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00:15

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Powerdork

00:58

ahoy!

nitsua60

@Powerdork hiya

Re: ADR (@Anaphory, @doppelgreener, @trogdor) it took me far too long to realize "a stranger arrives in the night" wasn't a threat, but just (creepy) population growth.

trogdor

ADR?

nitsua60

A Dark Room

(I assumed that you knew the game, if you were taking the time to set my huts on fire.)

trogdor

no, you just said something about huts on fire, and I can't help but laugh at that

doppelgreener

@nitsua60 2atmospheric

I don't know the game but feel compelled to try it

nitsua60

01:12

Oh, no. You've got to finish candy box first. I think you'll really like some of the turns it takes.

(You're a programmer, at least of sorts, right?)

trogdor

but is like, an end to it right?

cause as much as I am consumed by it at the moment, I can't play Candy Box for all eternity

though to be fair, by tomorrow I will be taking a hiatus on it, I won't be on a computer for a little over a week

BESW

Who will console us in our time of Trogdorlessness?

trogdor

you can always like, look up stuff I said here on the SE chats

XD

doppelgreener

@nitsua60 I am very definitely a programmer, and a web programmer too. I'm currently up to spoilers

@BESW A cardboard cutout of Trogdor. Life-size if possible.

trogdor

@doppelgreener you are probably further than I am, I did restart after getting past the Castle Entrance, twice

nitsua60

01:22

@doppelgreener hehehe =)

doppelgreener

@trogdor I am 3 levels past that one

nitsua60

@trogdor just let it run while you're gone--you'll be able to buy all teh swordz!

@doppelgreener remind me; as of that level, has a fifth tab appeared?

trogdor

@nitsua60 I really don't want to leave my laptop on in the house that whole time

or bring it with me and do the same thing in the hotel or wtv

nitsua60

@trogdor AmazonCloud?

doppelgreener

@nitsua60 only four

trogdor

01:24

@nitsua60 never used that

@doppelgreener I am one level past there, but I keep dying in the Castle Courtyard

nitsua60

@doppelgreener As a web programmer you shouldn't feel shy about using some tricks you might know that, perhaps, the general population doesn't?

@trogdor I'm just kidding--purchasing time on a virtualized server to run a java game while you're traveling is... TROGDERRIFIC!

trogdor

lol

not worth spending money on, to be sure

if I had something constructive to do yeah, but this is a free game in which much of the time spent is "waiting for the numbers to tick up without me"

doppelgreener

@nitsua60 huhhhmmmmmmmm I take the hint I think you're making...

nitsua60

well, that was awkward =D

doppelgreener

I saw it

trogdor

01:34

I have found that you can mess with the merchant guy

but it's not exactly a programmer trick

nitsua60

@trogdor don't mess with the Doctor, man. That's my favorite Doctor.

doppelgreener

I'm fairly sure the merchant guy is tom baker

trogdor

@nitsua60 I just made him lower his inflated prices man, all I did was click on a couple things

@doppelgreener yeah, I am pretty sure of that too

nitsua60

@trogdor The first time I played it it definitely got to a point where I'd go on one quest per day, then let it run in the background so that I could afford the next thing, or eat more candies, or whatever.

Then come back the next day for a second shot at whatever killed me.

I think there are keyboard shortcuts for the scrolls and potions? First letter, perhaps?

trogdor

@nitsua60 it is real slow, and the only way to speed it up is using potions and scrolls, but unless they actually cause you to complete a quest you wasted the candies on them

nitsua60

01:39

@trogdor the sorceress helps, though.

trogdor

well, you can speed things up with the Sorceress too, but that in itself takes waiting for Lolipops to accumulate

nitsua60

@trogdor what's your lollipop production rate right now?

trogdor

it's 100per second

it doesn't seem to increase beyond that

nitsua60

yeah, not yet. That's all you get from farming them IIRC

brb

BESW

BTW, @trogdor, Yohancé and The Pack are 65% funded with 11 days to go.

trogdor

01:41

@nitsua60 I feel like the only progression left to me at the moment is completing the next quest and maybe try to get items from doing so

@BESW ooh nice

BESW

Hard to tell if they'll fund or not.

trogdor

well, it's looking hopeful at least

11 days left, more than half the way there, with a possible surge near the end point

BESW

And we've contributed 0.8% of the full goal!

Shalvenay

02:41

hey there @daze413

daze413

03:00

hey hey @Shalvenay was just popping by. how was that FLGS visit?

nitsua60

@trogdor yeah, there's definitely some hard-gating on the quests. The sequel's much less linear. And a little wackier, IIRC.

Shalvenay

@daze413 planning it for this saturday I think

trogdor

03:16

@nitsua60 it's especially frustrating that this lattest quest is full of ghosts followed by fireballs

along with more normal stuff

nitsua60

@trogdor is this the stairs?

trogdor

no, it's after the stairs

nitsua60

I don't remember. But yeah, ghosts are annoying.

trogdor

I figured out that on the stairs all I had to do was grab an imp summon scroll

nitsua60

Sure, 'cause they only halve humans' HP =)

trogdor

03:17

because the undead on the stairs don't do anything to em

nitsua60

Which level are you on now?

trogdor

and once the necromancer kills the imp, she realizes it was a bad idea 10 seconds afterwards when she dies XD

@nitsua60 right after the stairs, in the courtyard

nitsua60

have you brewed any seeds?

trogdor

nope

I made one healing potion, and then when I tried to make the next easiest potion I failed at it and lost the candy involved, because the instructions are exceptionally vague on how long to mix for or something

I don't know how to make sure I know exactly how to make a potion without trail and error, and basically that means wasting resources

nitsua60

the 20 seconds is time since you started mixing, not time since you completed the previous step

trogdor

03:24

I know that

nitsua60

I always do the trial-and-error at the 1 potion level, then make batches of ten or so once I've got it.

@trogdor oh, sorry

trogdor

just, some of the instructions are "mix for a while"

that doesn't tell me the very specific amount of time they want me to mix for

@nitsua60 that is all fine and dandy, but if I go all the way over to the seed potion thing, I think that costs a lot even at the one potion level

nitsua60

650 candies is a lot? What's your candy production rate?

trogdor

it's not so much for one try

but how many times do I have to trail and error it before I get the full formulae?

@nitsua60 I think it's about 8 per second

nitsua60

@trogdor fair enough

trogdor

03:32

because it costs a heck of a lot of LP to increase it

nitsua60

@trogdor true

klp and Mlp start to add up =)

trogdor

I mean, the cost does go up every time you do it XD

and the amount it increases your production rate by is pitifully low at the start

I can turn candy into lp,... but the lp goes up a lot faster, so that doesn't seem too profitable at the moment

nitsua60

@trogdor right. When the numbers get right the sorceress' ability to buy candy for lp, then the converter's ability to turn candy into lp gets you a perpetual-candy machine =)

trogdor

I imagined as much

I just don't have anywhere near that at the moment

also, I am guessing that there is an item that increases lp production

not sure about candy though, cause I have not hit any kind of cap on increasing that

BESW

04:50

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Fibericon

@doppelgreener I'd be wary about making a single, all inclusive Exalted tag. The editions are very different, and somewhat polarizing among players. I'm pretty firmly in the 2.5e camp, myself.

trogdor

07:46

@nitsua60 ah, you know what? I didn't realize they were asking for 100 lp and then 100 candies in the major health potion thing, maybe making these potions will be a little easier than I thought

still, for some of the later ones they don't specify mixing time, so those might be harder

doppelgreener

09:11

@Fibericon right now an all inclusive one is all we have

BESW

11:15

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nitsua60

@BESW whuuuuuuuuut!?

BESW

Yes.

@nitsua60 Consider this the most recent in an irregular series titled, "Why is your fantasy world so boring?"

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On a more sobering note, a man dissolved in Yellowstone National Park this summer. He hopped a fence to take a dip in what turned out to be one of the hottest and most acidic pools in the park.

Anybody here have opinions on the best Grace Jones film?

Protonflux

12:22

@BESW Wow... nothing left in the morning.

Anaphory

13:18

Argh, battling semi-locked down horribly obsolete university computer setup.

The Oracle

21:00

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BESW

22:48

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Shalvenay

23:25

hey there @nitsua60

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