Quick Questions

Sena

It's total stat points, and it's up to 3 points for both weapons and armour. You can't have more than +2 to a specific stat.

Melodie

Thanks Sena, that gives me motivation to try for something better!

I'm trying to figure out how to get that +2 in one and +1 in the other but it's proving to be a bit difficult.

Melodie

Actually, let me add a question onto my previous, because I noticed something and I think it might be a bug, but I'm not sure.

So base stats for scalemail is 28/25. Here are two sets I did, same exact descriptors for both, when weaponprobed:

It offers the following defences:

Physical cutting:        29%

Physical blunt:          26%

It is exceptionally well crafted, and offers a very slight bonus to cutting defence and a very 

slight bonus to blunt defence.

An exquisite suit of western scale mail has no venoms or magical effects on it.

Since these are both +1, it makes sense to think very slight is then +1. But then we look at the second set...

It offers the following defences:

Physical cutting:        29%

Physical blunt:          26%

It is exceptionally well crafted, and offers a slight bonus to cutting defence and a very slight 

bonus to blunt defence.

An exquisite suit of western scale mail has no venoms or magical effects on it.

So the cutting on the second has a 'better' bonus, but it has the same exact stats.

@Makarios, is this a bug, or just overly ambiguous language? Should I bug it in-game?

Edit: I realize a bit belatedly these are %s (whoops) so maybe the jump from very slight to slight isn't physically seen, but is still present. Is that maybe the case instead?

Sena

I think it's just a result of the displayed stats being different from the true, behind-the-scenes stats.

Base scale stats are 50/45, multiplied by 4/7 for the displayed stats of 28/25. With +1 to each, that's 51/46, reduced to 29/26. Another +1 to cutting for a total of 52 still reduces to 29.

Melodie

Man I hate how armour stats have become that vague, but okay, that does make sense. It's probably safe to assume that slight is indeed +2 then, and everything is how it should be (but feel free to confirm if you catch this, Makarios). You're a star, Sena!

Omor

Is it possible to place a training dummy in a house in any manner, to where it doesn't reset to the owner?

Ankhareoutef

To maximize making inks, should I grab a butcher's cleaver or artefact mill first?

Melodie

@Skye can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe the cleaver way out-performs the mill in terms of usefulness, as it just produces extra reagents with no fuss, where with the mill you have to mill each ink individually to really take advantage of the bonus.

Ankhareoutef

Melodie said:

@Skye can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe the cleaver way out-performs the mill in terms of usefulness, as it just produces extra reagents with no fuss, where with the mill you have to mill each ink individually to really take advantage of the bonus.

That was my assumption since it also boosts the none-meat things.

Skye

Yeah I regret my mill. I just keep holding on to it in the hope that one day they'll fix it.

Ankhareoutef

Struggling to find good sources of fish scales.  Any tips?

Antonius

Phereklos is probably the best place. Eastern Shore and Zaphar river are also pretty good.

Sena

Phereklos, Riparium, Blackrock Lake, Zaphar River.

Ankhareoutef

Thank you!

Kez

How come nobody said go fishing? Did that change?

Omor

Omor said:

Is it possible to place a training dummy in a house in any manner, to where it doesn't reset to the owner?

Sena

As far as I know, it isn't. You might try emailing artefacts@achaea.com (not sure that's the best email to use, but it seems more appropriate than the others; maybe customisations instead?) and working something out, if you're willing to spend a lot of credits on it. You can often get custom, not-normally-available things like that (as long as they don't give any real advantage) for enough credits, people have added things like special exits and fireplaces (before they were available as a room upgrade) to their house before.

Omor

Thanks @Sena!

Ahmet

Pretty sure it'd just be considered removing resetting on an artefact, so it shouldn't be too expensive (presumably).

Frederich

Nah.  I'm pretty sure you're just making it resetting to an area.

Anaidiana did that with our family ship, it has an artie ax that resets into the cabin if it leaves the ship so... yeah.

Sena

I thought the talisman training dummies worked differently than ordinary resetting, having a specific timer that starts when they're dropped. So it may not be possible to change at all (or may not be allowed if it is).

Vessil

I'm one of those people that has issues with Mudlet dc'ing after a few minutes if I don't do anything, regardless of how high my timeout might be. I've been doing the following every minute to avoid the timeout:

sendGMCP("Core.KeepAlive")

send("", false)

but it ends up preventing me from naturally timing out as well.

Is it the gmcp or the blank send that is preventing the natural timeout? Does anyone know a way to make sure the connection is still in use without making Achaea think I'm active and reset my IG timeout?

Korben

Ankhareoutef said:

Struggling to find good sources of fish scales.  Any tips?

Lake Vundamere.

Nicola

@Vessil What you describe is a very common problem people have with Mudlet. It's not normally Achaea or Mudlet but a router setting. If you're not entering commands to Mudlet after a certain period of time many routers will declare the connection idle and close it in order to preserve bandwidth efficiency. This can be changed in your router's settings.

Szanthax

Nicola said:

@Vessil What you describe is a very common problem people have with Mudlet. It's not normally Achaea or Mudlet but a router setting. If you're not entering commands to Mudlet after a certain period of time many routers will declare the connection idle and close it in order to preserve bandwidth efficiency. This can be changed in your router's settings.

I get this all  the time  when  I'm wireless..  could never figure it  out..  I'll look into  router  settings now

Vessil

I might dig around and see if I can find that particular setting then. Although, I don't think I've tested to see if I have the same problem when routing Mudlet through Mudbot, so I'll see if that fixes it by itself.

Calyn

What's the oldest class currently without a major rework to how it functions/kills people?

I'm thinking Serpent if we don't count the Dexterity rework / Monk if we do.

Korben

I have that dc'ing issue too and I don't use Mudlet. I'll look at router settings and report back.

Zahan

Korben said:

I have that dc'ing issue too and I don't use Mudlet. I'll look at router settings and report back.

Yeah it's not exclusive to mudlet.  It happens to me on mush and other clients I've used in the past.

I get around it by just sending the core.keepalive(sic) on a timer, mine is set to 15 seconds which I found keeps my connection "100" without me feeling greedy about looping commands to the server.  That will keep my connection alive and reactive for...ever, really (as has been mentioned already).  

That also works well, for me, with setting my timeout to 3 minutes.  If something happens to my machine or connection or power or whatever, it brings a nice piece of mind knowing I'm not sitting there completely vulnerable and unable to respond for very long.

I feel like that's at least part of its intended purpose.  If not, it sure kicks ass at it.


That router stuff is interesting though and I've heard it mentioned in the past.  Probably time for me to just set it, even though I don't really have this problem anymore.  

Tydas

Is there any information on how long, exactly, an Achaean day is and how the day is divided up and each phase (morning, dawn, early afternoon, midday, etc.) take?