The Dragons Lair

Now on the view topic page down where the e-mail, PM, and msn icons are there are 2 new icons for each user. They allow you to quickly add a friend or foe with out having to visit a persons profile. Hope this will be just another way to make the TDL experience simpler and more enjoyable.

Just a note - I am also updating this forum with new prefixes. This way the topics are more detailed as to how big the changes are.

I will make these types of topics now and then to give more information about some of the mods that we use here. Major mods like the points mod we see everywhere yet there are also some lesser known features of the mod that are fun but not used much. That's what this topic is for.

The Lottery - This can be fun and rather rewarding. A ticket costs 1 Scale. You can buy up to 20 each round and that money is added to the jackpot. The jackpot starts with 10 Scales in it each round and there is no limit. There is a 50% chance a winner will be chosen and if no one wins then the jackpot will roll over.

Robbery - The robbery module is a pretty unique feature. You can try to steal other users scales. Be careful tho as this can be risky. You can steal 10% of a users scales however there is only a 20% chance to succeed and if you don't then you lose 50% of what you were trying to steal.

Lastly is The Bank - This is a way to save scales and it also protects them from robbery. You wil also earn an interest rate on scales in the bank. Below are the details of the bank.

Bank Information

Balance - YOUR Scales

Interest Rate - 10.00%

Period for payout of interests - 1 month

Max. value for interests - 10,000.00 Scales

Withdrawal Rate - 5.00%

Account costs per period - 10.00 Scales

Minimum deposit - 100.00 Scales

Minimum withdrawal - 10.00 Scales

Total opened accounts - 33

Total Holdings - YOUR Scales

Hope you find this informative

After searching for a while now we have finally found a good top menu that will not interfere with other parts of the forum or phpBB3 itself. The sidebar was good for its purpose but it also made the forum more cramped and for new comers it was hard to understand. Our new menu up top should be much easier and more intuitive. We hope this addition will help attract more users and improve everyone's experience

The long awaited shop mod has been added. It will contain the various items you can purchase with the sites cash(aka Scales). We are still working on the items to add to it so currently there aren't many. Most items will require a setup procedure to be done by me so when you purchase the item we will both be notified by PM. I will then contact you with further details

The shop can be found here - shop.php

Now the calendar mod is something different. It will display any important event going on at the site. Users can add their own to it as well. It has many features that are yet unexplored by myself but I will post back here with more details soon.

The calendar can be found here - calendar.php

Just two more additions to the site that I wanted to let you know about. Another big one is coming very very soon. This one will be a good one so stay tuned

A more catchy name is in the works Never the less please give them a warm welcome. They will be responsible for creating and/or providing content for the forum and/or website that is now under development. Agentmanningctu is the first member of the team and will lead the team as it develops. We should all wish him luck and welcome him as the newest staff member here at TDL

You may encounter a few minor errors here and there. I needed to move the forum into a sub-directory on the server so that we can begin work on the main site. If you do encounter anything at all then please reply here with the problem. Thanks all.

If you have not noticed yet by the banner rotating above we are now 1 year old

Its been a long year for us and I have been working hard since day one promoting, updating, and whatever else I could do to make the forum what it is now. I have had a great deal of help along the way. The great members of forumpromotion.net are the first to be mentioned. Our awesome staff here plus some volunteer help from people such as Draconia who has helped with the arcade. Plus every member who has been or still is active should be mentioned because without them the forum would not be here.

Now looking toward the future. We will have many more contests to come. As our revenue grows from ads and such the prizes for these contests will increase as well. I will work even harder on bringing in new members to our community and will be adding 1 more member to the staff soon. We also just added the forum shop and will continue to add things to it for you to spend your forum cash on. I will also be looking at groups and/or ranks to work on a way to better reward those who post here a lot. All in all I feel great about where the forum is heading and look forward to another year

Don't forget about our current contests as well. They will both be running until the end of August.

The posting contest

and

The referral contest

As promised as part of our expanding rewards system we have now included our smallest hosting package and .info domains into the rewards system. Sorry for such a delay but I wanted to get a better feel for how the adjusted economy would be. We WILL offer more very soon. Larger to Unlimited hosting packages and more TLDs such as .mobi and .net plus many more. Check the main topic here for all the details viewtopic.php?f=69&t=9799

I have had this and been meaning to install it forever. When I saw it implemented on FP I remembered it and got it up.

It allows you to make comments to people's profiles and they can reply to your comments on your profile. Simply visit a persons profile to comment on them. You can control from your UCP who can and can't comment. You can allow everyone or you can allow only friends to(people who have you on their friend list). You can also block your foes. To access the settings go to Board Preferences in the UCP. You can also delete undesired comments from your own profile. If its a malicious or mean comment I would like it reported to me or a moderator before you delete it.

We will not tolerate abuse of this. You will be warned or maybe even banned if you do. Play nice and we can all have a good time

Edit - I forgot to mention a new button appears on each post now "comment". If you click this it takes you to the posters profile to make a comment.

There may be a few errors experienced here and there over the weekend. The forum may even be inaccessible for a few minutes here and there. This will all be as minimal as I can make it. I am going to work on a few mods starting tonight. One of which is pretty complicated. Just wanted to give a heads up ahead of time