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I gots good news and I gots bad news....[Bank]

Mar 25, 2012#1

Dave

You may or may not have noticed a few little changes. First, there's now a Bank tab at the top of the page. You also may have noticed that there's now a $ symbol on your avatar. Yes, folks, HalBucks will be returning. That's the good news.

The bad news is that I can't find the old HB data in the system, which means those of you who gambled before (or stole, ya right bastards!) now do not have the many millions of HB.

"But Dave, " you ask, "what will these be used for? We don't have a cool store any longer!"

Glad you asked. On or about April 1 we will have a store. It'll be different than the store we used to have because it'l be a real damned shop where you can all list your items for sale and have people buy them. (Once you have approval to open your shop, that is.) What I plan on doing is offering stuff for sale on the shop and you'll be able to use HB to buy them. Such things could be a Steam game or an item from the HalShop. It'll be random and you'll have to keep checking back for the ~~woot~~ Hal deals that will appear. There may be other uses for the shop as we move forward.

You get HB as follows (so far): HB 1 for a post (a couple of you got a post in while it was still HB 5, which is the default. Good for you!) and HB 10 for a new thread. Please note that there's a character limit that must be reached to get the points, so don't go all spammy on me.

More as we go along...

Have fun!

Mar 25, 2012#2

SeraRelm

Mar 25, 2012#3

Terrik

Excellent.

Mar 25, 2012#4

Krisken

I was even about to say "What did you do now, Ray". Hopefully we don't have spammy nonsense so people can push for that immunity to stealing (if it will even be there).

Mar 25, 2012#5

Shegokigo

Here's a pre-emptive welcome to the "say something about the poster" idiocy threads.

Mar 25, 2012#6

Krisken

Shegokigo said:
Here's a pre-emptive welcome to the "say something about the poster" idiocy threads.

Are you saying you didn't participate in those?

Mar 25, 2012#7

Shegokigo

Nope, yet I'm one of the highest post count members of HF. Funny how that works.

Mar 25, 2012#8

Dave

Right now there is no such thing as stealing or anything like that. And I don't see that returning. It was a fun idea but apparently easily broken and abused. Go figure on a board with a lot of gamers there would be people finding cheats.

Mar 25, 2012#9

Ravenpoe

I have nothing to add to this thread except this:

$1 Halbuck

Mar 25, 2012#10

Krisken

Dave said:
Right now there is no such thing as stealing or anything like that. And I don't see that returning. It was a fun idea but apparently easily broken and abused. Go figure on a board with a lot of gamers there would be people finding cheats.

I still can't believe it allowed me to duplicate my Halbucks like it did in that one game. Truly absurd.

Shegokigo said:
Nope, yet I'm one of the highest post count members of HF. Funny how that works.

My mistake, then. Yeah, I figured with your post count you would have been all over that.

Edit: Dave, your test succeeded on my end. However, if you wish to keep testing, I won't complain about it.

Mar 25, 2012#11

figmentPez

No HB for getting likes? Aww, I was hoping for more motivation to get back to work on the cosplay sub-forum.

Mar 25, 2012#12

Krisken

figmentPez said:
No HB for getting likes? Aww, I was hoping for more motivation to get back to work on the cosplay sub-forum.

What, our adoration isn't enough for you?

Mar 25, 2012#13

Dave

It's on its way. Right now there's a conflict between the bank's liking bonus and the multiple likes available through Darkimmortal's extended likes system. Once they get that ironed out I'll be adding it.

Mar 25, 2012#14

SeraRelm

Hmm... I'll donate to this how I can, but I'm not sure I'll be interested in participating.

Mar 26, 2012#15

Chad Sexington

Remember that time we got Halbucks just for viewing a thread, and I set my computer to refresh a thread every second and it caused the forum to crash? That was a good day.

Mar 26, 2012#16

makare

Remember when I spent time earning halbucks to get stuff I wanted and then it was all for nothing?

I do.

Mar 26, 2012#17

Allen who is Quiet

dave, what's the good news? :zoid:

Mar 26, 2012#18

Adammon

The good news is he saved 10 Halbucks on car insurance.

Mar 26, 2012#19

LordRendar

This forces me to activly participate in conversations instead of just lurking.

Mar 26, 2012#20

bhamv3

This forces me to find ways to participate, and my instinctive way of participating is to be a pervert.

I apologize in advance.

Mar 26, 2012#21

DarkAudit

figmentPez said:
No HB for getting likes? Aww, I was hoping for more motivation to get back to work on the cosplay sub-forum.

WonderCon just ended. Hop to it!

Mar 26, 2012#22

HCGLNS

I kept a record of how much I have in the bank so far, so you can give me the correct amount.

Mar 26, 2012#23

Wahad

So the Bank can continue as it once was while the previous money of its clients is gone. I smell...a metaphor.

Mar 26, 2012#24

North_Ranger

And here I was, fearing something had happened to Dave's family. It's better this way, of course

Mar 26, 2012#25

Jay

Can Halbucks be used to remove specific threads from the What's New option?

:sohappy:

Mar 26, 2012#26

Dave

Jay said:
Can Halbucks be used to remove specific threads from the What's New option?

Mar 26, 2012#27

ThatNickGuy

bhamv3 said:
This forces me to find ways to participate, and my instinctive way of participating is to be a pervert..

Sounds like my prom night. :trolol:

Mar 26, 2012#28

Hylian

Welcome to Halforums where the HalBucks are made up and the posts don't matter.........wait strike that and reverse it.

Mar 26, 2012#29

Allen who is Quiet

ThatNickGuy

Mar 26, 2012#30

ThatNickGuy

Who dares summon me!?

Mar 26, 2012#31

Allen who is Quiet

Mar 26, 2012#32

ThatNickGuy

Allen, you make my anger muscles bulge like a pissed off blowfish!

Mar 26, 2012#33

Allen who is Quiet

Mar 26, 2012#34

figmentPez

Obscurus Lupa _ Kyle Kallgren _ Sissy Slapfight.gif

Mar 26, 2012#35

Hylian

Mar 26, 2012#36

Shegokigo

Eating his popcorn with his mouth open. No manners in that young negro man.

Mar 26, 2012#37

SeraRelm

I KNOW

RIGHT?

Mar 27, 2012#38

David

I agree with halbucks rewards for likes. It would reward quality of posts over quantity.

That or just increase quantity even more. Spew off a bunch of shit, someone's statistically bound to like something!

Mar 27, 2012#39

Dave

Amorous Eyes said:
Default theme only again? :/

Nope. I thought I took that off each page. Did I miss one?

Mar 27, 2012#40

makare

I dont see the bank either. but i often miss stuff...

I am using the pink theme.

Mar 27, 2012#41

Dave

I added it back. At first I didn't think it added any value, but now that I've looked at it it does have some value, even if it's not that much.

Mar 27, 2012#42

Dave

Amorous Eyes said:
All I see is this:

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]Home[/COLOR]

Forums

Mark Forums Read

Search Forums

Watched Threads

Spy

What's New?

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]Events[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]HalChat[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]Arcade[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]Donate[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]Blogs[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]Members[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]Help[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]

Amorous Eyes[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]

Inbox[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]

Alerts666[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219)]

Log Out[/COLOR]

Edit: That didn't copy over so well..

Dafuq? That looks interesting. How are you browsing?

Mar 27, 2012#43

Dave

-heh- Check out the Bank tab now.

Mar 27, 2012#44

Dave

Amorous Eyes said:
Cool.

++HalBucks

Nope. Not enough characters to trigger a ++HB.

Mar 27, 2012#45

Dave

Amorous Eyes said:
Does quoted text count toward gaining more HalBucks cuz if so then I don't have to write out the Great Gatsby.

(Not like I'd ever get a lot of HB anyway since I only post once in a blue moon).

Nope.

Mar 27, 2012#46

Allen who is Quiet

HB++

Mar 27, 2012#47

Dave

Allen who is Quiet said:
View attachment 5148

HB++

Damn it.

Mar 27, 2012#48

Hylian

So how come adding an attachment gives you +5 HalBucks instead of the usual +1?

Mar 27, 2012#49

Dave

I didn't notice that the default was 5 when I set it up. It's been fixed since then.

Mar 27, 2012#50

SpecialKO

Damn you Dave! Paying us with fake money to increase pageviews for you! Daaaaaaaamn yooooooouuuuuuuuu!!

Mar 27, 2012#51

Covar

A friendly reminder to people:

++HB will increment the value of HB before providing you with the value.
HB++ will provide you with the value of HB before it increments the value.

9 times out of 10 this doesn't matter, but more often then not you will get a bug that is the result of HB++ when you wanted the behavior of ++HB. As such it is generally considered a good practice to always use ++HB unless you specifically need the behavior HB++ provides.

Mar 27, 2012#52