Hackmeister's Flamebate Posts

Kyoubai, the new ForumWarz Auction House.

Pretty much the same logic.

Almost any moar file currently in existence of any interest, is something I have more than 50 percent complete. The UI argument is a good one, but the parts are really what’s interesting.

Also, by pieces, there will likely be significantly less gouging because to the seller, there’s less value. If you ask who has a spare Pink Floyd, it’s few. If you ask who has a spare Piece 37, it’s virtually everybody who ever tried to grind it for any length of time, except maybe a handful of folks who got unlucky on that specific piece.

Minor optimization suggestion

not sure what greasemonkey is…

but I think it’s way better to have convenient overall design.

Minor optimization suggestion

In the extreme case, it may even be more optimal to provide a “Pwn Again?” link right at the end of a beaten forum. Log in to see images! (view post)

Fix Hackers

Possibly a Cabbage Posted:

Effective hacker play comes down to “Having enough Processing Power to pwn forums without consumables while using 4 beast0r cables.” Doing that really requires some decent .moar files (I heartily recommend Riprogrammatori). But the four beast0r cables are not optional. The Hackers that established the benchmark that resulted in the clbum getting nerfed were all using 4 beast0rs.

Other than “Four Beast0rs, enough PP to keep you funded, and good .moar files” you just want to put a lot of points into offense, and enough points in ego. Also, don’t use avtr if it would require you to use any PP consumables. Playing a hacker you just have to realize that your attacks are going to stink unless you get your offense up to at least 170.

EDIT: Oh, and it helps to not compare them to trolls. Trolls are silly overpowered relative to the other clbumes right now. Hackers are at comparable levels to Emos and Camwhores, but Trolls are way out of line.

Yeah, I have that, I was at cap back during their earlier nerfings and was one of those casually pwning back then before it got nerfed hard. PP is pretty much only gettable by moar files, which is what I grind for, but it tedious since hackers are often ineffective on the same forums they need to grind to get the equipment to be effective. And yeah, I don’t use avtr at all. After it’s double nerfing it became totally useless as an ability. Does anyone use it anymore? I’m interested to see what will happen when EvilTrout finishes his hacker run he’s currently doing, but maybe I’m just being hopeful.

And that’d explain it a bit, I’m at a mere 140 offense (double what my troll has lulz). I probably should yank points out and put it into ego, but it feels like there’s no point until I grind more moar files. Which is sadly tiresome since it looks like it’ll be a good 200-500 more visits to get the good moar files completed (Ripromatic is at least a 50-150 visit one, but luckily that can be done alongside pink floyd). I’m fiddling with rectum scan at the moment since at least that goes through the grinding in minutes. Trolls are overpowered, but at least if you’re going to fall on the wrong side of the balance curve, it’s better to be on the side that can accomplish things quickly. Anyhow, enough whinyness from me. Thanks for the advice on ego.

Any hackers doing the 35 diff forums? If so, post some stat numbers, I’d be curious Log in to see images! (view post)

Better web spiders?

Cheers to this idea.

Removal of Flezz/Most Forums Pwned Leaderboards, Milestone E-Peens

Those really are changes for a more single player experience as well, which makes me cheer them. I don’t look at those boards in general since they’re effectively unwinnable if you’ve ever taken a break, but milestones actually provide yet another ‘keep playing, you’re almost at another reward point, you can see it~’.

Flezz sink/Upkeep suggestion

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This would hit permanoobs and hackers the hardest.

Why don’t they just remove the evade aspect of defense? And just make a standard miss percentage between all forums.

But that’s the STATED downside of being a hacker. You’ve got tons of equipment and thus need to invest higher in upkeep than other characters, partially balancing (in theory) the ridiculous advantages you get in stats from having so much powerful equipment. So far in my entire hacker run, he’s never had to pay more for maintainance than my troll and frankly, I’d probably be well served nearly dropping my upkeep to zero with how things are because even ten upkeeps ago I wasn’t paying crap for maintaining. Really, changes that hurt challenge clbumes or improve the degree to which a clbum fits its theme are better.

Game balance changes

No, they’re probably even on average attack dealt per turn.

The only thing that feels really weird about hackers right now is the cost of Avtr, which feels absolutely silly in context. It does slightly more damage than bg2 and is three times the cost per move. Sure, it means we only have 2 instakillers (ipz and recipes), but that’s fine even with their refreshes since they’re still able to do that and the math of refreshes provides enough ‘avtr+x’ move to kill to do a complete circle without getting stalled.

But yeah, that’d be my suggestion on the nerf, not up the power of avtr again, but decrease the cost since as it is now, if we had to actually last a while, the best answer would be to ignore avtr entirely as a move since it has the worst efficency of level 10+ move. Right now I’m expending on forums lower leveled than me almost my entire pp count. Maybe that’s intentional, but I’d think really that ipz would be a more deserving expensive move (it instakills each time we use it) and avtr be more sensible at 5-8 at its new power level (before 10 was totally reasonable since it was a thread killer too).

If you’re not recording it, you may want to record average forums killed in one shot. This is probably a more important measure than damage at endgame since damage dealt over the lifespan of a forum is wasted, so that if every 5th move a hacker is doing 5 times the damage of a camwhore, but everything else is 1/2th, that camwhore is probably several forums further down the chain.

Note: I’d be careful about getting all the averages to be the same… It really could have the side effect of each character type feeling the same. I’d expect my hacker to feel like he’s doing more average damage than my troll and my troll to feel like he’s near invulnerable when he gets hit.

Operation: Wife Beater

Identifying areas the statistics can be screwed with sounds like a good idea.

...Actually doing a concentrated effort to screw with them sounds like a bad slippery slope of disaster.

But you’re right, anyone who isn’t entirely gearing offense can’t compete in a sensible fashion and focusing on damage dealt really does only propagate the problem rather than resolve it.