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25 Jun 2004, 02:41
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
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GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
CHANGE THE DAMN LOGIN QUESTIONS.
"The highest mountain in the world is"
Answer: Everest?, Mt. Everest?, Mount Everest?, Mt Everest?
Am I even spelling Everest right? Only one of the above is correct.
I get on average 1.5 questions out of every 5 wrong because of stupid shit like this. The math questions are also bullshit. Sometimes I cant see if its a 7 or 2 because the jaggy lines aren't a different font then the questions.
What is 2 * 10? 20? Nope, it actually was 7 * 10, Sorry! Account locked! The Norway capital one is still giving me shit too. Is it Oslo or Olso? I keep thinking I already tried one, and its always the wrong ****ing answer. I shouldn't have to explain to my family why I have a ****ing piece of paper next to my laptop with obscure capitals on it. How about this? Why don't we stick to answers that have only one possible spelling, and questions that cant be randomnly changed depending on how the lines are generated. Also, questions that are geographically friendly would also be appreciated. Is this too much to ask?
Some of this stuff should be common ****ing sense. Get your shit together, NOW.
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25 Jun 2004, 02:59
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edited for readability
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
i agree.
why can you just put pictures up like yahoo or geocties does... then you dont have to worry about the lines.. and are bots even a real problem anymore??
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25 Jun 2004, 07:21
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Olso isn't some alternative spelling of Oslo.
Additionally, I have never managed to answer even two questions incorrectly in a row, let alone the necessary ten or so before it actually locks your account.
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25 Jun 2004, 07:23
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edited for readability
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
but it could be made simpler. Coulnded it
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25 Jun 2004, 07:29
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Yes, they could easily move to a system which does basic numbers, such as many of the other sites which use similar images to prevent bots from using a service.
I think the current login questions, however, are more amusing. Considering it's pretty difficult to answer multiple questions wrong in a row, I don't see an incessant need to adopt a new system, however.
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25 Jun 2004, 07:37
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W00f w00f w00f
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Even I answered whats the capital of Oslo wrong..... and I'm norwegian
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25 Jun 2004, 07:44
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
Posts: 8,271
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Quote:
Originally Posted by Exode
Even I answered whats the capital of Oslo wrong..... and I'm norwegian
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25 Jun 2004, 07:55
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dazed and confused
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Defford
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
what is the capital of oslo? is it norway
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25 Jun 2004, 10:51
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The Usualsuspects
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 240
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
It's just another thing to add to the shit list of pax, the game is a complete jumble of shitty ideas none of which contribute to a working adhesive game.
atleast ******** starts soon
Last edited by A2; 25 Jun 2004 at 16:41.
Reason: censor evasion
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25 Jun 2004, 12:56
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Elysium
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Of the 3 people I've spoken to since rd9.5 who've written 'bots' for PA, all have managed to find a different, reliable and in 2 cases ridiculously easy method of getting around the anti-bot questions.
In the olden days one of the more widespread forms of bot usage was people using timers to click their mouse and launch a fleet while they were asleep... but that's a non issue now. Anyone with enough technical knowledge to write a proper bot (which actually does something useful in today's PA) will quickly notice how lame the bot stopper is and get around it.
Furthermore, I don't even believe there are people now who want to write bots. Everyone still playing PA obviously enjoys playing it a lot. So why would they write a bot to do it for them. Of the 3 people I mentioned at the start of this post, 2 did it to 'for the challenge' of getting past the bot stopper, and 1 did it to download the alliance rankings each tick. Hardly hardcore cheating.
So all the questions do now is annoy legitimate users (aside from Leshy)... good eh :/
I hope we'll see them abolished in round 12.
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25 Jun 2004, 16:07
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
I want them to be harder, so I can be educated while playing PA
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25 Jun 2004, 16:37
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ND
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Amazingstoke
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Quote:
Originally Posted by djcomplex
It's just another thing to add to the shit list of pax, the game is a complete jumble of shitty ideas none of which contribute to a working adhesive game.
atleast ******** starts soon
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**** off our forums and go to the ******** ones then, dick.
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25 Jun 2004, 16:42
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#planetarion
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBerk
what is the capital of oslo? is it norway
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The capital of Norway however is Oslo.
You may also need Sweden or Denmark (Stockholm and Copenhagen respectively)
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26 Jun 2004, 18:47
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Emperor
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: in front of a computer
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
I think the worst i ever heard was getting 7 or 8 in a row wrong and that person was totally drunk
Yes - some questions can't be answered right on the first try, but with 10 tries it is really very unlikely that you cant answer 10 in a row. Instead of making a drama about nothing, you could simply skip questions which are too obscured or have too many possible different spellings. I doubt you would ever have to skip more then 3.
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26 Jun 2004, 19:04
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Elysium
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 167
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
The point isn't really getting locked out of your account, it's the annoyance of being forced through the unnesessary trivia excersise. It's annoying at 4am when your beeper's going crazy and you have 2 minutes to the tick, and it's extra-especially annoying when you've been waiting until 10 seconds before the tick to recall an attack and suddenly your session times out. Infact, after a while, it becomes pretty annoying on a relaxed sunday afternoon halfway through the tick when you're only logging in to spam the gal forum.
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26 Jun 2004, 20:39
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Alunan, you have to be pretty stupid if you answer the questions wrong like 10 times in a row And if you don't know the answer, I'll give you a little tip: www.google.com
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26 Jun 2004, 22:11
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Down Boy - WOOF!
Join Date: May 2000
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
The original post made me laugh, maybe pa team should make you guess the punch line of jokes too?
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27 Jun 2004, 23:24
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Most unimportant guy...
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Kvinesdal
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
My cat can answer the questions
oh and I almost got closed myself once when i was drunk...
The everest q is lame tho. Had it right second time I got it tho Mount Everest
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27 Jun 2004, 23:49
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Sheep
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: IRC
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Norway is the capital of Sweden.
Sweden is capital of Scandinavia.
Santa Claus is our king.
Spinner was prime minster for a while.
We have polar bears as pets.
It's so cold here we can hardly go outside.
I'm not funny I'm just stupid.
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28 Jun 2004, 16:46
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Idiot
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
lol !
I have to be honest the questions annoy me, but google does it for capitols if u dont know them surely..
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29 Jun 2004, 19:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
there is a question about what time is it when both hands are up or somin'
i though: 00:00 i tried some others. But whats the answer of it?
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29 Jun 2004, 19:36
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ostensibly Obscure oddity
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
noon? midnight? 12:00? 12 o'clock? obviously not 2400...
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29 Jun 2004, 19:58
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Here and Not Here
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Just to be fair A2. You expect most people to know how to spell Copenhagen?
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29 Jun 2004, 22:09
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part time ghost
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Grimsby
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
it's not exactly hard...
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30 Jun 2004, 00:02
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I dunno...
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
The clock one is worse than the Everest one.
Midnight?
12 o'clock?
12?
0:00?
00:00?
Noon?
Twelve?
One hour past eleven o'clock?
12 hours before the next time the hands meet?
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30 Jun 2004, 22:22
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Moo?
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Re: GOD &%*$ing &$*#it
Quote:
Originally Posted by Qdeathstar
but it could be made simpler. Coulnded it
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That might have something to do with why you get them wrong...
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