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Post by Vlad the Imperial »

Does anyone else find the random page function only chooses the Oblivion:diseases page?
Is it a bug, or was it done for Halloween? (In which case can we have it back now Halloween's over).
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Re: Random page function

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Hmm... Nope. I tried it 5 times and got these articles: Morrowind:Guild of Mages (Vivec), Redguard:Extracting game data, Lore:Cryngaine Field, Morrowind:Rithleen and Shivering:Traelius.

I dunno how it were during Halloween, though. It's back to normal now, at least.
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Re: Random page function

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OK, this is weird.
In Firefox, Random Page always gives Oblivion:Diseases. If I try it in IE, I always get Oblivion:The Ultimate Heist.
:?
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Re: Random page function

Post by KalleFlaxx »

Strange... I use Firefox, and for me it works flawlessly.

Hang on, I'll try IE.

Edit: Okay... This is really weird. When I use the Random Page button on Internet Explorer, I first get to the Tes3Mod:Tamriel Rebuilt/Kulidon page, and if I click again, I end up in the Oblivion:The Ultimate Heist page. After that, I always go to Oblivion:The Ultimate Heist page, but if I restart the browser, it all starts over. :?

I guess it could be good to contact an admin about this.
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Re: Random page function

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How strange, it stays on the 'disease' page for me every time I click that link....I'll send an email to one of the admins to try and sort it out.
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Newsound wrote:How strange, it stays on the 'disease' page for me every time I click that link....I'll send an email to one of the admins to try and sort it out.
And Newsound comes and saves the day!

It's kinda strange, though, since I don't end up on the disease page, no matter which browser I use.
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KalleFlaxx wrote: And Newsound comes and saves the day!
All in a days work for an aspiring Super-villain Tea-party mod.
KalleFlaxx wrote: It's kinda strange, though, since I don't end up on the disease page, no matter which browser I use.
I reckon a the link has become corrupted and only has a few page links in the memory at the moment or something. I sent an email to Ratwar so we will see what he makes of it.

Edit: Oh, and how many people is this happening to?
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Post by Master of Puppets »

Mine is fine. I just tested it on Firefox, and my ten clicks gave ten different pages.
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Mine's weird, too. I clicked it about five times, and got 'Daggerfall:Runaway Pet' every time.
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First time lead me to 'Oblivion:The Ultimate Heist', but from the second click onward, all I got was 'Daggerfall:Runaway Pet'.
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Something's definitely weird. Good that you pointed it out, Vlad!
I hope the admins can do something about it.
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Re: Random page function

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This is in IE:

Oblivion:The Wolf Queen, v 6
Tes3Mod:Tamriel Rebuilt/Bahrammu
Daggerfall:Alcaire (city)
Oblivion:Dead Captive
Oblivion:Fort Virtue
Morrowind:Soul of an Ash Ghoul
Lore:Pocket Guide to the Empire, 1st Edition/The Elsweyr Confederacy
Daggerfall:Menevia (city)
Tes3Mod:Tamriel Rebuilt/Oleen-La
Oblivion:Wilbur

10 times, 10 different pages.
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I did it for two minutes straight (Might not seem like much, but try to do it for that long) and I didn't get one repeat.
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tried it also,

with FF i got Daggerfall:Runaway Pet 10 times,
logged in to main site, did it again and got 10 different pages,

so did same with IE, got ten pages all the same Oblivion:The Ultimate Heist.
so logged in to main site and tried again and got 10 diffeent pages.

so i closed down IE and re-opened and tried again
10 clicks all the same - Oblivion:Stanet
logged in got 10 different pages.
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On Firefox, I got Oblivion: Plan for the Big Heist, then it looped on Daggerfall: Runaway Pet.
On IE, I got Morrowind: Tel Mora People, then it looped on Bloodmoon: Belladonna Berries.
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Oblivion: Rugdumph's Sword
Lore: The Ways Of The Wind
Tes3Mod:Tamriel Rebuilt/Boethian Deeps
Oblivion:Five Songs of King Wulfharth
Shivering:Linux

This was on Safari for iPod Touch. 5 clicks, 5 different pages.
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Re: Random page function

Post by Vlad the Imperial »

It seems to work when I'm logged in (to the main site, not the forum) but not when I'm logged out. It used to work all of the time, even when logged out. Oh well, I guess if I can get it to work by logging in, that's OK. :)
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Firefox and got different pages each time. Unless its been fixed already...
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Still isn't working for me, but instead of 'Daggerfall:Runaway Pet' I get 'Shivering:Dancer'.
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Strange that it is only happening to some people. Well I contacted the admins awhile back...now it is just a matter of waiting.
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I just tried it again, and I got Oblivion:Plan for the Big Heist (like last time), then it looped on Tes4Mod:Wrye Bash/Bash vs. OBMM.
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Now, instead of "Shivering:Dancer" I get "Shivering:Sheogorath Shrine". I tried it with Internet Explorer, too, instead of Firefox, and I'm getting "Oblivion:Imperial City People". :?
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I can't get anything but
Oblivion: The Rear Guard
even though I click it multiple times.
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...The Rear Guard...??? :lol:
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Jeff wrote:...The Rear Guard...??? :lol:
I know, I laughed too :oops:
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