MyrMen OOC.

[Dlover]

The task chance was 300%, so we take 15% of 150% = 45%
The task chance was as you remember 300%, so now we take 30% of 300% = 90%

Wait, what? At one point you use half of the Task Chance, at another you use the full chance? How do you decide which you use?

[gamecreator]

We have lots of workers, yet I feel a bit like the scene in the Princess Bride where the bad prince complains about all that he has to do. We have a purple guy to fend off, eggs to aquire, a bridge to build, a ladder to build, food that we need to figure out how to get more food, a gas leak to fix, and rapidly diminishing resources (food), not to mention 2 ores to mine, stone to mine, more holes to dig, buckets to invent, rope to analyze so that we can make more, and after a bit of exploring another mother machine to build (for safty). I'm swamped, since it takes 3+ players to start to get good odds on any significant action.

Not really so. Gas leak can be ignored for the time being, constructions can be postponed, and we don't have anything to make ropes from (unless you want to make iron rope). First priority are farms and buckets.

[Theis2]

The task chance was 300%, so we take 15% of 150% = 45%
The task chance was as you remember 300%, so now we take 30% of 300% = 90%

Wait, what? At one point you use half of the Task Chance, at another you use the full chance? How do you decide which you use?

I think it was a writing error as 15% of 300 is 45.

[LAYF]

The task chance was 300%, so we take 15% of 150% = 45%
The task chance was as you remember 300%, so now we take 30% of 300% = 90%

Wait, what? At one point you use half of the Task Chance, at another you use the full chance? How do you decide which you use?

I think it was a writing error as 15% of 300 is 45.

Yep.... was supposed to be 300.... fixed now

[LAYF]

Wooh.. crazy update... lots of things going one...

1st: Sorry Bob... but Bob "7" is Nolandkings character.. so... but hay.. You have earned a character... so.. thats something...

2nd... TTW, Dlover, GameCreator together used 4 SA on the food thing, and on top of that.. Kida went examening Green food... thats 85% just there, I'd made the task have 20% task bonus by itself.. so... 105%, that task chance was 140% so... 153% chance of succes... and to make everything better... I rolled clean 100.... so... I HAD.. simply HAD to give a good bonus for that.....

hope you can use the new toys.. If they need better explanations just ask....


Edit.. Oh.. I changed the Max Length of the bridge and Max hight of the free standing ladder to 40.. Is i figured 25 simply was to little....

[kida]

Another useful hobby could be diplomat - gains +10% for all diplomatic tasks

[I'mBob]

How can someone name his character Bob? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?

[Dlover]

How can someone name his character Bob? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?

Well he had to make sure we had a character called Bob who was a builder. The comedic value was just too high to leave it.

[gamecreator]

Can someone explain to me how is it that there is comedic (what a word is this? does it even exist? comic sounds better) value in it?

[LAYF]

Can someone explain to me how is it that there is comedic (what a word is this? does it even exist? comic sounds better) value in it?

Bob the builder is a childrens television character.....

[I'mBob]

And I'm Bob the Dragon, they should make me a TV star. I\m much better.

[BadgeAddict]

I'll be happy to mine some of that copper to get the extra ore. In fact, that's what I'm trying to do, this is my reason for building the bridge over the pond. I'm not sure if i will need to then build a ladder or not.

[LAYF]

Ah Its a good thing you said you wanted to do it so that you could mine I thought it was to provide passage (for which the bridge dont need to be near as high up.

Well... to mine YouÔÇÖll have to get in a height where you have reach to the Copper....

Well.. that will require:

39 pixels of bridge (4 sections) and require someone to take a pick axe and remove the earth that is in the way for passage (MyrMen needs at least 5 pixels height to pass under.. there are only 4)

ThatÔÇÖs 5 actions 5 iron and 5 building stone, to make you able to mine 2 pixels worth of copper....
then you need to build a ladder (another action and 1 iron and 1 building stone) to get to the next 11 pixels worth of copper...

Have an image:



The other way around is from the top... but there is the purple guy in the way....

Or find another copper vain... it is NOT the only one....

Any questions?

Stinky orders that the farming blueprints be broken down so he can start being awesome.

You cannot break down Blueprints... they must be delivered to a Mother machine, just as Manuals must, and then either the machine can produce stuff (in the case of tools) or MyrMen can build (in the case of machines and buildings)
If manuals are delivered, MyrMen can then learn whath they teach (at the cost of skill points that must be voted on, or paied for with XP, wich the individual player controels himself)

[ThroughTheWell]

My 'plan' has been to mine the copper from the top, FWIW. But, if LAYF approves Diplomat as a hobby, and a player takes that, that could help us with the purple guy either start mining earlier, or get in his good graces by talking and not attacking enough that we can mine it later. Diplomat should take the purp guy some food and water as a gift. He seems... a bit off.

Until we get the copper for a gas mask, I was opening a new passage for us by building a bridge at the top of the tunnle. If other people help, it will go faster. We could also have someone dig to the right sideways of the old pond, and maybe discover a new chamber, but that also would make the mother machine less defensible. Or, we could dig down in our current pit t find a new chamber, but we'd probably need to make it wider, add a ladder, and have another pick and rope ready for the break through.

But, we have plenty of stuff to do and build for now, so we don't immediately have to go exploring.

[LAYF]

Yea.. I'll aprove the Diplomat.. it seem fine

[WearsHats]

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I stopped participating in this game because I've been physically exhausted to an unusual degree lately. (Have an appointment with sleep clinic later this week.) I was interested in giving the game a try (even though I've never played Civilization), but was actually too tired to spare the brainpower for making tactical decisions for fun.

Now I feel like the game has moved past me while I was on the sidelines. Which may or may not be true, but it's how I'm feeling. And I see that there are a limited number of character slots. And creating a character (which I'm one step away from) would mean a drain on limited resources, so I'd have to participate enough to earn my keep. Since I'm still on the fence and still really tired, it seems like the best thing to do is step back. But I thought you at least deserved an explanation.

Short version: I'm leaving the game. It's not you, it's me. Have fun!

[LAYF]

Thanks Wears... I figured it was something like that (I read your other posts about exhaustion) so no hard feelings... maybe you can return later.. who knows

[ThroughTheWell]

How does experience points work?

I'd be willing to donate mine to either our metal miner to learn diving, or our diver to learn metal mining. Or give either of them one of my SAs to do the same thing. In other words, we need to be able to mine at the bottom of the lake for our only known source of iron so far. Other alternatives besides exploring are to dig more pits and hope to find iron, which seems fairly low odds to me. A Junk collector might help a tiny bit.

Any player voting for "1" to steal eggs or attack the purple guy, should probably have their character provide support by either aiding "1" or doing one or the other of those things also. And if we attack the purp, use a pick or shovel. Otherwise we are sending "1" to his death and not getting the eggs. And if you want to steal the eggs undetected, well an attack on the purp is a good distraction, but that STILL reqires 2-3 "people". I say 3, because an attack on the purp probably needs a 2 to 1 advantage to win.

[LAYF]

XP is 100% up to use to decide how to use... you can use it on yourself, workers or other players.... but a new hobby cost will cost 5 XP (at this point)

[ThroughTheWell]

Ah, I see the players only have 4 XP total at the moment, if everyone donated to one player.

[BadgeAddict]

I'm willing to learn diving in order to get to the iron.

[kida]

How did mission 5 chosen? Most votes where on mission 3

[BadgeAddict]

How did mission 5 chosen? Most votes where on mission 3

I looked back and now I'm wondering the same thing. Unless there was a roll on what mission to take somehow.

[ThroughTheWell]

Welcome back Mort. I hope your new char, in 4 more turns, will be able to use the knowledge from your last chars death. Sort of a soulish whisper.

[M0rtimer]

I'm going to jump in next turn, actually. Hope you'll find what I picked useful.