How Do I Do It?
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I noticed my game stats aren't appearing on my posts. How do I get my score to show?
Got to the metaverse section, account/edit my characters and click the default button on the right for the character's medals you'd like to show.
One thing to note about enabling your MV medals is that once you do it you can never undo it.
You can create up to 3 characters under your username and you can select any of those three characters' medals to display along with your replies.
You can also reset a character which clears out their games and if you do that and select that characters medals to display you will get the cakewalk medal along with any empire medals that character may have (if any).
But once you enable your MV medals by setting one of your characters as the default you can never turn them completely off.
Just a warning because there have been those that enabled MV medals only to later decide they didn't want them displayed and at the minimum they would always be stuck with a cakewalk medal.
Do you get a "cakewalk" medal if you create a character, set him/her/it as the default, then don't post any games under that character?
Basically this is usually not a big deal, people just turn on a character and post games and that's that but I have known the occasional person that later wants to turn off the display entirely but can't. I just think it's worthwhile to warn folks before they do something that can't be undone.
I have a character that's a former 1st place in the MV but because I've reset that character it simply appears as evil cakewalk. I'm currently working on a game for that character and once I post a game then the former 1st place would be displayed assuming that the game was not sufficient to warrant a current medal by itself (actually I expect to be top 25 with the single game so the point is sort of moot).
Generally the only reason to reset a character is if you're making a try at the top MV spot since you get less and less credit for scores from each additional game. But you can also do OK by posting large numbers of lower scoring games so there's more than one way to go. There's also the AltMeta that uses a different scoring system and for that you have to join or create an empire that's listed on the AltMeta. To get listed on the AltMeta just post a message to Kryo on the AltMeta Help Desk thread.
Ok, I'm posting this following the "Metaverse" option from GCII into a web browser interface instead of going directly to the Stardock forums via URL. I can see other peoples' stats now (former top 25, 'Fratz? Pretty sweet!) so maybe mine will show up, too.
Hah, I see another difference: I've been browsing the forums from the URL "forums.stardock.com". The GC2 "Metaverse" menu took me to "forums.galciv2.com". Betcha the mirrored forum on the stardock site doesn't show game stats!
Nor must it post them, I think, or you guys would've said, "What are you talking about? Your game stats are right there on every post! You mean you can't see them?"
Posting from the Stardock URL probably leaves off the game records. Which solves another problem, if I'm right: getting rid of the medals if you don't want to display them. Just post from the Stardock site.
Gotta test my theory now. If I'm right I'll get medals from this post ...
No joy. Well it was a good theory, anyway -- not flawed, just wrong. 
Heh, I had turned "Default" on at some earlier point then turned it off again thinking I was turning it on.
Viewing from the mirror forum at the Stardock URL caused the confusion -- not seeing medals there I assumed they must be turned off / not working, so I toggled the switch that was on back to off.
My last remaining experiment is to post a message from the Stardock site and see if it (1) generates a post with game records attached and (2) displays game records for myself and others. I'm already 99% sure (2) is a "no", but we'll see in 2 posts. First this one, a control, posted from the galciv2 URL:
There appears to be a latency between messages posted from the "stardock" URL and their appearance here. The reverse doesn't seem to be the case: messages posted here seem to update there instantly. So it would seem I have to wait before I find out whether messages posted at the stardock site show the player records as messages posted from this URL do. I'm hoping this message will trigger a synchronization between the two servers so I don't have to wait to see the results of my experiment. If it doesn't work I won't spam anymore messages -- there are limits to how rude I'm willing to be to satisfy my own curiosity.
Thanks 'Adder for helping me get my forum account configured properly. You and 'Fratz are both very helpful and I'm glad you guys are here.
A little information about Stardock's linked sites would probably be useful here. Like I said Stardock currently has 12 separate forum sites. None of them are what I would call "mirrors" however all of them share the same database and all of them share some subset of the same forums but there are also many forums that are not shared across sites.
It's actually extremely complex, at my last count there were 755 separate forums (this info is over a year old at this point) of which only 373 were unique, spread out over Stardock's 12 forum sites. This is even more complicated by the fact that two of Stardock's 12 sites support not only the standard forum functionality but also support "blog" functionality which actually gives you some level of moderation you can provide on threads (i.e. blog articles) that you create.
As I said it's very complex and very confusing since most people assume that everyone responding to their posts is doing so from "their" site, an assumption that is often not true.
The following are SD's 12 forum sites.
http://forums.demigodthegame.com/
https://forums.elementalgame.com/
https://forums.galciv2.com/
http://forums.impulsedriven.com/
https://forums.joeuser.com/
https://forums.politicalmachine.com/
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/
https://forums.stardock.com/
http://tgnforums.stardock.com/
http://forums.vistathemes.com/
https://forums.wincustomize.com/
http://forums.xpthemes.com/
There are a number of forums like the Off-topic forum and the Forum Issues forum that are pretty much universally visible from all sites. Then there are lots of forums that are only visible from a few or even only one site.
Additionally the Joe User and the ImpulsDriven sites have the additional feature of supporting the "blog" functionality. All except the newest of these sites evolved as a seperate site with different functionality that gradually over time became common.
The bottom line is that GalCiv2 site, forums.galciv2.com, is one of the earlier sites and still has a certain uniqueness to it. In fact the metaverse section of the GalCiv2 site, http://metaverse.galciv2.com/, is really a separate site that is itself totally unique.
There's a lot more I could go into about all of this but this is sufficient for now. Just be careful about assuming that where you may be posting and reading from is not necessarily the same place as those you're talking to are posting and reading from.
Also even when on the GalCiv2 site there is some delay between opening a thread and being able to see everyone's medals. You'll often notice that the thread will open to the last post but the medals won't be visible and then the thread will "jump" as everyones medals are rendered and that increases the hieght of each preceding post.
And I'm sure there are far more than just two servers involved.
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