Stanlee

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  1. Either I misunderstand this or with the limitation that you can only turn SB on every 5 minutes, you've created the most painful (if efficient) grind possible
  2. Time to get ready to flex that spreadsheet I've got a rare coffee pot (clay) asking if those volume changes will be retroactive
  3. With apologies to the Lunalong, That's right! Meadhalla 2 has rolled around! "but Stan didn't you say it was the last sunday of febr-" yes, yes I did. But here's what happened: Meadhalla was originally designed to go toe-to-toe with Blue Monday, a social event squaring off with "the most depressing day of the year." But it took me far too long, or the idea became a thing far too late, to get ready in time. Then, turns out, Blue Monday was invented to sell airline tickets. Yeah. So I'm putting this year's on one of the hardest times of the year for me personally, and many others who are so Seasonally Affected. Yes, I'm fully aware of a multitude of studies that pin early summer as "most depressing" but I feel those studies have too narrow a focus. I'd say more to slag them off, but then I'd have to post a content warning so that's not going here. Also I got 100 Channeling so this doubles as my celebration of that. For those who missed the last Meadhalla, it's a social event on the Southern Freedom Isles that lasts a few hours. By social event, I mean no prizes of value, no imping. We're there to chat, play silly games and whatever else our whimsical hearts desire (if your heart desires imping, then there's no stopping you). Last year I asked you to bring Cheesy Puns and items for a Show-And-Tell. This year is a little different. First, I'd like you to bring headgear dyed your favourite colour. Cloth hood is recommended, great helmet works too, no restrictions here so if you find something that works better, strut it! If you're taking part in the Team Game listed below, I'd also ask you go for your team's colour. Maybe bring a spare if your team doesn't make it and you want to flaunt another colour. Second, I'm going to ask for one of two things. Either one, you donate to a mental health charity of choice. Personally, I'm going to recommend either the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention or Papyrus UK. If you can't, or simply don't want to donate to them, then instead I ask this: reach out to someone you know. Ideally, someone you haven't talked to in a while. Talk to them, ask them how they're doing and really listen to their answer. None of this will ever be checked or even asked about, so I'm working on the honour system here. Last year's obstacle course is still there. Old mead has been mixed with new mead to preserve flavour. Pheasant pen is there for those who want the "catapult a creature" journal task, as well as many other things featured last year. My optical illusion as featured on Creative Constructs is there, but keep in mind light sources do break the illusion. And now, for this year's main event: FABRICANT! 🦈 Long have you doled out MIRTH and JOY with your task-masteries! NO LONGER says I! I have stolen your FORMAT! I have stolen your ASSISTANT! I have stolen your TASK-MASTERY CHAIR! And if you want ANY HOPE of getting them back, You will assemble a team with TWO of your friends and, You will take part, and win, the STAN-LED TASKMASTER GAME! But you - yes you, dear reader, can also take part! Simply fill out the form below and be entered to TAKE PART! We'll probably have a team elimination if there's too many so look forward to that too. But know this! Your team must: 1. Have three people. No more, no less, three is the number of counting. 2. Have a Team Leader. They are who you will look to. Your Team Leader must be willing and able to use Discord and its Voice Chat 3. Have a team colour, ideally one no other team is using! 4. Bring at least 0.5kg of your team colour's dye. This will only be taken from teams who make it to Taskmaster. 5. Fill out the form below (remove the Example) and post it in this thread And your team will be Entered for the EVENT! Edit: On the day, it would be wise to take a full complement of tools. Note that is is not the only event at Meadhalla, and those who do not wish to take part or are not part of a team are more than welcome, there'll be other things going on there too! Team application form All this and, would you believe it - more, at Meadhalla, J10 Release. 18th of December. We're on the highway network!
  4. So I've avoided posting here because the OP was a big case of "neat enough idea, I wouldn't use it, it doesn't address the big issues with uniques but it also looks like it doesn't want to and that's okay not every suggestion does" but it's time for me to come in swinging. Given how few private humanoids allow the public to come for bloods, I don't see the wild claims of a massive increase semi-public slayings holding much merit. Humanoids are already a case of "only the blood distributes, everything else is on the corpse" and we need only to look at those to perhaps see how the dragons will go. I will now once again plug that, in my opinion, the best solution will be to have spawns be driven by collaborative player effort over a long time, perhaps as some kind of long-term goal of some kind of "exploration update." Then, if you want blood/scale/whatever, it's up to you to get out of your deed, gather some companions, and let your own blood sweat and tears cause that to happen - rather than the current system of competing with organized teams that have a near stranglehold on the searches. Yeah, I know, I'm one of those teams. Also, In all of my massive experience searching for uniques, I've never seen one spawn on (or even particularly near) a deed. They only ever seem to trash places if they're a wandering type (I've only seen these on Epic, maybe Chaos gets them too) or are carefully led into a deed (even then they don't like to trash more than they have to)
  5. finally you can get your hands on the stinky cheese merch you'll be able to preview at the slaying
  6. Phew-ee, this one sure is smelly. The Cheese is strong, so strong you'd think it was diseased. A small taste was had, and after spitting was the burning. So either it's jalapenos, or this one is a Red dragon! This slaying is sponsored by the Cheese PMK. Which is to say we found the dragon, and they decorated my deed with Cheese Gear! There's also a wagon but it's on Celebration somewhere under my name and please tell me if you see it, it's lost and I don't know where it is. They're also supposed to have put up some sales of the gear to coincide with this thread but they're really slow so it's gonna be edited in and/or a comment! Edit: here it is It's still at Bruce's Flying Circus, still at N13, still on the highway network and you should still get there early.
  7. speaking of Celebration I've heard I have a wagon there if anyone finds it please direct me to it
  8. Oh right yeah I collected some info on the grind I can post now: The grind I used from 99.990 to 100 was neck wound and Opulence on Corn. Grinds before then were all sorts of things, like casting in armour on gems (a method that favor now regens too fast for), LitD on seryll pendulum, lots and lots of Vessel casts. 183 corn cobs gave their lives for the cause (shattered or reached 75 damage and were sacced for no longer stacking with the others). 251,556 favor was spent on Opulence casts (failed casts cost 2 favor). It took about 203 hours of Opulence timers. Thanks, caffeine! While casting, I managed a corn with 0 opulence. When I hit 100, I cast on it again. Landed 99.
  9. Wasn't he banned for using third party tools? Kind of puts that achievement in a different light. If he really did it legit then, grats, shame he had to spoil it that way. But like Archaed said, it wasn't put through before he was banned.
  10. On 2021-11-25, at 16:12:42 server time, this message appeared in my Skills tab [15:12:42] Channeling increased to 100 "This could only mean one thing," I felt reasonably certain, "I might have reached 100 Channeling" I reached out to CMs and GMs and Devs, and they confirmed my suspicions: I have indeed reached 100 Channeling. Upon not receiving a title, I gave my suggestion for one: Shattered For it would be fitting that such a skill that has brought so many shatters (Rest in peace you two supreme oak rope tools and one supreme huge axe) and left me truly shattered so often would leave this mark upon me. Alternate titles for consideration were Favored, for incomprehensible amounts of favor I have consumed utilizing this skill. Magic Man, for truly I am now (and I'm an Adventure Time nerd). Volkhv, to honor the fallen. I appreciate the hard, hard work of Nineol to provide me with so much I needed, without him this grind would not have been possible. And to the rest of my alliance, without whom I would not have sought to do this silly, silly feat. In other news, some distant engine stirs What could this mead? mean what could this mean?
  11. I find myself torn between worlds. On one hand, I love my 1.0 skills updates. I like my skills tab flashing with Great News, I've just hit a title and need to search my Event log for what it was! Or maybe I've gone up a characteristic! Wow! You may not like it, you may not agree, but this is what peak performance looks like But I'm also a huge analytics nerd. So the ability to crunch some serious numbers stands out to me! But I know with volume comes laziness, and I know I can (and will) miss entire titles with "show every tick" Introducing: the simplest solution I could think of: With every slaying my photoshop skills only get stronger For extra credit, allow me a third tab so I can finally have favor updates and alignment somewhere that doesn't get me excited about a skill tick, nor lost in the noise of everything else. For extra EXTRA credit, allow me to hide a tab so I don't have a constantly lit tab, and can simply pull the logs for analytics when I like.
  12. As some of you may be aware, fewer Uniques have been turning up to slayings recently. The cause of this has been an organized strike from the Uniques Union over working conditions. Conditions for them to resume include: Safer working conditions (workplace injuries and deaths are extremely common for Uniques!) Better pay (given we don't pay them, this is quite confusing) Better working environment (last year we gave them an entire lamp! Spoiled!) Better access to food (often, this is the fault of them for refusing to eat the meat we leave on the floor. If we remember to do so) While we are in negotiations over this, we have put in hiring flyers for temporary workers. To our luck, we have found one willing to work who is unaware (or otherwise weary) of the Uniques Union! Mr or Ms Forest Giant will be joining us this Sunday (as to not conflict with the 100 PAS party also this weekend), come and give them a warm Freedom Isles greeting at Bruce's Flying Circus, N13 - we're on the highway system! Turn up early or your pay will be docked. Our Unique Artist is also on strike (something about a lack of holiday hours for him to reach 100 channeling) but just imagine the front of the Circus with pickets on the floor, with a shadow of a Forest Giant cast over the whole scene.
  13. A.k.a. "A comma makes all the difference in the world" This is the story of Timothy II. Timothy II had a great many things to be proud of. But the thing he's most proud of are his 70 milking and 50 huge club skills! And he wants to show off those titles. Issue is, he's got a choice doing so. Either he goes with "Troll Milking Machine," a grotesque title that suggests he milks trolls! Truly, a thought to put anyone near him off their lunch. Or he goes with "Milking Machine Troll," a title that seems to suggest some kind of machine-troll hybrid! A thought to put anyone off their second lunch! Now introducing: Title Flourishes! With a choice of simple options, his titles could become the likes of: Troll, Milking Machine Milking Machine and Troll Milking Machine / Troll Troll Milking Machine And more!
  14. This couldn't be much further from the truth: while Kahvesi offers the most caffeine per sip, (of the ones I've tested) cafe au lait offers the most caffeine per bean. Meanwhile any of the other drinks can be used to refresh duration, saving precious coffee beans! And I haven't even gotten into fortified coffee yet, if alcohol carries over that has interesting applications for creation grinds.
  15. So, first with the information of what the changes did (these numbers are derived and estimates): Caffeine Power is reduced by the size of the sip, and mediated by drink type. Numbers we're used to are balanced around a full 200g sip, anything less is divided by that (i.e. 200g kahvesi gave 10, 20g gives 1). Subsequent sips add their power. Caffeine Duration is reduced by the size of the sip, and mediated by QL. Numbers we're used to are balanced around a full 200g sip, anything less is divided by that (i.e. 200g 100QL gave 30 minutes, 20g gives 3 minutes). Subsequent sips override the timer, even if the new timer would be shorter. (so careful, if your cup has 401g of coffee, you could lose the buff near immediately!) This introduces fun new problems, like the fact that kahvesi will gladly restore over 6% water per 200 - this means you need to drain 60% of your water somehow to get to max coffee power, and sustaining that power is a whole new problem. For a system designed for players without much time, this is extremely odd, and I strongly recommend making caffeine like alcohol - you can drink at full water - to avoid needing an alt to make you puke or waiting hours for water to drain. As a note for quantity balancing, the current numbers mean you need approximately 10 beans to get to full power, and one bean every ~30 minutes to keep it. I have no suggestions one way or the other there, only that it's checked that those numbers align with the design intent of caffeine. Especially since, for a player with 1 hour a day trying to burn off an RoS, this could take upward of 40 beans (~75% of which going to maxing caffeine power). Edit: All in all I support the move to make 1 bean insufficient for a hundred-hour grind, but worry about the general usability post-update. That said, it seems to be just a few tweaks away from working well.
  16. It is done, but (not as a criticism of you or this post) this is exactly what I wanted to avoid - a sprawling thread of names to add or remove until I get tired of doing so. I have updated the sheet to reflect a new approach to this, and will soon be editing the OP as well.
  17. Xanadu The Great Mystery! Welcome. Welcome, to Xanadu. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining tourist destinations. I thought so much of Xanadu, that I elected to establish my Xanadu Department of Tourism, here, on the island, so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I am proud to call Xanadu my next slaying site. But first, a look at some of the popular tourist hotspots. Over the last few days I have been asking the populace of Xanadu what sites would make for good tourism, and I had no response each time. It thus falls upon me to highlight some, from my travels there. And so, welcome to Xanadu: The Great Mystery! We have: Vast mountain ranges for the intrepid mountain climbers! Big, big empties, perfect for pancake deeds! apologies to anyone there I don't know this area or what you've done with it Islands! You could put down a Wand of the Seas and it probably wouldn't even show on the map! These islands are probably as big as your home server! And of course, our very own site - the Xanadu Department of Tourism! (this is a link) Currently headed by a Black Dragon For any inquiries, please stop by our office before closing time: Please remember that this is our closing time, so for optimal results please arrive any time before then. We hope to see you on Xanadu The Great Mystery!
  18. A good idea and a nice bit of QOL for such a list, but I think for any list that has some level of automation, this issue is self-solving: any system that automatically removes people from such a list (as to cull those who have quit the game, rather than letting them linger forever) will treat those that forget to de-list the same way. Also please keep discussion about issues with the task/journal to other places, such as the Suggestions forum. As Keenan highlighted, it's a good and necessary discussion (I personally believe each journal task should have 2 more goals, but still require the same number to complete: so you can pick which 2 tasks are bad for you. People complain about the 100 rifts but personally I'm at 1% of 100,000 imps. This lets tasks like this one actually stay, rather than being removed) but I want this thread to be about dealing with what we have, rather than seeking to change it - so long as we still have it.
  19. Unfortunately, this has already been vandalized (caught in a few minutes due to phone notification). The version has been reverted to before the vandalism, and the sheet locked. Alternate solutions need to be sought.
  20. As someone who frequently finds himself being told about ritual spells ready to cast, I run into a frequent issue: I want to ask around for people who need to be in on a Ritual Spell (it's needed for Benediction, after all) BUT I also don't want it sniped from under me when I do so, by people who might not even need the goal (this has happened). Previous attempts at this have been made - such as an old thread under the Xanadu subforum - and this seeks to be a list with more visibility, and more use. And self-updating. There's instructions inside for those who wish to do the Benediction task, those who wish to get a ritual cast, and those who want to help maintain this list. Do not ask to have your names added or removed in this thread - refer to the List for details --> Behold! The list! Click here! <-- The online Priestopedia that ANYONE verified can edit! This solution is far from perfect. If someone wants to help me develop something better, these issues need solving: 1) Names are not auto-removed, meaning people who put a name up then go inactive will linger in that list forever. 2) I now get phone notifications every time someone wants to request edit permissions. If this list is vandalized again, it will be removed without hesitation.
  21. Personally I'd like to see its secondary reward be some Karma, making it like a personal set of Missions.
  22. In my experiments in coffee making, I have managed to make 100g Cocoa butter using 1g of Cocoa liquor. This in itself seems a bug, but the resulting item is in a bugged state where right clicking it leads to Refreshing. Using sufficient cocoa liquor (though the required amount is not stated anywhere, leading to overuse) averts this issue. edit: cocoa butter appears to also have no use in recipes edit2: at least it's FSBable???
  23. While sparring, most spells behave as expected: you cast them, it hits the enemy. Hypothermia (and, at a guess, the other new spells as of the 2019 priest update) have a weird quirk however: if the opponent back off as it casts, the spell errors with "Vynora would never accept your spell on X" (Vynora was fine with it when they were in my face). This behaviour is inconsistent with other similar spells (ex: Shard of Ice) and a detriment to sparring's purpose of emulating PvP. This could be fixed by importing the line if (!performer.isDuelOrSpar(target)) { which is present in Shard of Ice and other similar spells, and missing in Hypothermia and Inferno.