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Fixed - add players

Hi all,

seems I hadn't quite fixed the add player issues as fully as I thought. If you were having problems adding your player ("A similar entry already exists&quot then please try again.

Thanks

October 22, 2015

46 Comments • Newest first

Baroo

@renexz: Saw no reason to create a new thread if I'm experiencing an old issue. *shrugs shoulders*

Reply May 5, 2016
renexz

@baroo: Seems we have a necromancer out here e.e

Reply May 5, 2016
Baroo

I can't update/change my avatar.
Every time I try I get a message saying, "A similar entry already exists." >_

Reply May 5, 2016
Crowla

Likewise ^

Reply January 3, 2016
LordAnubiS

I keep getting this message: "Your pic is the wrong size, please read the instructions below"... can't update my main. :'(

Reply December 24, 2015
JetlagJag

@mrbasil, did you accidentally kill your avatar, too?

Reply October 24, 2015
SnailPresident

"There was an error. Please try again."

I followed the message's instruction about 5 times between last night and this morning.

Reply October 24, 2015
Microsoft

Getting the "similar entry already exist" error

Reply October 24, 2015
Feeling

is there any way to remove characters? D:

Reply October 23, 2015
xXjarakudaXx

my mage got rejected, all I wanted was to update the level. "More often than not this is because your pic is clearly edited or the pic". ...what?

Reply October 23, 2015
R4z0r

[url=http://imgur.com/028fPCr]This what happen after i try to update my character.[/url]

Reply October 23, 2015
CureSword

My Bowmaster got rejected due to "pic is clearly edited" but she is on the official ranking.

Reply October 23, 2015
ChaosH

Yay, add players finally working. Too well actually, have two of my mains, trying to edit one of them to become my mule/secondary. I'm guessing there is no 'delete' function yet?

Reply October 23, 2015
xLikeNoOther

Alright so how do we update one of the characters to be our current avatar?

Reply October 23, 2015
deadangel13

Haha apparently I needed to wait for a character confirmation.. Now I have 3 of my main
Is there a way to delete 2?

Reply October 23, 2015
HiImSanpai

Alright it worked ;D

Reply October 23, 2015
shiro820

@juubee: http://www.basilmarket.com/add/player

Reply October 23, 2015
rixworkwix

emailed and you fused my 209 shade and my 140 bishop and tunred it into a 105 shade as a mage character. il email again tommorow, youre probably swamped and its such a small thing

Reply October 23, 2015
Evalithia

Oops, now I have two of one character.

Reply October 23, 2015
mrbasil

@rixworkwix: is it off the official rankings? If so, please email it to me and I'll have a look - contact at basilmarket dot com. Thank you

Reply October 23, 2015
rixworkwix

my character keeps getting rejected. halp

Reply October 23, 2015
mrbasil

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I get that it looks like your pic is disappearing. The fact is that all entries need to be ok'd now (I've updated it so that you get an notice indicating this when you add / edit a player). Eventually, I wil set it up so that your current pic / player stays put until I ok the new one. I just haven't had time to implement this yet.

@lllllllllllllil: how about now please?
@juarmo: good feedback about the frontpage latest posts. I've changed it to show a summary of the TS post, not that of the latest poster. Ty for the feedback on this and other bits. I can appreciate your frustration. I am doing my best to address the issues.
@epicmoose, @xdwow2: you can email me (contact at basilmarket dot com or use the contact form at the bottom) and I'll help you get back on your old account.
@juubee: the same way. Is that not working for you?

Reply October 23, 2015
juubee

you're sent to the front page for now after successfully updating a player. it will appear in your player page later when it's approved by a bot or something. you'll get a message about it.

now, how do i add a brand new player?

Reply October 23, 2015
haunt

ok it deleted my character, and it won't let me add it again..

Reply October 23, 2015
Evalithia

Oh. It just deletes my character and then sends me to the front page.

Reply October 22, 2015
EPlCMOOSE

@juarmo: I couldn't agree more. I can't even access my old account... I've been logging on with my basil ID for a while now and simply forgot the email I signed up with years ago.

Reply October 22, 2015
juarmo

I'm not even getting an error, it just redirects me to the home screen, without any error message showing up... and withthout actually adding my character....
MrBasil, even if this new site layayout DID work 100% correctly, it'd still be a step backwards.
It's simply less convenient, it's simply less practical. And i don't think it looks as nice.
Because the front page detailing us the most recent post in a thread, rather than the first post in the thread, doesn't help, i often times end up entering threads just to find out what they're talking about because neither the most recent reply (BECAUSE its a reply, it leaves out any information already stated, which strips it of any context, so if neither the title nor the most recent post gives context, what the fudge do i do?) nor the title itself gives any indication whatsoever.

Worse, since it is neither organized nor labeled by topic, I oftentimes end up going into conversations that i don't care about...
Most people use the section itself (Ex, a title in the Evan forum "Still?" could be about ANYTHING, but if we know it's about Evan, we'll already have some idea as to what the question would be about, and if the first few words of his post were, "After two years, we STILL don't have our..." it's most likely about our revamp, but noone would figure that out without the contextual clues of it being an Evan topic, and the first few words of the topic....) as an indication as to where they're going with the title, or they use a vague title, and then explain their stance with the first few words of their first post, which the new layout prevents either from working as well as they should...

There is too much nonsense going on on Chat Island, can it go back to being crammed at the bottom of the page?

Its more useful to know what the first post said from the front page, because KNOWING the thread is ON the front page, that means in all likelihood, it has a new post, which I'd rather ENTER the topic to view, simply knowing what the dang topic is about is FAR more useful than knowing what was said most recently

Because the botched avatar thing, because 90% of the site's features STILL redirect to the main page instead of working, because no features seem to be actually be being ADDED, just taken away... (i get that some features were broken, but we didn't even get any new functions to the site that justified breaking them at all for the sake of this new layout, which is inferior in nearly *every* possible way)
TLDR: Even if it worked properly, the new layout would still be a downgrade from the previous one...
Ain't nothing simpler about actually USING it...
I don't even think it LOOKS nicer
It's probably been simpler to make/create/code/maintain, but this interface is backwards and confusing to use, not straightforward and simple...
I'm not even trying to be aggro like i normally am, i'm just legitimately dissapointed, and not in a hotheaded way.
EDit: i tried to post THIS and it gave an error.
a FORUM's most basic feature is broken, all for the sake of trying to create a new layout that's worse than the old one, in practicality, ease of use, and aesthetics.
Even IF it worked right, it'd still be worse MrBasil, I hope you stop trying to fix a system that's still worse than what we had before, simply because of the INTENDED changes to that system...
Even if it works the way you envisioned, the way you envision the site working is still worse than the way it worked before.
I don't know if it's because you want to make it easy on yourself to code it, but then, instead of cheaping out on a NEW layout, you should just use what you already have if you don't want to try...
Every time you change the layout, whatever functional changes make it harder to use...
layout 2 made it so i had to hover over stuff to see the buttons or the timestamp on a post, making it next-to impossible to use on a touchscreen...
Layout 3, well, this is just WAY to much of a backwards step...
Either revert or I'm leaving this site. Permanently.
This change isn't worth waiting 3 months for site's features to get fix, heck, it wasn't even worth waiting 8 hours for the site to go on maintinence to implement it, in fact, i wouldn't wait 1 minute for this crud to be implemented, because I know that just the new layout will wind up costing me a few seconds every time i try to use it, and even if i got used to it, i'd still be just a LITTLE faster with the old layout.
If i had the choice, i'd wait 3 months to get the OLD layout back, 3 months of this site being shut down... i just can't tolerate this new site, because it's fundamentally WORSE than the old one... it'd be fine if it was purely asthetic, but even the functional changes to the site that were INTENDED, are a step backwards, and I'm not waiting for you to fix a system that'll be broken even when it's fixed. This new layout is simply inferior, it's unfinished, and it will STILL be inferior AFTER it's finished.

Reply October 22, 2015
yiffyfurry

It doesn't add my character, it just goes back to homescreen

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
Xdwow2

still trying. I actually want back my original account tho XDWOW, but i forgot what e-mailed I used for it. Imma have to use my dark knight as my avatar then -__-

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
rixworkwix

@m4g02005: this is happening to me to. just lost my shade

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
m4g02005

I cant add new players and when i edit some player, he just dissapear o-o

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
deadangel13

But everytime I add a player nothing happens
And when I try to update an existing one, he just disapears
What changed?

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
HiImSanpai

@mrbasil: Nope didn't work. I tried to add 3 times and nothing pops up. Just directs to me the front page.

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
lllllllllllllIl

@mrbasil: Google Chrome (updated, no extensions, browser), mage forum takes me back to main page when I click any topic

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
mrbasil

@lllllllllllllil: hmm... they all work for me, which browser are you using pls (name + browser or mobile)? If you run extensions can you disable them temporarily to see if that fixes it please?

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
lllllllllllllIl

@mrbasil: WoW damn.... lol that is hard work considering the amount of times people change the look.

There is another issue on the website I found. When you go to the general mage forums you can't go to any posts, it takes you back to main page.

Try clicking a link here: http://www.basilmarket.com/Mage-Forum-5

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
RFighter

Yay, it's finally accepting my pic. Thanks Mr. B!

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
lllllllllllllIl

@mrbasil: I changed the profile picture to my new one on the maple website, not getting the size error but not seeing anything either.

EDIT: Nevermind it just got changed. The bot is just a bit slow in updating the picture. It works now.

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
HiImSanpai

You messed up something else. THe pic is the wrong size.
Just revert the old style back. This is one gross af.

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited
lllllllllllllIl

Same issue the picture can't be added or something.... -_-

Reply October 22, 2015 - edited