Avatar

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Dys

About

Username
Dys
Joined
Visits
12,518
Last Active
Roles
Member
Points
887

Comments

  • IE8 is a rave because it's better than IE6. Remember what life was like before tabbed browsing?
  • We should get IE8 at work next week! :)
  • Like dyspepsic or dysentery or justice.
  • I like that, it's clean and has all the important stuff in places where your eyes can easily flick to it.
    in TarxUI Comment by Dys March 2014
  • You get used to crying, or it's different with your own as you know what they're crying about. Usually. Still, if my 3 yr old throws a tantrum we go straight home, she goes to her room, and she misses the next fun trip.
  • (Quote) What Tetra says.

    Everyone has their own interpretation of the One Law but it's the city leader's interpretation that's enforced. That means the character of the city can change depending on who's in charge. If the populace don't…
  • LIBRARIES... That's handy, thanks. I wrote a script to work it out by using LIBRARY INFO on everything but this is useful.

    The culture awards for recent publications are fine for me, they just need a bit of dedication over time. A RL year…
  • (Quote) I don't work in an enterprise setting. I work for the British government. :/

  • The IT refresh at work is delayed to May. Four more months of Windows XP, IE6 and Office 2003. :((
  • I loved the clickety clack, it was evocative and well written.
  • Having the non chaos hamsters around is a good opportunity for a few different people to win some credits whilst most of the tough fighters are occupied with the seal battle.
  • (Quote) There's a Perl script that translates text into the Swedish chef from the Muppets. That'd make a great rp accent.
  • I never tell, and keep them in different orgs.
  • I loved Newton. When I started it was the honour quests there that got me hooked, for me the puzzles and story are what sets Lusternia apart. Questing in Newton with the hints teaches the basics for most other quests in the game.
  • Good grief, that must have been awful and nothing you could do, either. Have a better new year.
  • Choice exit messages tend to grate for me. Do Demi's that travel in a swirl of leaves get fat from not walking any more?
  • Turning silentrun on and off...
  • Ugh, burgled?
  • Sorry yes, all those were rounded to nice numbers. I missed that note out. Ssaliss is right that they're cumulative.

    The probability of getting an ultimate doesn't change for the first 72 presents so it is like flipping coins wher…
  • Statistical training? :-?
  • (Quote) Grr, mishapen forum quotes. Anyway...

    Two thirds of results are low value, say zero. The other third are worth 10-15 credits, so 200k-300k gold. So ⅔ x 0 + ⅓ x 300k = 100k average.

    I left the spreadsheet at work but c…
  • Oops. Clumsy fingers. Nothing to see.
  • Making lots of assumptions I make the average gold equivalent present value at each tier:

    Standard 90k
    Superior 200k
    Exceptional 1.2m
    Ultimate 6.6m

    Assuming 1 cr = 1 dB = 20k gold, using list prices for artifacts…
  • The present counter starts at 85%/14%/0.5%/0.5%. Every present takes 0.5% off the standard present and adds it onto the next highest that's below 25%, so the first counter is 84.5%/14.5%/0.5%/0.5%.

    The exceptional chance starts going up …
  • Average numbers, just because they're interesting:

    1 in 200 people will get an ultimate on their first opening.
    1 in 40 will have opened one by the 5th present.
    1 in 10 by the 21st
    1 in 5 by the 45th
    1 in 3 by the 75th…
  • I like the current way. Getting poisons or gold doesn't seem such a waste as it moves you up the track and there's still a chance of getting an Ultimate on every present. There's less of an immediate reward but as you move up it can get really good.
  • For latest rubbing figures, I rubbed 79 cooking commons and got 36 to gold (45.6% of rubs, so the 95% confidence interval is 40% - 51%). Average gold was 3,800 sovereigns.

    There were three types of curio results, out of all that…
  • I like 2 best but 1 is good too.
  • Great maps, thank you.

    I thought the aetherspace dragons were Soulless shards of Draxbaylock.