Re: Sites that show when friends are on and what server they're playing on.
Dude shut up... man...
you could have written all that shit in like 10 words or less.. but no you had to write a ****ing story. stop.. just stop.. you aren't impressing anyone. I feel bad for you.
Originally posted by Gallandro
I apologize. I apologize for not making the intent of my post come across properly and for not conveying the point in a manner in which was easy to understand. Let me remedy the situation.
The Original posters topic title, if read at face value, can be taken quite litterally to mean that he is looking to find a site that shows friends that are online and what server they are playing on. He then, in the first sentence of his post (as you so cleverly pointed out...we cant get anything past you can we?), declares for all to see that he has been using BF2Tracker.com lately. To most, the post has already been answered right there. He asked a question, and then, in the same breath answered it for himself...ah but if life were only so simple. If we continue on, we can find that his topic is not what he is looking for at all..in the middle of the post we find that we have been misled *gasp*! He wants a site that keeps a history of the servers his friends play on, or at the very least for the site to display the last server they played on. In his second post we discover this is because bf2tracker doesnt update fast enough! Now here is the tricky part..you may have missed it, and if so, thats ok..ill say it again...nay..ill copy paste it exactly the way i said it the first time, then, for your benifit, i shall even go so far as to explain what it is i said.
"As far as how often the buddy list updates..300 seconds. thats not a very long time if you have an attention span greater than a 2 year old."
Lets break it down. He stated in his second post that he got on a voice chat program to discover his friend playing when bf2tracker listed his friend as offline. As stated it takes 300 seconds (dont get your calculator out just yet, thats 5 minutes), for the buddy list to refresh. That means if you have a friend that gets on a server, if he got on right after the refresh, it could be up to 5 whole minutes before he shows up on the list. This, i suppose, would give some people ample time to get on a voice chat program, discover their friend to actually be online despite what the buddy list claims, and discount the whole system as broken and worthless. Unless of course you have an ounce of patience, you would discover shortly that the list does infact update and your friend is acutally being shown as online...but who has 5 minutes these days! Now, so as to prepare myself for the inevietable response of "My friend said he had been playing for like 20 minutes already", let me say a few things. While playing bf2, time does seem to distort itself. seconds can seem like minutes, minutes like seconds...its very hard to tell how much time has truly passed while in the midst of a battlefield game. The same holds true to the customer service industry..when a customer says "Ive been waiting for 30 mintues for some one to help me" in most cases the actual time was closer to 5 minutes. If however his friend had been playing for more than 5 minutes, and the list truly did not show his status correctly, this could still be attributed to a mispelled name, wrong PID, the server he is playing on not updating properly, or the hand of some unnamable horror reaching into the intraweb and snatching his online status from all to see. Some times, things dont work perfectly, but its usually an isolated case, at least with bf2tracker. Ive been using it for almost a year now, and to this day i can only think of one time i had any trouble with the buddy list functionality.
Now me personally, i find that my first posting of this point was much more concise and to the point than what i just spelled out for you.
Basically what im saying is, If he wanted a list of sites/programs that showed the last server played on as well as current online status, perhaps he should have mentioned this in his (obviously not so obvious) post title..a few suggestions for next time: Sites that show my friends last server played and current server they are playing; Sites that keep a server played history for my friends; Buddy list with last server played functionality...Any of this strike more to the heart of the original posters desires for a buddy list. And any of these would have perhaps kept people from posting suggestions (suggestions that in the defense of the other posters were infact spot on to what he was looking for) that the original poster felt were unworty and in turn would have kept him from replying with the rude "you didnt even read my post" response.
So, i hope i cleared everything up for you. Really, its not too hard to understand what im saying.
-Gallandro
The Original posters topic title, if read at face value, can be taken quite litterally to mean that he is looking to find a site that shows friends that are online and what server they are playing on. He then, in the first sentence of his post (as you so cleverly pointed out...we cant get anything past you can we?), declares for all to see that he has been using BF2Tracker.com lately. To most, the post has already been answered right there. He asked a question, and then, in the same breath answered it for himself...ah but if life were only so simple. If we continue on, we can find that his topic is not what he is looking for at all..in the middle of the post we find that we have been misled *gasp*! He wants a site that keeps a history of the servers his friends play on, or at the very least for the site to display the last server they played on. In his second post we discover this is because bf2tracker doesnt update fast enough! Now here is the tricky part..you may have missed it, and if so, thats ok..ill say it again...nay..ill copy paste it exactly the way i said it the first time, then, for your benifit, i shall even go so far as to explain what it is i said.
"As far as how often the buddy list updates..300 seconds. thats not a very long time if you have an attention span greater than a 2 year old."
Lets break it down. He stated in his second post that he got on a voice chat program to discover his friend playing when bf2tracker listed his friend as offline. As stated it takes 300 seconds (dont get your calculator out just yet, thats 5 minutes), for the buddy list to refresh. That means if you have a friend that gets on a server, if he got on right after the refresh, it could be up to 5 whole minutes before he shows up on the list. This, i suppose, would give some people ample time to get on a voice chat program, discover their friend to actually be online despite what the buddy list claims, and discount the whole system as broken and worthless. Unless of course you have an ounce of patience, you would discover shortly that the list does infact update and your friend is acutally being shown as online...but who has 5 minutes these days! Now, so as to prepare myself for the inevietable response of "My friend said he had been playing for like 20 minutes already", let me say a few things. While playing bf2, time does seem to distort itself. seconds can seem like minutes, minutes like seconds...its very hard to tell how much time has truly passed while in the midst of a battlefield game. The same holds true to the customer service industry..when a customer says "Ive been waiting for 30 mintues for some one to help me" in most cases the actual time was closer to 5 minutes. If however his friend had been playing for more than 5 minutes, and the list truly did not show his status correctly, this could still be attributed to a mispelled name, wrong PID, the server he is playing on not updating properly, or the hand of some unnamable horror reaching into the intraweb and snatching his online status from all to see. Some times, things dont work perfectly, but its usually an isolated case, at least with bf2tracker. Ive been using it for almost a year now, and to this day i can only think of one time i had any trouble with the buddy list functionality.
Now me personally, i find that my first posting of this point was much more concise and to the point than what i just spelled out for you.
Basically what im saying is, If he wanted a list of sites/programs that showed the last server played on as well as current online status, perhaps he should have mentioned this in his (obviously not so obvious) post title..a few suggestions for next time: Sites that show my friends last server played and current server they are playing; Sites that keep a server played history for my friends; Buddy list with last server played functionality...Any of this strike more to the heart of the original posters desires for a buddy list. And any of these would have perhaps kept people from posting suggestions (suggestions that in the defense of the other posters were infact spot on to what he was looking for) that the original poster felt were unworty and in turn would have kept him from replying with the rude "you didnt even read my post" response.
So, i hope i cleared everything up for you. Really, its not too hard to understand what im saying.
-Gallandro
you could have written all that shit in like 10 words or less.. but no you had to write a ****ing story. stop.. just stop.. you aren't impressing anyone. I feel bad for you.
, yeah i thought it was a awesome quote:laugh:
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