Maurice

Actually both .jpg and .png have their uses. PNG is perfect for small pictures, some other pictures that don't have a lot of color variation and for pictures that have transparency flags. Jpg is great for bigger and colorful pictures. Regarding the loss of quality, it depends on the software you use. I usually save my pictures with a quality of 8/10 in Photoshop and it's pretty good. The point is, I'd use Jpg over PNG for those specific pictures because they are much smaller in size in general (again, mainly for bigger and colorful pictures). It's a wiki after all and it's best to try and save on picture size or some pages may end up with several megabytes of data to be loaded which is huge! And with a quality ratio of 8/10, you'd barely (or just slightly) tell the difference between a Jpg and PNG, which is perfectly acceptable. For icons (e.g. Plot legend), country flags, small character pictures, PNG is indeed much better. Just a random example: a 640x480 picture could be saved in Jpg for about 50Kb. The same picture in PNG could be around 250 Kb or more! And the quality difference wouldn't be quite noticeable (given a good jpg quality ratio). It'd be even less noticeable (or not noticeable at all) if the source is not of perfect quality from the start (like it'd be if it was an HD episode for example). To sum up, there's not really a standard at this point but the way I've been doing things, I prefer saving to jpg the following: - Profile pictures, character pictures, people pictures, gallery pictures, ... I use PNG for: - Icons, flags, plot legend, small pictures, ... (they could also be used for the 60px version of characters which we could start converting to if we wanted to)

Ajax is more of a process than anything else. It's the fact of using a combination of Javascript and server scripting to dynamically load section(s) of a page without having to reload the whole page (by using internal requests at the Javascript level). MySQL is a database software which will be used in our case to store information data about everything related to the game (users, items, quests, etc...).

PHP/Ajax/MySQL

It's called "post quality". If the post that person creates is relevant, it's good. If he/she makes too many futile/irrelevant posts, then he/she may be labeled as a spammer. The other thing you guys need to realize is that we're certainly not trying to put the emphasis on "posting more and more" or to create some kind of competition among forumers for who has the most posts. That's really not the goal of this event, and neither is posting on those forums in general. We're simply trying to have nicer names than "Members" and "Advanced members" cause, let's admit it, they're a bit boring. :/ And that's really all there is to it. We're not promoting spamming and if someone is found spamming, proper sanctions will be taken.

True, you can edit it if you want but the icon will stay. And the icon shows which rank you're at. For example, if it's a detective icon, we know that you're at that rank level even if you change your rank name, which is totally cool. As for quadruple posting, there are a few things we can do about that. First of all, if the person is seen to spam on purpose, he/she will be warned (there's a warning system integrated). And if it's too much abused, we could remove post counting from some forums like the General Chat one (i.e. post count won't increase). But really, there's nothing to win by spamming. It's just a rank name and that's it..

Yay, congratulations to the wiki and everyone who helped! Let's go have a drink!

I've started working a bit on it. There's still a lot to do though. But please, keep your ideas coming!

Hey all, Since the community has grown quite a lot since 2009, I think it would be nice to start "prettyfying" and organizing the forum a little bit. And I think we could use your help for that! What I was thinking we could do is implement new ranks and icons for members. Right now, the only two ranks we have are: Members and Advanced Members (not including the staff like moderators). We also have a special group called "Donators" (only one person in it so far). It would be interesting to have more of them and eventually DC-related. For example: 0 posts and more => Novice 10 posts and more => Detective boy 50 posts and more => High-school detective 100 posts and more => Detective etc... or we could be original and have: 0 posts and more => Genta's friend 10 posts and more => Ayumi's friend 50 posts and more => Mitsuhiko's friend 100 posts and more => Detective Boys 500 posts and more => Ai's friend 1000 posts and more => Ran's friend 2500 posts and more => Gin's nemesis etc... You get the idea. So, what I'm asking of you guys is to suggest nice/cool/fun ranks and then we'll choose the best ones (or do a vote, we'll see). Don't hesitate to think outside of the box! As for the icons, you may have noticed that we only have: x number of dots for members: Admin: Moderators: Once we decide on the ranks or if you feel motivated, we would really like some suggestions or designs for the icons as well. For example, it could be Genta's face for the "Genta's friend" rank, etc... Again, any idea is welcome. Just let your imagination go wild! I hope this is gonna be a successful little event here and that you guys have fun with it. Thank you and may the fun begin!

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Thanks for the news. It's new to me too heh. It'll be fun to see that scene. Moved to News forum.

Happy birthday dude! Thank you for your involvement in our growing and awesome community! The podcasts are also really awesome! I wish you all the best on this special day and for 2011!! Have fun!

Nice wallpaper lol.

Studio updated!

@Shuuichi and Monsi: You're actually both wrong. I introduced myself on October 5, 2009, which is almost 7 months after I created my account: Which means, I'm not the one holding the record hehe.