The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Bulletin => Imperial HR Office => Topic started by: Tamer on June 09, 2008, 07:20:45 AM
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We have started a frequently asked questions page, but if you can't find what you are looking for there and need some help just ask your question below. An administrator or moderator will try to help! We all started out needing help ourselves so please don't feel "stupid" or "dumb" if you need help. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to figure something out and not just quite knowing what to do. I have done that numerous times myself!
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Tamer I need help the yards wont let me pm people. It keeps saying words below do not match picture shown
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Tamer I need help the yards wont let me pm people. It keeps saying words below do not match picture shown
Is this from the message section under new message or are you hitting the personal message icon right below a member's avatar? We will get you sending messages.
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Tamer I need help the yards wont let me pm people. It keeps saying words below do not match picture shown
Is this from the message section under new message or are you hitting the personal message icon right below a member's avatar? We will get you sending messages.
It does it under the new message icon and under a member's avatar
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Just got a message from you, looks like its working.
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the same thing is happening to me as squirepec7, i'm unable to send pm's ???
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We'll have to look into this as a friend of mine on here has the same problem
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Guys, I'm not 100% sure yet, but I am thinking this is a type of security measure to ensure no spammers get through. I believe that it has to do with your post count. My guess, and I'm still looking into it, is that once you have 10 posts or so, you should be able to send PMs no problem. If I find anything else, I'll let you all know.
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Well there ya go then! LOL! Learn something new everyday! Now if I could just figure out why only a very select few cannot see the graphics on our front page, I'll be happy!
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Could we get a "favorites" button? If there is a post you want to keep up with you would hit this button and it would link to the thread so you can find it or later go back to check on the topic . What do you think?
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if you hit the notify button in the upper section of a thread you will get notifications of new posts in that thread
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the same thing is happening to me as squirepec7, i'm unable to send pm's ???
Thats funny you sent me three?....... ???
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True Sarge, or you can use the show new post since last visit, but lets say you are using someones thread as a reference for a custom you want to make. The thread may be old and not getting any new replies. If we had an add to favorites button you could click it and you could have a collection of your favorite customs by someone else that you might want to make for yourself. Hope that makes sense.
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There is no function for that in SMF software (the software for the forums here), as it would be a completely new function, and I am definitely NOT a programmer. The best I could suggest is to right click the title of the particular post or thread you are looking to save, and save it as a bookmark.
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Guys, I'm not 100% sure yet, but I am thinking this is a type of security measure to ensure no spammers get through. I believe that it has to do with your post count. My guess, and I'm still looking into it, is that once you have 10 posts or so, you should be able to send PMs no problem. If I find anything else, I'll let you all know.
the odd thing is one of our new members that i know from You Tube legion078 was able to PM me with only 5 posts to his name....
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I Have one question do we have any female star wars collectors here on ISY ?
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I Have one question do we have any female star wars collectors here on ISY ?
Thats a good question, I hope so!
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im having problems staying logged in wenever i close the internet then come on later i have to keep signing in
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Is anyone else having problems staying logged in?
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Not me, try clearing your browse history/cache/forms and all that and let the website ask to remember your password again, that should hopefully do the trick
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I'm pretty confused about customizing figures. I was wondering what the best paint is for customs and how people can get so much detail into symbols on their figures. Do they use stencils, or do they just have lots and lots of skill?
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Hello and welcome to the shipyards!
As far as what paint to use for your customs, the usual medium of choice is acrylic model paint.
I use testors, model master, and floquil acrylic paints and many others use citidel games workshop paints.
As far as detailed markings, some people use a mechanical pencil to kind of sketch the markings on a figure prior to painting them. Some use decals, and some just do it freehand.
For your first project, start with something simple and as you go along, your skills will grow.
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And if you go shopping for Testors paints at Hobby Lobby or Michael's, *PLEASE* read the label! Testors makes a *lot* of enamel paints and you may accidentally end up with some of those if you aren't careful! I've had that problem recently - grabbing enamel instead of "acryl" as they are labeled - and I've been doing this for decades.
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Can you buy games workshop paints at Michael's or any other craft store, or do you have to order it online?
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As far as I know, you can only get them at specialty gaming stores or online.
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Do you have to get an image of of Photobucket/Imageshack, or can you just load a picture from a file on your computer?
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You can load directly from your computer, by clicking on Additional Options below the input box when you click reply, but they display much better and much easier using Photobucket or Flickr
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I don't know why, but when I try to use the chatroom, it doesn't show any text at all. Why is it doing that?
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Can you buy games workshop paints at Michael's or any other craft store, or do you have to order it online?
You can get them at Hobby shops like Hobby Lobby or Hobbytown USA
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If you post a competition (I'm not saying I am though, at least probably not), do you have to offer something for the winner or only if you choose to?
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If you post a competition (I'm not saying I am though, at least probably not), do you have to offer something for the winner or only if you choose to?
Well we are always open to new ideas for competitions, but as we deal with all of the parameters from contest particulars to voting please approach one of our friendly mods or admins about your idea. If it sounds feasable you could see your contest in the next go round. Our contest coordinators are Luke Sprywalker and Clonehead. Just run your idea past them.
If we like it we would come up with a prize. Trust me, there are things when you try to run a contest that are sometimes nerve wracking and I would spare you from that stress. Just contact Sprywalker or Clonehead and they will see if its feasable.
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Why is it that whenever I open the chatroom it doesn't show any text at all? It doesn't even let me type in the chatroom.
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Why is it that whenever I open the chatroom it doesn't show any text at all? It doesn't even let me type in the chatroom.
do you ever select a font other then the chats default?
if so, set it back to the chats default font of Arial and see if that fixes it..
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Thanks Spooky, that is indeed one good tip. Our chatroom is an smf add on called flashchat that works synonomously with the forum software. I will admit it has its limitations. I think there may be a newer version of this and if I can make sure we don't all have to reregister then I may try to figure it out.
Still, we do have a chat that works for the most part even though it has a few bugs. I have actually been in it for a few times last week. It is nice to see it being used.
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yes, there is a new version available from what Mute said and according to him it will fix a lot of the issues we have now. But, it is nice to have a place to gather....
oh, and my answer to that question was based on me having that same issue and found out it was changing the default font causing it.....
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what happened to the front page?
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what happened to the front page?
LOL. I am sitting here tearing my hair out wondering where all of my beautiful news stories went. We are working on it.
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is there anyway to add a "go to first new post" button on the threads? You know, a button you can click on to take you to the first post that was made after you visited last so we dont have to go to the last post in the thread and hunt in reverse?
Posts get missed like that and sometimes things dont get answered especially when the page flips and no one goes to the previous page to see a post they missed.
Hope that makes sense.
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There is not.
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For me the handiest thing I found for helping me with this was under my profile and preferences making sure I hit, under the look and layout section, the tab that says show most recent posts at the top. Hands down it makes the smf forum system that we are using so much easier for me.
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well...........poop
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Can we get a place on site that tell who is on the site with out going into the forums
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Can we get a place on site that tell who is on the site with out going into the forums
Not that I know of Sergio. We tried at one time integrating a php homepage instead of the front page we have now, but at a minimum it was such a pain and so user unfriendly we opted for what we have now. Sometimes I have seen folks just use the smf forums as their front page, but as the forums is mainly text as far as a toc a front page with graphics and links is usually considered a little more eye pleasing.
We have also tried different forums and software and front page extensions and this configuration has been the one that has been the most consistent and easy to use so far. As always we wish there were a few more things we could do, but its technology and doesn't always work the way we want it too. I will look to see if in the css style page there is some type of html code for the whose on the forums Sergio. However, even if we did try to integrate it it would probably still stay at the bottom of the page and mean scrolling down a good bit to see it so perhaps the click into the forums would be quicker anyhow.
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Are you asking about something on the front page of the site that lets you know who's in the forums?
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Are you asking about something on the front page of the site that lets you know who's in the forums?
Thats what I took his meaning Pat.
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Does the site and forum keep going down for everyone else or is it just me?
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It has been going in and out for me too. I am looking into it.
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I am having problems sending pm's as well
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Ryan, you must make ten posts in the forums before the pm system will work for you.