New Player Tips and Information

[Pralaya]

1. Open the thread that you want to search

2. Click on the magnifying icon on the top right corner, next to Search box

3. Enter the User's name in the Find Author text box (has to be the exact name)

4. Press Enter

5.?

6. Profit

[Pralaya]

Btw, I thought it was something everyone uses lol ...figured it during my first mafia game and have been using it since.

[ReleaseTheEvil]

From csarmi (similar to Pral's):

 

1) go to the top right corner
2) do not enter ANYTHING into the search field there, but click on the seach icon (next to "this topic")
3) you get an advanced search restricted to this topic. fill the fields like it make sense, ie: author name you wanna ISO in the author field, display results as posts, also i suggest sorting in ascending order
4) you can enter fancy things like time intervals, search words, etc for a more precise search but thats all there is to it really

 

I did it once but then forgot how. Used to go through page by page. Painful.

[dapianoplay3r]

  On 10/29/2013 at 6:34 PM, _CLOUD said:

 

  On 10/29/2013 at 5:46 PM, ReleaseTheEvil said:

Can someone (can't remember who described it first) post the method for ISO searches again? Haven't been able to find it and need it. Worthy of its own pin even (or thread) IMO. Essentially useful at this point.

 

 

Youngsters these days... Back in my day we didn't have a fancy search machine that found posts for us; we had to read entire threads from the start again just to find the one post we were looking for, and sometimes after searching for what felt like hours you still couldn't find it. It really made you appreciate the cases people made. Those were the days.

 

 

But seriously I agree with RTE. Could someone explain the ISO method again?

I still use this method

I just like having the context

[Darthe]

Has anyone clicked that link? It was a cool find.

[peacesells]

  On 11/23/2013 at 12:52 AM, Darthe said:

Has anyone clicked that link? It was a cool find.

yeah..years ago

[Darthe]

Dammit

[_CLOUD]

Bump

[peacesells]

Bump...lotsa new players around. 

[csarmi]

  On 10/29/2013 at 6:46 PM, Pralaya said:

1. Open the thread that you want to search

2. Click on the magnifying icon on the top right corner, next to Search box

3. Enter the User's name in the Find Author text box (has to be the exact name)

4. Press Enter

5.?

6. Profit

[michellem]

Bumped.

[amegakure]

this should really be stickied.

[_CLOUD]

Bumpity.

[csarmi]

Formatting your vote (bold and red):

 

For players, here's what you need to copy:

[b][color=red]vote BoldRed[/color][/b]

For mods, copying this (as a voting template) should work:

[code][b][color=red]vote BoldRed[/color][/b][/code]

[csarmi]

Formatting your vote (just bold):

 

For players, here's what you need to copy:

[b]vote BoldRed[/b]

For mods, copying this (as a voting template) should work:

[code][b]vote BoldRed[/b][/code]

[Nolder]

I skimmed the OP but I'm pretty sure this hasn't been mentioned here yet.

 

You are never as clever as you think you are.

If you hint at some kind of information odds are it is either too obscure for anyone to get or so obvious everyone will get it.

In the stories we often wrap mafia around there are bad guys and the bad guys in stories are often dumb.

Real life is rarely so simple or easy. If you hint at something you need to assume that the exact people you didn't want to get the hint got it so you can plan accordingly.

By this I mean to say you should almost never ever hint. Even if the bad guys don't get the hint and a good guy does they will often point you out themselves for some cred.

Unless you're running some sort of gambit and trying to feed everyone false information you're better off either not saying anything or saying what you mean plain and clearly.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

unless you need to breadcrumb something so when you pull it out of your hat later you can show you didn't just make it up on the spot.

 

or a few hundred other reasons.

 

like you know you're getting lynched and you wanna drop a tell for future games or...

 

but that's not really new player kinda stuff eh?

 

some ppl play very straightforward and some sneaky sideways. it's all good, I'd hate to see personal styles homogenized.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Some people couldn't post straight if you gave them a ruler.

[csarmi]

Specifying ranges in QT.

 

Some of us like to view QT's in one piece (instead of viewing it in 16-post pages).

 

As long as the QT isn't longer than 600 posts, it can be done by clicking on "all messages". For some reason, however, QuickTopic would never show you more than 600 posts on a page. So what to do when there are more than 600 posts?

 

You can specify ranges easily. What you do is that you take the original QT link:

http://www.quicktopic.com/50/H/dCaK78M59X64

and write

/pMin.Max

to the end of it, where Min is the first post you wanna see, Max is the last post you wanna see. For instance,

http://www.quicktopic.com/50/H/dCaK78M59X64/p1.600

will show posts 1-600 of the QT in my example.

 

Hope you'll find it useful.

[Verbal32]

That's awesome, Salami.  Good info.

[Harry Potter]

I am so lost... -goes back to the beginning-

[Verbal32]

You were 10 years old in the beginning....you think that'll really help?

[Harry Potter]

I don't know if that's a joke at my expense or what, but I meant the beginning of this thread...

[Harry Potter]

Also, some of your links don't work

[Verbal32]

(at the beginning of the HP books, he was 10)

 

(it was a bad joke)

 

 

 

 

(nevermind)