Power hour question

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Does the power hour apply to each character or to the account? It seems that
the first character that logs on will achieve faster gains than other
characters.

Andrea

 

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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0700, "Andrea2"
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>Does the power hour apply to each character or to the account? It seems that
>the first character that logs on will achieve faster gains than other
>characters.

There is no more power hour. That was done away with some time back. It
used to be that for the first hour each char was logged in each day they
would get easier skill gains, even on failures. Now there is still the
GGS that is supposed to make your chars gain skills if they work at them
for a given period of time. It's all "per character" not per account.

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It is not enough that the game is so complex and hard to learn. Having old
information than does not apply any more makes it even harder to learn. When
I read something, I expect it to apply. It should be removed/revised.

Thanks for the info
Andrea

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> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0700, "Andrea2"
> <andrea6192001nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Does the power hour apply to each character or to the account? It seems
>>that
>>the first character that logs on will achieve faster gains than other
>>characters.
>
> There is no more power hour. That was done away with some time back. It
> used to be that for the first hour each char was logged in each day they
> would get easier skill gains, even on failures. Now there is still the
> GGS that is supposed to make your chars gain skills if they work at them
> for a given period of time. It's all "per character" not per account.
>
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> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

 

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> Welcome to Stratics Hell....reading any of the older essays is a real
nostalgia
> trip anymore...
> (it might've been replaced by now, but the last time i read the Parrying
essay,
> it still mentioned Cyclopses-a T2A era enemy-as great new opponents to
> challenge the higher levels of your parry skill...)

Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses spawn -
and you're telling me they aren't good for gains? Or were you implying that
they don't spawn? I'm off to try them...


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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:55:41 -0400, "Alice Myers"
<alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:

>
>"Cyrus of Sosaria" <cystocot4@cs.com> wrote in message
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>> Welcome to Stratics Hell....reading any of the older essays is a real
>nostalgia
>> trip anymore...

You want nostalgia? Try looking at your screenshots of the pre-alpha.
Remember when backpacks were actually on our backs? Hehe. Good times.

>> (it might've been replaced by now, but the last time i read the Parrying
>essay,
>> it still mentioned Cyclopses-a T2A era enemy-as great new opponents to
>> challenge the higher levels of your parry skill...)
>
>Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses spawn -
>and you're telling me they aren't good for gains? Or were you implying that
>they don't spawn? I'm off to try them...

Well, if you just want to power game parry, I can tell you how to do that.
It might be more satisfying to build it slowly though. I always found
regular ogres and stone harpies to be good for gaining parry.

Okay ROT13 so as not to spoil anyone,
Trg fbzr fuvryqf (ohpxyref ner orfg V guvax) be gjb unaqrq jrncbaf. Qba'g
rdhvc n jrncba lbh unir fxvyy jvgu be qba'g tb onerunaqrq vs lbh unir
jerfgyvat fxvyy. Tb gb Wurybz naq qbja vagb gur svtugvat cvg. Qba'g
obgure gb cnl sbe bccbaragf gb onggyr orpnhfr fbzr nff jvyy whfg pbzr qbja
gurer naq oynqrfcvevg gurz nyy nalubj. Jung lbh qb vf fgnaq n ovg njnl
sebz gur bar lbh jvyy nggnpx, gura nggnpx bar naq gbttyr bhg bs jne zbqr
nf fbba nf lbh pna. Yrh fnvq ur jnf ybjrevat gur gbttyr qrynl fb guvf
fubhyq or rnfvre abj ohg gurer jnf n 5 frpbaq qrynl orsber. Nalubj lbh
jnag gb gnetrg bayl hanezrq srznyrf. Gurl qb ab qnzntr gb lbh ng nyy fb
lbh jvyy abg arrq gb urny. Lbhe fuvryqf be gjb-unaqrq jrncba jvyy gnxr
qnzntr ubjrire. Gel gb trg nyy gur srznyrf nggnpxvat lbh. Vs lbh qba'g
pner nobhg xnezn lbh pna whfg xvyy gur bgure acpf. Nf arj acpf fcnja fbzr
jvyy or hanezrq srznyrf lbh pna tngure. Xrrc xvyyvat gur erfg.
Riraghnyyl lbh jvyy unir 20-30 srznyrf nggnpxvat lbh naq lbhe cneel jvyy
evfr dhvpxyl. Vs cneel trgf fghpx gel fjvgpuvat gb n jrncba be n
qvssrerag fuvryq sbe n ovg. Lbh pna TZ cneel va 2-4 ubhef guvf jnl.

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"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:55:41 -0400, "Alice Myers"
> <alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:
> >Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses spawn -
> >and you're telling me they aren't good for gains? Or were you implying
that
> >they don't spawn? I'm off to try them...
>
> Well, if you just want to power game parry, I can tell you how to do that.
> It might be more satisfying to build it slowly though. I always found
> regular ogres and stone harpies to be good for gaining parry.
>

Yeah, I kinda do just want to power-game parry. I haven't gotten around to
trying the cyclopses yet, GGS was slow for my lockpick gain. (96.6) I'm
out of patience with the taming (37.1) and magery (61.2), and it'd be really
satisfying to see another few points of parry.



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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:08:24 -0400, "Alice Myers"
<alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:

>
>"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:55:41 -0400, "Alice Myers"
>> <alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:
>> >Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses spawn -
>> >and you're telling me they aren't good for gains? Or were you implying
>that
>> >they don't spawn? I'm off to try them...
>>
>> Well, if you just want to power game parry, I can tell you how to do that.
>> It might be more satisfying to build it slowly though. I always found
>> regular ogres and stone harpies to be good for gaining parry.
>>
>
>Yeah, I kinda do just want to power-game parry. I haven't gotten around to
>trying the cyclopses yet, GGS was slow for my lockpick gain. (96.6) I'm
>out of patience with the taming (37.1) and magery (61.2), and it'd be really
>satisfying to see another few points of parry.

Did you see that ROT13 paragraph I wrote? You should be able to highlight
that and find an option in OE somewhere to unscramble it. I don't have OE
installed anywhere or I would tell you how exactly.

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"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:08:24 -0400, "Alice Myers"
> <alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>news:jitsm05ajpb83j7laji5pbdpddkqjh5hvt@4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:55:41 -0400, "Alice Myers"
>>> <alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:
>>> >Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses
>>> >spawn -
>>> >and you're telling me they aren't good for gains? Or were you implying
>>that
>>> >they don't spawn? I'm off to try them...
>>>
>>> Well, if you just want to power game parry, I can tell you how to do
>>> that.
>>> It might be more satisfying to build it slowly though. I always found
>>> regular ogres and stone harpies to be good for gaining parry.
>>>
>>
>>Yeah, I kinda do just want to power-game parry. I haven't gotten around
>>to
>>trying the cyclopses yet, GGS was slow for my lockpick gain. (96.6) I'm
>>out of patience with the taming (37.1) and magery (61.2), and it'd be
>>really
>>satisfying to see another few points of parry.
>
> Did you see that ROT13 paragraph I wrote? You should be able to highlight
> that and find an option in OE somewhere to unscramble it. I don't have OE
> installed anywhere or I would tell you how exactly.
>
> --
> Michael Cecil
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/


From MS Outlook Express for those whom care but don't want to look:

To unscramble a newsgroup message

You cannot scramble messages and post them in Outlook Express, but if
someone has posted a scrambled message to a newsgroup (using ROT13), you can
unscramble it in Outlook Express and make it readable.

1.. In the newsgroups message list, double-click a message to open it.
2.. On the Message menu, click Unscramble (ROT13).
Note

a.. The ROT13 method of scrambling involves replacing each letter with one
that appears 13 characters later in the alphabet. Though this is not secure
the way encrypting is, it can be useful for sensitive or offensive
information.


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"Alminair" <Alminair@*Nospam*Earthlink.Net> wrote in message
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> "Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news1rtm0tqvbg0tru8t5kup9bpspl0bke0tu@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:08:24 -0400, "Alice Myers"
>> <alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>news:jitsm05ajpb83j7laji5pbdpddkqjh5hvt@4ax.com...
>>>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:55:41 -0400, "Alice Myers"
>>>> <alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:
>>>> >Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses
>>>> >spawn -
>>>> >and you're telling me they aren't good for gains? Or were you
>>>> >implying
>>>that
>>>> >they don't spawn? I'm off to try them...
>>>>
>>>> Well, if you just want to power game parry, I can tell you how to do
>>>> that.
>>>> It might be more satisfying to build it slowly though. I always found
>>>> regular ogres and stone harpies to be good for gaining parry.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yeah, I kinda do just want to power-game parry. I haven't gotten around
>>>to
>>>trying the cyclopses yet, GGS was slow for my lockpick gain. (96.6) I'm
>>>out of patience with the taming (37.1) and magery (61.2), and it'd be
>>>really
>>>satisfying to see another few points of parry.
>>
>> Did you see that ROT13 paragraph I wrote? You should be able to
>> highlight
>> that and find an option in OE somewhere to unscramble it. I don't have
>> OE
>> installed anywhere or I would tell you how exactly.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Cecil
>> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
>
>
> From MS Outlook Express for those whom care but don't want to look:
>
> To unscramble a newsgroup message
>
> You cannot scramble messages and post them in Outlook Express, but if
> someone has posted a scrambled message to a newsgroup (using ROT13), you
> can unscramble it in Outlook Express and make it readable.
>
> 1.. In the newsgroups message list, double-click a message to open it.
> 2.. On the Message menu, click Unscramble (ROT13).
> Note
>
> a.. The ROT13 method of scrambling involves replacing each letter with
> one that appears 13 characters later in the alphabet. Though this is not
> secure the way encrypting is, it can be useful for sensitive or offensive
> information.
>
>

OF COURSE, it exists in the help file, the option is there.... but it
doesn't work..... DAMN YOU BILLY!!

 

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So, since we haven't decoded the secret message, I went to fight some
cyclopses. I had a nice land-based 2 full point healing gain. It's tough
to damage yourself in Trammel. If only Ilsh had Fel rules, I could have
died to my own pet beetle. Yeah, um. There was this really useful mongbat
that came along, until I accidentally wrestled him to death. I did get
about 0.5 parry gains, but then the cyclopse died, and I was on that lovely
healing run. So, I went back to the cyclopse camp and there are people
there, now, farming paragons.
So, I'll try again tomorrow.


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"Alice Myers" <alice.myers@charter.net> wrote in message
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> So, since we haven't decoded the secret message, I went to fight some
> cyclopses. I had a nice land-based 2 full point healing gain. It's tough
> to damage yourself in Trammel. If only Ilsh had Fel rules, I could have
> died to my own pet beetle. Yeah, um. There was this really useful
mongbat
> that came along, until I accidentally wrestled him to death. I did get
> about 0.5 parry gains, but then the cyclopse died, and I was on that
lovely
> healing run. So, I went back to the cyclopse camp and there are people
> there, now, farming paragons.
> So, I'll try again tomorrow.
>
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Having finally cared enough to decode - yup. I had already figured out it
was the weapon that was slowing me down. My half point of gain came when I
disarmed. On the plus side - I got to fight a cyclopean warrior paragon
(solo) and got a chest off him. Yay. Add to collection with Wyvern, Fire
Elemental, Troll and several Mongbats.


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"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Did you see that ROT13 paragraph I wrote? You should be able to
highlight
> that and find an option in OE somewhere to unscramble it. I don't have OE
> installed anywhere or I would tell you how exactly.

....and there was me thinking you'd got the voice-recognition software in
Klingon mode again

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cystocot4@cs.com (Cyrus of Sosaria) wrote:

>Welcome to Stratics Hell....reading any of the older essays is a real nostalgia
>trip anymore...
>(it might've been replaced by now, but the last time i read the Parrying essay,
>it still mentioned Cyclopses-a T2A era enemy-as great new opponents to
>challenge the higher levels of your parry skill...)

The rule of thumb I use is that if it's on the *left* menu, it's
probably up-to-date, if it's on the *right* it's probably out-of-date.
It's not ironclad, but it's the way to bet.

D.
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:06:41 -0400, "Alice Myers"
<alice.myers@charter.net> wrote:

>So, since we haven't decoded the secret message, I went to fight some
>cyclopses. I had a nice land-based 2 full point healing gain. It's tough
>to damage yourself in Trammel. If only Ilsh had Fel rules, I could have
>died to my own pet beetle. Yeah, um. There was this really useful mongbat
>that came along, until I accidentally wrestled him to death. I did get
>about 0.5 parry gains, but then the cyclopse died, and I was on that lovely
>healing run. So, I went back to the cyclopse camp and there are people
>there, now, farming paragons.
>So, I'll try again tomorrow.

Oh well, I figured it would decode okay. Here's what I posted earlier,

Get some shields (bucklers are best I think) or two handed weapons. Don't
equip a weapon you have skill with or don't go barehanded if you have
wrestling skill. Go to Jhelom and down into the fighting pit. Don't
bother to pay for opponents to battle because some ass will just come down
there and bladespirit them all anyhow. What you do is stand a bit away
from the one you will attack, then attack one and toggle out of war mode
as soon as you can. Leu said he was lowering the toggle delay so this
should be easier now but there was a 5 second delay before. Anyhow you
want to target only unarmed females. They do no damage to you at all so
you will not need to heal. Your shields or two-handed weapon will take
damage however. Try to get all the females attacking you. If you don't
care about karma you can just kill the other npcs. As new npcs spawn some
will be unarmed females you can gather. Keep killing the rest.
Eventually you will have 20-30 females attacking you and your parry will
rise quickly. If parry gets stuck try switching to a weapon or a
different shield for a bit. You can GM parry in 2-4 hours this way.

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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:58:10 GMT, fairwater@gmail.com (Derek Lyons) wrote:

>cystocot4@cs.com (Cyrus of Sosaria) wrote:
>
>>Welcome to Stratics Hell....reading any of the older essays is a real nostalgia
>>trip anymore...
>>(it might've been replaced by now, but the last time i read the Parrying essay,
>>it still mentioned Cyclopses-a T2A era enemy-as great new opponents to
>>challenge the higher levels of your parry skill...)
>
>The rule of thumb I use is that if it's on the *left* menu, it's
>probably up-to-date, if it's on the *right* it's probably out-of-date.
>It's not ironclad, but it's the way to bet.
>
>D.

You'd think they could put a date on each page. That's not so hard is it?

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>Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses spawn -
>and you're telling me they aren't good for gains?

They're fine(though 8 sheep and a dog are better. hehe), just not a new enemy
as the Parry essay on stratics states/used to state.

Sorry if my currently clumsy wording confused anyone. :}
~Cyrus~

(Though if you want to GM parry without all the guesswork, or you're re-GMing
it after letting it for whatever bizarre reason of your own, grab at least 4
Shadow iron shields-for durability-and 8 sheep & a dog/bird/cow and a weapon
you have 0 skill in, and let 'em beat on you while you sit there. I re-GM'd in
about 5-6 hours after dropping parrying for archery very briefly...Parry makes
faster checks when more things are fighting you, not just when more powerful
enemies are smacking you about)

 

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"Cyrus of Sosaria" <cystocot4@cs.com> wrote in message
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> >Wait... I need to work parry above 85 and I know where Cyclopses spawn -
> >and you're telling me they aren't good for gains?
>
> They're fine(though 8 sheep and a dog are better. hehe), just not a new
enemy
> as the Parry essay on stratics states/used to state.

Ah, I had missed the word *new.* That was my reading comprehension problem
for the day. Thanks. I've been trying to get large numbers of monsters to
smack me around, but I haven't got the hang of it yet. I'll have to try
with different shields. Maybe the one I've got is TOO good. I think it was
s'thing like 15% defense chance increase. Might have something to do with
it.



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On 16 Oct 2004 01:49:22 GMT, cystocot4@cs.com (Cyrus of Sosaria) wrote:

>When you run out of shields, get them repaired or replaced, and go back to
>work. :}

The last three chars I've made took less than one load of 20 bucklers each
to GM parry. Lately I've been GMing parry before working on my combat
skill because, well, who wants to take all that damage if you don't have
to?

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