Suggestion - posting round results

Post by **Ruddertail** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:40 am

1 ohmyjapan (#18) 35,320 $106,780,308 Al-gebra Egyptian North Africa 0
2 Terran (#19) 17,954 $81,006,157 None Gallic Europe 0
*3 Osama's Revenge (#23) 18,155 $51,465,476 *Al-gebra* Phoenician North Africa 0
4 Sanctum (#30) 14,936 $51,114,226 *~Legion~* Phoenician Europe 0
5 NeA (#25) 26,034 $46,640,573 ~Legion~ Gallic Near East 0
6 Chubbichipchip (#32) 18,150 $34,322,472 None Egyptian Europe 0
7 testing (#17) 17,519 $18,898,625 UWS Assyrian Near East 0
8 Sycker (#33) 12,031 $13,504,348 UWS Germanic Near East 0
9 The Golden Chickens (#24) 17,088 $11,569,473 *Snap* Greek Near East 0
10 merclans (#27) 10,648 $9,088,102 *FEE* Greek Europe 0

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1  	ohmyjapan (#18)  	35,320  	$106,780,308  	Al-gebra  	Egyptian  	North Africa  	0
2  Terran (#19)  17,954  $81,006,157  None  Gallic  Europe  0
*3  Osama's Revenge (#23)  18,155  $51,465,476  *Al-gebra*  Phoenician  North Africa  0
4  Sanctum (#30)  14,936  $51,114,226  *~Legion~*  Phoenician  Europe  0
5  NeA (#25)  26,034  $46,640,573  ~Legion~  Gallic  Near East  0
6  Chubbichipchip (#32)  18,150  $34,322,472  None  Egyptian  Europe  0
7  testing (#17)  17,519  $18,898,625  UWS  Assyrian  Near East  0
8  Sycker (#33)  12,031  $13,504,348  UWS  Germanic  Near East  0
9  The Golden Chickens (#24)  17,088  $11,569,473  *Snap*  Greek  Near East  0
10  merclans (#27)  10,648  $9,088,102  *FEE*  Greek  Europe  0

Post by **Ruddertail** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:44 am

Given the way the two methods of posting round results turn out, I'm suggesting that we make it official policy to simply copy and paste the text of the scores page (as in the first listing of the current scores) rather then using the "code" function (as in the second method).

The "Code" function has, for some reason, a tendency to make account listings spill on to two lines, something only insanely long listings will do when copy/pasted. Further, code has no special benefits - it does not keep columns in order, not make it in any way more easily readable. In fact, I do believe, due the to multi - line listings and white background, they become slightly less readable then when copy/pasted.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:46 am

Can't beat a screenshot

Post by **Freenhult** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:03 pm

Perhaps just trimming the other stuff off would work better? Who cares if they were phoenician or were in Europe. That would clear up clutter I think. I like code more. It looks more professional.

Post by **Ruddertail** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:50 pm

Well... it's interesting to note the races and regions. It gives a record of what strats were favored, generally.

Personally, I strongly dislike the code look, even without that. I don't think it looks professional, it just looks... bleh. Kinda sterile, I guess, and I don't know... Just not as good as plain copy/paste.

Slasher - screenshots take a long time to load, and can be lost more easily (look at some of the round results. All the screenshots Japan posted don't show anymore.)

In addition, if you have more players in a round then fit in one screen, you lose the lower people... It's nice to get a full round result, not just the top ten.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:28 pm

Well yeah, admins can upload attachments though can't they?

Post by **Freenhult** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:45 pm

Ruddertail wrote: Well... it's interesting to note the races and regions. It gives a record of what strats were favored, generally.

Personally, I strongly dislike the code look, even without that. I don't think it looks professional, it just looks... bleh. Kinda sterile, I guess, and I don't know... Just not as good as plain copy/paste.

Slasher - screenshots take a long time to load, and can be lost more easily (look at some of the round results. All the screenshots Japan posted don't show anymore.)

In addition, if you have more players in a round then fit in one screen, you lose the lower people... It's nice to get a full round result, not just the top ten.

*Shrug* I guess it doesn't matter. If it isn't broke don't fix it?

Post by **Ruddertail** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:29 pm

Slasher wrote: Well yeah, admins can upload attachments though can't they?

Yeah, I suppose. But it still takes a while to load (I'm on dial - up, sue me) and won't allow for posting of the full round results if we have a lot of players.

Freen - what?

Post by **Freenhult** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:36 pm

Ruddertail wrote:
Slasher wrote: Well yeah, admins can upload attachments though can't they?
Yeah, I suppose. But it still takes a while to load (I'm on dial - up, sue me) and won't allow for posting of the full round results if we have a lot of players.

Freen - what?

I'm just wondering why we're caring about the format for how we post results. O_o. If any thing, we should be talking about why there isn't a land source in WoA. <.<

Post by **Ruddertail** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:39 pm

I'm worrying about it because I think the current format is ugly and somewhat hard to read.

What do you mean, no land source on WOA?

Post by **Freenhult** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:42 pm

I don't know why its ugly. If you take a minute to align the rows up it looks fine either way. Both ways look messy if you just copy paste spam.

I mean, I'd like a land farm. Because scouting is horrifically boring and the only reason I've done so much is the 500k runes in the Sci Ops treasury.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:50 pm

Do we not have a table mod on the forums? that could be handy...

Post by **Freenhult** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:53 pm

While you reply... Sorry if I double up :/

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1  ohmyjapan    (#18)    35,320    $106,780,308     Al-gebra     Egyptian     North Africa 0
2 Terran        (#19)    17,954    $81,006,157      None         Gallic       Europe       0
3 Osama's Revenge (#23)  18,155    $51,465,476      *Al-gebra*   Phoenician   North Africa 0
4 Sanctum       (#30)    14,936    $51,114,226      *~Legion~*   Phoenician   Europe       0
5 NeA           (#25)    26,034    $46,640,573      ~Legion~     Gallic       Near East    0
6 Chubbichipchip(#32)    18,150    $34,322,472      None         Egyptian     Europe       0
7 testing       (#17)    17,519    $18,898,625      UWS          Assyrian     Near East    0
8 Sycker (#33)           12,031    $13,504,348      UWS          Germanic     Near East    0
9 The Golden Chickens (#24) 17,088 $11,569,473      *Snap*       Greek        Near East    0
10 merclans (#27)        10,648    $9,088,102       *FEE*        Greek        Europe       0

There. Took me 8 minutes at the most. Tada.

ohmyjapan16 · Post by **ohmyjapan16** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:19 pm

Yay I win!

Post by **Ruddertail** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:11 pm

You still have the problem of 2 lines, though I admit, it doesn't look as bad as the way I did it. I still don't like the plain white background, though. Something with a bit of color would be good.

Perhaps we could make a whole special set - up for FAF round posting. Something that we could copy/paste into, and it would automatically show it in the nice rows with the FAF background.

Just a thought...

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