Gerard
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Most of the awards only show up if you have posted within the past month. If you become inactive, they go away. Considering extending this to the Modder award too.
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The answer you seek is in the GTA SA Modding Guide.
Look at the "PC v2/v3/v4" section in the table.
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Sorry to hijack your thread but I'm also looking for some decent headphones, in-ear ones actually, for use with iPod/phone/pad since I lost the Apple ones that came with my iPod. Ones with decent bass would be good. Which do you have Llama?
I got a paid of Skullcandy Titans, which sounded nice, but one of the buds stopped working after a few months. Sucks.
Now I just bought a cheap pair.
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Homophobic comments will NOT be tolerated on this site. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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No problem (:
The script is up and running, and now 625 members have been given the award! This will update every day for any new modders.
(Expect a formal announcement in the next couple of weeks)
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Well I've given you the award manually now!
Hopefully we'll get the automated awarding up soon.
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Chris does pretty much everything himself, including the main site, downloads database, and any special scripts we use (like automatically giving awards).
The only thing that isn't made by him is the forum itself, which is made by IPS, but the integration with the site etc is Chris again.
As for the server and hosting, Chris and I do that together.
But he's a busy man, which is why we sometimes have to throw heavy objects at him to get something made. (:
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You can buy GTA SA from Steam quite cheaply and very easily.
Or you can buy the GTA Complete Package which contains GTA, GTA 2, GTA III, VC, SA, IV, TLAD and TBOGT. That's 8 games for the cost of 5.
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Downloading games through torrents is illegal. Since you're playing without paying, it means everyone else is paying for you to pay. That is not on.
Discussion surrounding illegally downloaded games is forbidden on this forum, and you will not be able to get help with your problem until you buy a legitimate copy of the game.
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Because it hasn't been done yet!!
Whoa, okay, I didn't know it was done manually...
LOL the
emoticon didn't show up! That wasn't meant to sound so abusive, oops.I just meant the modder award hasn't been scripted/coded yet, all we've done is make the award image. Trying to get Chris to do this isn't easy!
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Because it hasn't been done yet!!
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one thing that could help is to get staff members that are respectful. i stopped regularly posting here a couple years ago cuz most of the staff are, sorry to say, assholes in situations where its really unnecessary. and it makes me really uncomfortable that i cant post my thoughts without them attacking me...just an idea
If there are any specific you wish to discuss, let me know, and I'll make sure this is no longer an issue.
Obviously if the staff are misbehaving or being rude, then we can't expect much from other members. I've always maintained that staff should lead by example.
I... came across a couple posts by a certain mod that were directed at another poster, their posts were pretty disrespectful, and not a very welcoming sight seeing that there is a mod insulting a someone. It just doesn't look good seeing forum officials acting that way.
This is why we're changing staff slightly. Moderators are the moderation experts, who keep the forum running smoothly. They are polite and skilled. In the past, staff have been picked because they're cool, popular, helpful or knowledgeable. Now, those people have their own roles (as Gurus, Elites/Veterans, Forum Bosses etc) and are not moderators.
I prefer a dark color for the backgrounds of our posts. It's easier on the eyes.
We could make multiple skins, but it's a lot of work to make them all work the same through every change we go through. Chris (founder/owner) is the only one who does this sort of thing here, and he doesn't have much time for it. So we'll probably stick with 2 skins max (fixed-width and 100%-width).
I also voted for bringing back forum gangs. I've never experienced that here, so I'm not sure what I missed, but it sounds interesting.
The GORM is what this forum originally was, but the system was never fully functional and relied on unfinished third-party scripts. Instead, gangs became just social groups you could join. There were attempts to turn these into GTA multiplayer clans, but it never worked properly, and we didn't have the expertise/time to write good scripts and link it all into the forums.
Like I said above, we're trying to make this a good forum first and foremost rather than something it's not.
It's been a while since a new GTA was released, so inactivity for a GTA forum is gonna be a factor til a new game is announced.
That's pretty much the problem, but we're hoping to start ramping up the forums in anticipation of GTA 5, rather than waiting until it comes out! That was a mistake Chris made with GTA IV, where we were so far behind and he didn't bother doing anything on this forum until it was too late.
Well, I'm a newb compared to you vets of the site. One of my first impressions of TGTAP was that is more active than other sites that I have bounced around in, yet a mere shadow of days gone by.
This used to be a really good community, with lots of different people all having fun. Then the original 'vets' grew older, and really disliked the new, younger members who just wanted to play silly forum games all the time. This meant the vets all left (including a lot of staff), and without the leadership of the vets/staff, the forum went to ruin. We need to bring back that social community.
The forums are important, of course, but try to bring more attention to the modding aspect of GTA. Mods could be the most abundant supply of "what's new" to draw from in order to keep interest alive in these older GTAs while we wait for V. Mods could also inspire more discussion in the forums as well.
Incorporate your reward and/or competition possibilities with it as well if you believe that it could help. And/or a "what's new", "what's hot", "mod of the week, month, year" feature as well; or whatever else comes to mind. Posted feedback/comments directly on individual mod pages for window shoppers to read and add to would definitely be a plus; if your server is capable.
I agree entirely, this is exactly what we need. Mods are so vital to this community, and something like 90% of TGTAP's traffic is for the downloads section alone. We are looking at ways to integrate modding with the forum a lot more, but it's finding the time for Chris to make this work.
This is the thing on this forum, it needs more people that are willing to post news and attract modders so they post their creations in here and keep people updated about modding and GTA evolution.
This can't be solved with a news poster, but I think giving modders and mod users something to work for, things to do, things to discuss, would definitely help.
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This is why you should backup first, always.
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That's a cool idea.
You may notice the new award boxes we have (I have ones saying staff, over 1000 posts etc). It would be easy for us to add one that shows "modder" if you have an approved mod uploaded.
I'll make sure this gets done! We might add another one for people upload more than 10 mods or something.
We don't tend to bother with user titles, since they only reflect post count unless we let you edit them yourself. It would be hard to make mod uploading count towards this. We might get rid of them altogether.
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We have a whole downloads section of this site.
You can upload your mod there.
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I'm raised a Lutheran Christian, better then Catholic. The problem with Man's Religious stance is that he is only Man, you have to still have Ultimate Faith in a Higher Power then Mortal man. Some people who don't wish to die and go to Hell just believe you die and never wake up or perhaps, are born again, not as human but re-incarnated as a butterfly or horse? What I'm saying is why should your stance that there is no God be correct all of a sudden, if you're a mere mortal taking guesses about such things.
Your proof perhaps not more valid then our own, however, Man surely did not create life or the Universe
Why should *your* stance that there IS a god be correct? There's no proof or evidence at all, only books and stories.
Yes there is the existence of the universe, but that doesn't prove there's a god at all. Of course it wasn't man that made it, but why does it have to be an old man in the sky?
There is SO much that happens naturally (reproduction, plate tectonics, weather, stars/planets) that people previously thought was operated by a god. To me, everything happens naturally, including the start of the universe, and most of what humans do.
On this forum, we've had a lot of people say things like "ALLAH CREATED THE WORLD, SO HE IS RIGHT" without any explanation at all. Just don't do that.
(I don't blame people for having beliefs, especially not if they were brought up with it, I just think it's wrong)
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If you're logged in, it does show which forums have new posts (dark blue icon) and also shows the date of the last post:
If all the icons are dark blue, you should click on "mark all as read" at the bottom of the forum homepage to reset everything.
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I'm on my iPhone at the moment. A mobile site would be much better for me as a lot of the time I don't have access to the internet on my laptop and have to rely on using my phone. However, trying to use a website designed for monitors on a 4 inch screen just makes me not want to come on here most the time to be completely honest!
Well there is a mobile skin for the forums already, or is there a problem with that?
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Wouldn't it be simpler to have the adverts there at all times, and use CSS to show/hide them?
You could have both sets as display:none; then use JS to decide which bit of CSS to use to make one set of ads appear.
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Better?
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Hi MIAJen!
You can change all those settings by clicking on your username in the top-left. Right below the website's banner and the Home/Forums/Downloads links.
Open that dropdown and go to My Settings. Then click the "Profile" tab and then Change Avatar.
You can also get to that by going to your profile (clicking on your username or avatar wherever you see it) and clicking Edit Profile in the top-right.
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Wow, there seems to be a TON of confusion in this topic.
HFS is a neat little web server, it serves up pages and files in a nice easy way. Apache is a very powerful web server, it serves up HTML files. You then need PHP to turn PHP files into HTML pages for Apache to serve up. IIS does the same thing, serving up HTML files, and ASP.net converts ASP files to HTML when serving up.
Apache is huge and confusing. You seem to be a bit of a computerist, so I'd recommend learning it, but it is really tricky. You can run it on Windows, but I've not tried that in a long time.
If you just want a few files from your PC to be on the web, stick with HFS. If you want to run a website, get Apache, MySQL and PHP. I'd recommend doing that on Linux, but they can run on Windows too.
A DNS server simply tells the user the IP address for the domain you request. It can NOT tell you the port number to use. So you could use it to say www.domain.com is at IP 1.2.3.4 whereas blog.domain.com is at 5.6.7.8 - you can't use it to say blog.domain.com should be at 1.2.3.4:8080. DNS servers can not show/fetch pages or redirect users or anything - it just tells them an IP.
What you need is a reverse proxy server. This is where one proxy server (on your network) can request pages from other servers, but serve them to the user as if it came from the proxy (on the same ip/port).
So you would have both domains pointing to your IP, and forwarding port 80 to the main web server, which you will use as your proxy. No need for a second port forward to the other server. The web server on your proxy (such as apache) then decides what to send to the user: either a page from somewhere on that server, or a page from another server. Of course the proxy server would need to be turned on for any of it to work.
Apache can do this, using the mod_proxy module, but I don't think HFS can. You would need to use some additional reverse proxy server software, such as squid.
(This is sort-of similar to web proxies which request other pages then send it back to you, but it works differently, and it's completely transparent to the user)
The way big companies with a big website do this is that all their domains point to a group of DNS servers. They then send the user to different groups of dedicated squid proxy servers. They then pull the information from separate web servers (which get their information from separate database servers) and return it to the user. Files and images are sent from separate web servers. You're doing a very condensed version of this all on one/two servers.
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We scrapped the groups idea, and replaced it with staff-appointed Gurus.
These people will be selected for being helpful and knowledgeable, not through application or self-selection. No hot-shots, dicks, spammers or power-hungry crazies.
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They don't start from square one - simply by becoming active again you re-earn your awards.
We're going to test the minimum levels of activity for this to happen (such as making 10 posts per month), but this might end up just being a separate "active member" award.