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December 9, 2008

That depends only from people... Maybe here we are all just lucky? I was member of national polish sacred site, which has something I can call acreditation. Polish distributor and even Ascaron link that site as their polish main site about Sacred. But admin made few decisions which split polish community. It was about 3 months ago... It was really bad moment. Decisions were very controversial. With parts of users went away also all moderators and even now this forum has no one new in their place from what I heard.

I think here main factor is feeling, that people here can be part of something common and active change something. I think about SacredWiki. Look at gogo. He is active, speak with everyone and care about site. Look at Schott. He always try to do something helpfull. Many people here want to give something to others. And that is something really good. Other sites are based on strict old rules where admin and mod can only change content. Here is community which can change articles, information and everything connected with Sacred universum.

Some of us know others also not from forum but from game or even from real life. That makes us all responsible for what other people can found, read on SacredWiki. And make us all equal. Maybe admin and mods have more rights but they don't use them to be better that others. In fact they try to help us because they know we may help them in, for example, filling quest list. So make scripts and templates to orginize our support for them. That site base on our help and we can be part of it. Not only posters or readers but also partly authors. Other side which is probably not seen... Look at people here and look somewhere else. Here are mostly adults, many of them are parents and they simply think different way than teenagers. For many of us it isn't important who is greatest/fastest/biggest and other -est I have distance to world, others and what most important... me myself. And I see that here is more people like me. Some of them are younger, and some are older. But even teenagers here are more adult than their peer group (or maybe I see them that way). So I can conclude that around Sacred gathered group of intelligent people with open minds. They can think independent, on their own, using brain. Maybe not always they share same point of view but they can show it or even defend in civilised, polite way.

Of course there are people in Sacred too, we want forget about and don't see on servers anymore (cheaters, thieves). That's part of each community. And I can only regret, that many of them is from my country, especially when we talk about being rude to other players. But here, on site and forum they aren't exists and I'm happy from that. Maybe it's connected with our adulthood? Of course I think about mental, not physical adulthood

December 9, 2008

1. What color pants are you wearing?

Black. With gray stripe on both sides.

2. What are you listening to right now?

A bunch of gothic and metal songs.

3. What was the last thing you ate?

Mashed potatoes, liver sauteed with onion and pickles with mustard.

4. Do you wish on stars?

No. Or maybe I wish not to hit me directly

5. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

Invisible.

6. What is the weather right now?

I don't see... Fog and clouds cover everything :]

7. Favorite drink?

Non-alcohol -> Tymbark (it's polish fruit juice)

Alcohol - Morgan spiced + cola

8. Favorite sport?

Computer -> logical games like Sudoku and RPG

Non-computer -> football (soccer)

9. Hair color?

Dark blonde

10. Do you wear contacts?

No

11. Siblings?

1 damned sister...

12. Favorite month?

This year -> July

Usually -> January

13. Favorite food?

Don't have.

14. What was the last movie you saw at the theater?

Mummy3... But I'm not 100% sure.

15. Favorite day of the year?

Happy day.

16. How do you vent your anger?

Anger? I'm rather rare angry. And I can handle with this state, so no one knows when am I piffed off. Even my girlfriend. We live together half year and she think I'm always happy.

17. What was your favorite toy as a child?

Books if that counts as a toy. I've readed books when I was 4-5yo.

18. Summer or winter?

Autumn.

19. Hugs or kisses?

Depending with who :agreed:

20. Chocolate or vanilla?

Powder sweets.

21. When was the last time you cried?

About 1.5 year ago, when I was on airport, waiting for departure from my homeland country and rang my current girlfriend telling me that she is missing after me already very much.

22. What is under your bed?

Dust. Mostly...

23. What did you do last night?

Listened music, watching some anime and chit-chatting with one girl.

24. What are you afraid of?

I don't know... Really. Probably loneliness.

25. Plain, buttered or salted popcorn?

Only salted.

26. Favorite car?

Hate cars. I'm 26yo and still refuse to make my own driving licence.

27. Favorite flower?

Too specified. Flower. Hmmm... Some kind of Orchidea probably, maybe hyacinth...

Plant -> Ivy

28. Number of keys on your key ring?

5... at this moment.

29. How many years at your current job?

Now unemployed. Last job 1.5 year, almost 2.

30. Favorite day of the week?

Free day.

31. What did you do on your last birthday?

Drinking with my flatmate (I was in foreign country)

32. How many states have you lived in?

Depending what we count as a state. When you think state=country -> 2, when as a state=voivodeship -> 3

33. How many cities/towns have you lived in?

Depending on how long period you count as a place of living. In some I lived 1-2 weeks or was many times for a long period of time. Example: I was living and studying at a same time in two towns. Distance between them was about 25miles (37km). I was travelling Monday to Friday between them for a 5 years. But basically: 3

34. What is your favourite scent?

Forest during warm summer night.

35. What is your favorite candy?

Powder candy.

36. Married or single?

Single but tied up.

37. Happy or Sad about the direction your life is taking right now?

Rather happy.

38. What do you miss the most right now?

My crew. They are 200km from me now in different part of my country...

39. Any regrets?

No.

40. Sunshine or a Rainy day?

Rainy.

41. Are you in love?

Aye :big_boss:

December 2, 2008

Great work Schot

I want only say... Look out with markers. Most of persons is using adding in simple way but it's slooooowing whole map. When on map is more than 100-200 markers there is huge lag :/ There is solution for this. Object called marker manager (look in Google API references). It show only markers on visible part of map but remember all of them. Because of that it allow using few times more markers without visible lag. Oh... And paths can be added as a switch (same way as now with mini-bosses and Easter eggs) but it is connected with creating polylines. How it could work? Look here -> http://mapwow.com/ I was using this site as some kind of tutorial. I was looking inside JS scripts of this site and thinking: "How that is working?" and that helped me much. I think you may think similiar after time spended over them Map and whole site is slowed down by markers in way I mentioned (simple adding without marker manager). Still is a good tutorial for someone who is starting with Google API. Maybe at least I help a bit in your future work

Posted November 12, 2008 · November 12, 2008

And a little about someone new(signed today). But looking here from time to time for little chit-chat about programming and scripting (with Schot) from few days :hugs: Here is Thomas.