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Evil Trout Posted:

Seerow Posted:

Aren’t you worried improving “Pump Me Up” that much might overpower it a bit?

I mean, you’re increasing the healing and the buff and making it cheaper all at the same time. Camwhores had issues with being weaker sure… but that just feels like a bit too much to me.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

The changes may seem like a lot, but each one is only upgraded slightly.

Also the feedback up until this point has been that Pump Me Up really becomes useless in the higher levels. It’s not worth the time to cast for the benefits it gives you.

If we find that the ability is too good it can be adjusted in the future. Time will tell Log in to see images!

Well I’m comparing it to fap. As from the sound of it, the buff amount is now the same (as fap was only one better to start with), the cost is probably still slightly more, but you gain healing, so every turn you use it is a stalling turn. Now you can also use it more often (it was usable every 3 turns before I think, so every 2 turns now I guess?) so every other turn you shrug off a full hit from the forum, and get +3 offense. (since the overlap stacks, then casting it every other turn doesn’t hurt you at all until you get near the end of the forum, at which point you’re better off using up your 10-20 stacked turns and blowing through it in one steady stream)

Since you’re shrugging off that hit, that makes it better than fap in terms of action cost (with fap you’re losing hp every time you cast it without dealing something in turn. With Pump Me Up, it’s essentially trading sexiness for offense instead, and maybe some healing if the forum is weak enough compared to your defense), the same in effect… so the balancing factor is Sexiness vs Ego.

While Camwhores are often strapped for sexiness, a lot of your changes have been to alleviate that, while making douchebaggerie more valuable to trolls. So it seems to me that either this skill is overpowered, or Trolls need something of a better buff.

Not saying change it now, we can definitely wait and see, I’m just giving my two cents on why the changes could potentially be unbalancing. It’s just a lot of little factors that add together to make it essentially the best buff in the game to date.

Edit: So I missed that fap lasts for 9 turns now Log in to see images! (view post)

Lowest level last mission has been completed? [spoilers?]

Evil Trout Posted:

Forumwarz is a pretty complicated application as far as web apps go.

There are about 125 tables in the database. Now not all of them are used for storing character data, but there are at least 20-30 that do. Every time a character is reset we have to begin a transaction, lock those 25 tables and delete most of the rows, then update data to their initial levels.

In the meantime, those 20-30 tables are being hit by people playing the game, wanting to insert their gained cred or whatever, which causes the deadlocks. If we weren’t serving up multiple requests every second it might not be such an issue (in fact on the development server it’s never a problem), but it’s not a simple operation Log in to see images!

Again, I’m not totally sure, but wouldn’t the easier thing to do be have each character saved as its own table, which is then part of a bigger table?

I mean, like I said, I’m unfamiliar with web based stuff for the most part, but if I were designing something like this in java, I’d have an object representing a character, with all the needed info, then a object that stores all of the characters. As I understand it that would allow for each character to reset its values individually without interfering with the others.

Tables for databases might not work the same way, but I wouldn’t think that the storage would be that much different that it would cause problems. Though it might be a less efficient use of space, which could be your bigger priority until you get better servers.

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Lowest level last mission has been completed? [spoilers?]

This makes me fairly curious as to how you’re storing your data, cause even with your upgrades, it doesn’t seem as though a reset would have to reset -that- many things.

Maybe I just don’t know enough (never got into PHP/SQL/whatever other database **** might be used as much as I’d like)

Tabletop Geekery That Is NOT D&D

Shadowrun is pretty neat, and about the only game I can find a local GM for nowadays.

Suggestion: Forum Speed

well the easy way to balance currently existing forums would be to give them all a speed of 5, make your base speed 5, and just make it so you can’t upgrade speed or whatever until you reach level 11/episode2. Then later you can go back and rebalance those to make them faster or slower as suits you.

Lowest level last mission has been completed? [spoilers?]

I can’t access the elitist lounge. I’m going to bumume that’s a new forum that is unlocked once you beat the last forum.

I got there and had the feeling I could have finished it, but didn’t. Now won’t be able to until tomorrow.

Defense

TORNBUG Posted:

EDIT: another odd occurrence is that since offense is additive, it has a greater effect on re-re attacks than any others.

I’ve noticed that as well. It’s a good deal of fun pwning forums with rere attacks and saving tons of money on douchebaggerie replenishers… but doesn’t really seem right.

Camwhores need to be buffed.

Well a quick and dirty adjustment: Charisma adds to healing skills.

Now camwhores using pump it up heal more as they increase in level if they’re improving their charisma. Also their +charisma items actually do something for them.

Just a thought.

Stuck just after talking to Nordstrom (Spoilers till then)

Yeah, grinding is about all you can do Log in to see images! (view post)

Suggestion: Forum Speed

Well, I was thinking about the problems with defense, as brought up in the Defense thread earlier, and thought of something that may potentially make the difference:

Add a speed/activity level to Forums. Think, extremely active forums when invaded don’t just post once for every spam post that’s made, you’ll see 3 4 or 5 posts from different users before the attacker gets another shot. Likewise, some attacks, like re-re attacks are easier to use and can be done extremely fast, where a decent insult takes some time and is slower…

My idea for implementation would be making something similar to the CT system from Final Fantasy Tactics. Say you have a CT gauge (you can rename it to whatever, I’m just calling it CT cause it’s what I’m familiar with) that goes from 0 to 100. This gauge fills by your speed every turn, when it hits 100 or more, you get an action. All actions take some amount of CT. Anywhere from 1-100. 1 would be an incredibly fast attack, 100 would be incredibly slow.

The only thing is I’d set minimum speed at around 5. Below that point one point of speed makes enough difference to get double attacks, and makes it easily the most powerful stat. Where above that point, having faster attacks could make up for having a lower speed.

Also, this would make defense actually worth something, as an active forum might have a ton of re-re-esque posters, that do less damage per hit. This makes defense worth more against these people, while maintaining a sufficient challenge for those with less defense. As opposed to some forums which currently use tons of HP to compensate for low damage.

It’d be a big thing to introduce, and make it more of a balancing act, but I think it’d introduce an extra depth that will allow you to keep the game interesting longer.