Reply to: Note 40406 posted by Malas If we're getting this, I'd like to suggest getting all affect flags somewhere, seeing that sanc is up is pretty useful (lots of people use tracker scripts, or sometimes miss it when sanc drops until someone tells them).
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Reply to: Note 40392 posted by Tymme None is still around (you can get it with change sex). I don't see a big issue having it as a selectable option, but I imagine it's pretty low on priorities..
Reply to: Note 40337 posted by Lasher > Only concern with this is items that might have been allowed to be heavier > on stats on condition these flags were set, I feel like I remember at least > a few over the years (but not what they were). They would all now become > enchantable. Not 100% sure what you are referring to, but I can think of some items, e.g. Nyne goal3 reward (Striding towards doom) which I believe have higher rolls. Such items invariably also have ill/sol/res set as flags baseline though, so I don't think the concern arises. (After all, tptoggle has been around for decades and paying 2 tp for a toggle is trivial).
Reply to: Note 40324 posted by Nasus > I cannot agree with "we dont need more game mechanics" If scroll had same lag as potion when used on self, will there ever be any point in having a potion vs a scroll? I'd just buy scrolls because I could both use it on myself like a potion, or on others if I wanted to.
Reply to: Note 40294 posted by Crowley People still use lvl 201 pots, so saying it's useless is incorrect. Healing more simply costs disproportionately more, it's called diminishing returns. Look at triv heals - the cost:heal ratio is even worse, but the market value remains high. If people weren't willing to pay disproportionately more, the price would drop. If you don't think 201 heal potions are worth the additional cost, that's fine, you're not obliged to use them. I don't either because I'm cheap. But pots are already dirt cheap and prevalent, and there's no need to make them cheaper.
Reply to: Note 40286 posted by Mondaine If it's an issue of making alts to abuse, just add a no-quit flag for anyone who gets married for the duration. Then also make it a rule that sham marriages are illegal. I don't really like the idea of 15 min double qp though, not least because only about half the mud would benefit at random.
Reply to: Note 40242 posted by Koala Navi timeshift used to be a bit better, but the reduction was reduced when timeshift was changed to have no recovery. I suppose if power projection was changed to no recovery it should likewise be weakened a bit. But frankly, if these spells are supposed to have 100% uptime, maybe they should just be passive instead? As for balance, have to factor in that navi and sorc have better single target dps than warrior (i think?)
Reply to: Note 16679 posted by Crowley > Instead of arguing with me, just bring the keywords up to the prevailing > standard, which has ample precedent established over more than 15 years. Broud has stated the prevailing standard. There is no requirement for every noun/adjective to be used as a keyword, and there are many examples. Are you just upset that without those keywords added, the S&D script can't autoguess keywords all the time and therefore still requires a human to actually put in the keywords to attack?
Reply to: Note 40228 posted by Fiendish Why must aardweapons be the best, just because they cost 1k qp? Almost all the other aardeq is also great but not necessarily the best. Also, I have yet to see any gameload weapon that's better than t9 aardweaps, (where a huge chunk of the playerbase is sitting), and IMO getting a better-than-aard weapon takes more effort than earning 1k qp.
The banker here looks to be weathering the curse rather well compared to the others. Wearing rather formal attire, he carefully takes care of any finanical questions and needs the citizens have for him. ... Should be financial
Reply to: Note 16635 posted by Kylia Also, "only saved" should be deleted. Saves no longer exist.
Selling for 400m + reown +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Keywords : Bracers Platinum Chain Rank4Bracers | | Name : Bracers of Platinum Chain | | Type : Armor Level : 211 | | Worth : 4,000 Weight : 20 | | Wearable : arms | | Score : 600 | | Material : platinum | | Flags : invis, magic, nosell, held, burn-proof, nolocate, | | : heroonly, V3 | | Owned By : Redryn | | Found at : Journey to the Inferno | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stat Mods : Hit roll : +50 Damage roll : +22 | | Strength : +7 Intelligence : +7 | | Dexterity : +5 Constitution : +5 | | Hit points : +250 Mana : +100 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Resist Mods: All physical : +45 All magic : +45 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
Reply to: Note 1063 posted by Quadrapus IIRC there was talk and some work done on instanced dungeons. Not sure what's happened to that. If area-writing fatigue has set in, maybe could open it up to contributions? I imagine the general community could help with writing all the potential names/stuff for descriptions etc. I think there are two models for grindable drops: (1) Random area where every mob in there is killable and has a chance to drop something and you just wander around until you're tired, or (2) Randomised area with a set end goal (e.g. to find and kill a boss at the end), which is I suppose similar to the raiding model. (2) is probably more effective psychologically speaking in keeping people engaged.
Reply to: Note 40101 posted by Mondaine It would be nice if gameload eq that rolls bonus stats are auto-set to be enchantable. Re: Mondaine's note, this is because of building rules (which ought to be changed IMO) > * For every max piece of equipment created (Masterpiece and Max > objects included), you are required at least five objects of > mediocre eq (less than 1/2 the max stats) and 3 negative or no stats > eq. Remember, all this equipment must be useable.
Reply to: Note 40089 posted by Crowley > In all my consistent daily blessings, I have seen more I/M/P/free stats than I > have free training sessions. Tymme's wager that it's 10-15% apparently doesn't > hold true to me. I did a quick check, of the past 56 daily blessings I received, 6 had bonus trains, so it's about 10% > enough to warrant not wishing it had rolled for something else. Every roll is independent, if you didn't get bonus trains you wouldn't have gotten something else. > Hence why I added to maybe scale it by level, even doing level/2. Could even do > level/5 for that matter. Lets say you sat at level 100 for a month. Lets say you got level/5. That gives you +60 trains by the end of a month, which is approx. 20% more than a non-sitter would get. Having 20% more stats is a pretty big thing. This is especially so at lower levels, where people don't have max stats and all those extra stats can go straight into additional primary stats. (At SH at least additional potential stats go towards side stats which have a lesser effect).
Reply to: Note 40086 posted by Castiel > Would certainly make balancing pre-SH epics easier, if they were to become a > thing. Not really, I don't think it's good design to expect people to have to sit and farm daily over a period in order to participate in a pre-SH epic. Also, there's a big disparity in the max stats of a t9 with potential and a t0.
Reply to: Note 40084 posted by Tymme Also this would only make sense at SH. Given that in the ordinary course of levelling from 1-200, people will only expect to get about 1000+ trains, bonus trains from blessing would badly upset the balance. Imagine if everyone who sat at any level for a period of time quickly amassed thousands of trains and maxxed out every stat.
Reply to: Note 17983 posted by Escobar You're right, it is a failure message since I get the following: > {sfail}606,0,8,-1 > You wander too close to the napalm, and almost get it on you. Other cskills don't have a skill failure tag
Reply to: Note 40074 posted by Koala Thanks for the suggestions. Re: Rograg - Actually the flame wasn't supposed to stack (i.e. only 1 red altar can be active at a time, sacrificing another would refresh duration but not deal stacking damage). I haven't fixed this because I suspect people would whine, but if there's general consensus that this should change, I think that can be done. Grakkr - don't think it's possible to make the changes suggested, there's no function in mprogs to detect the damtype of damage being dealt. At best it can detect the damtype of wielded weapon (but not how much damage is being done). I don't really have a good idea atm how to make the fight more engaging/ challenging, but feel free to let me know? Hp reduction - would reduce average run time, so I think that's not palatable from a balance perspective (unless Lasher says otherwise...) Durthar - I know he's disliked, although I'm generally okay with how the fight goes... I guess killable tentacles is an option. I think translocating more would make it harder? Another option is that he doesn't insta-trans people who've just reached him (maybe have to be in combat for a few rounds before being an eligible trans target) - would that get rid of some of the annoyance?
Reply to: Note 27593 posted by Teasert Pancjo has a key because he's an overseer (i.e. supervisor, boss). Chaprenula told you who to look for, try looking for them and interacting.
Reply to: Note 40050 posted by Tymme I think wtype should allow setting hammer, it's incongruous that every other weapon type can be set.
Reply to: Note 40039 posted by Towelie The way the system works, the mud doesn't know whether a mob is relevant to a goal or not. Closest you can get is an indication of whether a mob has a mobprog (which inquisitors already can see), but this wouldn't be definitive.
Reply to: Note 27587 posted by Escobar It says at the start... You say 'sign me up' Radel says, "Excellent! The crowds will enjoy this. Go and make yourself known to the reigning champion, announce your intention to challenge him. I am sure he will be...happy...to meet you." ** Goal Added : Win the tournament in Tournament Camps. ** Task Added : Defeat the champion of the tournament in the arena.
Reply to: Note 40024 posted by Akhenaton Also the note is referring to the pendant from shal'indrael, nothing to do with titan.
Reply to: Note 40020 posted by Rauru Why? Keys - there's already an iskey flag available. This flag isn't set on all keys, because some keys are intentionally meant to be 'secret'. Epic related items - presumably you're referring to the terra and titan items. I actually disagree that these should be flagged at all. It's part of the area goal to figure out which items to collect. Kind of stupid if the game just hands them to you and says 'hey these are special items fyi'. For the demon tooth in crynn, that's not an epic related item either, and I have no idea why it was flagged. I don't really see a reason why the pendant from barrick should be flagged too. To me these are all handholding requests, though I'm not sure why they're being entertained.
Reply to: Note 40018 posted by Crowley If you're referring to mudinfo notes #1846-1848, it's said to be dependent on bonusloot. As far as I know, there is no "always loot" flag. In any event, I am curious what qualifies an item to be flagged in such a manner.
Reply to: Note 40016 posted by Wire What exactly is determining whether an item is looted by bonusloot? It doesn't seem to be as stated in the helpfile anymore.
Reply to: Note 39992 posted by Impurifan To be fair, it's often said that potential abuse shouldn't be a reason not to add a feature. It's probably not difficult to detect if someone is altfarming quests, and giving qp/stuff to others.
Reply to: Note 39971 posted by Castiel If the upgrades were available, I'm sure there would be many clan halls making such upgrades. Anyone would then be able to use them for free.
Reply to: Note 39969 posted by Castiel A free full restore every tick seems absurd to me. What has been suggested before and what I would agree is a good idea is to the option to buy a restore from healers at an appropriate price, e.g. 500k - 1m.
Reply to: Note 39949 posted by Mondaine > ... I fear it would render a lot of areas - dead. Imagine titan > even in a group, if you suddenly could not wholesale quaff... Even IF > would be almost impassable for anyone not already significantly established > at SH. Which areas would it render dead? Apart from terra/titan which deal significant damage, I don't think there are many other areas that require quaffing to survive. Maybe wyrm/crynn/IF, but you don't need potions to pup there. I can get through an entire double (10 min) without having to quaff a single potion. And of course, no low level area /requires/ potions. Terra/Titan were originally intended to be areas that required grouping, and in a group heavy quaffing is not a requirement. I'd be happy to lower damage too if the change went in, since you wouldn't need such severe damage to make it as challenging. The suggested change wouldn't restrict quaffing on a per use basis though, so you could still spam-quaff 20 potions in rapid succession, just that you'd be limited afterward... so you'd have to be extra careful not to land in another pinch. I think it would also improve game design elsewhere - you don't have to design challenging mobs around the assumption that people can brew and endlessly quaff 2x or 3x incomp potions (i.e. 10-15k healing per round!), or outright ban the quaffing. Look at where that's led us - e.g. Inferno Death is based on the assumption that the tank can get triple incs spammed on him. Similarly, if staves do any decent damage, people just stock up on staves and use that to the exclusion of class skills. If that's not intended, then staves get nerfed to be useless. It becomes a binary choice, rather than a spectrum of 'staves are good, you should mix them into the damage options you have at your disposal and use them sometimes'. It would be a tough change for people who are running around with hundreds of potions/staves/scrolls and burn through them in 30 mins, but I'm not sure they form a significant proportion of the mud, or if that was ever intended to be the paradigm. As for I/M/P - they have increased defensive capabilities significantly. Instinct can reduce damage from mobs by something like 75% I believe.
Reply to: Note 39966 posted by Castiel What's the problem with taking 5 minutes to regen to full? Take it that 5 minutes is a negligible penalty for dying. If you say 5 minutes is 'too long', how much is in your view an appropriate time? Don't forget you can also quaff potions if you want to get full faster. In one tick you can quaff something like 18 potions, which give you about 2k hp or 1.6k mana. So really you're looking at about 4 ticks, or 2 minutes to get from 0 to full. Also, not all deaths set your mana to 0, so that can halve the time further.
There is a general proliferation of consumable items like potions, scrolls and staves, and they can generally be spammed non-stop. This leads to a host of problems, e.g. complaints about staves being abused, lack of difficulty in areas (because spam quaffing gives you ridiculous sustain), and so on. It also limits how much can be done with them. E.g. can't give enchanter the ability to brew super powerful potions or make powerful attack staves/scrolls because that will break everything. I think there should be a new status or something, that would limit how much magical items can be used in a given time. E.g. a meter of up to 100 points, which reduces by 1 point every few seconds. Quaffing a quad heal potion might add something like 5 points, trivia incomplete something like 30 points. Brandishing a staff might add 5 points (i.e. you can brandish ~20 times in 5 minutes, so about once every 5 rounds on average).
Reply to: Note 39941 posted by Vanguard Reducing lag time will mean that making scrolls/potions >> actually casting the spell directly though... E.g. if i need to heal up, i'll just brew a 2x potion and quaff it (1.5 rounds of lag with 50% reduction) vs casting incomp 2x (2 rounds). Not necessarily a bad thing, but it could get extremely powerful with 75% lag reduction (which means casting things 4x faster). That would certainly result in a proliferation of attack spell scrolls.
Reply to: Note 17966 posted by Mortivorous Previously reported, pray for absolution is also buggy. Reposting since the original notes have been archived it appears: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From : Redryn: Re: pray for damnation ++ Forum : Typos - #16306 To : all Date : Tue Nov 7 03:09:11 2017 Reply to: Note 16305 posted by Guinness ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Reply to: Note 16305 posted by Guinness | | Seems like the way the spell is functioning is a little buggy | | If you change from 0 to -2500, it costs 7500 hp | If you change from 1 to -2500, it costs 12,503 hp (+5000 for some reason?) | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From : Redryn: Pray for absolution / pray for damnation Forum : Bugs - #17596 To : all Date : Tue Nov 7 03:14:43 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Following from typos note 16303 - 16305, it seems pray for absolution is | also buggy | | From align of 0 -> +2500 = 62,500 gold, but from -1 -> +2500 = 72,525, an | additional 10k gold. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reply to: Note 17959 posted by Abelinc It's messing up because you have added spaces in your alias. temp : appr 1;appr 2;appr 3;appr 4;appr 5;appr 6 temp You appraise the true value of Melpomene's Betrayal. ... You appraise the true value of Thalia's Sharpened Wit. ... You appraise the true value of Euterpe's Joyful Flute. ... You appraise the true value of Erato's Awakener Of Desire. ... You appraise the true value of Terpsichore's Whirling Lyre. ... You appraise the true value of Urania's Circle of Stars. ... You're sending "appr 1 " vs "appr 1", so the mud interprets "1 " as a string and it looks for a keyword starting with 1. In this case, some of the items have keywords e.g. 111Bard
Reply to: Note 17955 posted by Abelinc Tried this, unable to recreate. Are you aliasing 2 ; or 1?
Reply to: Note 39852 posted by Wire Maybe "Open PK"? I think pk is well understood
Reply to: Note 39847 posted by Koala Reading this thread just tells me that (1) quite a number of people know how to make the bomb, and (2) most people decided not to bother with it. That suggests to me that it simply isn't that OP (and no I didn't design it to be OP, I don't use it myself even), if not it'd be used much more widely. (Just like how not that many people pup in titan... If it's so broken why isn't it filled with people "abusing" it?)
Reply to: Note 39820 posted by Koala This conspiracy theory that I or Koala leaked info to Rhabdo/friends is nonsense. I certainly didn't tell anyone anything, and Koala wasn't involved in writing the mprogs for that. Whoever figured it out (and even I don't know who) did so independently. Probably multiple people figured it out themselves. I also don't understand how you can on one hand say that you didn't know about the item, and at the same time take the position that you know that all these other people know. Did you take a poll of the mud and find that only certain people know? Or are you just making a wild allegation with no justification? Anyway, to try and bring this thread to something more constructive... The design philosophy behind the titan part 3 pup zone was that it was meant to be a /group/ pup zone. This is because most pup zones cannot support a small group of ~5 SHs pupping together. This is why there are so many mobs. Unfortunately, and beyond my expectations, when it went live people began to pup it solo. This is because instincts allow people to mitigate something like 75% damage when they're maxxed out. So on one hand there is a difficulty in trying to balance the damage - too high so that anyone who doesn't have huge instincts gets murdered, or too low that people can solo it. It's not easy, and if anyone has a way to do it, please let me know. As for the mprog nerf that came in - /I/ requested it because solo pupping there was not intended. That seemed to fix things for a while (at least a year) bonus) and it became an in thing again, then staves got nerfed as well. Regarding the item in question, first question is - does it need a nerf? Take the most extreme example of a 55 stacked room (which is frankly rare, and you can see this at most 1x a repop, if the stars align). Two items let you burst down the room, and assuming it also happens to be double exp, you can get say 10-11 pups. How long does it take to do 10-11 pups ordinarily? Maybe 2-3 mins in double. Then consider the effort it takes to actually make the item, and the time spent that you could have been pupping. I'm not convinced it's particularly OP or gamebreaking. But if the general consensus is otherwise, I've already made some suggestions in my earlier note #39791. Haven't seen anyone actually comment about those suggestions or whether they should be implemented. Another option which comes to mind is to make it harder to make. I'd also be grateful if people could actually make constructive suggestions, rather than random allegations.
Reply to: Note 39790 posted by Quadrapus > This pupping area has been so completely broken since it went live. Yet guess which area's the most popular? [ Aardwolf's Favourite Hunting Grounds ] No. Area Name From To Killed --- ------------------------------------ ----- ----- ------ 1 - Icefall 200 201 1217803 2 - The Titans' Keep 200 201 702405 > It's another thing to introduce rooms with 55 mobs and an > item that essentially puts them all at 1hp Factually inaccurate statement. The rooms repop 16-17 mobs, which is about 10% more than icefall (and deal probably 10x more damage too). A 55 mob room is an edge case which requires: (1) mobs wandering to have higher than average number, and (2) the two guard mobs to both spawn into the same room (which I think is about 3.5% chance). Also there's no item that puts them all at 1hp. The item being complained about does about 50% hp as damage. And you also conveniently omitted to mention that quite often a 55 mob room = death. > You have not operated in good faith and you did not listen > when people pressed back on this area. I find this rather offensive given that I've don't recall hearing you raise any complaints about it. I've also heard people say the complete opposite, i.e. that they enjoy the challenge of the area coupled with the increased rewards. > although the item should be changed. If the main complaint is edge cases (i.e. usage in big rooms), perhaps the best solution is either capped number of hits or diminishing damage? Don't mind changing it to either if there's some consensus.
Reply to: Note 39775 posted by Lasher > Or maybe it's the areas themselves that need fixing. In general there's too little build possibilities in terms of pve for normal levelling/pupping because the xp you can get per mob is fixed (based on mob level - adding sanc flag does bump it up, but not worth the slower kill). This means that the only factor as to how 'good' an area for levelling is depends on mob density, which reduces time between kills. If mob density is standardised across areas as well, it would make no sense for areas like titan (or terra) to deal the higher damage vs other areas. This overall would lead to an absence of any endgame difficult/challenging areas, which in my view would be stale. Something I've suggested before is to have an additional exp multiplier setting on mobs. This would allow for more difficult mobs to give better exp, which could lead to more diversity. For instance, I'd be happy to go through and rework titan's pup zone to be something like 5 mobs a room, but each with 2-3x hp and 5-6x damage of a normal mob, with an exp multiplier 2.2-3.6x (i.e. something like 10-20% better exp vs default mobs e.g. ocean park). IMO this would also be beneficial to other area designs as well. For instance, an area with high hp mobs could be designed, which would pave the way for classes utilising: damage over time, debuffs, % based damage, instantkills (assassinate), kiting (hunter), to become effective at exping. Currently, mobs die so fast that all of this is meaningless and only DPS is #1.
Reply to: Note 39741 posted by Redryn To add on - the change would mean that the 'optimal' playstyle is always to rebuild at 200 and instinct deposit all. Anyone who doesn't do that is either a newbie who doesn't know the 'trick', or forgot. And then in a year's time we'll have notes complaining about how they forgot to rebuild and instinct deposit all, and how the trains should be given to them automatically... It's not a big deal, but I think there would be no difference as compared to now: > The "rebuild trains [at 200]" mechanic is over complex and keeps screwing > over people that forget to [do it before SH'ing].
Reply to: Note 39740 posted by Sonshi If it were me, I'd rebuild at 200, dump all into instinct, and then SH, and get my saved stats restored. Repeated 70x on the way to t9 r7 is a sizeable chunk of trains. Maybe to discourage doing this, instinct deposit could be disabled for 3-7 days online time (recovery?) after rebuild? It'd be kinda painful for someone to sit at 200/201 with basically no stats since they can't do very much, and it'd not be a big deal even if someone does decide to wait it out. Don't think the disable would affect anyone else who wasn't planning to dump trains much?
Reply to: Note 39708 posted by Escobar Technically true though
Reply to: Note 17948 posted by Sonshi Is this actually intended? Seems somewhat odd to me
Reply to: Note 39684 posted by DjVoltron Can we please have this included in the helpfile
Reply to: Note 17940 posted by Ocho Can't reproduce. You sure you're not getting frenzy dispelled instead?
Reply to: Note 17932 posted by Ocho Are you sure it can be dispelled? I tried to berserk and dispel myself, and it tells me I have no dispellable spells.
Reply to: Note 39649 posted by Tymme If we're adding filters, I'd also request a filter to show just gqs in my level range.