Side effect of new Adviser system

[r.guppy]

I have been advising again and it took me a day to figure out that Minuis, who was mysteriously getting a AP every time i did.

 I had forgotten i had a alto let alone its name.

 To confirm this i created Rupert and Gertrude, who now get one every time i do.

 So if i Janner is needed, look for one of the above names, if you dont see Janner.

Word of warning. if you wont to keep your alto secret don\'t get on the Adviser list. smiles.

[Bereror]

Thanks Janner for the warning

Please create one more alt for yourself, so the list will be filled with your alts and we don\'t have to worry about our alts showing up on that list

/me will be very careful now to make sure that none of his alts end up on that list.

[r.guppy]

Originally posted by Bereror
Thanks Janner for the warning

Please create one more alt for yourself, so the list will be filled with your alts and we don\'t have to worry about our alts showing up on that list

/me will be very careful now to make sure that none of his alts end up on that list.

 Sorry i can\'t four is the max smiles.

[Nilrem]

As is said on the mainsite:

Advisor points are now on account, not on char.

That seems then to have that side effect, that all the chars belonging to one account appear on the list.
I don\'t think that was the intention when making that change.
The mainsite said also something about temporarily disabling advisor points, but it seems that, reading this post, that removal didn\'t take place (or the temporary period already expired )

[AryHann]

Please, if something doesn\'t work properly or it works but differently from what it was announced during the release, prepare some cute bug reports in the bugtracker and I will be glad to splat them

I think the system was not fully tested - it happens, it is not easy to test every single thing - and if it is really annoying to get advisor points on all chars we can design the system in a better way.

The advisor system, imho, needs some good refreshment....

[r.guppy]

The only change to AP was to wipe them clean and start at  zero.
 That is all i noticed right from start thy were coming up on list but not in Stats box, removed from there.

[Drey]

Originally posted by r.guppy
The only change to AP was to wipe them clean and start at  zero.

Well... that is obviously not the case if what you claim is happening to true.

[r.guppy]

Sad day deleted all my altos.
As there is no point in having a alto, till this side effect is fixed.

[Drey]

Sure there is...

[Karyuu]

The list of advisor points will be entirely removed anyway.

[Pestilence]

hmm well with this bug the list is as good as removed anyhow Ofcourse you know who the best is but you don\'t have a top five anymore

Think I can say best seeing who is on top atm

[DaveG]

The advisor system was removed from public view... at least in the main code.  I also moved the count to the accounts table, instead of characters, so people with multiple characters are counted correctly.  The AP list on the Laanx page is simply too smart for it\'s own good.    It somehow magically found out that the count is now in the accounts table, and is still listing it!  We just need to remove that part of that page.  

[AryHann]

Originally posted by Karyuu
The list of advisor points will be entirely removed anyway.

Ehm, sorry, but this is not 200% sure. After all, the advisor system might be redesigned a little and then the list could be useful still - modified maybe depending if we keep the things how they are now or not.

Anyway, it is all for the future. Temporarily it is like this.

[Karyuu]

Thanks for the correction, Ary :) I think I was talking about it with a short-term view - at least this is what has been decided for now.

[AryHann]

It might also be that my information have been changed in the while....You never know :-)

Anyway, like everything in PS (basically) everything can change!