Archived phpbb2.x version of: Latest Updates

[Samanna]

This is where I will list modifications.

If you set your profile before the listed dates, there might be new/changed profile settings for you to reevaluate.

[Samanna]

4 Aug:

Theme Selection: Now allowing users to select either the purplish (ezSerenity) or silverish (subSilver) themes; ezSerenity is the default, and is what unregistered visitors will see.

Magelo Link: Changed "Website" to "Magelo Link"; please update this field in your profile, as the linking button and tooltip now indicates that it is your magelo link. Also created a stand-out button graphic for both the ezSerenity and subSilver themes.

[Samanna]

7 Aug:

Quick Reply: Added mod to allow users to post a quick reply without having to go to the more involved "Post a reply" page.

Show/Block Avatars/Signatures: Messed up this install, will retry it later on.
ps, thank the gods for cp -p filename filename.b4mod

[Samanna]

8 Aug:

Server Name: Changed Location field to Server.
[img]http://samanna.net/ss/mag-svr.jpg[/img]

Show/Block Avatars/Signatures: Woot! Found another mod, allowing each user to elect to show or hide avatars, and to show, hide, or show text-only versions of signatures!
[img]http://samanna.net/ss/sig-ava.jpg[/img]

Who Posted: The number of posts (in forums) or replies (in topics) is now a link which shows who made how many posts/replies in that forum/topic.
[img]http://samanna.net/ss/whoposted.jpg[/img]

Please make any updates to these settings that you deem necessary.

[Samanna]

8 Aug, later on:

Widened quick reply text box, full reply text box, and new topic text box: no more two inch wide text entry areas!

Added member ranks to the memberlist view, and colored althernating rows: just because.

Also darkened up the link text for more contrast against the non-white background.

Also fixed typo preventing new users from registering!

[Samanna]

9 Aug:

Post is Sending: Changed "Submit" button to "Sending" to confirm click of Submit button, and to prevent accidental double posts.

Highlight Topic User Posted In: In Forum View, the title of any topic that you have posted in should be showing [color=#9900CC]in this lovely color[/color] to let you know that you have posted in that topic. This includes topics that you have started.

[Samanna]

11 Aug:

Bored with the downtime on a work-from-home day ( ), I edited profiles for everyone with 10 or more posts, and coded in their magelos and servers whose info was easily discernable from their posts. Feel free to go back and edit your profile if you don't like it.

[Gloriana]

Don't forget our cool new smileys!

[Samanna]

Oh, yeah.

Click the 'more smilies' button in composition window to see a larger assortment.

Let's not let this get out of hand with animated crapola all the time like some server boards, please.

[Gloriana]

Not me!

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[Samanna]

23 Aug:

Somewhat annoyed with people not somehow magically being aware of the wealth of content available at samanna.net, I hacked the php code and included the same navigation code I use there in the header file here.

Go, me!

[Samanna]

31 Aug:

Added Cement mod to allow prioritzation of Announcements, of Stickies, and of Posts (within each area) independant of last post date.

Created Class Issues Polls area and individual polls for each of our current Top Ten.

Added detail about 'of whom ## have actually posted' in info at bottom of index.

[Samanna]

10 Sep:

Added Rank Images for some postcount-based ranks. If you have a custom rank, no image for you! Presently, only Scowls has enough posts to get one and no custom rank.

[Samanna]

14 Sep:

Added Tordail's Raid Augment List. Renamed url for One-Group augs, but placed symbolic link to forward users.

[Samanna]

24 Sep:

Posted Top Ten for September.

Revised OoW quest gear page and added GoD quest gear page.

[Samanna]

28 Oct:

Nonraider Gear Page: [url=http://samanna.net/sham.gear/nonraider.shtml]located here[/url], it lists by Type (plate/chain/leather/silk) the gear that most nonraiders can expect to obtain for the visible slots. I hope to follow up with one for the non-visible slots by Archetype (melee/priest/caster/hybrid). Similar to the old [url=http://samanna.net/sham.gear/ldon.shtml]LDoN listing[/url]

Also prioritized stickies in some forums, and retitled some stickied posts for easier reference.

[Samanna]

7 Nov:

My buddy who hosts my domains updated the forum version from 2.0.17 to 2.0.18. Unfortunately, he overwrote some of the .17 files with vanilla .18 files, undoing some of the mods I put in. I'm going to sort through it and figure out what needs to be reapplied.

[Samanna]

7 Nov, more:

I'm going to manually revert the .18 files to .17 saves I have, and then Tony will manually apply the .18 upgrades, so that all the mods are saved, rather than me re-searching phpbb.com and phpbbhacks.com to try and remember/find each of the mods I've applied.

Thanks, T!

[Samanna]

15 Nov:

Added Wurine and Zombie focus effects to focus pages

[Samanna]

Mid Dec:

Major updates to DoD Progression Guide with all of Henora's and everyone's loot infos; also, DoD Checklist now usable as a checklist - bonus!

Also finally uploaded Tordail's updated Augment lists, thanks Tordail!

ps, Any Stickied OoW threads have been moved to the Medicine Cabinet.

[Samanna]

Late Dec:

Added [i]LOTS [/i]of new items to the [url=http://samanna.net/sham.gear/focus_70.shtml]Level 70 Focus gear page[/url]. I do not intend to update the pages with the 65+ focus effects; especially with an expected level cap increase..

Also added [url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/focus_70check.shtml]Level 70 Focus charts[/url] (without Shaman gear) for others to use to see where they stand.

[Samanna]

Early Jan:

Added Lore page at http://samanna.net/gen.info/lore.shtml

Added Chronology page at http://samanna.net/gen.info/chronology.shtml

Added Debuff & DoT page, mostly by Giac and Macnair, at http://samanna.net/sham.issues/debuffs.jan06.shtml and Top Ten url now forwards to http://samanna.net/sham.issues/10.sep05.shtml[/b]

[Samanna]

Mid Jan:

Added [url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/focus_70check.shtml]L70 Focus Checklist[/url] without Shaman-specific bits for other classes

Redid Offsite Links Menu

[Samanna]

Early Feb:

Added Google Ads.

Published [url=http://samanna.net/sham.issues/10.feb06.shtml]Top Ten List for February, 2006[/url].

Created pages of single group attainable gear by slot and type (plate/chain/leather/silk) under General menu.

Added a hack to give users colored names, based on group memberships: [color=#9900cc]Correspondants[/color], [color=#00cc00]Developers[/color], and [color=red]Halflings[/color].

Added [url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/maps.shtml]Page with Antonica Map[/url]; more maps to come.

[Samanna]

Mid Feb:

Broke out [url=http://samanna.net/sham.info/demystified.shtml]Demystified![/url] section of AA page as its own page, calculating per-AA returns for progressive AAs.

Revised Menus a bit. It's been stated (and I agree) that there's no way to keep up with the automated item collection databases. However, I feel like there's a niche to be filled in listing one-groupable loots, so I've put all of the offsite links onto one page, revised that list, and moved the one-groupable loot for visible slots pages to their own directory, under the fourth pulldown menu. I anticipate this growing as loots from PoR missions become known.

As always, suggestions are welcome, either via PM or a comment somewhere. I read just about every post here.

[Samanna]

Late Feb:

[url=http://samanna.net/sham.info/alchemy.shtml]New Alchemy Page[/url] is up; taking contributions at http://crucible.samanna.net/viewtopic.php?p=27326 or via PM.

[url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/prog.por.shtml]PoR Guide[/url] is up; taking contributions at http://crucible.samanna.net/viewtopic.php?t=1829 or via PM.

[Samanna]

Early Mar:

Gave Email Aliases to our [color=olive]Top Ten[/color] non-moderator posters.

[url=http://crucible.samanna.net/ignore.php]Ignore Poster[/url] functionality added.

[img]http://samanna.net/ss/ignore.jpg[/img]

Also added Alpha Filter and Last Post Date to the [url=http://crucible.samanna.net/memberlist.php]memberlist[/url].

[Samanna]

Mid Apr:

[url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/effects.casting.shtml]Casting Effects page added[/url] - Describes AAs, Buffs, and Focus Effects that affect range, duration, mana cost, etc.

New Menuing System - YAY! Now only one place to make menu updates, which affects both the forums and the static content!

[Samanna]

Mid Jul:

[url=http://crucible.samanna.net/rss.php]RSS feed added per requests.[/url]

[Samanna]

Mid Aug:

[url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/prog.porcheck.shtml]PoR Checklist[/url] added.

Epic Weapons added to [url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/titles.shtml]Titles Page[/url].

[url=http://crucible.samanna.net/index.php?c=12]Paladin Section[/url] added.

[Samanna]

Late Aug:

[url=http://samanna.net/sham.gear/t.augs.raid.shtml]Tordail's Raid Augments Page[/url] updated - Thanks, T!

[Samanna]

Early Oct:

[url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/prog.tssarmors.shtml]TSS Progression/Quest page[/url] started.

[url=http://samanna.net/pal.book/onehand.shtml]Paladin One-handed Weapons page[/url] updated.

[url=http://samanna.net/pal.gear/pal.sets.shtml]Paladin Armor Sets page[/url] added.

[url=http://samanna.net/sham.gear/sham.sets.shtml]Shaman Armor Sets page[/url] added.

[url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/focus_75check.shtml]Level 75 Focus Effects page[/url] added.

[url=http://crucible.samanna.net/viewtopic.php?t=1643]Shaman Spells Info[/url] updated.

[Samanna]

Mid Oct:

[url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/titles.shtml]Titles page[/url] updated.

[url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/maps.shtml]Samantonica Map[/url] updated.

[url=http://samanna.net/sham.info/sham.aas.shtml]Shaman AAs page[/url] updated, need more info.

[url=http://samanna.net/sham.info/healing.shtml]Shaman Healing page[/url] updated.

- please PM me with other pages in need of updates.

[Samanna]

Late Nov:

Updated the [url=http://samanna.net/sham.info/sham.aas.shtml]AAs page[/url] and the [url=http://samanna.net/sham.info/curing.shtml]Curing page[/url] - thanks for the submissions!

Also put the rest of EverQuest on my [url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/maps.shtml]Map page[/url].

[Samanna]

Mid Dec:

Updated the [url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/buffs.shtml]Buffs[/url] page to level 75 stuff.

Updated the [url=http://samanna.net/gen.info/effects.shtml]Combat Effects[/url] page to include the ac/damage chart.

[Samanna]

Late Feb:

Added TBS guides and lots of TBS armor to existing pages.

Reorganized menus and directory structure, although old directories will stay in place for a while.

[Samanna]

Early Mar:

H4XX0RZ!
AIM, YIM, MSNM and ICQ fields hacked to be EverQuest Players, Vanguard Players, WoW Armory, and EQII Players profiles, respectively (as I earlier changed website to Magelo profile). My apologies to anyone who was getting use out of those buttons.

Please visit your profile page and check your settings.

Note: You may have to manually reload the graphics for the buttons in the post footers. I know I did.

[color=teal]Magelo[/color] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/ezSerenity/images/lang_english/icon_www.gif[/img] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_www.gif[/img]
For this, I left it as-is, since so many people had already entered their full URLs; for example, mine is: [color=teal]http://eq.magelo.com/profile/432653[/color].
Note that the old, v1 URLs will automatically forward to the new ones.

[color=darkblue]EQPlayers[/color] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/ezSerenity/images/lang_english/icon_aim.gif[/img] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_aim.gif[/img]
For this, it's just the character profile number; for example, mine is: [color=darkblue]554050782533[/color].

[color=darkred]WoWArmory[/color] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/ezSerenity/images/lang_english/icon_yim.gif[/img] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_yim.gif[/img]
For this, it's the unique "r=(realm)&n=(name)" string of your profile; for example, Bethiana's is: [color=darkred]r=Lightbringer&n=Bethiana[/color].

[color=indigo]VGPlayers[/color] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/ezSerenity/images/lang_english/icon_msnm.gif[/img] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_msnm.gif[/img]
For this, it's just the character profile number; for example, mine is: [color=indigo]64424547288[/color].

[color=blue]EQII Players[/color] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/ezSerenity/images/lang_english/icon_icq_add.gif[/img] [img]http://crucible.samanna.net/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_icq_add.gif[/img]
For this, it's just the character profile number; for example, Agnar's is: [color=blue]227579202[/color].

[Samanna]

Nov:

<a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A//crucible.samanna.net/rss.php"><img src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif" width="104" height="17" border="0" alt="Add to Google"></a>

[Samanna]

Feb:

Finally got around to a lot of updates, including Kilgaroz's Crystallos Access Guide http://samanna.net/eq.progression/prog. ... llos.shtml and Tordail's Augments pages http://samanna.net/eq.shaman/t.augs1.shtml and http://samanna.net/eq.shaman/t.augs2.shtml as well as the writeup on our issues with slows and heals http://samanna.net/sham.issues/slows.feb08.shtml

Looking into a phpBB 3.0 migration, which would give a lot of flexibility as to what forums were expanded or collapsed based on individual or group settings, but that would lose all the mods I've added to date.

I have been trying to get the Vanguard Shaman community to come over here, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen... at least for now.

Oh, the L80 Focus Charts are finally done, with all input.

Please let me know if I've overlooked your submission/correction. January was very busy for me (and some of February, too).

Thanks!