NGVoteCalc 1.0 Readme
(c)2004 JF Software
Joshua Foster / ShittyKitty
http://www.jfsoftware.com/ng.html

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DESCRIPTION
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NGVoteCalc is a voting power calculator for Newgrounds users.  It allows you to compute current voting power, future voting power, and number of days needed to achieve a certain power.

WHAT'S NEW
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Version 1.0
* First public release

INTRODUCTION
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Run the NGVoteCalc program by double-clicking its icon (wherever you extracted the program).  The main window is basically in five sections:
* Computation Type
* Auto-Grab
* Info Boxes
* Compute
* Result

COMPUTATION TYPE
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There's three options here:

* Current voting power - Computes a current voting power for any experience point level, blam/protect rank, and level 30 user experience point level.
* Voting power in "x" days - Computes a future voting power in any number of days, using the same info as above.
* Number of days until "x" vp - Computes the number of days (10-point deposits) needed to achieve a certain voting power.

Important notes:

* You must have at least 400 experience points to use the last two computation types.
* The calculator assumes that both you and the level 30 user will be depositing every day.

AUTO-GRAB
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* Auto-grab your info - Click this button and type your profile number into the input box that appears.  This function will automatically fill in your experience points and blam/protect rank.  To get your profile number, open your Public Profile.  Right-click the window and select Properties (IE) or View Page Info (Netscape).  At the end of the URL is a number; that number is your profile number.
* Auto-grab level 30 exp - Click this button to have the program automatically fill in the "Level 30 experience points" box.

INFO BOXES
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There's four info boxes:

* Your experience points - Type your current number of experience points here.
* Level 30 experience points - Type the number of experience points that the current level 30 user has.  (Either click the Auto-Grab button for this, or visit http://www.newgrounds.com/users_list.html)
* Blam/protect rank - Select your current (or future, for the last two computation methods) blam/protect rank, or select None / Citizen to work with the base voting power.
* Number of days ('Voting power in "x" days' only) - Type the number of days in the future for which you want to compute your voting power.
* Goal voting power ('Number of days until "x" vp' only) - Type the voting power that you want to find a day estimate for.

COMPUTE
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Click this button to compute the result.

RESULT
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This text at the bottom of the window will show you the result of the computation.  Note that voting power computations will show up to three decimal places, but NG only uses two.

CONTACT INFO
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Email:   joshua70448@gmail.com
         joshua_70448@ureach.com

Website: http://www.jfsoftware.com/ng.html

NG User: ShittyKitty (#267310)

AIM:     joshua70448

Yahoo:   joshuaptc