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Published on May 2, 2007 By Mumblefratz In Metaverse

Please report any questions or problems with the AltMeta here.

The intent of this thread is to provide a single place for the reporting of any and all AltMeta problems. The usual disclaimers apply. The AltMeta is Kryo's personal part time project that is neither supported or endorsed by Stardock.

All AltMeta problems will be dealt with in a timely manner however everyone must realize that there are hundreds of us and only one Kryo. From my own personal experience support will almost always be quicker than anyone has a right to expect, however on the off chance that it isn't please be patient. There's no need to repeat a request. Every request will be noticed. No request will be forgotten. You may not receive acknowledgement that the issue is being worked. You may not even receive notice that the issue has been corrected. But you can be absolutely assured that the issue will be corrected.

Thank you for your support.

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The new AltMeta has moved.

All sig banners and links will be automatically forwarded so this change should be totally transparent. However, there is one aspect of this move that will result in a change.

Previously, all characters that were in the top 100 official MV empires were automatically included in the AltMeta as long as they had any submitted games. This meant that any characters not in an empire or in an empire not in the top 100 have previously been excluded from the AltMeta. This was done primarily for bandwidth considerations. This wasn't a very big limitation since any character not in an empire could form their own empire and being in the top 100 official metaverse empires only required a total score of about 32K.

With the move to new hosting this is changed. To be included in the AltMeta will still require membership in an empire, but only those empires currently listed in the AltMeta will be automatically included. Any new empires will need to be manually added to the update list. All that's required is for any member of the empire to ask to be included. To ensure the quickest response it's best to make such a request to this thread, but this isn't absolutely required. All requests to be included in the ALtMeta will be honored regardless of where they're made. All in all this is an improvement since it removes any score requirement on the inclusion of new empires in the AltMeta.
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on May 02, 2007
Yea, finally a place for all the "the Altmeta is X posts".

Go mumble.

Remember allow 2 - 5 years for a reply
on May 02, 2007
Please ignore TheGreatEmperor's 2 - 5 year comment. He's just trying to be funny even though it may not come off that way. As I said most problem reports will be handled quickly. In many cases I've made posts at the Core about an AltMeta issue and the issue has been fixed before I finish editing my post for spelling. This kind of response will probably be far more common than occasionally having to wait a bit. I'm just saying if it happens that the response to your issue isn't instantaneous then please be patient.
on May 06, 2007
how do i get the alt xcore to show under my posts(new on pc and my score is a little better yay)
on May 06, 2007
When you go to your Characters page on the AltMeta Here On the left side under your character's portrait is a button that says "AM Forum Banner". You'll get a little popup , just choose your background and hit update. Then copy and save the html code given. Just paste that code at the bottom of your post to show it   . I'm afraid there is no automated way to display the banner (yet). I keep mine in a notepad file on my desktop for easy access along with other often pasted URLs and such.

on May 06, 2007
The AltMeta is not tracking resubmitted games properly.
on May 06, 2007
Can you specify more please.
on May 07, 2007
I submitted a game on May 2nd, and the resubmitted the same game yesterday (you get one chance to do this) after milking it for score. The official metaverse updated my score for the game, while the AltMeta didn't.
on May 07, 2007
Yes, the altmeta doesn't record resubmissions at the moment. If I can figure a way to do that without having to reupdate *every* game a player has ever played each time their score changes, I'll add it.
on May 07, 2007
The OP has been updated to reflect a change resulting from the change in AltMeta hosting. The short version is that due to technical reasons, the automatic inclusion of new empires into the AltMeta can no longer be supported. New empires wishing to be included in the AltMeta will need to request to be added. This request will be automatically granted.
on May 09, 2007
Currently my rank in the "new AltMeta" (http://altmeta.kryofx.com/) is 9th. This is consistent with the "old AltMeta" (http://altmeta2.thegalacticcore.com/) however my "new AltMeta" banner currently shows 8th while my "old AltMeta" shows the correct rank of 9th.




on May 09, 2007
Also I just noticed that the Activity rank differs in these two sig banners. I assume the "old" sig banner is correct here. I also noticed when I went to the "new" AltMeta to check this out there is no Activity Rank in the character details screen that corresponds to the activity rank listed in the sig banner. There is an Activity Rank in the character details page but it seems to be the All-Time number which in my case is 588th. I have no clue where the 322 (or 326) come from. Are these my current activity rank based on my six month submissions. This is what I would assume it to be but this should be listed somewhere in the character details page.

Finally, another thing I noticed while scrolling through the complete lists is that you can only scroll forward and backward. I think it would be nice if we could directly jump to page n of the list without having to go through every screen.
on May 09, 2007
The banners on new aren't updating any longer; I need to rewrite them to use the new ranking code.

The old activity rating was based only on users with a nonzero AltScore; on new it ranks everyone even if they haven't posted in the past 6 months.
on May 09, 2007
The banners on new aren't updating any longer; I need to rewrite them to use the new ranking code.

OK. No rush.
on May 10, 2007
i suck on both oh well
on May 10, 2007
Banners should now be staying up to date on the new site.
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