Maio binion

Some friends of mine did a battle in Caste Age. They did a CTA with a rule - only for level 250 below. Now, a level 673 High King jumped in and did 40 million plus damage, my sweet girls got nothing. Now, what this high king did was clearly unjust to them, and was ignoring the rules.

However, and this is the part why the sisters* hate me, this rule of theirs was not the most effective... "in my opinion". Level numbers are overrated. For example, let's say two players never quest. They are level 200, meaning 1000 skill points. One puts 400 on attack, and 400 on stamina. The other spreads points equally, putting 200 on attack and stamina. P1 has now 400 attack, and 200 stamina, P2 has 200 attack, and 100 stamina. Theoretically, P1 does twice as much damage as P2. So, I think setting a level limit is less effective than to put damage limit.

In short, level number is not necessarily relevant. And I feel very strongly about this, as I have 500 defence, which means I have enormously small attack compared to others at level 360. Okay, facts. My attack is 263; my friend's attack is 400+, and he is level 241.

The rule of "250 and below" can be heavily abused. In extreme example, if someone really wants, that someone can make an account, never play except to pray, and boom!, in three years - level 1 player with 200 stamina and 750 attack.

And now, especially to those who constantly bash me for having this useless, worthless, utter scum, otherwise known as defence. Firstly, my comment on the topic:

And to answer the second question... People with brains do need defence when attacking. At least in monsters with party health, defence, or shield. You do know that your attacks have a bigger amount of points when your attack is bigger? Well, no reason to think defence points are related to the amount of pigeon poop on the roof... Sorry, I have no proof, but rumour has it, there's a secret threshold, where your defence amount gets considerably better. Azriel's is supposedly 300.

You could say, with tears of ever so sweet love in your eyes, that you, the "attacker", have me, the "defender", but the truth is, you can't do anything without defence.

When you go to a snowball fight, it is most probably cold outside. You need to have a good throwing arm, but you also need to defend your body against cold. Normal people have clothes for defence against cold. But if you're going outside with your arms stretched out, and say to me: "I chose to have no clothes, cover my naked body with yours"... How gay are you?

And also, the proof (but I'm sure disbelievers will not start believing), in a form of message log:

Peeter:

1 second ago:
Peeter cast deflection on the party for a considerable amount of [50,968] points points!
13 seconds ago:
Peeter cast deflection on the party for a massive amount of [121,555] points!
6 minutes, 28 seconds ago:
Jolla cast deflection on the party for a minimal amount of [9,119] points!
6 minutes, 40 seconds ago:
Jolla cast deflection on the party for an adequate amount of [18,358] points!

I'm not bragging. Please tell me how much energy you used and what is your defence?

Jolla:
My defence is just a couple points shy of 200 right now. The first one was for 20 energy and the 2nd was for 10.

Peeter:
Thank you. My first was for 40 and the second was 20, and it seems it was not fully used. I have read rumours that there is a threshold where your defending ability gets better. Whether it's true or not, I wanted proof that high defence matters. I have 503 defence, and for the same amount of energy, I did deflect much more.

Thank you, you were helpful. And Gehenna is deflected.

Jolla:
Yes, the rumours are true. There are 3 thresholds that I know of. The first is at 200, once you reach it your defending ability will basically double on serpent battles. The next is at 400, I believe, and gives severe boost for the smaller world battles like Dark Legions. I don't know where the 3rd is but it is for everything else. Sadly there aren't any for attack (mine's just over 1200). I'm heavily built for PvP so I tend not to defend for much in monster battles, defence and energy are my 2 lowest stats (not counting health). The only monsters I do well on are hydras.

Peeter:
What's your source?

Jolla:
[A name] is the only one I can remember off the top of my head but I have heard it from many people. Most of which are well above your and my level.

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Ohh... Memories

Peeter:
Oh... My mouse stopped working.
Diana:
There are always keyboard shortcuts.
Peeter:
Not for everything, sadly.
Diana:
Nope, not for everything.
Peeter:
I have batteries for that.
Diana:
I didn't know it was a wireless one. I'm used to mouses being attached to the computer and not needing batteries.
Peeter:
I use two computers most of the time. Helix & Mimosa. Both have optical mice.
Diana:
I didn't know that. About the mice. I use the one with my laptop. Any desktop I use has a wired mouse.
Peeter:
Oh, sorry. I don't know why I used the wrong term again. All my mice are optical, those two are wireless.
Diana:
I understood that, you were correct.
Peeter:
I was, yes, but in addition of being optical, they were also wireless.
Diana:
Ah. They are two different things, aren't they? Optical means it doesn't come with a ball, it has a laser to tell how its moving.
Peeter:
Exactly.
Peeter:
I am not sure though... The computer that is currently in the kitchen might have a "ball" mouse. That computer has Windows 2000. It was bought in 2002 maybe. It was discharged from work this year.
Diana:
Might still have a ball mouse. 90's for sure, early 2000 is iffy. Depends how much was spent originally on the computer.
Peeter:
Hold on.
Peeter:
Yes, it's a ball mouse. But it's got scroll. And of course, not USB, but PS/2.
Peeter:
Do you know PS/2 is not the oldest? I have even used serial mouse. I bet you'd be confused if someone came to you with a serial mouse and a 1.44" floppy. Have you got 1.44 floppy drive?
Diana:
Excuse me? We used to have a Commodore 64. I'm used to a 5 1/2 inch floppy.
Peeter:
Oh. For old time's sake, I'd want a 5½ floppy drive. I even have some 5½ floppies. I have 1.44 floppy drive on that 2002 computer. I also had one on my sixth I bought in 2002, my first one I bought with my own money. I sold it for $2 US two years ago. Would have given it away, but we settled for a symbolic price.
Diana:
I have an external 1.44 that hooks up by usb port. My dad bought if for me to go with my first laptop. I needed something to transfer data from my laptop to other computers to print. At the time USB keys were really expensive for a small amount of space. This was 8 years ago now. The CD drive that came with it was not a R/W drive.
Peeter:
You know, at my university... I was one of the only ones to have homework on CDs... Later on I just uploaded it.
Peeter:
It's sad though. Teenagers and those who are toddlers now won't even know floppies. I remember I brought a 70 MB game to school... on floppies. It took like 40 floppies. I didn't have that many, so we brought it in in parts. And, of course, my hard disc space was 1.2 GB, so not to spare. I had deleted the RARs (RAR can pack in parts), and of course, at school, it appeared that one floppy was fucked, and thus I had to go home, redo the RARs and hope the one to be replaced fit to the ones I've made earlier.
Diana:
Sounds like a lot of work for just one game. Hope it was worth it.
Peeter:
Fun time. Annoying then, but a fond memory
Diana:
I need to go to bed. It's getting late for me.
Peeter:
Bye
Diana:
Bye.

To all my Estonian readers, this conversation actually was in English. It would have been lame to translate, if it were in Estonian.

The White Death

I assume every Castle Age player knows The White Death. And for the last 48 hours Castle Age has done goofed. The White Death, The Whirling Death, and the maintenance notice, which may very well be 404 CA style.

Think about it, not so hard to comprehend. It may not be that they put that note there when they truly update, it might be just their default error message. Why else would this note appear randomly, and let you play in between?

Some of us didn't get to log on once, like Dawn, who even apologised to me personally, how cute. Me, I got in, but maybe 40% of times. But I was compensated, read below.

Yesterday, my stamina was full. I attacked, until I had 60 stamina left. Suddenly, I had some 270 stamina. I hope the hits I made both times counted, in which case I got a free refill.

But that's not all. I prayed for Azeron, and when I clicked, The Whirling Death came on. I remembered my accidental free refill, so I kept clicking... And by the way, once I got 12/10 demipoints from PvP battles...

Anyway, I just noticed this now... I had 340 max stamina before praying. And now... I have 356!

356 max stamina, this is permanent.

However, I'd still like more compensation. Many of us have battles, and it pisses us off when they fail by no fault of our own.

Ruubiku kuubik

I think Castle Age fucked up. In the past, you could tell by the nice weapons who has been in a lot of monster battles, because the best weapons were hard to get. But now they made Vincent, who is too easy to get epic loot from, and he drops the strongest ordinary equipment. And so everybody who's in a numerous guild has the best equipment in the game.

In the past, to get the best ordinary sword in the game, that is, not counting Soulforge, Devotion, and Meat Carver, you had to get serious activity on many Alpha Mephistopheles', because Hellblade's drop chance was only around 10%, but now they made a weapon that is stronger than Hellblade, and far too easy to get.

Alpha Mephistopheles was introduced on July 15th, and I have no Hellblade. Vincent was introduced October 28th, and I have 3 Exsanguinators already.

Tartu Kaubamaja

Nice salesclerk do exist. I was shopping for Duran Duran's Greatest Hits. At the checkout the clerk suggested I buy the special edition, which came with a DVD, and was a lot cheaper. Today I was shopping for Kraftwerk, the same clerk was already "beeping" the items, but then I remembered it's going to be a bonus night on Friday, where items would be 10% off. I asked if he could hold the items for me to purchase on Friday, and he said okay.

Let's sue, it's everybody's fault but mine!

We all know that walking and texting is a tough combination, but a Staten Island teen learned the hard way when she fell into an uncovered sewer manhole while trying to send a message.

Now, the family of Alexa Longueira, 15, intends to sue.

The girl suffered a fright and some scrapes on her arms back after she dropped into the hole on Victory Boulevard.

"It was four or five feet, it was very painful. I kind of crawled out and the DEP guys came running and helped me," Longueria told the Staten Island Advance.. "They were just, like, 'I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

For its part, the Department of Environmental Protection said its workers had turned away briefly to grab some cones when the incident occurred.

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The family said they will file a lawsuit. For what, though, is not immediately clear. Her mother, Kim Longueira, said it doesn't matter that her daughter was walking and texting, and also, the "gross" factor that can't be ignored.

"Oh my God, it was putrid," she said. "One of her sneakers is still down there"

Source: nbcnewyork.com

What? Why? How?

Make handbook not housework

There was a handbook about housework in the sixties, mainly for women. A snippet from this book:

You have to remember that you have to prepare for your husband coming home from work every day. Prepare the children, wash them up, comb them, and clothe them in ceremonial clothes. Children have to line up, and greet the father, when he comes in from the door. Put on a clean apron, and try to make yourself pretty - tie a ribbon on your head, for example. Do not start a conversation with your husband, remember that he is very tired, and he needs to go to work every day for you. Feed him quietly, and only when he is done with the newspaper may you try to talk to him.

There is also some advice to men:

After the sexual act you have to let your wife to go to the bathroom, but there is no need to go after her. Let her be alone, as she might want to cry.