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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:20 am
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:EDIT: I should be on tonight, in spite of my on call status for work. Technically speaking, nothing should go wrong.
Let's hope the Main Blow Jibber guy doesn't get sick and they need to call you in, the Assistant Blow Jibber guy.
God, I've been watching too much "League."
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:16 pm
by Malcolm
It's more the "main dude that says reboot the server." Normally, it's in case something blows up after hours. This particular night, we've got an app + DB deploy to the prod environment.
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:55 pm
by Leisher
So does that mean we're playing BL2 tonight or LoL?
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:24 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:So does that mean we're playing BL2 tonight or LoL?
I'd make an attempt at BL2. Nothing ought to go wrong and my shit should be done around 6pm CST. I might have to keep one ear near a phone. That's about it, I'd hope.
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:52 pm
by Cakedaddy
Lets aim for BL2. If he gets a call, it's easy enough to shut that down and change games.
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:25 pm
by Malcolm
Things are currently looking good. Just babysitting some long-running SQL scripts. All the changes done by server support (where fuck ups usually occur) went fine, so I don't have to do anything but alt-tab into the remote desktop and glance at it occasionally.
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:13 am
by Malcolm
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:08 pm
by Malcolm
I assume nothing doing?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:09 pm
by GORDON
I don't know where Captain Faggot is. Texted him but no response.
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:53 pm
by Malcolm
I'd suggest we try to reconvene tomorrow.
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:36 pm
by GORDON
I am out tomorrow, maybe home by midnight or 1.
Cakedaddy is suck for not showing up tonight;
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:23 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:I am out tomorrow, maybe home by midnight or 1.
Cakedaddy is suck for not showing up tonight;
Was probably out practicing for the LoL tourneys he's always worried not having enough people for. Maybe out recruiting.
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:28 pm
by Malcolm
Codes. Yes, new ones.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:21 pm
by Malcolm
Moxxi slot machine distribution. Granted, only 22,362 spins, but better than nothing.
I know I hit two triple legs in a row once, that's approximately the odds of hitting triple logos.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:44 pm
by Malcolm
Interesting things I've learned about elements from the wiki...
1) Torgue always has explosive damage.
2) Explosive is the all-purpose "I need to kill things" element.
3) Slagged enemies take double damage. G needs a slag snipey, especially for badasses. Slag, phaselock, kill.
4) Electricity destroys shields. If G has a fully charged amp shield with a nice electric snipey, he could probably take out any enemy shield we encounter with a single mag.
5) Corrosive eats through robots. Fire eats through flesh.
What those markers on the right side of your inventory items means (the red "x" and the yellow star)...
Yellow star: Marks item as favourite. Just makes it easier for you to spot it from among all your other items. Useful if you want to distinguish useful weapons from unsorted loot. It has no functional value.
Red x: Marks item as trash. When you are on the shop screen, you can hit delete to "sell trash." Anything marked as such is sold all at once.
Why you technically have infinite bank storage...
In Sanctuary's in the Crimson Raider HQ, every character has a bank. Starts out with 2 slots, you can buy black market SDUs to bump it to 16, I think. Every account has access to the Stash in Sanctuary, which has a permanent 4 slots to let you transfer items between characters. Want more bank space?
Start a new character, get him to Sanctuary. This isn't exactly trivial. Even more annoying, bank upgrades are purchased with eridium. You can't buy that shit anywhere nor transfer it using the Stash. If you really wanted to farm storage mules, you'd have a low-level character host a game with two other lows plus one high to escort them through to Sanctuary. That still doesn't solve the eridium problem. I guess enough gambling at Moxxi's using the same low host/high escort cheat might, with enough time and cash.
Slot machine estimates...
full bank upgrades: 4 + 8 + 12 + 16 + 20 = 60 eridium per character
chances of getting at least 4 eridium from a Moxxi slot machine: 3.6%
about...
75% of that 3.6% is 4 eridium
20% of that 3.6% is 8 eridium
5% of that 3.6% is 12 eridium
every 100 pulls, you'd expect 3-4 eridium wins
15 wins at 4 eridium (low end) = 60 (estimate 400-500 pulls)
5 wins at 12 eridium (high end) = 60 (estimate 100-200 pulls)
If you want to be safe, you'd take the low end, multiply it by 1.25 - 1.5 (or 2.0 if you're really thinking the machine cheats) to get 625 - 750 pulls to get enough eridium to max out a bank.
Note that slot machine pull cost depends on host's max level and story progress, but if you're around level 10, it's about $120, I believe. Take 750*120 = 90K cash needed to max out a bank per character.
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 3:46 pm
by Leisher
Then the night we were hitting eridium left and right was a fluke...
Stranger and I will be playing tonight, but 10-11ish. My wife wants to watch LoTR...sexy right? 
I'm going to host because he's too high in level, and my mechromancer hasn't even made it to sanctuary (NO SPOILERS!!!)
If anyone is on that late, you'll probably be welcome to join us.
Although, if Cake and Gordo are on and Malcolm isn't, I'll probably recommend we play LoL.
Oh, and in 15 minutes of jumping into Stranger's game last night (he's where we are in the story), I saw a sniper rifle that does 575 damage and was a slag elemental weapon.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:16 pm
by Malcolm
Then the night we were hitting eridium left and right was a fluke...
Like I said, this is ~22K spins. A good sample size for this sort of thing requires millions, if not billions, of points. I don't know if the odds are constant, seeded randomly based on (host + characters) or just host or whatever combination of factors. Gearbox could have put in more than one distribution. Triple logos has a 1 in 5000 chance, according that that no doubt inaccurate pie chart. For reference, the odds of getting a royal flush during a game of five card draw are in the 1 in 42000 range. After the double triple leg, I got a triple marcus, which is .0146^2 * 0.0018 = about a 1 in 2.5 million shot. Fuck, the odds could adjust based on how often you play.
I'm going to host because he's too high in level, and my mechromancer hasn't even made it to sanctuary
I got a siren I could throw in.
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:16 pm
by Malcolm
Malcolm wrote:Codes. Yes, new ones.
Bump. Even newer ones.
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:51 pm
by Malcolm
Won't be BL2'ing tonight. Other things. LoL away.
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:10 pm
by Malcolm
Malcolm wrote:Malcolm wrote:Codes. Yes, new ones.
Bump. Even newer ones.
And again.
EDIT: This code looks to have a finite quantity of keys available. They last as long as they last.
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