gift testing in pictures

[Buster's Uncle]

Fer pete's sake, Geo - is that better?  Gift me a Rock and I'm outta ideas to test.

[Eadee]

Well now you have the 500ec Rock Eadee sold me, too.

You lost the Rock? YOU FOOL!

no replacements

[Buster's Uncle]

I know, I know - it was the only Rock in my inventory not up for sale.  I wish I'd bought a fresh one, but I think it works down from the top of the list, so I'd have had to unsale one of Flux' gift rocks; I wish I had it to do over...

[Geo]

Sure, but I need you to test the gifting one more time first.

What exactly?
Btw, you still seem to have a rock worth 500 ec in your inventory. At least, it can't be for trade if it isn't in your inventory, doesn't it?

[Buster's Uncle]

My Rock is not worth 500ec -that's only what I put up as price on a lark- I haven't made a sales pitch to add value, proclaiming the glory of owning a Rock once owned by THE BlueFlux.

Gift me a Rock back and report, and you can go back to thinking about chasing voluptuous Librarians, whether the Gifting works fo' Supahvillains or not.

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Geo]

Thank you for waiting so patiently.

I tried both with a rock which is available for trade in the trade center, and one that isn't.

Both give me a message that it's 'unusable' when I try to 'use it'.

[Buster's Uncle]

[facepalm] I don't want you to 'use it'; I want you to gift me one back.

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=shop;sa=gift <-THIS.

[Geo]

Well, that works.

[Geo]

And a beer for all the trouble. You probably deserved it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Good luck with Chesty McBookish.  Would you like to be in a usergroup so you can Gift things?

[Geo]

No need, thanks for the thought.

[Buster's Uncle]

I could (easily) make a non-PC-based Librarian membergroup that looks exactly the same (though the making the Front Page and right sidebar visible to you would be a pain - it's seven different Blocks I have to find and edit to include every new group).  You're 531 posts from making Thinker PC anyway, and there goes the joke.

Actually, I thought of another Rock Gifting test - I didn't take you out of the Supervillains yesterday, only made it not your primary group that shows (like I still have most of my admin powers w/o showing), and I wonder if that will allow you to Gift w/o me jumping through a lot of hoops on a custom group.  I may not bother with that today, though.  Need a nap pretty bad...

[Geo]

Ah. 5,000 is the next milestone? Okay.

Really, no need to put me in a usergroup.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay - Geo was able to Gift the Rock, and the problem is Officially Solved.