[X] My Assistant

There's nothing to lose

except for time, on my part.

I know, for fuck's sake. Stop trying to tell me.

Just making sure (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Why not a periodic reCaptcha instead, with 3 separate attempts before stamina drain?

Just post me a link to a maze solving bot somewhere and I will believe you, and use it.

[en.wikipedia.org] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill
If people made an anticheat-bypassing autoplayer for such a shitty game as MafiaWars, what makes you think they won't for HV?
I would write one as a proof of concept but I'm not a web coder (JS is anathema to me) and would end up getting the banhammer for it (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Rest assured though, Tenb knows it's a problem.
I probably already annoyed him enough by posting about it more than once. <ducks>

This post has been edited by DarkDespair5: Jul 27 2011, 23:04

I do a lot of scanning to keep the player monster bestiary updated. Following are two scans of the same monster taken within 20 turns of each other during one resent IW:

7 2 Scanning Alteisen...
HP: 3936/3976 MP: 217/504 SP: 62/225
Monster Class: Mechanoid, Power Level 168
Melee Attack: Piercing
Weak against: Elec
Resistant to: Piercing, Cold, Wind, Holy, Soul
Impervious to: Nothing


1 2 Scanning Alteisen...
HP: 4006/4006 MP: 42/508 SP: 90/226
Monster Class: Mechanoid, Power Level 168
Melee Attack: Piercing
Weak against: Elec
Resistant to: Piercing, Fire, Cold, Wind, Holy, Soul
Impervious to: Nothing

The second scan is correct. This is not the first time I have noticed a resistance being dropped. The other examples were also mechanoids. So far, Fire and Cold have been the two that have disappeared.

Might be a rounding error or something. I don't know what the threshold is for a resistance being low enough to be considered a weakness is.

Eh? Okay I'm really not sure what it is then.

This post has been edited by Maximum_Joe: Jul 28 2011, 04:31

Its 50 for resistance, 75 for impervious.

The mazes could be shorter though.
Just got 2 mazes in first 63 rounds.
Even if people say there are bots that can solve mazes..
WHERE !! ?
Just post me a link to a maze solving bot somewhere and I will believe you, and use it.

Preemptive ban please.

Preemptive ban please.

Can he just be banned already so he can stop bitching about the mazes and crystals? We can call it an intervention to end his self-destructive habits.

Can he just be banned already so he can stop bitching about the mazes and crystals? We can call it an intervention to end his self-destructive habits.

How much of this is joking around/sarcasm? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I can never tell on the internet...

Just for the fun of it, I switched to axe and shield. Then noticed that my counter was taking out too many monsters with one shot. Following are some examples of a counter followed by a hit (if they survived the counter) or a hit from another round. Other than heartseeker, bleeding wound, and overwhelming strike; there were no other effects in play.

You counter Guanliyuan for 2108 points of slashing damage.
You hit Guanliyuan for 1170 slashing damage.

You counter Liselotte Werckmeister for 3549 points of slashing damage.
You hit Liselotte Werckmeister for 1214 slashing damage.

You counter Gms Ex Girlfriend for 3345 points of slashing damage.
You hit Gms Ex Girlfriend for 1911 slashing damage.

You counter Wee Man for 1924 points of slashing damage.
You hit Wee Man for 837 slashing damage.

You counter Deranged Killer Mosquito for 2241 points of slashing damage.
You hit Deranged Killer Mosquito for 916 slashing damage.

You counter Georgius Of The Rainbow for 2470 points of slashing damage.
You hit Georgius Of The Rainbow for 1470 slashing damage.

You counter Devastator for 2623 points of slashing damage.
You crit Devastator for 2280 slashing damage.

You counter Atlach-nacha for 1756 points of slashing damage.
You hit Atlach-nacha for 1063 slashing damage.

You counter Lelouch Vi Britannia for 6569 points of slashing damage.
You hit Lelouch Vi Britannia for 2759 slashing damage.

You counter Plue for 3105 points of slashing damage.
You hit Plue for 1306 slashing damage.

You counter Groth-golka for 6232 points of slashing damage.
You crit Groth-golka for 5059 slashing damage.

You counter Bunko for 875 points of slashing damage.
You hit Bunko for 492 slashing damage.

You counter Revenant Draug for 3036 points of slashing damage.
You hit Revenant Draug for 1778 slashing damage.

You counter The Hulk for 1793 points of slashing damage.
You crit The Hulk for 1798 slashing damage.

You counter Naix for 4504 points of slashing damage.
You crit Naix for 2553 slashing damage.

You counter Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen for 2008 points of slashing damage.
You hit Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen for 1321 slashing damage.

You counter Kenshiro for 1229 points of slashing damage.
You hit Kenshiro for 390 slashing damage.

You counter Kinnikuman for 2036 points of slashing damage.
You hit Kenshiro for 390 slashing damage.

Preemptive ban please.

Can he just be banned already so he can stop bitching about the mazes and crystals? We can call it an intervention to end his self-destructive habits.

How much of this is joking around/sarcasm? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I can never tell on the internet...

None of it.

Just making sure (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Why not a periodic reCaptcha instead, with 3 separate attempts before stamina drain?

F**k to reCaptcha. I hate to fill it with symbols i didn't have on my keyboard.

This post has been edited by Pirko: Jul 28 2011, 13:45

Goddamit! I hate this!
Since I am using cyrillic keyboard I often press the right button but wrong tab while passing that maze. I've lost overall about 60 stamina due to that, and the damned maze just approves my answer of "И" instead of "B" (which is the same button) and informs me: "you've lost 5 stamina, U MAD?".
Please, just make it so that the answer should be at least A-Z letter, not cyrillic/arabic/katakana/something else. PLEASE!

Goddamit! I hate this!
Since I am using cyrillic keyboard I often press the right button but wrong tab while passing that maze. I've lost overall about 60 stamina due to that, and the damned maze just approves my answer of "И" instead of "B" (which is the same button) and informs me: "you've lost 5 stamina, U MAD?".
Please, just make it so that the answer should be at least A-Z letter, not cyrillic/arabic/katakana/something else. PLEASE!

Русский что-ли?

How about allowing us to click on the actual A, B, C, or D areas of the maze to answer?

How about allowing us to click on the actual A, B, C, or D areas of the maze to answer?

That would be the best possible solution to my issue. And it will probably make the bot-users' lifes slightly harder.

As concerns to nwebl's post on Counter Strike. Yep it is interesting - but only interesting. I saw this some time ago, & I ran the math out. It gets pretty interesting if you max the asscoicated stats & one handed out (That would be about 250 for the stats & 200 for the skill - if you've been collecting arties and/or advancing the associated stats along with one handed Prof you likely hit this max somewhere around level 210-225). A couple of things to note :

First and most interesting are the following three items :
1) The counter strike will do more damage than a normal hit [*], at my Stat/skill level it comes out to usually be 1.5 the noraml damage from a basic hit.
2) The Counter Strike provides a possibility for you to double tab your target. (If you built it up high enough you may even get this and hit additional targets -depending on how far you are along with building up Counter Strike). So essentially you can do normal damage + 1.5*Normal damage (or so) with a single hit on your target. I haven't seen Counter strike yet process more than once on a single target, but if it would then finally perhaps Sword and Shield might have a use other than in Ring of Blood.
3) Counter Strike & Overwhelming Strike can and often do process together which gets it all really going as you gain quite of combat effeciency from both of these. (Look at the Wiki on this, I myself think certain aspects still need to be increased - but thats just me)

The Stun proc is alas undocuemented. I have not seen a duration yet (when hovering the mouse over the Stun Icon) reading more than "0". What is interesting is that on rare occasions I have noted the same monster to have a Stun Icon for two back-to-back combat rounds. I haven't been able to track this down yet as the Stun only comes about from a Counter Strike which itself is suppose to only process when you counter strike because a monster hit you. So if the monster was stunned from the last combat round and unable to attack where did the next Stun come from ?

One other facet of Counter Strike & Overwhelming Strike. Technically (& without a club) it appears that with the current patch you could technically have 6 monsters under stun indefinetely (a very unlikely occurance until you max the these out) while killing a seventh monster.

[*] It is undocuemented if you can increase this damage in other ways (ie without increasing the associated stats & profs) - infusions and specials like Bubblegum (Bubble gume would be interesting). According to the description the weapons procs will not process ( which is a shame as having the chance to actually steal additional mana or spirit using a weapon of the Illithid/Banshee would improve Sword & Shield to the point where it might be worth using) - so you will not pick up bleed or PA on conter struck targets (Again another shame, as Sword & Shield is argueably the slowest way to kill making it the [b]WORST fighting style int the entire game system [/b] as it REALLY consumes the MOST stamina per round of combat bar NONE which directly implies it is the SLOWEST way to level your character (likely by a factor of 10 or better.)

Considering in Real Life, Sword and Shield actually is the least tiring method of hand to hand combat perhaps if T gets around to revisting S&S he may fix the above and change the rate of Stamina loss to reflect this which would actually make S&S (with a couple of tweak) a viable fighting style - but I wouldn't hold your breath. He's done a lot to bring Fighters and Magic user more into synch (but magic is far the better choice still). If he puts the effort into it we may finally See Katana get revamped (It really needs either its own skill or at the least the ability to pick up one handed prof {if I am correct that the current patch still doesn't grant prof when using it}. Also I don't think of all the weapon drops there is a Katana of the Vampire/Illithid/ or Banshee - I am not sure if you can have an Etheral Katana or if it can be a Legendary Weapon. If this was an oversight or on purpose only T could answer....................

Experience from an actual, regular 1HS user with max proficiencies (in everything): counters are hella strong on Normal once you max your counter chance. Its actually faster than DW. You lose some of the raw single strike damage, but with good block you counter a lot and it does a lot of damage. Enough to actually kill a healthy monster.

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Arena Clear bonuses of Endgame and higher are no longer 100% equip chance?

Sardion, you've been told before your sig is too large. Fix it.