Tabs. If you select the fields with the mouse, there are no problems.

2. The regestraion won't accept my user name.

It won't allow me to use spaces or non-standard characters (which I can deal with, I can just use CthulhusLibrarian), but it also tells me my name is longer than 15 characters (true, it is 17). I don't want to be CthulhusLibrari... Maybe I'm the only one who will have a space, a non-standard character, and a too many characters in their name.

Hopefully these things can be fixed. I think the website is a great resource for the gameday.

I didn't have a problem with the Tab thing.

The name thing brings up a good point that did come up when I registered. It wouldn't let me use "Rel" as a name because it was too short. I used a different name (RelDammit in mild frustration - same as on the Yahoo board) but Neal was kind enough to change it back Rel for me as an exception. He asked me if I thought he should change it but I told him not to bother. Upon further reflection, we should (if practicable) attempt to allow the naming conventions to be as close as possible to those here at ENWorld. If we all keep the same names there as we have here, it will cut down on a lot of confusion.

I'll drop him a comment about that.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I didn't have a problem with the Tab thing.

The name thing brings up a good point that did come up when I registered. It wouldn't let me use "Rel" as a name because it was too short. I used a different name (RelDammit in mild frustration - same as on the Yahoo board) but Neal was kind enough to change it back Rel for me as an exception. He asked me if I thought he should change it but I told him not to bother. Upon further reflection, we should (if practicable) attempt to allow the naming conventions to be as close as possible to those here at ENWorld. If we all keep the same names there as we have here, it will cut down on a lot of confusion.

I'll drop him a comment about that.

Neal got back to me, and is going to fix the name issue. I'll sign up in a day or so. As for the tab problem, I have a feeling it is because of my browser (Mozilla Firebird).

 

[LGodamus]

GAAAHHH I got it to come up once...now all I get is a blank page.

 

[Morgenes]

Name restrictions fixed

Hey guys,

Sorry about the down time tonight, you hit it while I was testing the changes to the naming scheme.

You can now have names from 3 to 25 characters long. They can also now include spaces and single quotes (in addition to the normal alphanumeric characters and dash and underscore).

Please let me know if you have any troubles with this, or any other part of the system.

I'm still working on the tab thing with Mozilla Firebird. I think it may be because some fields are hidden until needed, and when you tab to a hidden field it crashes it. I'll keep looking.

Neal