extrapolation

this is making my head hurt

As I understand, it's an intentional feature that the mix all button only works once for summoning, so that rulebreakers can't say that they "accidentally" summoned 50 rats at storage.

- How old are you? 21 - Where do you live? UK - Are you studying or working etc.? Soon to begin studying again after 18 months of medical leave. I have done a little work during this period. - Do you have long history with computer games or is EL your "first love"? Played 2 real time strategy games and 1 first person shooter before I found EL, but EL was my biggest "love". 1. The most important reason you play EL? I used to play because I needed to escape reality. Now it's mainly to chat. 2. Is there any other reasons you play? (Used to play because of) addiction/force of habit/boredom/the comfort of a world where I could be successful. 3. How did you find the game? Depressed one evening, needing distraction, I googled for games and found this: http://osswin.sourceforge.net/games.html and out of all the games I tried, EL was the only one that could entertain me for a long time. 4. How often do you play? I used to play every day, now it's once every month or two. 5. Have you tried any other MMORPG's and do you still play them? Why have you stayed in EL? Not given any other MMO a real chance (always less than 5 minutes). I didn't want 2 life-destroying addictions rather than 1 :> 6. Have you ever bought from EL shop? Yeah in total $330 worth of stuff if I remember rightly. I wanted to give something back to what was an important part of my life. I was still at school for the first year that I played, not earning money, and so I thought there was no way I would ever buy something from the EL shop. It was a matter of principle almost, and also I was proud to say that everything I had on my character had been "worked" for. It would have felt like cheating to buy items. When I grew a bit older though and got a job, that attitude changed. I realised that radu deserves to be paid for his work and it's a wonderful gift to us that the game is free to play if you want.

I don't know if this is easy to code or not but just a possible nice little feature would be to have the text of the button sensitive to whether the bag window is open already or not. If not then the button could say "view bag" (or "see bag" if idiomaticity comes second to aesthetics), and then after clicking on it it would change to "get all". Of course for the one-click get all mode the button should always say get all.

I exploit it. The cheapest tele ring + normal portal room spell isn't as cheap as the intercontinental spell, but 2 normal portal room spells are still cheaper than the intercontinental one (one spell to RoT, one from the underground in RoT). It takes less than 30 seconds to save over 100gc. I don't use the ferry because it's a long walk.

It's because you died in combat with one creature and there was another creature standing next to you at the time. I'm given to understand that the code that collects data for the counters doesn't know which creature killed you, so it counts both.

I'm also available for this instance a lot of evenings. PM my alt interpolation and if I'm not afk then I'll log on extra. a/d 115/120, experienced instance player.

Yeah valid point, and your idea of how the target's paralysis colud be capped at 50% is pretty good.

Well you decide how much time a Castellan should spend paralysed/what percentage of its hits it should still be allowed to make when there are 7 axes of freezing being used against it (let's allow the tank to use a SoP). When you decide on a sensible figure, then you can work backwards to find a suitable chance of paralysis for each individual axe (The maths is pretty nasty, probably beyond my abilities, but there is the option of working it out experimentally on the test server). As dipi said the SoP is just a better tanking weapon, it would be good to see the axe of freezing modified in some way or other so that it is used more.

Please do the one click option, I posted in the suggestions once about how you need to double cilck get all, which defeats the double click safety on the drop all button which is next to it, but nobody cared for my idea .

No, yours does The problem with Slimpickin's reasoning is that 1/16k is the probabilty of 4 poisons in a row out of 4 toadstools, not the probability of 4 poisons in a row out of 1000s eaten.

3 of us were fighting a jegos and there were no other monsters nearby, let alone any other monsters engaging one of us in combat, but when the jegos died Morath (who wasn't fighting) managed to walk onto the drop bag before the game auto-walked any of us onto it.

It's called SELF destruction - it could be a neg perk where you have a chance of brodding yourself when you die On a serious note, I like the suggestion of increasing the damage to 10-20 + (a+d)/4

Just something to think about - if a group of rangers and one or two tanks kill a bulangiu or whatever, you can see who got the drop (and now we know what the drop is too because it's spammed in orange, thanks radu ) even if they used a gatherer med, because the melee fighter who dealt the most damage will still walk onto the square where the monster was, however if a ranger could magically get all the loot to his inventory he could scam everyone, because no one can prove who did or didn't get the drop. My personal opinion anyway is that it doesn't make sense for items to be magicked through the air and into your pocket just because you shot a creature with your bow and arrow.

They break D: but yeah alright, I'm tempted to invest in another one for this specific purpose; I would only need to wear it for the last second of the fight.

Well if the first click takes out 2 or 3 gc (which I have occaisionally noticed myself), then it will be the case that gcs are all picked up and bones are left behind whenever there were fewer than 4 gcs in the bag to begin with, not just when you're overloaded.

Chims attack from 2 squares away so I can understand how someone might manage to quickly get on the bag before the fighter, but jegos are 1 square away. Why does the server delay in moving the strongest fighter onto the bag after the monster's death? Why not move the fighter immediately?

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Yeah I know lol, the melee fighters have it cheaper than everyone else.

I hope this belongs in this thread, sorry if it doesn't. For years I've noticed this weird thing with the manufacture window buttons. Depending where the window is on my screen, the buttons can be the right shape, or they can be this shape: See the little lump on the top left of the >, >> and Clear buttons? If I drag the manu window around very slowly, it seems that every time I move it by one pixel these buttons alternate between being drawn correctly and being drawn like in that image. Video card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 Vendor ID: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL Version: 2.0.6849 Release

I think the main reason mixers and casual fighters take human 5 is to use a CoL, not to use a certain armour set, so I would be surprised if people bitched about this change.

I like the newb quest idea. Victor could offer the quest, the reward of which would be 1 cloak from a selection consisting of all the cloaks he sells & MM. That way you could get excavator if you thought that was more useful to you, and the market wouldn't find itself flooded with MMs quite so quickly. At any rate I agree that MMs are too expensive.

The drops from instance bosses and castellans and MBs could be told by the monster in local chat when it dies. That means you don't have to worry about the code knowing who is in a team or not. Everyone is susceptible to the temptation of hiding part of a drop when they think they'll get away with it, it's human nature, but 99% of people won't when they can't hide the fact that they're doing wrong.

A good suggestion, and if radu can find time it would be good to see the whole nexus system revised - inconsistencies in animal nexus requirements spring to mind...

Is this a server crash or a mass disconnection? Is there any way to tell?