Its on the list

Hi all,

At Gwynedd's request I have tryed to add links to all the ideas listed so you can continue the discussion on them until they are either rejected or implemented.

Adoross

@[RPA] El Bekko [Ben]

For each user and for each group for each forum you can either choose a permissions type or custom choose weather they:

User Permissions
Can attach files               
Can disable word censors            
Can download files            
Can save drafts            
Can use signature
Can change avatar               
Can change e-mail address            
Can change default usergroup            
Can change username            
Can change password            
Can view profiles, memberlist and online list
Can hide online status               
Can ignore flood limit            
Can search board            
Can send e-mails            
Can send instant messages            
Can view hidden online users
Can send messages to multiple users               
Can send messages to groups            
Can attach files in private messages            
Can post BBCode in private messages            
Can remove private messages from own folder            
Can download files in private messages            
Can edit own private messages            
Can e-mail private messages            
Can post Flash in private messages            
Can forward private messages            
Can post images in private messages            
Can print private messages            
Can post smilies in private messages            
Can read private messages            
Can send private messages

Mod Permissions
- Can approve posts
- Can change post author
- Can delete posts
- Can edit posts
- Can close and delete reports
- Can manage bans
- Can view post details
- Can issue warnings
- Can lock topics
- Can merge topics
- Can move topics
- Can split topics

Admin Permissions:
Can alter admin permission class               
Can alter permissions for individual groups            
Can alter permissions for individual users            
Can alter forum permission class            
Can alter moderator permission class            
Can manage roles            
Can use others permissions            
Can alter user permission class            
Can view permission masks
Can alter attachment related settings               
Can define BBCode tags            
Can alter topic/post icons and smilies            
Can alter word censors
Can backup/restore database               
Can manage bots            
Can clear logs            
Can send mass e-mail            
Can manage language packs            
Can manage modules            
Can manage report/denial reasons            
Can manage search backends and settings            
Can manage styles            
Can view logs
Can manage bans               
Can manage groups            
Can add new groups            
Can delete groups            
Can manage disallowed names            
Can manage custom profile fields            
Can manage ranks            
Can manage users           
Can delete/prune users
Can alter board settings/check for updates               
Can alter Jabber settings            
Can view php settings            
Can alter server/communication settings
Can manage forums               
Can add new forums            
Can delete forums            
Can prune forums

You are not restricted to, you are a user, you are a mod, you are an admin. So I would class that as custom permissions

Ty, Wild Flower Soul and I am reading your views Smarty don't think I'm ignoring you but I have and iron will

@thisyearsmostopen, Don't worry all major changes are going through Stefan and the mods are supporting me with all the rests so its no likely that anything drematic is going to be changing.

The development will not affect current game play and I hope for as little down time as possible.

Hi All,

Thanks for the warm welcomes and I hope to prove myself to those with douts. Follows is a little information to those who are wonder whats going on.

I'm adoross, I first registered with IC on the 2004-11-18 but didn't play much. I recently return to find everything pretty much the way I left it which is quite worrying. I have more than 5 years experiance with PHP, MySQL, CSS and JavaScript and am soon to start work as a C#.NET developer. I have had plans to start developing my own Browser game for the last few months so a designer friend of mine and I started developing shortly before I revisited IC. I decided it would be more practical to revive a game with an existing user base rather than start again. So via Primo I contacted Stefan who apparently had just started searching for someone to start helping out and so here I am the new developer of IC.

To answer some of your questions:
Q. Have you seen the code yet? If so, any initial reactions?
A. No I will get my first look at the full code base tomorrow morning after it is copyed to a development server.

Q. To follow up the previous question, did you know what you were getting into?
A. I know that it will be hard work but not so much as starting again. Atlest thats what I'm hoping.

Q. Are you doing this for free or are you being compensated
A. At this current time I am not receiving any "compensation" for my work and am not asking for any. I'm doing it because I like IC and its players.

Q. Do you play the game
A. I have been playing but I have informed my family that I will be working on IC and that I will not have time to play anything other than the development server. The are currently claiming my planets.

Q. What experience do you have with programming in general? How about with PHP/MySQL? How about with PHP code that requires register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc to be enabled? How about in an environment where editing code in the production server is the norm?
A. You can see my experience above with both PHP and MySQL. I have experiance with both register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc and I have worked on project that involved editing code on the production server but am able to both run virtually on my own computer and have my own server to test on. Not to mention Stefan is setting up a development server so this will not be happening in this case.

Q. Why have you chosen to do what is essentially free development work for Stefan? What made you decide to do it without having looked at the code?
A. As I said above I believe it better to revive a game I have respect for than to start again and the reason I agreed to work on the code before i've seen it is because I've experiance with really really bad code so it can be anything I've not handled before/

Finally, I have alot of spare time now and will be spending most of my free time when I start work activily developing IC and monitoring the forum. If you have further questions please feel free to ask but remember the time it takes me to answer them is time away from fixing bugs.

Best Regards,
Adoross

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