Phillyman

Root Admin is just me! Administrator is anyone who i trust 1000% with the forum Premium Member is anyone who donates $$ (gets access to the premium and magazine sections) Scanner is someone who has scanned at least 100 pages or 1 magazine Editor is someone who has edited at least 100 pages or 1 magazine Premium Scanner is a Scanner who has scanned at least 1000 pages or 10 magazines Premium Editor is a Editor who has edited at least 1000 pages or 10 magazines Scanning God is a scanner who has scanned at least 5000 pages or 50 magazines (gets moderator powers) Editing God is a editor who has edited at least 5000 pages or 50 magazines (gets moderator powers) Girlfriend is Alien7 only Members+ is a Member that has 100 posts on the forum (gets access to the magazine section) Distributor is a person who helps seed our releases or post them up on Newsgroups News Moderator is a member who has access to post emulation news in the Emulation section Distributor Moderator is a moderator of the Magazine section I am about to change the way the scanner and editor groups work , Something like after someone scans or edits 1 magazine they get the same benefits of a Premium Member , for a predetermined time limit. I am also going to allow people who donate magazines that are 1995 and before to become Premium Members for a predetermined time limit. There will be a huge post comming by Friday that will lay out the terms of getting accepted to those groups, It will clear up alot of things. Anyone who is currently in a group will be left there, they will still follow the old rules. -Phillyman Old topic was here http://www.retromags.com/forums/index.php?...6&hl=groups

Whats everyone's job? I currently work as a CIA for Geek Squad (Bestbuy). Been there for about 4 years

Ah there we go! This is the information I need to get things going in the right direction. Even though I get 500 Gigs of bandwidth per month for this website, I cannot host the scans here. I dont host them here because of two reasons, The first is that I cannot control people hot linking to the scans and draining my bandwidth, The second reason is that if a publisher decided to shut down my website because of copyright infringement.....they could do it alot easier if they could prove the copyrighted materials were being distributed from this website Why does it look like this project has been abandoned? Well in the truth it hasnt.....I have been trying to get all the old releases back out and seeded, As far as new scans, Honestly I could seriously release 2-3 magazines per week myself, Trouble is that I am horrible with Photoshop! So while i could scan my heart out, When i release those scans people are gonna bitch about how pages are crooked and such. The Nintendo Power collection came out nicely because we had 2-3 people editing the scans, As you can see 420 was one of my best editors, and has since stopped offering to help clean up the scans. Mr. Slayer has since stopped comming by this site to help also. So I have no one to clean up scans......Its ashame :( I put no blame on anyone for this, I realize people like 420 and Mr. Slayer may have better things to do with there time. But I cannot do everything. I have a full time job that takes 40 hours of my life just like the rest of you. I also live close to Washington DC which for those who dont know means I am stuck in traffic for 2 hours a day. I also have a loving girlfriend that would rather be next to me on the sofa watching a movie then sitting alone while I am on my computer scanning magazines. I still believe in this project, and from the very start of this project I have only ever wanted 1 thing........20 People who could scan 1 magazine PER MONTH! Thats roughly scanning 3 pages per day! That would equate out to 4-5 new releases PER WEEK! Is that much to ask? I would think out of 1400+ registered members that we could find 20 people who could spare 2 hours out of a month to help this project.Maybe I am hoping for too much. As I said before, I cannot purchase , scan , edit , distribute, seed , and promote this site. I am only 1 person! 2 of my 3 moderators dont even frequent this site any longer. I realize some of the blame for this project not taking off does fall on me, I have not compiled a list of what we are missing, or what we have scanned. I have not compiled a list of what issues need rescanning. And I have not compiled a list of the magazines we already have in our possesion. I seem to get 1-2 random people sending me a Personal Message each month stating they would like to help. But they always seem to be all talk and no action. BarbieonWeed is the only person who has actually uploaded something to this site in the past few months. So I plan to do the following...... 1) Compile a List of what has been scanned , and whats missing 2) Compile a List of what I already have in my possesion 3) Try to release 1 magazine per week on my own If any of you guys have any other suggestions of how I can help make this project more interesting and retain members to help, Feel free to post them! -Phillyman

Being the leader of your Guild now gives you the option to have specific weapons of your choice! You are now able to replace out up to 4 of the standard weapons* with a weapon that would only be able to be used by members in your guild. Example.... Replacing out the Viking Battle Axe with Excalibur All Entries need a small picture no bigger then the ones already being used! *Standard weapons are the ones available to all groups

Admins Need 5 Posts Each Day To Play in The Arcade Members, Members+ Need 3 Posts Each Day To Play in The Arcade Moderators, Scanners, Editors, Premium Members Need 1 Posts Each Day To Play in The Arcade Premium Scanners, Premium Editors, Scanning Gods, Editing Gods .....Need 0 Posts Each Day To Play in The Arcade

Wonder how they work a swap out , considering your Virtual Games are tied to the console

http://www.dnscoop.com/ That site appraises us at over $2800

Whats the 100 game rule?

Reserved for Bank System

Reserved for Battle System

Reserved for Casino

Reserved for Arcade

your lucky my first WU went to group 5448, Some how i mis typed :(

The problem has been found for the above games and Birds of a Feather

what do you propose I put the limits at?

Common you know those two games pay out like crazy, Yeah i taxed them because if you want to win 1 million gil it should take more then 20 minutes and a heavy object to hold down the space bar.

Fine daily limit is gone on how much you can win!

*saves spot* Gonna take pictures of my 5 computers and post the specs on each

Post what games dont work (Arcade and Casino) I will then remove them and replace them with another game. I grab the games from another forum and dont always have time to test out all the games. I will report the problems you guys bring to my attention to the makers of the Casino software and see if they have a solution On crappy games that pay out too much I either have to restrict winnings, tax the winnings or remove the game. Its no fun if everyone on the forum is millionaires

As far as the forum being dead, dont just complain about it. Give me a solution. I dont see anyone jumping forward saying "Hey I just scanned issue 34 of EGM". So am i to just undertake the whole project myself (purchasing, scanning, editing, distributing, seeding, promoting, and post 10-15 topics a day) in the hopes that maybe one of my members other then MBJ donates a few bucks out of their pocket to help? I could easily scan 5-7 magazines a week, but whats the reason for doing so? Obviously its not appriciated, as no one is stepping forward to take some of the burden off myself. Did you ever stop to think of the reason why the forum has an Arcade, Casino and Battle system? Its for retention of the users. The Arcade costs gil so that users will post so they can play, Now if some crappy game in the Casino pays out 1 million gil in a 20 minute session, why would a user post when they could play that game once and be set on the forum to play 20,000 games. 420 are you seriously complaining about imaginary money when the 1,675,691 million you just won is in the Bank gaining 3% every week (over 50,000 in interest per week!)

Hmmm the casino tax is there by default on the new version, I increased it because members were winning 1 million gil in 1 session! I am kind of curious why it would piss off anyone? The only place the gil can be used is in the battle system and the arcade. Neither of those seem to be used by you right now anyway? 5000 gil limit on the Casino seems pretty fair to myself, considering you can still win gil in the Arcade. 5000 gil per day would equate to 100 games per day (is that not enough?) Just trying to make it balanced, not piss people off I even tried to contact you thru PM to give you back the gil you lost before the upgrade, but you never responded back to me. But i guess i am the bad guy though

saving up my money for Super Paper Mario, should be out the first week of April

Oh your Soo Not beating me! I just installed it on another computer I usually leave on 24/7 The Top 3 Users on Folding@Home under the Retromags.com Team get a free premium membership to this site for as long as they can hold on to one of those top 3 positions! Memberships will be evaluated on the 1st of each month, Top 3 contributors (Must use same name as on this forum!)

I have started a Retromags.com group on Folding@Home. I am donating my unused processor cycles from the Retromags.com FTP Server. It would be great if we could get some participants for this project. Below is a quote from Folding@Home's website. You can download the small program from Folding@Home's website. Go into the Configuration and enter your username and the Retromags.com team number is 54458. Lets help put an end to some of the worlds worse diseases by donating unused processor cycles to help solve these mathmatical equations. Retromags.com Team Statistics!

There is alot of ways to win gil to play in the arcade 1) Use the attack system, If you attack someone that has alot of money and is within 30 levels of your level, You will steal a nice portion of gil 2) Go play in the Casino, Alot of those games pay out when you hit the jackpot 3) Post Replies and/or Topics 4) Use the Retromags Bank, You will gain interest on banked money and will protect it from being stolen by other members 5) Give me some ideas on Payouts for the arcade, Obviously I dont know the point schemes for all 339 games. So when you play a game come up with a fair payout system. Example Advanced Curve Ball .......Every 5000 points scored in the game pays out 20 points back to the player. So that 25,000 that you scored would equal out to a 100 gil return on your game.