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Coinflip Crowd Sourcing.
About a decade(or close) ago, I discovered a bug in Achaea. I had long suspected it, but I had never actually given it any real thought. I noticed that coins tend to land on tails more often than heads. I'm always the type to bet on tails, so I noticed this trend when I bizarrely won wagers by betting on tails again and again. One day, I decided to test it. After many tests and hundreds of flips, I calculated the odds to be 60/40 in favour of tails. I posted this to the forums, and was ridiculed, but then when people actually tested it, my theory gained backing. Clementius joined the thread and confirmed that some terrible coding was done, and that it was indeed a 60% chance of flipping tails. He fixed it.
After Clementius fixed it, he left an ominous post on the forums, in which he told a story of how once upon a time, he saw a coin land on its side with his own eyes. In that post, he detailed that he left a "surprise" in the code, that he suspected would take a long time to come to revelation(if it ever would.) He said that when the surprise happened, that the entire game would know.
Since then, a fellow participant of the original 60/40 theory(Trance), along with myself, have attempted to reach this goal. We've flipped hundreds of thousands of coins in the game. But it was a tedious process, and we inevitably gave up each time we embarked to find this. If you assume that the chance is 1 in a million, then it could take weeks of non-stop flipping to finally get the result. Due to the massive amount of flips needed, there needs to be a concerted group effort if this Easter egg is to ever be found.
To summarize:
Goal: Find the flipcoin Easter egg that Clementius left almost a decade ago.
How you can help: Flip coins. A lot of coins.
I suspect that it can be found by the end of the week if enough people take an interest. I've sat on this information for a very long time. As far as I know, Trance and I are the only ones that even know of its existence. I kept it between us for a long time, in the hopes that one of us would be the one to finally uncover it. It's not going to happen without help. I had pretty much forgotten about it until I noticed some old code in my system for auto-flipping earlier. So after nearly a decade, I finally want to see this happen.
After Clementius fixed it, he left an ominous post on the forums, in which he told a story of how once upon a time, he saw a coin land on its side with his own eyes. In that post, he detailed that he left a "surprise" in the code, that he suspected would take a long time to come to revelation(if it ever would.) He said that when the surprise happened, that the entire game would know.
Since then, a fellow participant of the original 60/40 theory(Trance), along with myself, have attempted to reach this goal. We've flipped hundreds of thousands of coins in the game. But it was a tedious process, and we inevitably gave up each time we embarked to find this. If you assume that the chance is 1 in a million, then it could take weeks of non-stop flipping to finally get the result. Due to the massive amount of flips needed, there needs to be a concerted group effort if this Easter egg is to ever be found.
To summarize:
Goal: Find the flipcoin Easter egg that Clementius left almost a decade ago.
How you can help: Flip coins. A lot of coins.
I suspect that it can be found by the end of the week if enough people take an interest. I've sat on this information for a very long time. As far as I know, Trance and I are the only ones that even know of its existence. I kept it between us for a long time, in the hopes that one of us would be the one to finally uncover it. It's not going to happen without help. I had pretty much forgotten about it until I noticed some old code in my system for auto-flipping earlier. So after nearly a decade, I finally want to see this happen.
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(Also, wouldn't it suck if at some point some other coder had removed the 'surprise', accidentally or otherwise?)
I reckon they'll ask me to stop if they want me to stop. Trance and I are going to be coinflipping non-stop for a while to try to find this, but I still don't know if it'll be enough. Thus, if enough other people get interested in join in, there's a much larger chance of it being found. So if you want to be part of the Coming of the Coin(tm), then join in. Should be pretty legendary.
Response edit: I really doubt a random admin has been through the coinflip script hacking out random things.
I have a failsafe in my system where my coin-flipper will turn off if it achieves a flip that isn't a heads or tails flip.
trigger(exact match):
You have recovered balance on all limbs.
content:
if needtoflip == 1 then
send("flipcoin")
needtoflip = 0
end
Trigger(perl regex)
It hits the ground and you see that the tails side
It hits the ground and you see that the heads side
Content:
needtoflip = 1
Didn't get very fancy with it >_> The requirements were: Will flip coins on balance. Will turn off if a result other than heads/tails occurs.
Just waiting on @Sarapis to show up and start a 6 page epic about how coin flipping systems are bad for the game, and then announce #4309 will be GCMP support for the outcome of coin flips.
I can't remember his exact phrasing, but it was interpreted to just mean 'long odds'. I don't think there's a condition other than random chance.
I'll promise something though: Whoever does get a coin to land on its side gets a custom honours to commemorate it.
It's just something I have to see, at this point. I assume there will be a world emote of some sort. Who knows, he may have already coded an honors line into it.
We only need to put in 69 total man hours(everyone combined) average.
We've probably put in about half that back in the day, but we always got burnt out and lost hope. Not this time!
Let's do this thang.
Yeah, but that won't stop when you hit it.
When I get to the surprise and am undoubtedly AFK playing Dragon Age or something, I don't want it to be spammed away by 500 coinflips.
I would've just overnighted this for a week long ago, but I actually wanted to be here/paying attention when I got it, which meant that I was always looking after the script..for hours. Was haunting me too bad to continue.
Recursion is so awful.
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."