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Topic Started: Jun 2 2009, 12:28 AM (11,176 Views)
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Vitimin B12

Here I will keep posted what I'm up to on Runescape, video making and my websites, epicninja.com and sosolid2k.co.uk. So if you're interested you can read what I'm working on and can give feedback suggestions on anything if you want.

Below is a list of things I've got plans to do, some may not happen if I decide not to go through with them, but they are things I'll be considering. They are in order I plan to work on them, the top being the most current thing I'm doing.

Currently doing - Events Section of Sosolid2k.co.uk/RSMDB


Things planned:

Small Tasks


  • Update games.php, remove ad and power by section and widen games display to use the full page.


Create a new section of the site for events

I will be working on a section of the site for weekly events, where a random event will be chosen by the server and the details published on the site for anyone to attend. It will eliminate all the time consuming planning that puts most people off creating events (since it will be automated), and also ensure there will be a different event each week at the same time.

Re-coding the challenge section of Sosolid2k.co.uk

The challenge section never turned out to be as popular as I think it could be, so I've decided to practically scrap most of what was there and recode it to make it more appealing to use.

I've been thinking about what could be improved to increase the number/quality of challenges and entries being made and so far I will likely be adding/altering the following:


  • Splitting Challenges up into 3 time periods - An entry period, a voting period and a results period. One of the problems with the old system was that the people who entered the challenge first would have a higher chance of winning since they'd had more time to accumulate votes for their entry. This new system will fix that as all entries will have an equal amount of time to be voted on.
  • Less pages! - Entering a challenge will be made faster by sticking the entry form into the same page as the challenge details and submitting the form using ajax.
  • Challenge Points/Levels - I will be making a little update to challenge points so that they will work a little more like experience. You will gain levels for gaining challenge points (E.G. if you have 0 challenge points you would be level 1, but if you have something like 500, you might be like level 10). At the moment this is purely for fun, but I am considering expanding it in the future, like certain levels would unlock stuff that lower levels don't get, what that would be exactly is the problem :D It could possibly be merged somehow with the video, guides, and game section so you could have a few different 'skills' that you could level up by using various sections of the site (E.G. Video Making, Guide Making, Gaming and Challenger Levels).
  • Challenge Rating - The challenges will get a regular percentage rating that isn't linked to the comments anymore, so anyone can rate them without having to leave a comment. This should hopefully help with filtering out the bad rated ones so that the best challenges are the ones that get promoted.
  • Comments - The comments will now be regular comments, so you can leave multiple comments on the challenge, unlike before where it just updated your single comment/review.
  • More Promotion - I wanna try help keep the challenge section active, so will try to create a featured challenge each month, where I'll upload a video on Youtube promoting it. These featured challenges will offer bonus points for the winner and maybe sometimes other rewards. There will also be a spot on the homepage for the top rated challenges.
  • Challenge tracking - Users will be able to track a challenge so when it enters a new section of it's duration (entry, voting, results) it will be displayed either in their my challenges section, the main challenge section, or on their profile, not sure yet. This will allow people to keep track of a challenge they are interested in and vote/see the results without having to go through any trouble to track down the challenge manually.
  • Better Spam Filter - I'll be adding more restrictions on challenges to make sure as little spam gets through as possible. Videos will be confirmed with Youtubes API as being your own before being submitted as entries, challenge details must meet certain requirements etc.
  • Gambling Challenge Points - I'll be adding a new option when starting a challenge to set an entry fee for the challenge. Users will have to pay challenge points to enter it and all those challenge points will be added to the winning pool as a bonus for the winner. The 'free' option will be the default one for starting a challenge, you can choose to set an entry fee if you want to add a little more risk/reward to your challenge >:)


Preview of Challenge page in entry period
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Max Hits With Melee 3

Done [link]

Rest of Zamorak Walks

I want to put a LOT of effort into this when I have the time to work on it. I have a basic storyline in my head, but I need to sit and write up a script for it so I know what I'm doing when I log in to record it. I'm thinking about making this into a MIVE (where you choose your path with annotations, and try to stop Zamorak) but it would take more time and effort to do it properly. The outcome should be more than worth it though if I do it well. I would like it to be a longish story, and have a few different paths you can take



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If you have any suggestions/comments about anything I'm working on feel free to post em :)
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is like, free time, the 1 thing thats keeping you from doing the vids? and slayer will help you get the cash for max hits 3
and also, im pretty sure that every1 in your cc will help you with anything, just ask ;)
gl on 99 slayer, i bet you have a full world when you lv
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Awesome stuffs. Yeah I never really got into the whole challenge section of your site. I would really like to if it were made easier and more fair. I would own the "how many Zilyana's can you kill in one trip solo" ;)

As for 99 slayer get to it buddy!!! I was gonna beat you to 99 but then I decided I could beat you to 99 Summoning instead :P

GL with your sites and st00f!
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whats an SQL server lol...anyways gl on the site..btw how much did you spend on max hits 3? :blink:
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I could do vids but I need to work on my sites.

I can either get a regular job which I'm more than likely gonna hate like most people do, or try and make a living from my vids and stuff. I can easily do it by uploading all my vids to Machinima, but I much prefer uploading them to my own channel in higher quality, so I'm trying to build up my sites so that I can make a living from those and continue uploading to my own channel. I could do both, but I just find uploading to Machinima makes creating the vids less fun. Half the comments become hate, vids get 1 star bombed by people who don't like it etc, not to mention the upload process is a pain a lot of the time, taking weeks to actually upload, vids getting pulled for copyright concerns and stuff. If I could get Youtube partnership then I could get back to making vids right away, but they seem to hate RS vids for some reason, they haven't given a single RS player partnership for like over a year?

So I'm just working on sites, then hopefully try upload some more new videos to my own channel and just keep applying for partnership. Surely they can't keep rejecting me forever lol.

And thaaankks :P Did a few tasks last night lol, had abyssal demons then got another task for 199 of em :P So some nice tasks. Around 700k xp till 99 so getting close now :P

And darkkill65 an SQL server is basically just the database where a lot of the sites data is kept. Because I have shared hosting I have to share the same server with other websites, so the server is more likely to be overloaded with connections either by having too many people using it, or someone connecting to it wrong in their code (like permanent connections etc).

I'm not sure how much I've spent atm lol, I bought a bunch of sets of vesta when it first came out, that cost a bomb, then one or two pking weapons. I still have like 3/4 of the weapons left to do so still need more sets of vesta. Then all the super str/prayer pots too :p

I'll probs camp at abyssal demons for a few days watching movies/tv shows on Youtube or something lol. like 10-15 mil should cover the rest of it.


Had a new idea for challenges. Adding a new option so that you can set an entry fee to the challenge. Like set the challenge so that it costs 5 Challenge Points to enter, so you'll have 5 points deducted and added to the winnings pool. So if you win a challenge that costs 5 CP to enter and 5 other people entered, you would get an extra 25 CP for winning it on top of the regular winnings.

You'll be able to set the entry fee as either: Free, 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100, so you can basically bet challenge points on winning ^.^


Damn this challenge status updating script is gonna be a bitch to code :P



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no idea how to code stuff, is that like, putting in the hyperliknks and junk like that?
also the betting is gonna be pretty legit, people might make more vids now
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The links, images, text etc is displayed with HTML, that's just the basic language to display stuff on web pages, it doesn't really do anything else.

The harder bit to code is the PHP which is the one that allows a single page to display different content. Like on epicninja, there is just 1 webpage to play games on. Where it says "?g=spark" in the title, it's telling the webpage which row to get the data from that's held on the database. You use PHP to grab that value from the URL, request the info for that game from the database, put all the data into their own variables (just a word to store the values, like $game_name, $description, $controls etc) and display them in the right places on the one page.

Without PHP I'd have to manually create hundreds of HTML documents, rather than 1.

HTML looks like:
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<html><head></head><body>My Webpage!</body></html>


PHP looks like:
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<?php if ($speed=='fast') { echo "I am fast"; } else if ($speed=='slow') { echo "I am slow"; } else { echo "I don't know my speed"; }?>



Most of the PHP is easy once you know it, just the bit I'ma have to do to check the status of all challenges and update them, restrict certain parts of them etc is probably gonna be a pain :P
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yea, that must be a real drag :P , makes a 5hit load of people happy though :)
i bet it would take me like, 5 years to do what you do in like 5 days, thats cause your so amazazazazazing B)
keep it up :D
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Lies!

Working a little more on the view challenge page, started on the layout of the voting period, not finished yet but should probably look something like this once it's done.

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Gonna have the different videos loaded with ajax when you click view so you won't have to reload the page to view each entry and rate it. They will be ordered by which has the least number of views, so that each entry gets as fair a number of views/ratings as possible.



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Jun 3 2009, 01:55 PM
I could do vids but I need to work on my sites.

I can either get a regular job which I'm more than likely gonna hate like most people do, or try and make a living from my vids and stuff. I can easily do it by uploading all my vids to Machinima, but I much prefer uploading them to my own channel in higher quality, so I'm trying to build up my sites so that I can make a living from those and continue uploading to my own channel. I could do both, but I just find uploading to Machinima makes creating the vids less fun. Half the comments become hate, vids get 1 star bombed by people who don't like it etc, not to mention the upload process is a pain a lot of the time, taking weeks to actually upload, vids getting pulled for copyright concerns and stuff. If I could get Youtube partnership then I could get back to making vids right away, but they seem to hate RS vids for some reason, they haven't given a single RS player partnership for like over a year?

So I'm just working on sites, then hopefully try upload some more new videos to my own channel and just keep applying for partnership. Surely they can't keep rejecting me forever lol.

And thaaankks :P Did a few tasks last night lol, had abyssal demons then got another task for 199 of em :P So some nice tasks. Around 700k xp till 99 so getting close now :P

And darkkill65 an SQL server is basically just the database where a lot of the sites data is kept. Because I have shared hosting I have to share the same server with other websites, so the server is more likely to be overloaded with connections either by having too many people using it, or someone connecting to it wrong in their code (like permanent connections etc).

I'm not sure how much I've spent atm lol, I bought a bunch of sets of vesta when it first came out, that cost a bomb, then one or two pking weapons. I still have like 3/4 of the weapons left to do so still need more sets of vesta. Then all the super str/prayer pots too :p

I'll probs camp at abyssal demons for a few days watching movies/tv shows on Youtube or something lol. like 10-15 mil should cover the rest of it.


Had a new idea for challenges. Adding a new option so that you can set an entry fee to the challenge. Like set the challenge so that it costs 5 Challenge Points to enter, so you'll have 5 points deducted and added to the winnings pool. So if you win a challenge that costs 5 CP to enter and 5 other people entered, you would get an extra 25 CP for winning it on top of the regular winnings.

You'll be able to set the entry fee as either: Free, 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100, so you can basically bet challenge points on winning ^.^


Damn this challenge status updating script is gonna be a bitch to code :P



Goincrazy201 is a runescape quest guide channel and made partner but she also has other games up there, but ive watched your videos on youtube thats on machinima and your right, i guess people seem to hate runescape :'( i think people look in machinima for xbox games and other games. Ive been trying to get my vids up on machinima for ever how do you do it? And i gratz on 98 slayer good luck with 99.
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No sign of her being a partner 0.0 No partner honors, banners, ads etc :o

And Machinima would contact you, you need a lot of subs/views for it.


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I don't think Goingcrazy is a Youtube partner. She does have a certain Youtube account type that isn't available anymore though. Her type of account let's her upload videos past the normal limit, that's how she could do her WGS walkthrough from the start straight to the end.


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Good luck with all that stuff ^_^

Programming ftw, probably my favorite class this year
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No sign of her being a partner 0.0 No partner honors, banners, ads etc :o

And Machinima would contact you, you need a lot of subs/views for it.


ohh ok and she had auto play the other day and i think he has some honors
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Thanks c:

And ya it's fun sometimes lol, then other times it's a huge pain in the ass (usually when something won't work and you've tried everything to try fix it XD).

Got the basics of creating a new challenge and entering it done, still need to work a bit more on a spam filter though to make sure as few useless entries/challenges get through as possible, yey more fun with Youtube's API -.-

Once that's all working properly I'll start on the viewing and voting on entries. Should be easy enough to do that.
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