scully Posted:

I’m pretty sure that ET confirmed that luck does not influence pwning in any way.

That was before the gameplay tuneup. It’s POSSIBLE that Luck affects how often you’re hit with special attacks (but I doubt it).

Afterthotz Posted:

LUCK

“The more of this you have, the more Jesus loves you. It seems to influence how valuable the gifts that random Internet strangers send you are. Surprisingly, making many feel cheated, it does not improve your chances with the Gamble-Bot. It is possible that the random sections of attacks are affected by this. Increases the number of gifts you receive at rollovers. Good for characters that can’t stack Charisma.”

The bolded part isn’t true, or wasn’t last I heard.

Here is just one of many, many posts/threads where how it works is explained.

Luck: 11

Charisma: 1

# of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4

Cred gained yesterday: 60593 (confirmed)

# of deliveries: 16

Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10):   12,426

Luck set at 11 and 21 the amount received was 1% more than the formula predicted (not too shabby) but with luck set at 1 it was 29% more than predicted, making that the largest error currently on the chart.

How sure are you that you didn’t have some other Junk already in your inventory that day?

Base run Flezz confirmed.

Luck: 1

Charisma: 1

# of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4

Cred gained yesterday: 60593

# of deliveries: 12

Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10):   4,882

Luck: 41

Charisma: 1

# of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4

Cred gained yesterday: 60593

# of deliveries: 16

Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10):   35,091

Luck: 51

Charisma: 1

# of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4

Cred gained yesterday: 60593

# of deliveries: 17

Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10):   47,148

MC Banhammer Posted:

So much for the  40K cap, eh?

Depends how much of a random factor there is Log in to see images!

Too many runs align near-perfectly with a 40K cap to toss the idea out completely…

Afterthotz Posted:

I’ts almost time for another informal pow wow to determine what we think we know, what we don’t, and a practical way to go about testing said theories.

I dunno, I think your current plan of running with a static set of cred, changing only one variable at a time, is a good one. This allows for other people to run the same set changing a different variable. I’ll see if I have an alt I’m not using for anything right now who can do the same, maybe modifying Charisma and leaving Luck at 1.

One thing I think would be nice to see is to try to narrow down the random factor. Run the exact same stats for a while and see the range of randomization which results.

Afterthotz Posted:

Latest run   divided by four is still way below that cap.

Brainfart… 40K per forum, so when you run 4, getting just over 40K is not a challenge to the cap…

The fact that Banhammer queried it made me bumume it was actually a problem Log in to see images!

MC Banhammer Posted:

Got one who can work with Luck 0. That should be informative.

If we could get down to Luck 0 and Charisma 0 I’d be rather interested in the results. But even without 0 Char, 0 Luck would let us probe the effect of Charisma very nicely.

MC Banhammer Posted:

One thing I think would be nice to see is to try to narrow down the random factor. Run the exact same stats for a while and see the range of randomization which results.

Also a fine idea. A large random factor would explain all those embarrbumingly large deviations from predicted results (which, incidentally, seem to be annoyingly common with the specific runs Afterthotz is doing right now), a small random factor would make it easier to eventually figure things out though.