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tysonlowery
First is that you may notice that the menus show up below the banner ad now. With a lot of people complaining that the ads obscure their menus, we decided to make this an option. I have set everyone's menus to use this to get your attention.
You can change which menus you use by going to Edit Profile.
Ideally, what I would like to do with these is to find out which menu choices work well with which browsers. And then use that data to pre-select a menu type for new owners signing up. I think the No Javascript menus will work with any browser. But if you could set your settings to use each of the other 3 choices for a few days each, that would be great. Keep in mind that there are some ads that will obscure the menus on some browsers - so just testing for a few minutes won't be indicative.
Secondly, we added a feature where you can win 25 Dynasty dollars at random. Where the banner ad usually shows up, if you see this image instead:
You'll win 25 Dynasty Dollars if you click it. I have it set right now to show up rather frequently for testing purposes. If anyone can find a way to cheat the system, I'll give you a free Expansion team for figuring it out.
I think that's all. I know I'll probably get reamed by people for even putting these in ("Why is he adding a stupid contest when [fill in the blank] is still all screwed up?"). But it was something DaMaestrio had worked on that I wanted to put into place.
[Edited on 9-10-2004 by tysonlowery]
Unimportant changes - but need help testing
September 10, 2004 at 08:35PM View BBCode
I finished a few of DaMaestrio's pet projects today. Little things that won't make much of a difference, but I wanted to finish them off.First is that you may notice that the menus show up below the banner ad now. With a lot of people complaining that the ads obscure their menus, we decided to make this an option. I have set everyone's menus to use this to get your attention.
You can change which menus you use by going to Edit Profile.
Ideally, what I would like to do with these is to find out which menu choices work well with which browsers. And then use that data to pre-select a menu type for new owners signing up. I think the No Javascript menus will work with any browser. But if you could set your settings to use each of the other 3 choices for a few days each, that would be great. Keep in mind that there are some ads that will obscure the menus on some browsers - so just testing for a few minutes won't be indicative.
Secondly, we added a feature where you can win 25 Dynasty dollars at random. Where the banner ad usually shows up, if you see this image instead:
You'll win 25 Dynasty Dollars if you click it. I have it set right now to show up rather frequently for testing purposes. If anyone can find a way to cheat the system, I'll give you a free Expansion team for figuring it out.
I think that's all. I know I'll probably get reamed by people for even putting these in ("Why is he adding a stupid contest when [fill in the blank] is still all screwed up?"). But it was something DaMaestrio had worked on that I wanted to put into place.
[Edited on 9-10-2004 by tysonlowery]
hobos
The menus seem fine on Mozilla initially
September 10, 2004 at 08:56PM View BBCode
Can you win the 25 DD in a player card? I've had no luck getting to the new banner but I will report any problems once I doThe menus seem fine on Mozilla initially
tysonlowery
September 10, 2004 at 08:58PM View BBCode
I've seen some big problems with the amater draft prefs screen - I'm looking into it now.
hobos
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Column not found: Unknown column 'hobos' in 'where clause'
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:825)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:758)
org.apache.jsp.beta.winnerclaim_jsp._jspService(winnerclaim_jsp.java:1472)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
root cause
java.sql.SQLException: Column not found: Unknown column 'hobos' in 'where clause'
org.gjt.mm.mysql.MysqlIO.sendCommand(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.MysqlIO.sqlQuery(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.Connection.execSQL(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.Connection.execSQL(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.Statement.executeUpdate(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.jdbc2.Statement.executeUpdate(Unknown Source)
org.apache.jsp.beta.winnerclaim_jsp._jspService(winnerclaim_jsp.java:1306)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0.27 logs.
Apache Tomcat/5.0.27
September 10, 2004 at 09:08PM View BBCode
I finally got the banner, and I received this:type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Column not found: Unknown column 'hobos' in 'where clause'
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:825)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:758)
org.apache.jsp.beta.winnerclaim_jsp._jspService(winnerclaim_jsp.java:1472)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
root cause
java.sql.SQLException: Column not found: Unknown column 'hobos' in 'where clause'
org.gjt.mm.mysql.MysqlIO.sendCommand(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.MysqlIO.sqlQuery(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.Connection.execSQL(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.Connection.execSQL(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.Statement.executeUpdate(Unknown Source)
org.gjt.mm.mysql.jdbc2.Statement.executeUpdate(Unknown Source)
org.apache.jsp.beta.winnerclaim_jsp._jspService(winnerclaim_jsp.java:1306)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0.27 logs.
Apache Tomcat/5.0.27
tysonlowery
Let me see what's going on there. Maybe I'm missing a file or something.
September 10, 2004 at 09:13PM View BBCode
Its set up so that only one person can get it every 5 minutes. Just remembered that.Let me see what's going on there. Maybe I'm missing a file or something.
tysonlowery
September 10, 2004 at 09:16PM View BBCode
Okay, I fixed the bug and reset it so you can win again.
hobos
September 10, 2004 at 09:39PM View BBCode
It works now. I couldn't find any loopholes, but my computer know-how isn't very high
tysonlowery
September 11, 2004 at 01:04AM View BBCode
Yeah, that's true. Once we go live with it, its going to be set to probably every 10,000 page views or something. So I imagine people will get board with refreshing.
hobos
September 11, 2004 at 02:28AM View BBCode
10,000 should be plenty. I'd guess that most people don't view the pages more than 5,000 times in a season and refreshing 10,000 times is ludicrous
celamantia
Scripts.
How about setting it so for any given account it can't appear again for at least a day or two?
September 11, 2004 at 03:47AM View BBCode
Originally posted by hobos
10,000 should be plenty. I'd guess that most people don't view the pages more than 5,000 times in a season and refreshing 10,000 times is ludicrous
Scripts.
How about setting it so for any given account it can't appear again for at least a day or two?
CaseyStengel
Is the banner still being tested? I think I know how to find a loophole, but I can't get the banner to pop up.
September 13, 2004 at 01:24AM View BBCode
Is the banner still being tested? I think I know how to find a loophole, but I can't get the banner to pop up.
tysonlowery
September 13, 2004 at 01:36AM View BBCode
Yeah, its set to show up about every 10 displays on beta - no more than once every 5 minutes.
tysonlowery
September 13, 2004 at 01:37AM View BBCode
If you want to U2U me what you are going to try, we can test to see if it works.
LateBloomer
September 14, 2004 at 03:18PM View BBCode
I have tried for the past 15 minutes to get the 25 dynasty chance to win banner to pop-up with no luck. Have you turned this feature off?
tysonlowery
September 14, 2004 at 04:03PM View BBCode
You should be able to get it. Let me turn up the frequency.Pages: 1