People are leveling up already...

Originally Posted by Admiral Amara

Ah, thank you Snowknight, I didn't know the algorith to it before now. I did know that it was on some sort of exponential growth curve, requiring more posts to advance the more levels you had, but not (log10 [Postcount]^3) + 1.

That's definitely not the current system. If it were, my 6 posts prior to making this one would put me in level 3, but I'm currently still sitting in level 1.

Plus, in order to get to level 25, you'd need log(x^3) = 24, log(x) = 8, or x = 100,000,000 posts.

Originally Posted by bobo

You can now view a user's "level" in their postbit once again. Levels are calculated using this formula:

log10 (POSTCOUNT) ^ 3) + 1

The parentheses are mismatched in bobo's equation; I believe he left off one at the very beginning or inserted an extra one after the three. I think the formula should be:

log(POSTCOUNT) ^ 3 + 1

I took a few random high, medium, and low posters and tested that formula, and everything agrees with the displayed level numbers.

this is what I do when I'm bored

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Yamamanama

Were you posting in the Testing Forum or Welcome Welcome? Posts don't count there.

Nope. 5 in GGMD and 1 in General Discussion.

Now that we have percentages, I can say I'm 99% sure I've got the right formula, since they correspond to the first two decimal places of the result (truncated, not rounded).

Also, that coloring idea is neat, although I'd be in the red all the time.

There's nowhere I can't reach.