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This month on the Mopar Monthly: Welcome to the fourth edition of the Mopar Monthly! For those of you who don't know what this is, the Mopar Monthly is a monthly magazine where users can see the best of the best in the forums for each month, user interviews, rants, and more! Forum members are free to submit controversial news articles, thought-provoking rants, and anything else by contacting any members of the Mopar Monthly team. For those of you that read the previous edition and provided feedback, a big thanks to you all for keeping this possible!
####Included in this edition will be:
- The Overall Most Helpful Member(s) of the Month
- Notable Developments
- Featured Tutorials
- An Interview With Smacktard
- An Interview With a Forum User
A note from the writers to the readers: due to the lack of submissions this month, this edition will not be very lengthy. To prevent this from happening in the future, please consider sending in your submissions.
#####Section 1: The Overall Most Helpful Member(s) of the Month:
This category is for users who are willing to help people in need of help. This award doesn't mean that these users know everything - they may also need help from time to time - but they're always willing to give up some of their time to help someone who needs it. Forum members have been listed depending on which section they have the most influence in.
######Server Help:
######Web Design/Development:
######General Programming:
If you have any other nominations for future editions of the Mopar Monthly, please send a private message to Flame_ or send a private message to Ambokile. Please don't publicly dispute any listings for this month, instead contact a member of the team if you feel one of them is incorrect.
#####Section 2: Notable Developments
######2006Redone:
- Type: RSPS
- Revision: 377
- Development Started: Summer 2012
- Developer: mr extremez
- Link: click me
######SnowGuns:
- Type: Programming Development
- Development Started: August 26, 2013
- Developer: VbCoder
- Link: click me
#####Section 3: Featured Tutorials
Tutorials are arguably the best way to learn how to do things. They're a step-by-step guide on how to add features, modify existing features or even in some cases remove features. Here is a list (in no particular order) of tutorials that deserve particular recognition this month. Congratulations to all listed!
Tutorials featured in this section do not necessarily have to have been posted this month, they're just tutorials that we feel deserve recognition. If your tutorial isn't featured this month, take a look at these tutorials, improve yours accordingly and you could be featured in the next issue!
######Language: Java
- Creator(s): deathschaos9
- What the tutorial is: Hash Tables and Their Usefulness in RuneScape Servers
- Link: click me
######Language: Java
- Creator(s): Primadude
- What the tutorial is: Simplified Area Boundary Checking
- Link: click me
######Language: Java
- Creator(s): Sinisoul
- What the tutorial is: [ScapeEmulator] Adding a Plugin System
- Link: click me
#####Section 4: An Interview With Smacktard
You asked, it happened. Featured in this month's edition is a special interview with the mitbnet IRC bot, Smacktard!
- Smacktard, how do you feel about the mopar monthly?
i'm just telling you serve it with some open sauce
- Smacktard, describe yourself.
smacktard
- Smacktard, what is your favorite food?
i like food
- Smacktard, what is your favorite quote?
vortex_: what the fudge is so intersting about a line
- Smacktard, talk about your career.
i'll get you ripped in three weeks
- Smacktard, what do you do in your free time?
your mother.
- Smacktard, what was life like as a child?
semi conscious like wtf is going on
- Are there any users on MoparScape who you find particularly inspirational?
lol wtf newbiehacker could run an allstar server that would crush you
#####Section 5: An Interview With a Forum User
Well, we’re back to the spotlight of the Mopar Monthly - the interview. This month’s interview was held with Niall. Enjoy the read!
- To start, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself?
Do I have to? :P Well, I’m Niall, currently 21. Not sure what else to say other than I’ve been on MITB since the beginning and was on Kaitnieks for a few years before that.
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Do you have any interests? Certainly a few, I enjoy everything computer related from building them to the hardware in general, as well as programming. I quite enjoy photography but I'm not very good, and I'm currently learning the bass guitar. I also enjoy motorcycles but being unemployed there's a bit of a financial barrier there.
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If you had to choose a job for yourself, what would it be?
If I knew what I wanted to do I’d be in university studying it. :P I really don’t know what I want to do but I think I’ll eventually have to get a job in computers (most likely as a system admin). A (very) long term goal is perhaps go to university for a degree in chemistry, and if I can hack it, go on to get a PHD but that's faaaaar down the line and will take close to a decade I think.
- What got you into programming and computer building?
Well, funnily enough, SCAR is what got me into programming, back when I was playing RuneScape I was playing another MMO called “A Tale In The Desert” and I came across SCAR. While I didn’t use it much for RuneScape it was quite a good tool for use in ATiTD, especially since (if I remember correctly) macroing was partially allowed. Most people were using Autohotkey and similar programs which were severely underpowered compared to SCAR. I started learning Java a few years after SCAR but never got good at it, since then I've dabbled with a bit of Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash etc, I never really put the time and effort into learning a language but now that I have a few Android devices I've been thinking of picking Java up again. As for building computers, well, I needed a new computer and building them was the superior choice. It's just like an adult lego set really, at least, that's what my mum seemed to think after I took up her kitchen for a few hours!
- If you had to describe MITB or MoparScape in a few sentences, how would you describe it?
Well, I would describe MITB as the phoenix that rose out of the ashes that was Kaitnieks, it's now an abandoned ruins. I’d describe MoparScape similarly, it’s the phoenix that rose out of MITB. What I always found interesting was before there was a dedicated MoparScape forums, the traffic of the people who wanted private servers far exceeded the rest of the traffic on MITB...at least, after Aryan died down. The need for the MoparScape board was due to everyone posting in every section of MITB asking for private server help. Once MoparScape started to grow, MITB kind of tagged along, with the long time members of MITB being generally the elders of the community while MoparScape was the young, thriving scene that attracted all of the attention.
- Is there anyone on the forums that you find to be particularly motivating?
Well, I had high hopes for the debates section but not many people seem interested in it. :P Unfortunately, I’ve always been more interested in MITB than MoparScape, and I quit playing RuneScape shortly after joining MITB and mostly stuck around for the community. On MoparScape, though, I do like the more recent additions of the programming sections, and the forums becoming less of a private server board and more of a general interests board. I’ve never been too interested in the private server side so I can’t really speak about that unfortunately. :P
- During your time as an administrator, was there anything you learned about managing a community and how to keep it functional? what skills did you pick up, if any?
Yes, I learned I was a freaking horrible admin :P In my defence this was YEARS ago now and I was a young lad, but I definitely think the power went to my head. I think the experience made me a better person though, it taught me to try to take an unbiased approach and to try to view things from everyone’s perspective.
- Would you ever take up the position again?
I've been thinking of it recently but Avail and Tom were added to the administrators, and they're more capable and more active than I ever was :P
- Would you do it all over again if given the opportunity?
Of course! it was great fun albeit hair-pulling stressful at times. I'd certainly do things a lot differently however. I remember a few great instances that could have been avoided, at some point global moderators had the capacity to make new accounts with power levels equal to that of their own (although, global moderators never had the power to change a user's power level). This lead to one global mod in particular to create a bunch of global moderator accounts and give them to all his friends, they caused havoc for a few hours.
- Do you have any final words you'd like to put in?
Well, I'm trying to think of some but my brain has turned too much. :P I'd make a terrible movie villain that was about to die. Anyways, thank you for the interview Flame_. I had great fun doing it and am enjoying the prospect of reading the next issue of Mopar Monthly!
That concludes this month's edition of the Mopar Monthly! The Mopar Monthly team would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the fourth edition, which is still coming strong, and we are always welcome to more contributions. You can view the Mopar Monthly thread on the forums by clicking here. Interested in becoming an editor/writer? Contact Flame_ or Ambokile!
#####This edition of the Mopar Monthly was published by Flame_.