Quick Questions

Trevize

Santar said:

^\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

Mine's not done, but...

Trigger match:

^\s+(\d+) ?a? (?:Red|Blue|Green|Silver|Black|Gold) Dragon(?:\'s)? (?:claw|tooth|scale|leather|eye|bone|heart)\s+([2-6])\s+Dragon\s+(\w+)$

Script:

local plvl = tonumber (matches[3])

local pnum = tonumber (matches[2])

for i = plvl, 2, -1 do

for d = 1, pnum do

send ("talisman split " .. matches[4] .. " " .. i)

end -- for

pnum = pnum * 2

end -- for

Salindera

So, I'm looking for some artifact advice. I'm a serpent, no arties, tritrans+survival and avoidance, with 650 credits to spend

 Looking at similar quaries, I'm thinking that a shield of absorption is likely my best bet, but I realize my wisdom is very limited on the matter.

Melodie

If you can viably use an SoA, it is always the best first artefact purchase.

Always.

Athrax

Melodie said:

If you can viably use an SoA, it is always the best first artefact purchase. Always.

I disagree.  60% of the time, sip ring is better every time.

Arditi

Salindera said:

So, I'm looking for some artifact advice. I'm a serpent, no arties, tritrans+survival and avoidance, with 650 credits to spend

 Looking at similar quaries, I'm thinking that a shield of absorption is likely my best bet, but I realize my wisdom is very limited on the matter.

Depends on what you're trying to do.

Group combat? Buy a bow.

Hunting? Shield of Absorption.

Typical Cyrenian? Buy a plot, a room, and a bed.

Cooper

A sip ring is never better than an SoA if you can wield one. Unless you plan on only bashing areas that do purely magic damage and fight Magi.

Athrax

Except for when they are.  Also OP never specified it was just for bashing.  Overall I still think, depending on class, sip ring is better.

Also, runewardens can wield them... 

Antonius

Shield of Absorption is sickeningly good for the price, to be honest. If you can wield one without totally hindering your ability to fight it's going to be worth more than the sip ring against a lot of classes.

Without knowing anything about you I'd suggest the shield. If you actually told us what your plans and primary goals are that might change.

Atalkez

So my main objective is pvp/group combat. I've asked around (already purchased but still want more opinions and reasons) and I was debating a upgrading sip ring to leve 2 or buying a SoA. I bought the SoA but what are the specs on level 1 ring vs level 2, is it really all that much more effective?

Salindera

I was mainly thinking of hunting, but I hadn't even realized that the bow was in my price range, so it's certainly tempting. Still, while I'd like to get involved in group combat, I'm not sure when I'll manage, so I think that I'd be missing the shield before making particularly good use out of the bow. So shield it is then, and the bow will probably be next on the list.

Thanks everyone!

Isia

How do cities gain their money/credits, and what do they spend it on?

Triak

Atalkez said:

So my main objective is pvp/group combat. I've asked around (already purchased but still want more opinions and reasons) and I was debating a upgrading sip ring to leve 2 or buying a SoA. I bought the SoA but what are the specs on level 1 ring vs level 2, is it really all that much more effective?

Yes.

500 credits  = 10% increase for level 1 and 2 sip rings.

The per credit value that you gain is the same.  You only start getting credit spent/value diminishing returns on level 3's.  (level 3 sip is 1000 more credits for a 10% gain)

Triak

Isia said:

How do cities gain their money/credits, and what do they spend it on?

Citizen credit purchases give each city an extra bonus percent.

Gold come from fines from enemies, ship docking, bank fees, the above mentioned credits when they are sold, using city destruction on other cites, etc.

Gold the city earns is almost exclusively spent on supporting the city perks, barracks for extra guards, scimitar for increased player damage and pillar for increased mana pool.

Anedhel

Sip ring so strong!

Eld

Isia said:

How do cities gain their money/credits, and what do they spend it on?

When you make ooc credit purchases, your city gets 3% of the number of credits purchased, and your house gets...5%, I think? So for every 100 credits a citizen buys, the city gets 3. That's the main source of credit income, as far as I know. The main outlays of credits tend to be credit sales, and prizes or rewards for various competitions, activities, etc, that depend on the city.

Gold income comes from the aforementioned credit sales, enemy fines, and miscellaneous donations from citizens. It gets spent on upkeep of city improvements, hiring guards, purchasing furniture, rewards for citizens, and ... well, anything else the city wants to buy.

Sena

Do all cities get 3% of credit purchases now, are are some (pretty sure Hashan was at one point) still getting 6%?

Eld

Sena said:

Do all cities get 3% of credit purchases now, are are some (pretty sure Hashan was at one point) still getting 6%?

We were, but it got fixed shortly after it came up on forums. I think it was just Hashan.

Achilles

Whenever Targ gets houses the admin better have been setting aside that 5% for those new houses (plus whatever the old houses had when Shallam sunk).  

Halos

Old House credits? Probably. Old House treasuries gold? Likely. Bonus House credits from our purchases during the RL year without Houses? Lol. 

EDIT: You remember what happened with the arena right

Cooper

Anyone who is going to say a 10% sip bonus is worth more than 15% damage absorb chance and a slight reduction in damage, assuming the class can wielda shield effectively has no idea what they are talking about.

If you are attacked once every sip balance for 1000 damage, you will be reducing the average damage by 150 damage plus whatever the armor stat reduces. You would have to be sipping for 1500 for the sip ring to be worth the same as an soa. And no one sips that much without being high level with a sip ring.

Antonius

@Halos: Don't worry, I kept my receipts. I'm sure I can tell them how many credits they owe us.

Hasar

if you attack someone and get hired on, and the contract is finished (the mark kills you) irregardless of the time period between hiring and death to the mark, there is no more "cause" for me to be hired on again, yes?

Anedhel

I might kill you for using the not-quite-a-word 'irregardless'

Hasar

Irregardless of Anedhel's irregard of certain words, I think I got my answer elsewhere irregardless of the silence here. Yay.

(IrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardlessIrregardless)

Cooper

@Hasar

Correct. It is as if the person killed you themself. Any death caused by the mark uses up the cause initially generated.

I don't know if it's still like this, but it used to be if a mark caused your death but didn't get credit for the kill (if you jumped someone while they were bashing and they died to the denizen because of your attacks, if they die to being on fire or bled out) the mark still had to cancel the contract and the cause was used up. Not sure if that was ever changed (I know bleeding gives credit now)

Nemutaur

Hasar said:

if you attack someone and get hired on, and the contract is finished (the mark kills you) irregardless of the time period between hiring and death to the mark, there is no more "cause" for me to be hired on again, yes?

Generally yeah, although it's possible to hold a grudge against someone past one death if you hire a mark it feels like you are saying you want to put an end to the whole situation.

Arditi

Nemutaur said:

Hasar said:

if you attack someone and get hired on, and the contract is finished (the mark kills you) irregardless of the time period between hiring and death to the mark, there is no more "cause" for me to be hired on again, yes?

Generally yeah, although it's possible to hold a grudge against someone past one death if you hire a mark it feels like you are saying you want to put an end to the whole situation.

Except when you get hired upon twice.

Granted, it's because the hiring party (which rhymes with "Bavianca") couldn't figure out who the other Naga sniping them to death was, so I guess I can see some logic in hiring twice on the person who actually got the kill.

Florentino

oh no, a targossian hired another targossian I would try to kill/jump anyway even if they didn't have a contract on me, woe is meeee

Arditi

Florentino said:

oh no, a targossian hired another targossian I would try to kill/jump anyway even if they didn't have a contract on me, woe is meeee

With rare exceptions, I don't go hunting people who have contracts against me.

I wait for other fights to happen so I can put my Naga training to use when they show up and negate the contract with the help of <insert half of Mhaldorian CWHO here>.

Eld

Arditi said:

Nemutaur said:

Hasar said:

if you attack someone and get hired on, and the contract is finished (the mark kills you) irregardless of the time period between hiring and death to the mark, there is no more "cause" for me to be hired on again, yes?

Generally yeah, although it's possible to hold a grudge against someone past one death if you hire a mark it feels like you are saying you want to put an end to the whole situation.

Except when you get hired upon twice.

Granted, it's because the hiring party (which rhymes with "Bavianca") couldn't figure out who the other Naga sniping them to death was, so I guess I can see some logic in hiring twice on the person who actually got the kill.

Orrrr, she's just going by the old PK rules where one death was cause for two hires.