The Bridge

@Sterno: I'm in a forest area. IT's terrible. I have no idea what's going on. It's like a maze. I'll eventually hit an elevator which shortcuts me back and I'll realize I made progress. Then I'll loop back to that elevator 4 more times.

MadMAxJr

Town of StackEgg

Trent Hawkins

@Frank Well, I can nearly make out the lyrics\

Frank

@TrentHawkins Better?

badp

10:04 PM

all to anarchy

UP

A

UP

START9

B

Matt Giltaji

restarts coming, watch out

badp

QQ

Trent Hawkins

@Frank much.

Yuuki

Did we just increase Answers and Users with one action?

Rapitor

@Yuuki traffic

Matt Giltaji

10:06 PM

@Yuuki yeah, traffic can sometimes add users

Yuuki

@MattGiltaji I see.

murgatroid99

I just noticed: you can Inspect Element the progress bar to see an exact progress percentage

badp

267

Yuuki

That would explain why Users is the least valuable stat.

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 yeah thats what the bots do

badp

10:07 PM

gg gents

nite

Frank

And I'm done. You'll have to hatch sites without me!

Yuuki

@Rapitor Should probably post up a strategy for each phase, because I have no clue what I'm doing.

badp

also only use flags when a stat is red

that's basically a +2 instead of a +1

Matt Giltaji

@Yuuki always vote red

alternate ask and answer in private beta

0-frame links

With one click I sent Puzzling.SE back to the stone age

Matt Giltaji

10:09 PM

@0-framelinks thats a dick move

badp

@0-framelinks oh you

0-frame links

With two I banished them to the paleolithic era

Rapitor

@Yuuki private = ask/answer.. questions first.

0-frame links

And they had just finished graduation 8)

But honestly, it wasn't that surprising

murgatroid99

@0-framelinks that's against the rules, and you're a jerk

Lazers

10:10 PM

0

Q: is there a way to tell what mod an item/block originates from?

I have a number of mods and i know some of them added copper to the world. when mining i tend to find 2 kinda of copper core, ones with orange dots (Copper A) and ones with goldenrod dots (Copper B). when i smelt these 2 ores i get 2 different ingots. in Industrialcraft when i crush Copper B Ore...

0

Q: How can I kill the Golem. In terraria

I was wondering of it is possible to kill the Golem pre-hardmode. If so please tell me how to do so and what kinds of gear you need to kill it (accessories, armor, weapons, arena prep). Thanks for the help.

terraria-mobile

0-frame links

Question quality was at an all time low

And there was no traffic and no users

Matt Giltaji

@0-framelinks there is no need for that

0-frame links

@MattGiltaji Better to start fresh than to continue on a bad run

That's what I do with most of my savegames anyways

Matt Giltaji

@0-framelinks nope, times completed is heaviest sort weight

badp

(and then SE switched to least flags)

user15026

10:12 PM

@0-framelinks there's no reason to be a jerk.

Wipqozn

Oh did we restart again?

Matt Giltaji

@Wipqozn yeah but with a win this time

Wipqozn

oh, that's good

0-frame links

@AshleyNunn It's not being a jerk if there's a reason for it

Frank

I went to go get Story of Seasons. Turns out, the local Future Shop is already permanently closed.

That was fast.

Wipqozn

10:14 PM

@Frank They closed them all the nday they announced they were being closed

Matt Giltaji

@0-framelinks are you actively trying to help puzzling win?

MadMAxJr

@Frank .. Between the time you left and when yo uarrived?

Frank

@Wipqozn Ouch.

user15026

@0-framelinks no, it is being a jerk. It goes against the rules.

Frank

@MadMAxJr Between the time of the announcement on Saturday, and now.

user15026

10:14 PM

@frank ours closed Sunday, when they announced the merge thing.

Frank

I thought it would take them longer than that.

0-frame links

@AshleyNunn ?

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn Restarting isn't against the rules. Restarting to fuck with other sites is against the rules. Restarting due to a bad run makes sense.

MadMAxJr

End of day, wheee.

user15026

@frank nah, they don't have to liquidate stock or anything, just lock the doors!

Wipqozn

10:15 PM

mind you, this is @Retrosaur we're talking about, so he might just be trolling.

0-frame links

@Wipqozn You have a site with huge amount of q, no users, no traffic, no quality

Frank

@AshleyNunn True.

0-frame links

Every vote that you make barely impacts progress towards winning internet

Matt Giltaji

@0-framelinks use a flag

0-frame links

No flags, gg

murgatroid99

10:16 PM

@Wipqozn not really. It's never faster to start a new run than to continue one

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 Still, making a dumb move isn't being a jerk.

0-frame links

So if there are no flags left, and progress is going nowhere, why are people here so aggravated about me voting to restart

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn OK. The wording of his original statement indicated that it was on purpose, though

0-frame links

@murgatroid99 >implying

Matt Giltaji

@0-framelinks the way you spoke about it made it seem that this was not to the site's benefit

murgatroid99

10:17 PM

@0-framelinks Because there has been drama for the last several hours about sites restarting each other's games to sabotage them

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 I don't think he claimed otherwise. I'm just saying that restarting itself doesn't make you a jerk. Doing it out of a malicious is.

murgatroid99

8 mins ago, by 0-frame links

With one click I sent Puzzling.SE back to the stone age

0-frame links

@murgatroid99 And I only vote to restart if I see horrible quality, I don't see why there's an issue with that

Matt Giltaji

@0-framelinks how many people were voting?

0-frame links

Like 2 or so, some guy kept voting for ask

for some reason

Even though Questions was maxed out, some guy kept voting for ask, and that was the majority

Everything was declining; I don't think they fully understood what the game was about

Wipqozn

10:18 PM

I can't beleive that has almost 3k questions

oh, no it doesn't

2300

Matt Giltaji

in The Nineteenth Byte, 1 min ago, by Rainbolt

@Runer112 I tested it on Sharepoint SE

Wipqozn

> 623
days in beta

That would do it

0-frame links

Besides, the dinosaur analogy is a reference to returning to our roots

starting fresh, as civilization started at the beginning of the Paleolithic Era.

murgatroid99

@0-framelinks You have to know that "to send back to the stone age" is an idiom for mass destruction

StrixVaria

user15026

10:21 PM

goes back to playing NES Remix

StrixVaria

So indecisive.

0-frame links

@murgatroid99 English isn't my first language, rip

Matt Giltaji

@StrixVaria so you were the upvoter!

StrixVaria

@MattGiltaji Yeah and now that's in the red because everyone else was wrong.

Matt Giltaji

only upvote when users are rioting

although word is that you have 4 turns to fix a red heart before you lose

murgatroid99

10:22 PM

@0-framelinks OK. Then maybe now you can understand why people thought your actions did not have the best intentions

0-frame links

@murgatroid99 Sorry I should've reworded that

StrixVaria

2 votes for restart :|

0-frame links

I thought it was a cool analogy for "fresh start"

Matt Giltaji

restarters, no restarting!

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria There's at least 1 bot just casting restart votes I believe

Matt Giltaji

10:23 PM

@Wipqozn must be doing it every X turns

Wipqozn

@MattGiltaji OH, MAYBE NOT ANYMORE CAPS LOCK

Frank

@MattGiltaji Or when progress nears 90%.

Wipqozn

Think someone said it was when it's close to success.

because before it was getting restart votes as soon as the vote changed over

Matt Giltaji

the bot i saw had this code

> if(data.game.phase_completion > 95) {

that's not to say diff bots have diff mechanisms

Wipqozn

We're never going to beat anime

They're already 33% of the way into graduation phase

I blame @krazer.

Matt Giltaji

10:27 PM

@Wipqozn too bad for your account

i mean we could exclude ppcg because of the early raiding, but anime is winning fair and square

Yuuki

@Wipqozn I blame humongous jerks. How many times have we been restarted?

Matt Giltaji

@Yuuki twice, i heard

Yuuki

I think everyone on Anime has scripts running to make sure they all vote properly. Or something like that.

Matt Giltaji

@Yuuki i heard that too

Yuuki

At least that's what they've been implying.

Matt Giltaji

10:30 PM

i will say that i appreciate how the bridge handled various users coming in and telling us to raid

murgatroid99

@Yuuki I'm impressed if they figured out how to script that

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 one or two people are manual, bots pile on to the winning one with a few seconds left

Arperum

2 hours ago, by Arperum

I am definitively out of the game. The jerks can go and play alone. I don't care anymore.

Yuuki

What's the shortest completed time, btw?

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji that's a pretty good strategy, actually

Matt Giltaji

10:32 PM

@murgatroid99 yep, scales nicely

Trent Hawkins

aaand, I'm bored with the egg thing. Monster Hunter time.

Yuuki

The shortest I know of so far is us at 245 days.

Matt Giltaji

the way they were talking they had some sort of anti-reset and anti-close protection as well

murgatroid99

@Yuuki We got 245?

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 Yeah.

Lazers

10:33 PM

0

Q: How can we get more moderator flags?

Is there a way to receive more moderator flags, or are we capped at the maximum of 1 flag? The description reads "You have a limited amount of flags", but that seems to imply there are more than a single flag available. Is there a way to get more flags?

stack-egg

0

Q: At what point would a site be better to restart than to continue on?

http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20849460#20849460 Murgatroid99 made a comment on how in all cases it is never worth restarting, and that trudging forward is the best option in any scenario. Is that really true? Is there a point where it would be far more valuable to start over ...

stack-egg

murgatroid99

Wait, we got 375, then 300, then 251, then whatever we just got in the 260's

Oh, that's only 4 of the 5

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 Oh, 251.

murgatroid99

I don't know what the other one was

Yuuki

I just remember it being around there and chat in the PPCG saying they should "watch" us.

Rapitor

@Yuuki that's what caused them to watch us, we beat their best

Yuuki

10:35 PM

@Rapitor Have they beat that time?

Rapitor

beats me

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 290

375
300
290
251
267

murgatroid99

4 hours ago, by TheBestOne

in The Nineteenth Byte, 9 mins ago, by Geobits

Damn, Arqade just had a 251 day win. We should watch them for a while, they're obviously doing something better since our last couple have been ~25 higher...

Matt Giltaji

is what i have

Yuuki

I want to know what the shortest time out of all the StackEggs though.

Matt Giltaji

10:36 PM

@Yuuki post it on meta

restarters, no restarting

Geobits

We had a 235 on our last, I don't know if that's the fastest, but fastest I've seen.

GiantCowFilms

Wait, A 235?

why I have been watching P&CG

Rapitor

@Geobits you guys still getting hit by restarters? still getting a few bots here, but mostly it's toned down

Yuuki

It's okay, guys. We'll always have the most rep gain from StackEgg.

Rapitor

@Yuuki rep gain?

Lazers

10:41 PM

1

Q: What do each of the actions increase, numerically?

There are several options available as your site progresses towards winning the internet: Ask Answer Upvote Downvote Flag Nothing Restart As far as I can tell, besides the Restart action (self-explanatory), most of them offer only positive benefits. Is this true? So far I think I've got the ...

stack-egg

Geobits

Same, here and there. Every now and then we get a spike of 5-6 votes for a couple rounds, then back to here and there.

Yuuki

@Rapitor As in people getting site rep from asking/answering questions plus votes.

Rapitor

ah

Yuuki

Because stack-egg questions are on-topic here.

Rapitor

come april 2nd they won't be

murgatroid99