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  1. Andrew Lynas

    Andrew Lynas Level 17 (Theurgist) Exiles Beta Reader Citizen

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    How do I see/read it and your story?
     
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    In his post click on "Aether seeds (tentative title)"

    It's a link
     
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    Should we just move all of this to a new thread?
     
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    The new thread is under Not The Land.
     
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    Okay, so what exactly are the "All these" threads, and why are their numbers spammed there? Sorry, I'm just confused.
     
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    All these are what we worked as wiki/catalogue for mentioned things in the series. Without a mod of any sort it was easier to form a usable list by spamming the first (15-20?) posts so that when you reach the character /post length limit you can continue on in to the next post and keep all the info together.
     
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  7. Johan

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    On the old forums I made some lists because the information was spread out throughout the books, and some was hard to find. Initially this was for the wiki I created, but I didn't want to do it and abandoned it. Another group created a new wiki and asked if they could use my information lists to built the wiki. I find it much easier to keep track of stuff and the guys here point out if I messed something up.

    As for taking up a whole page, you will find that some of these lists are 20 full posts in length. I kept running out of room when updating them to the new book, so now I reserved the space. So any discussion will start on page two.

    The reason for the "All these" is because my list posts always began with "All these": all these Dungeon points, all these chaos points, all these core buildings, all these items, etc.

    But someone had the latest forum cancelled without any warning or we would have asked for a recent capture in the least.

    I suppose I should add that the golden "all these" are a prefix to keep them together if you were trying to find one to reference but could find it. Old forum issues.
     
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  8. Johan

    Johan Level 18 (Magician) Exiles Beta Reader Citizen

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    Beta writers. The last time someone asked me to beta, they wanted me to make the tables (like the ones you find in kongs stuff). I'll I wanted to do was check the stuff. Is that the difference between a beta reader and beta writer?
     
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  9. Paul Bellow

    Paul Bellow Forum Game Master Staff Member LitRPG Author Shop Owner Citizen Aspiring Writer

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    I make a public pledge here and now saying if I ever happen to close this place, I will do everything I can to make sure you guys know ahead of time and can grab any content.

    That said, I plan to keep this site going. Reading my books helps motivate me, but it's not necessary! This forum is more of a love letter to the genre, a way to make a "game" of sorts out of posting, a place for freedom to ring, yadda yadda. ;)

    Seriously, though, I'm trying to be as honest and open with you guys as I can. I'm super passionate about the genre if you haven't noticed yet.
     
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  10. Paul Bellow

    Paul Bellow Forum Game Master Staff Member LitRPG Author Shop Owner Citizen Aspiring Writer

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    Wow. That's called you deserve an hourly wage. Those tables aren't easy!

    What makes it worse (to me) that he asked is that the book probably brought in $100k to $150k easily and he could easily pay people to read/format/edit his book numerous times over two years. Just sayin'! Wow. All that said, I understand Kong has a unique voice and can really grab his readers with the stats. Almost sounds like YOU GUYS know more about his game mechanics than him at this point! Hah. Anyway... just a peek behind the curtains.
     
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  11. Johan

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    Haha true.

    A little more than I was bargaining for at the time.

    On another note. @Paul Bellow is there an add-on so I can use more than 1) and •) for lists. Such as letters and numerals?
     
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  12. Paul Bellow

    Paul Bellow Forum Game Master Staff Member LitRPG Author Shop Owner Citizen Aspiring Writer

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    Just took a quick look, and I'm not finding anything.

    1. eee
      1. 33
      2. 33
      3. 33
    2. 333
      1. 3
      2. 3
        1. 3
        2. 3
        3. 3
    Looks like you can indent to get a new level, but not letters. I'll keep looking.
     
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    I have seen BBCode that you do
    (LIST=a)
    [*]for letters, and
    (LIST=I)
    [*]for numberals.
    Replacing ( for [
     
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  14. Paul Bellow

    Paul Bellow Forum Game Master Staff Member LitRPG Author Shop Owner Citizen Aspiring Writer

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    I'll dig deeper. Was it a xenforo forum by chance?
     
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    • [*]The first possible answer
      [*]The second possible answer
      [*]The third possible answer
     
  16. Paul Bellow

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    • The first possible answer
    • The second possible answer
    • The third possible answer
     
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  20. Paul Bellow

    Paul Bellow Forum Game Master Staff Member LitRPG Author Shop Owner Citizen Aspiring Writer

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    Ah, okay, yeah. Xenforo doesn't seem to have it. I might be able to code something if I get some time. Stay tuned?
     




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