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[Paddy The Cat]

i thought it was funny. They get me every year.

[SaucyJack]

To those who are saying it's the worst April Fools' joke because it didn't fool you...do you think it could possibly have something to do with, you know, the fact that people are *diligently on the lookout for April Fools jokes* on April Fools Day?

If they do it on another day, it's not an April Fools joke. If they do it on April Fools' Day, then they have to deal with a populus that has its guard up a lot higher than it would be at any other time of the year. Such is life.

The first step to achieving a great April Fools joke is to have people forget that it's April Fools' Day...which also happens to be the most difficult step.

[darth emperor]

To those who are saying it's the worst April Fools' joke because it didn't fool you...do you think it could possibly have something to do with, you know, the fact that people are *diligently on the lookout for April Fools jokes* on April Fools Day?

If they do it on another day, it's not an April Fools joke. If they do it on April Fools' Day, then they have to deal with a populus that has its guard up a lot higher than it would be at any other time of the year. Such is life.

The first step to achieving a great April Fools joke is to have people forget that it's April Fools' Day...which also happens to be the most difficult step.

In the spanish countries is on 12/28, they could try it then...

[DarthBlood]

To those who are saying it's the worst April Fools' joke because it didn't fool you...do you think it could possibly have something to do with, you know, the fact that people are *diligently on the lookout for April Fools jokes* on April Fools Day?

my reason for thinking this is a bad joke has nothing to do with that. in fact, i did fall for it...until i looked at the forums. i don't think it's funny simply because of the dice adjustments panel. it's not funny to joke about rigging the game like that. and how do we know that this isn't actually true. that the real admins truly DO have the power to adjust dice?

[denominator]

To those who are saying it's the worst April Fools' joke because it didn't fool you...do you think it could possibly have something to do with, you know, the fact that people are *diligently on the lookout for April Fools jokes* on April Fools Day?

my reason for thinking this is a bad joke has nothing to do with that. in fact, i did fall for it...until i looked at the forums. i don't think it's funny simply because of the dice adjustments panel. it's not funny to joke about rigging the game like that. and how do we know that this isn't actually true. that the real admins truly DO have the power to adjust dice?

If you truly believe the administrators have that kind of power, you should not be on this site. It's been proven time and time again that the dice are fair and balanced, despite continual complaints of unfair, unrealistic, or biased dice. Not to mention you have the ability to look up anyone's recent dice stats - including the administrators.

It shows that CC is aware of what the community values and thus what would make an appropriate joke.

[pmchugh]

To those who are saying it's the worst April Fools' joke because it didn't fool you...do you think it could possibly have something to do with, you know, the fact that people are *diligently on the lookout for April Fools jokes* on April Fools Day?

my reason for thinking this is a bad joke has nothing to do with that. in fact, i did fall for it...until i looked at the forums. i don't think it's funny simply because of the dice adjustments panel. it's not funny to joke about rigging the game like that. and how do we know that this isn't actually true. that the real admins truly DO have the power to adjust dice?

Oh yes, everyone should take things in life more seriously... that is what we need.

[bman8397]

Lol, at first I thought wow somebody must've screwed up and aren't I lucky. Then I realized wait its april fools. Then I saw it was hacked and thought yay, as long as they don't steal personal info from me. Then it hit me and I realized wait, why would april fools day be the holiday they do nothing for. (Plus the whole admin tools seemed weird to me) they had me going for a while. I felt kind of dumb at first for not noticing. I always love a good april fools day joke.

[Jimayo]

Lol, at first I thought wow somebody must've screwed up and aren't I lucky. Then I realized wait its april fools. Then I saw it was hacked and thought yay, as long as they don't steal personal info from me. Then it hit me and I realized wait, why would april fools day be the holiday they do nothing for. (Plus the whole admin tools seemed weird to me) they had me going for a while. I felt kind of dumb at first for not noticing. I always love a good april fools day joke.

The dice adjustment thing was a dead giveaway. If they'd made an admin menu that looked real I might have fallen for it, but that was obviously fake.

[bman8397]

Yea, at first I was a little too excited that I just got lucky to realize it

[Falkomagno]

and for all the complainers....this is a very well executed joke, so good indeed that certain "clever" actually think that you can "fix" the dice.

If you want an example of a disastrous CC aprils joke, remeber Cutesy Club....oh, my eyes are still sore

[firsal901]

lool nice one admins

[Swimmerdude99]

This was awesome, well played CC

[drunkmonkey]

If the admi menu is also legitimate...who will zero it out? And if its real that means to me that Conquer Club CAN be rigged like so many complain about. If that is the case you will lose a premium member here.

You're...special.

[TheForgivenOne]

If the admi menu is also legitimate...who will zero it out? And if its real that means to me that Conquer Club CAN be rigged like so many complain about. If that is the case you will lose a premium member here.

You're...special.

If it WAS a real legitimate bug, the first mod who would have seen it would have alerted lackattack immediately, like any other mass bug that happens.

[Sprocc]

Got me – In my defence it isn’t April 1st where I am, but still completely thought it was serious.

[chapcrap]

Got me – In my defence it isn’t April 1st where I am, but still completely thought it was serious.

It's not April? Where are you from?

[Gilligan]

Got me – In my defence it isn’t April 1st where I am, but still completely thought it was serious.

It's not April? Where are you from?

Some countries do this on December 28, news to me too.

[AndyDufresne]

Ahoy Everyone,

It is great to be back in control! I wanted to thank you all for indulging in our little April Fools gag, hopefully you managed to have some fun with it and it helped give you a chuckle over the weekend. And don't worry, there really is no 'Dice Adjustments' tool---I can't even begin to imagine how such a feature would work if it could exist! And as denominator pointed out in his post, there is too much of a paper trail for such a tool to exist! And if it did, I'm fairly certain Lackattack, King Achilles, and Myself would be into officer status, instead of the middling ranks we currently are! Haha.

I must say it was pretty amusing to watch the "reasons" users were using for their various actions in the dummy-admin menu items. Here are some stats, and a couple of gems that I liked:

Dice Adjustment - 1870 entries
Paddle - 849 entries
Premium Membership Granting - 1029 entries

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For the Dice Adjustments, I chuckled that the first couple of entries actually followed the made-up guideline of ~15%, but within a couple of more minutes the 99%'s started rolling in! dollarsnosense used the "tool" the most with 48 entries!

For the Paddle, Crazyirishman used the "tool" the most, with 46 entries! And here are some random entries I found amusing:

[spoiler]FoolNo Player | Data1 Data2 | Reason | ProcessedBy

3315 skytop | Website Ban 1 month | Wears white after labor day | 1337chris
3141 Pelopidas | Website Ban permanent | Suck it, Trebek. | Alraun
3235 cooney | Website Ban 1 week | For planting a dead tree in my Aunt's lawn. | AzureX
2331 DrewbieDoo | Chat Ban 1 week | Because he drops way too much knowledge in the chats and makes others look like 2nd graders. | DrewbieDoo
637 Dudz1 | Website Ban permanent | never cuddles after sex | dyonehara
2041 NoSurvivors | Website Ban 3 months | makes me aroused | eagleblade
3367 rhp 1 | Chat Ban permanent | discussing my weight | emilywink
2861 MikostheMudder | Website Ban permanent | For putting a tablesaw through the ring finger I was about to own. | Hellabelle
1007 Seulessliathan | Website Ban 1 month | Viciously attacking anything pink and stealing all your cookies. | kratos644
846 what,me worry? | Forum Ban 72 hours | He's sexy and he knows it. wiggle wiggle wiggle yea | what,me worry?
2663 natty dread | Website Ban permanent | Cause he reminds me of my 7th grade gym teacher.(cheeky twerp) | ws1[/spoiler]

For the Premium Granting, lmcarreiro used the "tool" the most, but only with 9 entries! However, there were 286 entries in which someone awarded 99 months of Premium Membership! Most of the reasons seem to revolve around someone wanting to give themselves or their friends Premium since they couldn't afford it at this time, or for simply because they deserved it for making Conquer Club the unique community it is! Here are some random entries I found amusing:

[spoiler]FoolNo Player | Type Months | Reason | ProcessedBy

2929 XanderGamble | P 1 | I just figured ... "What the Hell?" | Wordsmythe
1985 AAFitz | C 0 | There can be only one. | AAFitz
2690 duncana | C 0 | Because French guys are stronger, smarter and more Beautiful than the others | duncana
2070 RSIRaistlin | C 0 | Because honestly Rick James "Fawked my couch" and I'm never gonna get the stain out | RSIRaistlin
2320 rayofsun | P 4 | ive worshiped this site from the day i first knew what a computer was | rayofsun
2744 dapp69er | P 12 | cuz I am not going to cheat and change me dice adjustments like all those other that r cheating | dapp69er
2673 doughballian | P 12 | so i have more games to play when i'm hiding from my bitchy roommate in my room | doughballian
2227 IB LoGiK | P 12 | can't help to try, like that mega millions. | IB LoGiK
2207 mhubbs | P 12 | because i wanna be a part of the monstrosity of April Fools | mhubbs
3068 sjmay | P 12 | Only because if this isn't a prank, I'd be an ass because I didn't do it.... | sjmay
1141 Power Bomb | P 12 | Because he swears he is going to give this up for Lent | skido
2351 Chives1337 | P 69 | cos 69 is the best number ever (good april fools joke) | Chives1337
481 Phatscotty | C 77 | Because I cut my own hair | Phatscotty
3446 TheDude | P 80 | Cause he rocks faces. And is great. | TheDude
1512 Namor | P 98 | just the 98 months... I'm not greedy | Namor
589 [ .: JOS :. ] | P 99 | Seems legit. | [ .: JOS :. ]
533 jtselliott | P 99 | I'm a moral relativist. | jtselliott[/spoiler]

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Many thanks to all those concerned citizens who sent in E-tickets as well, it was great to see you cared enough to take some action!

And all April Fools' joking aside, Lackattack really is into coding the next update...based on a popular suggestion that has been around for a long while!


--Andy

[skychaser]

you put this "the next update" thing here and didnt tell what it was... Come on! April fools' over.

Pics or didn't happen.

Could it be shuffle teams so I could play team games?

[Chives1337]

2351 Chives1337 | P 69 | cos 69 is the best number ever (good april fools joke) | Chives1337

'Nuff sed.

[Ace Rimmer]

2351 Chives1337 | P 69 | cos 69 is the best number ever (good april fools joke) | Chives1337

I
'Nuff sed.

Your mom agrees.

Andy, if that is AA I am coming back to cc. Just a heads up (threat? Warning?)

[drunkmonkey]

Andy, if that is AA I am coming back to cc. Just a heads up (threat? Warning?)

My money's on "choose your own color".

[darth emperor]

Got me – In my defence it isn’t April 1st where I am, but still completely thought it was serious.

It's not April? Where are you from?

Some countries do this on December 28, news to me too.

Yep, in spanish countries do on that day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day#Other_prank_days_in_the_world

[jak111]

Got me – In my defence it isn’t April 1st where I am, but still completely thought it was serious.

It's not April? Where are you from?

Some countries do this on December 28, news to me too.

Well he/she lives in Australia so by the time he/she checked it would've probably been April 2nd over there .

I was a bit disappointed in the ban tool. People were calling others out in a not so mannerly fashion .

[agentcom]

Is any of this stuff archived? I'd like to see if I was paddled, premiumed, or diced?