Board 8 > Save My Alolan Form: Day 9 (RULE CHANGE) [smaf] [bot]

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Tally, STATS, BotFunctions: https://savemy.app/
Latest Round Quicklink: https://savemy.app/round

Rules:
- Only topics by Gmun alts are valid, generally 'Save-My', see top link for others.
- Saves per Cycle: 1
- Cycle Length: 60 [min]
- Saves to be Safe: 4
- Topics are automated, rounds are run 24/7, new rounds briefly after the current ends.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/5/AAN7AaAAEwoL.jpg

Next 3 Rule Changes:
... R[010]: 1-Saves, 30-Cycle, 4-Safe, 1-Elim(s)
... R[011]: 1-Saves, 60-Cycle, 5-Safe, 1-Elim(s)
... R[012]: 1-Saves, 30-Cycle, 5-Safe, 1-Elim(s)

- YOU ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO ONE SAVE PER CHARACTER PER ROUND - ONLY WITHIN ONE *CYCLE*.
E.g. if there's 2 saves/cycle you can't use both your first saves on 'celes', but you can save 'celes' again in your next cycle (after 60 min).
- TO SAVE A CHARACTER USE MUST POST THEIR SAVE KEY IN BOLD. Alternative save keys can be found in the top link, if one is not listed it will not be a valid save.
E.g. to save 'Edgar Roni Figaro' post '<b>edgar</b>' or, *because it is a valid alt listed*, '<b>gerad</b>'. All spaces are removed/ignored, case-insensitive.
- Mulitple saves per cycle can be delimited in a single bold tag with ';' or line-breaks. However, all bold tags will be scanned either way so take your pick (except in sigs).
E.g. to save both 'Locke Cole' and 'Cyan Garamonde' post '<b>locke;cyan</b>' OR '<b>locke;cyan</b>' OR ('<b>locke</b>' AND '<b>cyan</b>').
- Saves are counted in order they're posted - E.g. post #1 before post #2, and which save comes first within a post. Be cautious of quoting saves you don't intend to make.
- As saves are scanned automatically... You're responsible for your own saves, including influence by invalid ones. Invalid saves will [hopefully] be notified by bot within a minute.
As such, there is time to edit/delete a post before bot scans it. This is acceptable, but malicious use is subject to community rule.
- Early saving through an alt is banned, accidents will see leniency (survive if Gmun is around to catch, 5-round ban affects results).
All found malicious and associated accounts will be banned and turned Kill On Sight for a *minimum* of 2 contests
- Abuse of rules or new issues/exploits subject to host punishment. I'm lenient on mistakes but won't tolerate abuse. Don't be a dick, community jury.
- Banned: None

Finals:
- One 24-hour round, 6 saves per finalist.
E.g. you can use up the max 6 saves on A but still use up to 6 more saves on B.
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO PUT NUMBERS *INSIDES* THE SAVE'S BOLD TAGS, THEY WILL BE IGNORED.

Tally web page updated every 5 minutes, updates will be posted after every 25 saves (5 when <10 remain), or if someone requests the bot with the command 'update plz'. For a list of other commands, post 'what can you do bot' (except not yet, I haven't made te command yet lolz)

slash

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tonight's a night for slashers

@Zigzagoon @KommunistKoala

bot doesn't have alerts for this but uh the shrew died in a slash vs shrew face-off last round

Slash slashed Shrew

vulpix

terrible

UNSAFE [10]

[0] rat... Rattata

[1] raichu... Raichu - [GuessMyUserName-a5608]

[2] slash... Sandslash - [GenesisSaga-a5842, mnkboy907-a5856]

[3] vulpix... Vulpix - [Suprak the Stud-a5739, Xuxon-b1713, BlueCrystalTear-b2128]
[0] ninetales... Ninetales

[0] diglett... Diglett

[1] meowth... Meowth - [Robazoid-a5546]

[2] muk... Muk - [Keeby-a5721, -hotdogturtle---b0401]

[0] gutor... Exeggutor

[1] marowak... Marowak - [RakaPutra-b2121]

@KommunistKoala : Saved [vulpix] early, next available save in 0:40:58

...Did it count Koala's Shrew save?

https://savemy.app/saves/SMAF/I/9

... yes

I'll fix it manually, surprised it took half the contest to find that!

glad i could help

@MZero : Saved [marowak] early, next available save in 1:00:00

Meowth not early

@Mobilezoid : Saved [meowth] early, next available save in 0:00:01

okay that shouldn't be an issue anymore

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/5/AAeYFbAAEwv_.png

but I'd like to change it so bot alerts on saves that are ded so I'll need to tweak a bit more (I know what to do but it'll take a couple changes)

so explanation: when bot parses out the "save" - whatever text is in the bold & split up by semicolons, but checks to see if there is a contestant in this contest that has a registered nickname by that string of characters - e.g. "shrew")

id doesn't check anything else, just whether or not that is a key name in the contest, if so then it must be a save and moves on to the other checks (safe / early / already saved in a cycle)

so the change I made is I narrowed that search to only search for key names in this contest without a recorded placement, which now means bot rules out sandshrew who placed last topic

so the next change for me to make is that this still actually returns contestants who have placed, but also returns the state of whether they placed or not, and within the scan function I can check for that field and pop an alert if the placement is not null

oh i have a save

raichu

update plz

shrew again

@Grimlyn : Sorry, [shrew] ded

Poor shrew.

muk

Grimlyn posted...

@Zigzagoon @KommunistKoala

bot doesn't have alerts for this but uh the shrew died in a slash vs shrew face-off last round

ok i wont play anymore

should just fastfoward to vulpix vs ninetales finals

Meowth, that's right

update plz

hrm

raichu