robin
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It's a nice bar, but if I click on it nothing happens





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RoboBob3000
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Maybe if we all gather together on the board at about the same time and click like mad on the bar, we can force it to progress a few increments.

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Znirk
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Nah, clicking like mad only leads to the next game having a Secret Cow Level.

Schik
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If you keep clicking, it's always *possible* that something might happen... did you actually try it?

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Alneyan
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I wonder... Would the counter be affected by one of the early magic number (32765 or so in particular), or is a much higher number needed to break the bar?

Go forth and click! Who wouldn't want to be the owner of click #10000?

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I'm going to bet some imaginary number of dollars that by the time DROD 3 actually gets released, the bar will have over 500 000 clicks. Any other takers?

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Doom
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Wow, I just noticed that you're actually counting the clicks.
"opening newbarhit.php"...


EDIT:
PS. it would be a good thing if you ignored the fact that I'm really slow... I didn't catch it from the few previous posts.

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Mattcrampy
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File: leetbar.png (8.5 KB)
Downloaded 1102 times.
License: Other
From: Boy, where does one start?

NO-ONE CLICK THE BAR.

I'm serious. You will regret it if you do.

And this is why:



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agaricus5
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Mattcrampy wrote:
NO-ONE CLICK THE BAR.

I'm serious. You will regret it if you do.

And this is why:

The bar is no longer in its exalted status (It has about 2000 clicks at present), but with about 31,300 more clicks, we should be able to "re-leet" it.

What are you waiting for? Get clicking!

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RoboBob3000
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After I performed click 2725, I received a message telling me that the bar had shaken and that 18 mod points and 7 rank points fell out.

THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THERE BAR!


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Schik
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RoboBob3000 wrote:
After I performed click 2725, I received a message telling me that the bar had shaken and that 18 mod points and 7 rank points fell out.

THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THERE BAR!

Aww man, I knew I should have tightened that up. I'll have to pound a few more nails into it.

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jamie
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It don't work for me (konqueror) :-(

Is "javascript:" meant to be there ? I thought that was used when calling javascript from a href, not inside a js action tag..


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Schik
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jamie wrote:
Is "javascript:" meant to be there ? I thought that was used when calling javascript from a href, not inside a js action tag..

Ummm, I dunno. Took it out. Does it work now?

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Chalks
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oh man,I can't stop myself! Every time I come to drod.net, I have to click on the bar. This is turning into a serious addiction...

Schik, what have you done to me????


edit: oops! sorry Schik! Your name doesn't have to 'c's in it...

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gamer_extreme_101
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Chalks wrote:
Schick Schik, what have you done to me????

Great job, man. Now we'll have to form a Bar-Clickers Anonymous support group.

If there was such a group....

"Hi, my name is John, and I'm addicted to bars"

"Hi John"

"I used to be able to control myslef to once or twice a week, but now I find that I'm spending hours at a time clicking it.

*groan*

"Even after Schik put up a control on it, I'm loading multiple browsers on all the computers I have and alternating between them all just to see what number comes next"

*groan*

"I need help...my wife even complains that I mumble about bars and making a clicking action with my hand in my sleep"

*groan*

"But then, I decided to AdBlock it one day, and I've managed to go a whole 30 minutes without clicking on it!"

"Yay!"

"I think I can make it to 35 minutes, but it's going to be difficult. My kids have already had to stop me from opening a different web browser twelve times in the past hour..."

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Mattcrampy
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Schick, what have you done to me????

Given you a shave?

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Schik wrote:

jamie wrote:
Is "javascript:" meant to be there ? I thought that was used when calling javascript from a href, not inside a js action tag..

Ummm, I dunno. Took it out. Does it work now?

Thanks for doing that.. It still didn't work for me though! So, I've done some investigating, and googling.

Firstly, it is correct without javascript: inside the 'src' (and now it works fine with mozilla whilst it wasn't (for me) before)

However, konqueror still isn't working with it. Although konqueror is meant to grok javascript, and does so normally, it doesn't seem to like setting the .src on a click.. Never mind, it's a konqueror problem!

By the way, I used "DOM inspector" to 'drill down' to get the 'actual' values straight from the horses mouth.

It's a lovely program for checking DOM issues.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/

Especially when you click on a particular part of the tree down the left hand side, and it makes a brief flashing red box around the relevent part on the page (in the bottom subwindow), and then you can change the right hand side to show "DOM OBJECT" values or "javascript object" values (all the relevent links usable in a js context, including parent/sibling/child references) for each individual element, including the effect after JS has run (you 'browse' in the bottom subwindow)

Ok, a bit geeky, but definitely a good tool for tracking JS/DOM issues!

Again, thanks for actually changing that so quickly... Who needs an infinite number of monkeys when we have Schik ?


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robin
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I just love you people.
"Click the bar"
What else could we do with the bar?
Change color, let a tar-baby pop out, ...

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trick
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robin wrote:
let a tar-baby pop out

Surely it should be a bar-baby ?

(Who would let babies into a bar, anyway ?)

- Gerry

agaricus5
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trick wrote:

robin wrote:
let a tar-baby pop out

Surely it should be a bar-baby ?

(Who would let babies into a bar, anyway ?)

Technically, you wouldn't need to let a baby into a bar to create a bar-baby - just cutting the bar into a 1*1 fragment should be enough.

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Chaco
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But doors are only 1 square wide, so it should be full of bar-babies! I guess bar-babies are much more docile than their tar and mud-related cousins.

*stabs the bar with pointer repeatedly*

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trick
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Chaco is stabbing babies!

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How many bars could a tar baby tar if a tar baby could tar bars?

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agaricus5
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mrimer wrote:
How many bars could a tar baby tar if a tar baby could tar bars?

Well if we assume a DROD square is about 5ft wide, about 1.5m, a tar baby could be roughly estimated to be a sphere about 1.5m in diameter.

As the volume of a sphere is (4*pi*r^3)/3, the volume of the tar baby is about 1.8 cubic metres.

Now, if we assume that tar, with its high surface tension, will form a film about 1cm or 0.01m in depth on a surface, one tar baby will be able to cover about 18 square metres worth of bar surface if we assume it is made completely out of uniform tar.

So, as the bar is about 103 pixels long, that's about the equivalent of 5 DROD squares (i.e. it's about 7m long). So, if a door square is considered to be a cube of side length 1.5m (5ft), then we can estimate the exposed surface area of the bar (i.e. not including the base) to be about 3(7*1.5) + 2(1.5^2) = 36 square metres.

So, in answer to that question, if a tar baby could tar bars, it would tar only about half a bar.



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Doom
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Clicking the bar is obviously working. The bar is at 44%! (What else could've moved it? )

I'll keep adding stats to the graph on the background, but it's not worth looking at yet with so little information.

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3450 clicks were necessary to go from 43% to 44%. We still need 56 further +1%, so a total of nearly 200,000 clicks should result in the game being released.

Assuming a given user clicks once every minute, said user will make 1440 clicks in the course of a single day. Therefore, a total of 140 full days of clicking will be needed. If we can get ten users to click for two weeks non-stop, DROD 3.0 will be out before the end of the month.

Hop to it people!

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jamie
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Oh I see now!

So, the bar is wired up to some sort of remote whip ?

Everytime you press the button, Erik, Mike and the others get a quick whip to the back ?

Well, if that's the case, I don't think we should be cruel.....



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Why do you think that the DROD team is so secretive about TCB? Well, I have a theory. And it's not a good one.

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Mattcrampy
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Hey look your source says I can program scripts.

Now that's cutting-edge news!

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Oneiromancer
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Well, actually, Cramp more or less resigned from the dev team when he stopped being the webmaster. He knows a bit more than the average person because there were some things that were removed from JtRH for space considerations, but for most things, he's as much in the dark as everyone else, and I am sure is eagerly awaiting any news tidbits. (Sorry to remove some of the aura of mystery, Matt!) Schik was the one who programmed everything with respect to the Bar, just like pretty much everything else on the forum. The monkey deserves his credit!

Now we cue Patrick saying "Hey, I'm the webmaster now, don't I get to know all the secret stuff?" What's that, Patrick? I can't hear you...

Game on,

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