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The Automated Review Request System: A Guide For Players

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The Automated Review Request System.
We are very fortunate to have a bespoke system created for us which allows us to compile our review requests as we write. This guide takes you through that system, from posting to requesting your review.

Writing Your Posts
When writing your IC posts, we have a system which allows you to fill in the review request as you go.

It means that you can identify the following things in a post:
  • What skills you are using, and what your existing level in them is
  • What knowledge you would like to claim
  • Any injuries you sustain during the thread
  • Any loot gained during the thread
  • Any loss of loot / items during the thread.
This then is automatically fed into the review request for all the people in the thread.

Uses / Advantages
  • In a collaborative thread, people can identify skills used and knowledge requested as they go and the review then takes care of itself (more or less).
  • In a modded thread, players can identify up to X knowledges per post, which the mod can then look at and award if appropriate.
  • This will negate the need to ask people to co-ordinate information when putting together a review - it's all there ready to go as soon as the thread is done.
  • Where you identify that you are using a skill, the skill name and level will appear in a pop up over it in the post. This will help our mods and peer reviewers.
  • Since you will identify the skill and level at the time of writing the post, it negates the issue with people changing skill level as a thread progresses.
  • It clarifies where people are claiming numbered knowledge, meaning that Peer Reviewers will have less queries and it's much clearer for them.
  • If you claim more knowledge than you are entitled for - you can just add a note at the bottom saying "I'd like to claim knowledge 1 -6, 8 & 10" - that way, if there is an issue with any knowledges, the Peer Reviewer can pick one of the alternatives.
  • If you take time to finish a thread, you don't need to go back and remind yourself when preparing the review - because it's done for you.
  • It's viewable by all
How Do I Identify Them In A Post!?
  • Skill Used
    • The text where you are identifying a skill you are using needs to be wrapped in the "[skill" bb code (remember, you'll need to close out the "]" for it to work!).
    • There is a button for that on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that it will give you this

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          [skill][/skill]
    • so either highlight the existing text, or type it in as you go.
    • That code identifies that you have used a skill. You need to simply tell it what skill and what level you are. An example would look like this, where I have identified THIS TEXT as being Writing (Novice) . I did that by putting in:

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        [skill=Writing (Novice)]THIS TEXT[/skill]  
      Which looks like this as I type:
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    • You will note that, if you type in "[skill=" then a drop down menu appears at the bottom of your screen, giving you auto-suggestions of the code. This is a convenience, should you wish to use it.
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  • Knowledges Claimed
    • The text which relates to where you are claiming a knowledge needs to be wrapped in the "[knowledge" bb code (remember, you'll need to close out the "]" for it to work!).
    • There is a button for that on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that it will give you this

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        [knowledge][/knowledge]
    • Either highlight the existing text, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works here also)
    • That code identifies that you are claiming a knowledge for this part of the post. You need to do 2 things.
      • Tell it what skill you are claiming the knowledge for. An example would look like this, where I have identified THIS TEXT as claiming a Knowledge about Writing. I haven't put the skill level in (I don't need to for knowledge) and nothing appears in the post. (see "The Claims Summary" below, though)
      • THEN you need to tell it what your knowledge is named. Here - you have three options.
        • Name the knowledge exactly what is written in the text. For that, you don't need to do anything. Just keep it as

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            [knowledge skill=Writing]THIS TEXT[/knowledge]
        • Name the knowledge something else. For that, you need to put "name=What you name your knowledge" so, for example THIS TEXT is

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              [knowledge skill=Writing name=Writing Guides Requires Specific Examples]THIS TEXT[/knowledge]
        • Name your knowledge a number. For numbered knowledge, just put in the number as the name. So, for example THIS TEXT is

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            [knowledge skill=Writing name=1]THIS TEXT[/knowledge]
  • Injuries
    • The text which relates to an injury being gained needs to be wrapped in "[injury" bbcode. Again, you need to close out the "]" for it to work.
    • There is a button on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that, it will give you this

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      [injury][/injury]
    • Either highlight the text you've written, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works) .
    • The code identified that you are claiming an injury for that part of the post. You have two options here:
      • Simply wrap the text in the injury code. This is not helpful if you put I hurtied myself!

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         [injury]I hurtied myself! [/injury]
      • To better define the injury, put it inside the code, and still wrap it around your "ow, I said" text.

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        [injury=cuts and bruises]ow, I said[/injury]
  • Loot
    • The text which relates to loot being gained needs to be wrapped in "[loot" bbcode. Again, you need to close out the "]" for it to work.
    • There is a button on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that, it will give you this

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      [loot][/loot]
    • Either highlight the text you've written, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works) .
    • The code identifies that you are claiming loot for that part of the post. You have two options here:
      • Simply wrap the text in the loot code. This is not helpful if you put Tim grabbed it!

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         [loot] Tim grabbed it! [/loot] 
      • To better define the loot, put it inside the code, and still wrap it around your "Tim lunged and picked it up! " text.

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         [loot=1 golden goblet]Tim lunged and picked it up! [/loot] 
  • Losses
    • The text which relates to loss of an item / wealth needs to be wrapped in "[loss" bbcode. Again, you need to close out the "]" for it to work.
    • There is a button on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that, it will give you this

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      [loss][/loss]
    • Either highlight the text you've written, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works) .
    • The code identifies that you are losing items / wealth that part of the post. You have two options here:
      • Simply wrap the text in the loss code. This is not helpful if you put Wendy dropped it!

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        [loss]Wendy dropped it! [/loss] 
      • To better define the loss, put it inside the code, and still wrap it around your "Wendy ran after them, but they were gone... " text.

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         "[loss=2 sheep and a truckle of cheese]Wendy ran after them, but they were gone... [/loss] " [/list] 
        [/style]
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The Automated Review Request System.
After Submitting Your Post
Once you have pressed submit and your post is published to the site, you will see that at the bottom of the post, next to the word count, it now lists how many of each tag you've used.
  • For the post above, it looks like this:
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  • If you click on that area, it gives you the "Claims Summary" for the post.
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  • Also - if you scroll back up to the post - it highlights in green where the knoowledge claims are.
  • This opens the claims summary for all posts in the thread.
  • This is toggled closed by clicking "Hide the Claims Summary"
  • Please note that for Loots, Losses and Injuries - the bold text is what will appear in the review.

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The Automated Review Request System.
Making The Review Claim
Once you are ready to put your thread in the Review Queue.
  • Click on the "Request an XP Review" button at the bottom or top of the thread.
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  • A new post will open up in the correct thread, with the code filled in for you. It will look very similar to this
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    • It automatically fills in the thread name (and link) and the forum.
    • You need to fill in the
      • Notes / warnings
      • Renown: (how much and for what?)
      • Wealth Points: (how many and for what?)
      • Collaboration: (Yes/No)
      • Magic Experience?: (Yes/No)
      • Local Language Thread? (Yes - Name of Language / No)
    • Once you have that filled in, press submit. Doing that for the first post of this thread gives this:
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    • Notice how it has filled in the skills used, the knowledges, the loss, loot and injuries. You can see that it has included only the bolded text from the loss, loot & injuries Claims Summary.
    • Please note that it will only display the loss, loot and injuries if there are skills used and / or knowledge claimed.
    A Final Point:
    • You do not have to use the [skill, [knowledge, [loss, etc code at all. We are hoping to tie them in more and more to the UCP Character Sheet (eg: assigning knowledge etc) but that's a way in the future yet.
    • However - if you could use the "Request an XP Review" button at the bottom of each thread, that would be great. It really helps Peer Reviewers, because it generates the "Issue Rewards" button on your review, which makes our lives a lot easier.
    • If you've identified no skills, knowledge etc in the posts themselves, you can just put them in to the auto-generated request just as you normally would.
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