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  • 08-01-2008 16:17

    • Esme
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    Photo Competition

    Photo Competition

     

    Right, competition time! This month (August 2008) we are running a Gallery Photo Competition. Any screenshot submitted will be judged in the following categories:

     

    • Events
    • Randomness & Silly
    • Various Locations
    • Raids
    • Real Life
    • Officers Choice

     

    Now here is how it works. We want you to submit photo’s to the galleries on this website. Entering is as simple as that. Any photo’s already submitted will count too, so don’t worry if you think your best one is already up there. And when the shot was taken doesn’t matter either. It can be new or 2 years old or 20 years in the case of RL Stick out tongue , we don’t mind.

    Around the middle of August, some threads will appear asking you, the forum users, to name your favourite shots for each category excluding Officers Choice. What you judge it on is entirely up to you. Winners will be announced August 31st.

     

    What is the reward? The nice icon that I’m currently sporting, namely

     

     

    The following is a list of galleries that fall under each category (we are tidying up, so don't worry if you can't find all galleries, it's the categories that matter):

    • Events
      Jester Events
      Events
      The Conga
      Battle of the Bards
      Hide & Seek
      Chicken Run
    • Randomness & Silly
      Randomness & Silly
    • Various Locations
      Breeland
      North Downs
      Erid Luin
      Lone Lands
      Angmar
      Various Locations
    • Raids
      Raids
    • Real Life
      Real Life
    • Officers Choice
      All the galleries!

     

    If you upload, you might get a message about the site licence settings. Don't worry, we're sorting it, just ignore it. But while we're sorting it, you might find some galleries where you are uanble to add photo's and these will disapear over time. All the photo's will be moved to another gallery, so *fingers crossed* none will be lost and all will be entered in the competition. The galleries underlined above will remain and you should be able to upload to these.

     

    Any questions or problems, please contact me.

     

    Now get snapping & uploading!

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  • 08-01-2008 17:48 In reply to

    Re: Photo Competition

    Very cool :)

    [EDIT] Btw, why isn't it a best dwarf photo category? :)

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  • 08-01-2008 18:51 In reply to

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    langly:

    [EDIT] Btw, why isn't it a best dwarf photo category? :)

    Because it would be a contradiction in terms?

    *runs*

    Big Smile Big Smile Big Smile

    ... and with that, he fell strangely silent
  • 08-04-2008 6:41 In reply to

    • atti
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    Re: Photo Competition

    Got this message while uploading some pics:

    "This site is over its licensed settings. Please notify the site administrator."

    Atti Shortlegged - 50 - Champion
  • 08-04-2008 7:56 In reply to

    • Esme
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    Re: Photo Competition

    Thanks Atti, but don't worry. We know about it and are trying to sort it. It should dissapear evetually. It won't stop you uploading, so keep them coming!

     

    While we are trying to sort it, you might not be able to add to all the galleries, but the following will always be open for new photo's:

    • Events
    • Randomness & Silly
    • Various Locations
    • Raids
    • Real Life
    Heappestre - lvl 62 - Minstrel/Yeoman
    Esme - lvl 21 - Burglar/Tinker
    Eordhe - lvl 16 - Captain
    Didawar - baby Runekeeper - Full time decorator
  • 08-05-2008 18:14 In reply to

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    What a great great competition guys, i love photography :D

    Lava/Linkay/Linkarian ;)

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  • 08-06-2008 18:35 In reply to

    Re: Photo Competition

    Linky, those panoramas are well cool! How did you do them? Or is it just your normal monitor resolution?

    I think you post a lot on the codies forum, you should post them there, very impressive. And if you do - hightlight the competition on the website too Wink

    lvl60 Guardian,
    and Profanity, Bawbagor's robbing burgler little sister - she's sort of on holiday though, sunning herself in San Tropez after deciding Orcs make her makeup smudgeSmile
  • 08-06-2008 19:48 In reply to

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    nawh that not my screen resolution, even though it is pretty big, i use photoshop to join photos together. And yeah i post alot more on the codemasters forums then i do here, i admit, so if i do post them there, i'll mention the competition no doubt. :)

     

    Lava/Linkay/Linkarian ;)

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  • 08-11-2008 8:58 In reply to

    • Esme
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    Re: Photo Competition

     Come on guys & gals, surely there must be more picies out there!

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  • 08-11-2008 14:04 In reply to

    • Rowanath
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    Re: Photo Competition

    I put some in recently, is that enough or do i have to post here loudly too?

    (want to win my own icon :P) \o/

    (part-time Tailor, reformed DF'er, one-time chicken)

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  • 08-11-2008 14:41 In reply to

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    Re: Photo Competition

    @ Row lol

    It's enough to qualify, but I'm picie greedy Big Smile

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    Esme - lvl 21 - Burglar/Tinker
    Eordhe - lvl 16 - Captain
    Didawar - baby Runekeeper - Full time decorator
  • 08-11-2008 16:06 In reply to

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    atti:

    Got this message while uploading some pics:

    "This site is over its licensed settings. Please notify the site administrator."

    All sorted. It only took me FIVE HOURS TO SORT AngryAngryAngry You'd think there'd be an easy way to move images. turns out there is a very, very good reason why the functionality dosn't exist in the control panel. I'd try and explain, but it would probably take an hour.

    Oh, and the database has been optimised a bit and I've managed to shave 250,000 (!!) rows, (or 70Mb if you think in bytes) from the search index by just telling it to ignore works like "the", "four", "letter", "thread", "skiving" (I wonder where they came from? Whistle)

     

     

     

    lvl60 Guardian,
    and Profanity, Bawbagor's robbing burgler little sister - she's sort of on holiday though, sunning herself in San Tropez after deciding Orcs make her makeup smudgeSmile
  • 08-11-2008 16:29 In reply to

    • Esme
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    Re: Photo Competition

    woops, sorry. If I'd know it was that much work I wouldn't have asked! Apologies Bawb.

    Heappestre - lvl 62 - Minstrel/Yeoman
    Esme - lvl 21 - Burglar/Tinker
    Eordhe - lvl 16 - Captain
    Didawar - baby Runekeeper - Full time decorator
  • 08-12-2008 17:49 In reply to

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    Esme:

    woops, sorry. If I'd know it was that much work I wouldn't have asked! Apologies Bawb.

    I didn't know at the time (and hey - not your fault, no apology required :)  . You'd have thought a piece of software costs $10,000 for the enterprise version (we run the free, feature limited express version) would have this capablity but it turns out it doesn't. I moved everything around in the database (no biggie) but it turns out the uploaded files are renamed based on the section ID. So the lone-lands all start 1000.[SectionID=10].original-file-name.jpg, but end, (oh whatever, you get the idea!) Moving the data to  was fairly easy but it took ages to figure out why images weren't displaying (CS makes heavy use of caching - I'm never sure if what i'm looking at is real, or something that happened 15minutes ago)

    anyhow, eventually I figured it out, and its all working. And I've made a small, but massive update to the search engine thats shaving 70Mb+ off the database size (thats a lot in database land btw)

    But like a good mechanic, you'll never spot it, its a Keyser Söze update Wink

     

    lvl60 Guardian,
    and Profanity, Bawbagor's robbing burgler little sister - she's sort of on holiday though, sunning herself in San Tropez after deciding Orcs make her makeup smudgeSmile
  • 08-12-2008 18:17 In reply to

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    no idea who took this, but I still think this is the best Jester picture ever! \o/

     

     

     

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