The Power Advantage DBZ RPG News Archives: June 2003
Updates/News
06/26/03 - Wow, long time between news posts, and very little to report. My exams are finished (unless I re-write my Chemisty in August... stupid careless mistakes), and I have my Graduation Parade/Prom/Dry-Grad Party tonight... I'm getting more work hours come this summer, too, to save up money for University (Which I leave for in...2 months, 3-4 days). Starting Saturday afternoon/evening, I hope to have a few consecutive nights of PA Saga events, and open up the final 'intro' to the Saga, culminating in a grand finale in about 2 weeks. The big clean-up of members removed a bunch of people, and it seems we're back to the basics, again, with people who have been sparring, or had decent excuses for not (like being in Space). I spent a couple of hours, this morning, working on moving people over to the new layout... Oh, lordy lordy... 2 hours to put up 10 people, and that's putting "x" for all stats... I'm worried at how long it'll take, but I hope to have that finished, early next week. I hear that Mozilla users that have Windows still have Internet Explorer, so they can view it with that, but Linux users, according to Brolli, are 'screwed'. I'm still looking for ways around this, but I don't think I'll find any. As for when it's up... If you see "Re-Write" in your Bio, you must send a Re-written Biography, properly grammatized and everything, to Android17 (Check Contact Us page), ASAP! If there are any problems with your stats after I update, contact me. Pictures might not be working, yet; I'll need to re-name them, but that should be done, relatively soon. I don't know how much I'll be online before that, but I think I'll be around. I'm waiting for Don and Yajirobe to get online, together, so they can get their Group Quest done, then I'm getting the next wave's stats up (16 and Chibi Goten, methinks). So... yeah, keep training, checking the site, and for anyone involved in ZBS (Check the Links section), they are holding the final match of their first Chapter early next week, so everyone participating in that should show up. Keep checking the forums, too... Some interesting stuff has occurred, and no-one's going to give you all of the answers for free.
P.S. Notes: When I put up a race on the new format, I will not be accepting purchases from them until the format is up. As of now, this includes Aliens, Androids, Tsu-Furins, Nameks, Saiyans, Demons, Humans and Part-Saiyans. This list will be regularly updated.
-LanderZ
06/13/03 - Oie... not much changes in a week; Provincial Exams are right around the corner, so Saga-stuff from me will be slow, at best, until closer to month's end. I hope to finish this Saga off early into July, and maybe, with a great deal of luck, have one more before I go. However, I have been keeping busy with fun-fun PA stuff, too: I've been working on my "surprise" for the staff and members.
Essentially, this won't affect members to any great extent, save for faster updates. However, this helps staff when every member is actually on the same page, although you won't all see them. Basically, I am building a Javascript function-set that has every member in it, and will show a new page, according to which member button the player picks. Now, this has the capability to lead to sorting members through means other than race, but I'll worry about that, later. For a general layout example, click THIS LINK; this one is in HTML, but the basics are there. New things a member might notice:
Accuracy rolls. They self-update as your PL rises.
Naturally learned moves separated from normal moves: They also self-update.
Bonuses: These can be anything from the PL/Skill Bonuses in the Handbook, to specials, to gains from Manuals. The PL/Skill ones have bank-counters beside them, which keep track of whether a member has spent all of the bonuses they have, so they can use them at a later date without causing a major hassle to updators.
Signature Move: Self-updates in damage, plus it is specially set-aside.
So, these are the good changes. Bad changes are that ALL Bio's will probably need some re-writing: Quotation marks are not allowed, and I get the feeling that Java strings have a size-limit, as well, but I'll look into the specifics when I move everyone over. Also, the moving over will probably cause a shutdown for 2-3 days, since every member will, at that time, need to be switched to the new format. The only other downfall is that the lovely "Javascript Enabled" message on the main page will be taken seriously: Mozilla and old-Netscape users probably won't be able to see this. I'm not sure of how to fix this, but I'll look into it before I'm done. So, that's the basics of everything... I have a few members left in my Inbox to put in, I've wiped out inactive members, leaving us with around seventy, and I've made a note next to some members' Power Levels: If you have this, you MUST SPAR BY THE DEADLINE if you don't want to be deleted. So, please do so, if you wish to remain active in PA. I hope to have more news, soon!
-LanderZ
06/07/03 - Bleh, busy times calls for cutbacks on News posts, and these have been very busy times. Mind you, if the pan's behind me, I'm still falling to the fire. Provincial Exams coming up, but I hope to keep things moving, irregardless.
We've had some small Saga stuff, and probably will have another tonight or tomorrow, so people might want to get involved on these. I've also been working on a new member layout, which I will show, soon enough, as well as a 'surprise' to the staff which I hope to leave before my departure to University; whether I'm able to keep with the site or not is yet unknown to me (2 months, 3 weeks and 1 day is my planned date to move out). I also apologize to the new members; I have 3-4 in my Inbox, and not the time to update them. Final notes on this post: I contacted another site which has some... 'startlingly familiar' pages, so if they read this, I hope they reply to my message. Also, to this "Unknown Killer"; in theory, we cannot (thanks to Angelfire's 'wonderfully secure system...) fully lock you out, if you know the ways around it, but I would like you to contact me via AIM, even if in a hidden ScreenName, it would be much appreciated. Also, for all of you ZBS people... Especially the less-than-active Black Lions, be at the Chapter battle! And for White-Lions... I can't make it, so I'll try and leave some tips behind for strategy people, to help. Anyway, keep checking the site and forum, and keep training! Inactivity sweeps will be this or next week!
-LanderZ