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[fields]


• What are the field names in the bloodpoints database?
  
• Why is the database doing funky stuff with my master vampire and sire? I can't seem to change it to my liking!
  

[suggestions]


• I've got a suggestion to make for the site - where do I send it to?
  
• Suggestion: I've a question you should put into the FAQ!
  

[bugs]


• There's a security problem with your site that I found, it's...!
  
• I can't log in... ;_;
  
• I had my stat XYZ set as ABC yesterday, why is it LMN now?
  
• The number of registered vampires is decreasing?
  

[navigation]


• Why are some people's rows in darker red?
  
• Why are some people's names not linked?
  
• How are clans added to your database?
  
• And double-yew-tee-eff is this map of the city my control panel links to?
  

[nonsense]


• The moment I put my eMail on the BP database, my eMail account began to receive spam! You must be in league with those companies! I'll sue you if I must!
  
• This site sucks.
  



What are the field names in the bloodpoints database?



BASICS
bloodpoints		You have drunk # pints of blood.
money		Welcome to Omnibank. Your account has # coins in it. Entering 0 will mark your bank account as "Withheld."
email		This is an optional field in case you want people to have the option to contact you. It is NOT encoded to resist spidering - so if you want to cloak it, do it yourself (e.g. "pinkgothic at t-online dot de" rather than using @ for "at" and . for "dot").
POWERS		I won't list all powers here, instead, simply summarised, this is the place on viewvamp you should look to fill it out: Powers: ...
ITEMS		Again, I won't list all items here, but you can find them on viewvamp in this section: Possessions: ... (#) ...
VAMPIRIC ASSOCIATIONS
mastervamp		your lineage runs as follows: ... and the master vampire .... or You are a second-generation vampire. Your sire is .... or you don't have one, in which case you should enter your own name. For "allow editting? yes/no", see 'caretaker'.
sire		your lineage runs as follows: ... ... or You are a second-generation vampire. Your sire is .... or you don't have one, in which case you should enter your own name. For "allow editting? yes/no", see 'caretaker'.
childer		You are sire to # other vampires, ... or you don't have any, in which case you should enter 0.
clans		There is no in-game clan designator. If you're in a clan, you'll know it. If your clan isn't in the list, please report it to me. Please try to fill out your clan list from top to bottom - i.e. if you're in one clan, please use the first dropdown menu, not second, third, or fourth. The script does funny things then (nothing to break it, it just looks ugly). Why pick "withheld" if you're withholding your info? Well, sometimes clans scour the BPDR for new members. That way, you're telling the clans you're already in one, with no interest joining another, but you can avoid designating which one exactly it is. For "allow editting by leaders? yes/no", see 'caretaker'.
CLOSE FRIENDS
caretaker		A caretaker here on the bloodpoints database is someone you designate as being allowed to edit your row without having to log in, sans changing your password and sans deleting you account, that is. The solo field "caretaker" is there for those people you'd like to give that access to that are neither your clan's leaders, your sire, your master vampire, or your partner. It has the added benefit of being unsearchable. For example, if you have a couple of alts, but don't want to log in as each one of them individually, you can set the alts' caretaker as your main vampire and only ever log in as your main vampire - without that anyone could find out, via the bloodpoints database, that you have a connection to those vampire. A convinience - nothing more.
partner		Partner-bound with .... For "allow editting? yes/no", see 'caretaker'.



Why is the database doing funky stuff with my sire field? I can't seem to change it to my liking!

The master vampire field takes logical precedence over the sire field. That means that if you leave your master vampire set to your name, and try to change your sire, then the script sees that you've entered yourself as your master vampire, which implies that you have no sire - and thus corrects the wrong entry in "sire"..

Thanks to Jessica Dolce for pointing the lack of this being in the FAQ out of me!







I've got a suggestion to make for the site - where do I send it to?

Drop me an eMail at "pinkgothic at gmail dot com"! I'll try to get back to you as soon as time permits. Please don't feel ignored if I've not responded in a long while, though, I do sometimes only get back to mail after a few months (sad but true).

Suggestion: I've a question you should put into the FAQ!

Easy for me to do, easy for you to do: eMail me, or post on the forum. This'll likely be implemented almost instantly. This FAQ is new, so there is still much room for suggestion along this line. Please, do tell me what your question is, and I'll try to answer and put that answer here. (As with the previous FAQ entry, if I don't respond quickly and/or don't put it up quickly, please don't fret. You're more than welcome to remind me, though!)







There's a security problem with your site that I found, it's...!

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! If this website means anything to you at all, contact me privately about these matters. Exploits of the site shouldn't be made public. Other than that little hand-over-mouth situation right there, I'd like to say: I don't want to know how you found the exploit (it may only depress me), but thank you, thank you for being so kind to tell me what problem there is instead of continuing to use the site like nothing happened and perhaps even stealing the passwords of users.

I can't log in... ;_;

First of all, chill. The amount of possible scenarios is slim:

• Bad luck (and most likely): You neglected your vampire's details for more than four months. Just register again.
  
• More bad luck: You've fucked around with your stats, trying to, for example, see how a large bloodcount looks next to your name. You were instantly brought down via deletion by one of my minions (well, I only have one... the lovely Aahzmandius watches over this place these days, because I find there is only one of me, but I try to do the work of about five of me... simultaneously). At any rate, there's little you can do other than learn from it and sign up again (there really is nothing stopping you).
  
• Worst case scenario: You've been fucking around with your stats and deliberately disrupted the harmony of truth within the BP database. In short, you posted blatantly, horrendously false information, and that more than once. In this case, you were banned, which means your account still exists with everything set to zero, but your password is no longer your own. If you think this was done in error, contact me about it, give me a reason for your actions, and I will look into it.
  
• Computer problems: Check that you have 'permanent cookies' enabled.
  
• Confusion: Realise that the BP database password/username is a different one from your ravenblack.net password/username, and also different from your BP database forum password/username. The username of BP database and ravenblack.net are supposed to be identical - so if you register, keep that in mind. Under no sane circumstances use the same password for all these sites. Your vampire will be thrice as vulnerable to hacking then.
  
  I had my stat XYZ set as ABC yesterday, why is it LMN now?
  
  Very unlikely to be a bug. If this happens, take a look at the "log of important events" if a clan you were listed in was deleted, or something comparable has happened - alternatively, check if you have a caretaker of sorts on the bloodpoints database you might've forgotten about that changed your stats for you.
  
  The number of registered vampires is decreasing?
  
  See Why are some people's rows in darker red?. The peak of users before I implemented the four month rule was 1245, after the first purging, it dropped to 920 - a total of 325 inactive vampires. That's quite a lot of redundant data. :)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Why are some people's rows in darker red?
  
  After two weeks without updating, your vampire name will fade to a deeper red. After two months of not updating, it will turn a dark red. If you're inactive for more than 4 months, your row is removed completely, unless you are listed as a clanleader on the clans.php or, have told me beforehand you wish to be immortalized (like LordLivingston and Gothic-Rose), or are caretaker (in one or the other form) of someone.
  
  Why are some people's names not linked?
  
  This is mainly a trait of the Splinters of Dusk - their rules state that they may not gain childer (or in other ways aspire to notably increasing their bloodcount), and the BP database honours that. If you have a clan with similar ideals or regulations, please don't hesitate to tell me about it.
  
  How are clans added to your database?
  
  The poor, desperate people who are in clans that they can only show as "other" at the point in time they sign up eMail me or chat to me. You should, too, if one is missing. Or if one has died and I should take one out. Alternatively, I'm currently working on something with Chiru that should clear up all headaches once and for all. We, er, hope.
  
  And double-yew-tee-eff is this map of the city my control panel links to?
  
  It's an interactive version of the Salaxian map. There tend to be holes of information on city buildings - please report any missing from the map that you know of to me (but only if you know the coordinates). Coordinates as I use them are relatively easy to figure out... the street numbers can be converted à 12th -> 25, with the formula ((streetnumber*2)+1). Street name numbers are a bit more difficult. For their help, take a look at this file. Coordinates of pubs and banks will always be odd numbers - if you don't get an odd number, you did something wrong. If you want to report a bank/pub to me for inclusion, please also tell me the location as you know it. Don't just say "bank @ 25, 5", say "Fir 2 Omnibank @ 25, 5" - and don't say "Archer's Tavern @ 45, 23", say "Archer's Tavern (Knotweed 11) @ 45, 23", so I can doublecheck if I have to. All pubs and banks should be in the script, but it's missing a good deal of lairs (my laziness strikes again, though Devil Miyu recently sent me a list of lairs that I really, really ought to incorporate) and of course a ton of RP-only locations.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The moment I put my eMail on the BP database, my eMail account began to receive spam! You must be in league with those companies! I'll sue you if I must!
  
  The BP database doesn't use your eMail address. If you type it out in the manner of "myname@mydomain.com", though, many programs sent by the spamming corporations will 'spider' (as in, read out and commit to memory) your eMail address. If you want to avoid such a thing happening, I'd suggest writing "myname at mydomain dot com" instead, even though that, too, is of arguable security (those annoying eMail spiders just keep getting better). Oh, and, obscuring your eMail address has the added benefit of keeping potential idiots away from eMailing you en masse, too.
  
  This site sucks.
  
  Then play elsewhere. ::)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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