Tombstone Pizza Island

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Tombstone Pizza Island is the forum members are restricted to when they fail at delivering a Tombstone pizza.

Table of contents

1 Genesis

1.1 Send Tails a Whole Tombstone Pizza
1.2 Pizza for All!
1.3 The Island Is Discovered

2 Statistics

3 Tombstone Pizza Island Officials

4 Island Residents

5 Links

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Genesis

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Send Tails a Whole Tombstone Pizza

mrallex has a change of heart

[11:58:24] <Roflfox> So I like how Bigblah has been on an ADD STUFF trip for the past few days
[11:58:38] <Roflfox> He does everything but deliver pizza in under 30 minutes at this point
[11:58:42] <Roflfox> Blah can you do that

On December 8, 2006, Bigblah made a script which, when activated, would send a PM containing a picture of a Tombstone pizza to Tails. After Blah announced this feature in his journal (http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php?action=view&amount=single&userid=5&entryid=17764), the forum went wild, refreshing the page and opening multitudes of tabs to fill Tails's inbox with pizzas. A link was later added to the Quick Links for convenience.

Later, Tails's inbox was expanded to be able to hold 9001 PMs in order to make it harder for it to fill up completely with pizzas.

Even later, the pizzas were delivered to mrallex instead because lol.

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Pizza for All!

view of the banlist from Bigblah

Several hours later, Bigblah changed the script (http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php?action=view&amount=single&userid=5&entryid=17799) so that you could choose the recipient of the pizza. The link in Quick Links still defaulted to Tails, but by clicking on a user's name in the postbit in one of their posts, you could send a pizza to that member from the dropdown menu.

In exchange, there was a chance that the deliverer would fail in the delivery and be banned for 1-5 hours. The chance was originally 1/3 that this would happen, but it was later lowered to 1/6. In addition, any pizzas sent to Lord Styphon would result in a manual 24-hour ban (Kaleb.G also later adopted this practice (http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php?action=view&amount=single&userid=13&entryid=17846)).

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The Island Is Discovered

<AcerBandit> it would be kind of fun to ban pizza failures to pizza island where only failed pizza deliverers can talk to each other ='D
<AcerBandit> and it would be for their ban stay

A few hours later, Bigblah once again changed the pizza delivery system so that failures would change the deliverer's user group to one that could only access the newly created Tombstone Pizza Island forum. There, failed deliveryman could discuss their follies, create further plans for more efficient delivery, and just shoot the breeze until their rescue boat arrived.

The banishment chance was increased back to 1/3, but the range of banishment times was reduced to 1-3 hours. Blah later tried to make the ban chance dependent on the number of members sending pizzas, but scrapped that plan and just set the ban chance back down to 1/6. The time the rescue boat arrives is also consistently late by 15 minutes.

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Statistics

AcerBandit's Tombstone stats

When the usergroup and Island were created, each member also received a pizza icon in their infobox. When the cursor is hovered over this icon, that user's personal best streak of successful pizza deliveries and failed attempts at delivery are shown.

Later, Bigblah created a statistics page (http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/pizzastats.php) which shows:

the current inhabitants of the island,
the last ten failed deliveries,
the ten best delivery streaks,
the ten users who've failed at delivering the most,
the ten users who've been the target of a failed delivery the most,
the ten users who've been the target of a successful delivery the most,
and the ten users who have stayed on the Island the longest.

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