Quick Questions

Skye

The bonus lesson thing is so confusing sometimes. Let me see if I have this straight:

You get up to 2500 bonus lessons (2.5 per credit up to 1000 credits).
You only get them when you bind the credits.
You do not get the lesson bonus when performing credit transfer from your Iron Elite credit pool because the credits are pre-bound. (totally unfair imo )
If you purchase credits from the city credit sale, you will receive the lesson bonus regardless if you bought them bound/unbound?

Antonius

You'll immediately get the lessons for them if you buy from an org credit sale as bound. If you buy them as unbound then you'd get them if you bind at a later date.

If you've exceeded the limit for lessons and buy bound credits you get a message saying you've not gained any lessons (primary reason I buy mine as unbound). No such message for buying as unbound or later binding them.

Shadizar

-read ab file and deleted dumbass question-

Halos

Do bait buckets confer special denotation to their contents, like decreased speed on bait decay? Or are just normal containers (Basically sneaky but sucky, unwearable backpacks)?

Penwize

Halos said:

Do bait buckets confer special denotation to their contents, like decreased speed on bait decay? Or are just normal containers (Basically sneaky but sucky, unwearable backpacks)?

I don't think they were meant to be backpacks really....  They're meant to produce bait, and that's what they do.

Melodie

He means the ones you buy with gold at Rurin shops.

Penwize

Melodie said:

He means the ones you buy with gold at Rurin shops.

...Rurin sells bait buckets? Clearly, the Shop of Wonders needs to sue him for trademark infringement.  Causing a very clear confusion in the market!

Dragonknight

@Penwize: Rurin had them first. 

Melodie

Rurin's actually incorrect, my bad there. It's the guys who sell fish bait.

So like Craden and stuff. Rurin sells normal buckets, while the fish bait guys sell bait buckets.

As to answering your question, I don't think they have a purpose other than "herp derp put da baits in here gaiz", as they've been around a long, long time.

Josoul

Anybody has data on how much of a bonus criticals/experience Shop of Wonders elixirs do add?

Eld

How does crew xp loss on sinking work?

Jonners

They are normal containers that produce bait. No decay slowing. Eventually, whenever they imp my idea, all 'item generating' artefacts will have their contents not exist until pulled so will sort of be non-decay.

Eld

Jonners said:

They are normal containers that produce bait. No decay slowing. Eventually, whenever they imp my idea, all 'item generating' artefacts will have their contents not exist until pulled so will sort of be non-decay.

The bait buckets sold by Craden and friends are not artefacts.

Rispok

To rephrase the earlier question more clearly, do the NORMAL bait buckets sold at fish houses in any way change the decay rate of bait, similar to how the ship upgrade bait tank works?

Dragonknight

No

Halos

Yes. To clarify, I meant:

Proprietor: Shanugis.

--------(Item)------(Description)------------------------------(Stock)--(Price)

[Bait & fishing supplies]

        bucket59006 a bait bucket                                  48     195gp

and not

Barnacle-encrusted Bucket: 2 Mayan Crowns

   - A must for the avid fisherman, this bucket replenishes with up to 50

     freshwater bait every Achaean month.

Thanks everyone.

Jules

Didn't bait used to begin "escaping" containers that weren't bait buckets?  I was never a big fisherman, but I seem to remember something like that.  Also, can we wear earrings (jewelry kind) in pairs yet?

Halos

What do you mean "wear earrings in pairs". If you mean wear more than one earring in each ear, yes. You can pierce each ear like four or five times. 

If you mean wear an adventurer-designed  "pair of earrings", I don't think so. I just checked and the schematics for earrings in the Piercing Annex of the Jeweller's Union are all still singular. 

As in 'a blah blah earring' or 'an earring of blah blah'.

Skye

Jules said:

Didn't bait used to begin "escaping" containers that weren't bait buckets?  I was never a big fisherman, but I seem to remember something like that.  Also, can we wear earrings (jewelry kind) in pairs yet?

I didn't know that. I know you could buy little live sea creatures like a tiny octopus that people used to try and keep as pets but they'd escape at random if you didn't eat them immediately.

Jules

Yeah, I meant pretty much what you said, Halos.  I know it was listed, but I can't find it now, so not sure if it's still there, or was implemented already somehow.  

Nakari

so I heard that there used to be an artifact bait bucket that created deep-sea bait, but I can't seem to find it listed anywhere as having existed. Was that ever a thing, or am I just making it up?

Kyrra

Second last auction, no?

Penwize

When bait buckets were available in the SoW, you could customize them to only produce deep sea bait.  The auction one was just a pre-customized one.

Nakari

in the vein of my art question, how profitable does deep sea fishing tend to be? I've heard it argued that it's difficult to make a good profit if you can't buy bait from players, but I feel like I've heard other opinions as well.

Guhem

Nakari said:

in the vein of my art question, how profitable does deep sea fishing tend to be? I've heard it argued that it's difficult to make a good profit if you can't buy bait from players, but I feel like I've heard other opinions as well.

It's highly dependent on a few factors such as: Survival skill, character strength, whether you have the minor trait Master angler, how many fish you catch in a certain spot.

The first 3 affect the chance of the fish escaping when hooked, the last affects the size of the fish you catch in that area.

Assuming you finish every piece of bait you buy and have no escapes, I'd say I use about 25 deep sea bait an hour while fishing with no interruptions with an average of 750g of value per fish.

Going estimates, you'd make a profit of about 12500g/hr buying deep sea bait from a bait shop(bass for 250/carp for 275) or 16250g/hr using player bought bait.

These estimates are for a 18 str trans survival dragon though, if you have the usual 12 str that most people have or aren't trans survival, you can expect the profit to be cut by about a third.

All these are mostly estimates from experience and a little data gathering, 

Compared to say, questing/bashing, it really pales in comparison in terms of g/hr. Whether it's profitable or not is completely dependent on what you define as a "good" profit.

Jules

What happens to crew when you sink in the shiparena?

Jakiro

When someone says 'Selling <insert rare talisman piece here>' do they mean to sell it as it is (whatever its level) or per level?

Shirszae

Jakiro said:

When someone says 'Selling <insert rare talisman piece here>' do they mean to sell it as it is (whatever its level) or per level?

You'd probably have to ask the seller directly. I doubt there's a standard

Antonius

Rare talisman pieces only drop as level one pieces, so I'd assume they mean a single level one piece if they don't specify anything else. A lot of people will break down all pieces to level one for trading/selling because it's easier than hoping the other person can do math.

Santar

^\s+(\d+).+(\d+)\s+Dragon\s+(\w+)dragon(\w+)$ - perl regex

send("talismans split " ..matches[4].. "dragon" ..matches[5].. " " ..matches[3])

bare bones splitting script. do talisman pieces;more;more;more;more;more and just press that every couple of seconds for a minute or so until they're all split. transplant split for combine to do the opposite. Alternatively, find someone with a real script