Recent posts by Thepico on Kongregate

Topic: Critter Forge / Doesnt anyone find this suspicious?

We seem to be at an impasse, then. I, of course, think my view is superior because it lacks the messy rounding you seem to advocate. You, I assume, feel my view is inferior because it easier and more practical to treat 0.99999….9 as one. Again, however, neither you nor I know what the probability of Pescado appearing in the featured fights is. Pescado himself seems to have an idea, but that is immaterial. The probability I used was merely a fabrication to illustrate a point.

If, however, as Pescado has said, it is to be expected that a person with a full stable uses all available stamina and none is ‘wasted’ to appear in the featured fights once or twice a day, then Pescado showing up four or five times(ie: five hour intervals) is not terribly out of the ordinary. It would be unlikely, but much more likely than the 0.000000000000000000001% event we have bandied about.

Topic: Critter Forge / Doesnt anyone find this suspicious?

Yes yes, sure, I suppose I’ll take on “every mathematician, engineer, and physicist” and prove them wrong. Infinity is not a number, it’s more of a concept. If you use infinity as the outer limit for a sigma(that squiggly looking backward E Greek letter) for 1/x then the result approaches zero. It is, however, not zero.

I feel I should mention that the percentages used there were completely arbitrary and do not result from any sort of actual probabilities necessarily in the game. I was illustrating a point saying that “non-zero probability” means “some chance, no matter how small.” If you feel that at a certain point you can say there is “no chance” if the number is close enough to zero, more power to you. I prefer to think that within an infinite timeline any non-zero probability will be actualized.

P.S. The second part of my post there asks why Pescado must defend his case to you while he must prove his case against you. Shouldn’t you both need to either prove or defend your cases?

P.P.S. In regards to the title of this topic: No, I don’t find it suspicious, and if I did, someone cheating would not impact my enjoyment of the game. Why is it such a big deal to you?

Topic: Critter Forge / Doesnt anyone find this suspicious?

Originally posted by lungjiao:

well lets look at ur 15 misses when theres a 90% hit, tthat means a 10% chacnce to miss. now take 0.1 (for 10%) and put it to an exponent of 15. so itll look like 0.1^15. so that would be 0.1×10^-15 or 0.00000000000001% chance of occurance.

First things first, what if we suppose that Pescado burns all of his stamina at once on all T1 critters every 90 minutes(this is not apparently how it works, but for the sake of argument, say it is). If we continue to suppose that the chance of 12 T1 critters blowing all their stamina in the coliseum in one go nets the Pescado a 10% chance of showing up as a featured fight. What are the chances of him showing up 15 times in a row, every 90 minutes? By your math it is highly improbable, in fact a 0.00000000000001% chance. You keep asking Pescado to explain why his fights are featured so often, but I would just like to point out that even a 0.00000000000001% is not equal to a 0% chance. Just thought that bears mentioning. Further:

Originally posted by lungjiao:

you say im xazn? prove it.
you say u can do that 8-30 client tab to manipulate ur ELo system? prove it.
has anyone ever been able to replicate that? prove it.

I just also wanted to point out that the first “prove it” asks Pescado to prove an allegation he made against you. The next two “prove it”‘s ask him to disprove your allegations. In the interest of fairness you really should keep to either, “Guilty until proven innocent” or “Innocent until proven guilty.” You can’t use one for yourself and another for anyone else. That is just not terribly fair.

Topic: Critter Forge / afflikshoN's Guide to Critter Forge

I have noticed that when breeding tier ones together multiple times, you may not need to continue to alternate species to get to tier two. Unfortunately I haven’t paid quite enough attention, but, for example, I bred a fish with a moth which resulted in a fish with a dorsal fin, big fish tail and antenna, fortuitous for myself, as that was exactly what I had wanted. Anyways, I used the resulting fish’s samples to breed into more fish, and those fish were bred with still more fish(I would like my tier ones to have all the appendage’s I would like for my tier four, and I can be patient) Long and short of it is, eventually two fish were bred together and the resulting offspring was a crustacean! I wasn’t paying enough attention, but it may have needed an additional round of breeding. Anyways, I have done this on another occasion breeding wolves to wolves repeatedly. I thought I might point that out, and apologies for my long windedness.

Topic: Heroes of Kung Fu / Is there any way to delete your charectar?

Hi, I don’t suppose my character could also receive an expedited deletion? Heheh, wasn’t paying enough attention and I’d like to try a different class. Thank you very much!

Topic: Elements / Good Element card combos

Antimatter + Liquid Shadow +(if you want) Adrenaline = Creature heals you, hurts your oppenent, and is all around funny.

Also, Spark/Photon + Cremation + Fire dragons/lava golems = win. fast.

Topic: Dream World / Old Guild Recruitment Thread - S1

Looking for adventure? Well, I don’t care. My enemies need their rivers clogged with the dead, that’s where you come in! Join the Granite War Machine(GWM) today! Benefits include dental!

Topic: Dream World / Adventures and Junk

We once again join our intrepid-ish hero, PicoBro. He has just arrived in some place called Junkton. “Yeesh, what a heap,” he murmurs to himself, “Well, guess I should find the police station or whatever.” He found it, thanks to a remarkably helpful signpost in the middle of the town and found the police chief. The police chief was rather single-minded and informed PIcoBro that he would not be allowed to leave until the rat problem was taken care of. PicoBro’s reply of, “Really? Rats? You need a guy who can shoot effing fire from his fingertips to take care of a few rats?” was met with a vacant stare and repetition of the police chief’s request. PicoBro wanders through the various shops, looking at the wares to see if there was anything that could be of use to him when he arrived at the weapon store. “Hail and well met, do you see anything you’d like?” PicoBro was getting a bit irritated with these zombie people. “Right, well, I’m off to kill your mum, then do unspeakable things to her lifeless body, ta.” He knew that was impolite, but figured that these strange people weren’t going to do anything about. He turned around to head to the sewers when the merchant called out, “Say, you’re going to the sewers, right? Think you could help me out?” PicoBro turned, startled, “OhMyGodYou’reRealIDon’tBelieveIt!” He was overjoyed at having found a real person in this strange Dream-Hell. “I need a dozen rat tails for a stew I’m making, could you help me?” The merchant asked. “Um, sure, hey, do you know if there is a payphone around here? I’d like to get out of here.” PicoBro’s victory was short lived, it seems, as his request was met with a blank stare and, “Hail and well met, do you see anything you’d like?” “God. Damn. Everyone.”

PicoBro, resigned to his fate of slave to these mindless automatons, ventured into the sewers. After burning his way through a veritable army of rats, an old man clothed in a brown robe stepped out of the shadows. PicoBro turned, ready to burn him alive. The man identified himself as a Wise Man and asked PicoBro if he’d like to answer a bit of trivia. PicoBro shrugged and agreed. The man asked some banal question about some Oscar winner some thirty years ago. This time it was PicoBro with a blank stare. “Uh…” The Wise Man apparently took this as his answered and took that time to say, “I do not know if that is correct, but I know the answer as ‘some old guy who is probably dead now and is completely irrelevant nowadays.’” “Uh, right” PicoBro responded. The Wise Man promptly wandered off. PicoBro wondered briefly if that old man wasn’t a zombie like the other people, but just had some weird kind of Alzheimer’s. No sooner had he flayed a dozen rats when the old man returned, “Care to have a conversation with a bored old man?” PicoBro decided to try to explain to the old man that a vast array of random facts did not constitute wisdom, but rather knowledge. The two are similar, but quite different, as such, he should refer to himself not as a ‘Wise’ Man, but a ‘Knowledgeable’ Man. A while had passed and the Wise Man thought PicoBro had made a fool of himself and compensated him for his time. “The hell?” PicoBro looked at his payment from the old man, “Hard candies?”

After a while, PicoBro’s adventure through the sewers took an interesting turn. The rats were showing up less frequently, replaced by zombie rats. Further along, the zombie rats gave way to zombies. The zombies were, in PicoBro’s opinion, quite fun to murder… Re-murder? Un-murder? Whatever. When he came across them he would expertly explode there heads(well known as the most efficient was to deal with undead hordes) and cry, “BOOM! Headshot!” The legion of undead was starting to thin, and PicoBro saw something really, really ugly up ahead. It was the rat king, apparently, but he looked an awful lot like a mutant kangaroo. And he was making zombies somehow, yes, the rats too. So when PicoBro charred his spine, the sewers became filled with sunshine and flowers and rainbows. Pleased with his solution to the rat, zombie, and rat zombie problem, he returned to the police station, where he was directed to another city, the Emerald City. PicoBro considered cracking a Wizard of Oz joke, but decided it would be wasted on these vapid shells of ‘people.’ Hmm, maybe they’ll have a bar at this next town

Topic: Dream World / Official Suggestions Thread

About the Wise Man, I think he is mistaking random bits of knowledge for wisdom. I think it’d be better for him to ask riddles. I’m not sure how difficult a change that would be, but I know there are certainly plenty of riddles out there on the internet to be found. A new puzzle would be nice, as well, maybe something like a mini Sudoku type thing. Also, the idea of fleshing out the animosity between the Girl in Red and the Imp sounds good to me.

Topic: Dream World / Adventures and Junk

Heheh, thanks for the kind words. I’ll admit, after rereading it while sober it seemed much longer and less funny than I’d originally intended.

Topic: Dream World / income

It’s dodgy that someone won’t tell you what his or her income is? Really, “none of your business” sounds like an appropriate response to a question like that from a random person on the internet. Just saying.

Topic: Dream World / Adventures and Junk

ThePico, the mighty dragonslayer stands victorious atop Mt. Killjoy. Pondering what his next course of action is to be, he recalls his brother. His twin brother. “He arrived in this ‘DreamWorld’ place at the same time I did. I wonder how he’s doing. I wonder what he’s doing.” ThePico looks thoughtful for a moment and shrugs. “Oh well, time to kill thousands upon thousands of more Dream Monster thingies.”

This is not ThePico’s story. It is his bother’s, PicoBro.

PicoBro awakens on the shores of Lake View. “Unggh, where am I?” He takes a moment to assess his surroundings. “Aw man, not again. Effing tequila, every single time.” He begins to fumble around in his pockets, searching for his phone. Unsuccessful, he sighs. “Not like I’d know where to be picked up from.” As he begins to sit up, a flash of light appears before him and fades into what appears to be an angel. The angel speaks, “PicoBro, you have been transported to Dream World! We need you to save this world! To begin your journey, go to the town up ahead and speak with the village chief.” With another flash, the angel was gone. “Oh boy,” PicoBro muttered to himself, “Must’ve done something more than tequila last night.”

Our protagonist trudges towards the town the apparition indicated slowly. Very slowly. Also very hung over. When he arrives the chieftain, Leana greets him. “Oh, the new traveler! The Guardian of Dreams said you would be coming. Please, go that lake and find out what is causing trouble over there.” She then returns to her hut and locks the door. PicoBro, not thinking completely clearly, begins to bang on the door. “Hey, come back here! I need a phone! Where the hell am I? What’s going on?” Giving up on the chieftain, he wanders to another building. “Welcome to Aunt Jane’s wears, young traveller, see anything that interests you?” PicoBro asks the woman behind the counter where he is, how he got there and many other questions that someone in such a predicament would be likely to ask. The shopkeeper simply stared and said, “Welcome to Aunt Jane’s wears, young traveller, see anything that interests you?” PicoBro staggers out of the shop and proceeds towards the lake, figuring the only thing to do was what that chief lady told him to.

As he trudged through the marshes, he came upon a frog. PicoBro was suddenly aware that he was holding a stick, so he did what anyone would do in such a situation. After prodding the recently deceased frog for a while PicoBro continued on. After a while he encountered a frog larger than the one he tortured and killed earlier, and had its name been present on a screen of some sort, it definitely would have been a red name. PicoBro heard the voice of that weird angel chick echoing in his head, “That one is stronger than usual, use a skill to defeat it.” PicoBro, fearing he was becoming schyzophrenic and wishing to stay on the voices in his head’s good side proceeded to wave his stick around like an idiot. Amazingly, fire spouted from the tip of his wand-that-is-totally-not-just-a-stick. PicoBro was left staring at the charred frog’s remains.
“Awesome” He said to himself. His journey through the area carried on in a similar fashion, he would occasionally find small animal and burn them to death for his own amusement. After ‘vanquishing’ another mosquito PicoBro found the angel-chick again. “Hey!” he called out to her, “Hey! You owe me some answers! What is going on here?” The Guardian of Dreams shook her head and said, “I have an item that may prove useful to you, but you must prove your worth by defeating me in battle.” PicoBro, super magic fire in hand(literally), smiled, thinking how awesome it would be to rain hell fire on an angel. The imagery was not completely lost on our intrepid hero. As he was considering the coolness of the task he was about to commit, a bright light appeared in the angel’s hand, “Guardian Force!” she yelled and the light flew from her hand, straight for the soft areas between our hero’s legs. PicoBro collapses, holding his groin.

Several hours later, PicoBro regains his senses and decides to head back to the town, hoping for a place to rest. He would not hate a bag of ice, either. He was interrupted on his way back to town by a large lizard. It was a magic lizard. I don’t know how he knew or how I know, but it was, it was also the one screwing everything up, it doesn’t matter, it just did, trust me. Anyways, when he was finished, he went back to the town and banged on the chieftain’s door. He explained that he had killed the monster that was doing stuff in the lake, now could he go home, “pretty please?” The chieftain pointed toward the distance and advised him to go to a place called Junkton. PicoBro heads down the road the chieftain pointed to, thinking God, I hope they have a payphone there somewhere.

Topic: Dream World / Big coins

…………..
Absolutely

Topic: Dream World / Official Suggestions Thread

I would like to see more cross class options. I think it’s been mentioned before, but I think it bears repeating. It would be rather cool to see some cross class specific skills as well. Maybe something like new buffs, such as increased damage(sorta like you enrage yourself and/or your ally) or, similarly, a defense debuff on the enemy or a poison that acts like a reverse regen. I have no idea how hard to code any of this, of course, but just a couple ideas.

Topic: Dream World / The Gambler....

Oh dear, I need some help now guys. I lost a bunch to The Gambler and now he says my credit line is out. I owe him over a million coins now with the juice and my time is running short… Just yesterday I opened my daily chest and got a severed Unicorn head! I think he means business and, I must admit, I’m pretty attached to my kneecaps. Could anyone float me some cash? I promise I’ll quit gambling after this!

Topic: Dream World / Official Bug Reports Thread (old)

If someone already mentioned this, apologies. I restarted my guy just now and the constitution for the Royal Crown doesn’t seem to be working. I bought two constitution upgrades, and those show up, so my constitution is now 12, when it should 15, right? The number is green, like I’ve got a bonus from something, but it doesn’t show up on the character sheet or add to my current health.

Topic: Dream World / Puppy Quest in Desert.

He is…. not in the desert. You’ll find a ‘clue’ in the next area.

Topic: Dream World / The Gambler....

Oh no, next time, I know it. Double or nothing! Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!

Suggestion for the expansion thing: Casino? Full of gamblers and gambling and prosti….. err…. working women? To squander away all our win(lose)ings?

Actually, something kinda like the Golden Saucer from FF7 would be pretty awesome, just saying.

Topic: Dream World / The Gambler....

Well, yeah, but it’s not gambling if it’s a sure thing, you know? I mean, if I’ve lost three or four times in a row, I’m due a win. It’s only logical, you have about a 50/50 chance to win, so losing three times in a row is about 12.5% chance. Losing another time would be 6.25% chance. I have to win this next time!

Topic: Dream World / Beggar

It’s(near as I can tell) based on your level. An on-level, yellow-name enemy drops X munnies. 2X munnies gives you the three energy and 4X munnies gives you an item. The item is usually(not always) worth more than what you donated and often worth about double what you’ve given her. Take all of this with a grain of salt, though, as I’m not necessarily completely sober. Anywho, those numbers work for me. Bye, guys!

Topic: Dream World / The Gambler....

There’s a problem here…. I mean, the Priestess won’t heal me, in fact, she left me. Said I had a ‘problem’ or something. I wasn’t really listening, I was looking for the Gambler to get my money back. Then I got a firey bird looking thing. Turns out, he won’t even heal me, or block for me. He thinks I have a ‘problem’ as well. I didn’t think this bird could even talk, that was the whole allure of it! Now it’s all, “You’ve gotta stop throwing your money away” this or, “You need to turn your life around” that. Dear Dev: Please remove the Gambler from this game(and my temptation).

Topic: Kongregate / WE NEED A CHRISTAN CHAT ROOM!

Zoroastrianism only chatroom, plox? kthxbai

Topic: Dream World / Official Suggestions Thread

hmm, as far as the skill point posts are concerned, I don’t see the need. It’d be nice and make this game easier, but it’s kinda cool when you’re in some dire straights and need to figure out how to best conserve your energy while not actually dieing. Eh, suppose I wouldn’t complain if we got them regenerated, but it doesn’t seem necessary.

Topic: Dream World / Official Suggestions Thread

Okay, apologies if this is kinda whiny, but….. I, personally, do not find getting one-shotted fun. Maybe some minor tweaks to baddie damage at later levels and/or that whole ‘enraged’ system could get some work. It’s kinda sad to get something down to about half life and then die because it got enraged and, even though you had full health, you bite the dust.

Topic: Dream World / Official Suggestions Thread

I, personally, really enjoy this game. It starts out quite easy, but the difficulty ramps up rather quickly. It may even go up just a little bit too quickly, enemy damage/hp does not scale similarly to player damage/hp at all. I originally went with a gunslinger guy, but after level 15 or 20 ish I switched to the knight dude and feel that the extra blocking is far more effective than extra critical chance. Skill point allocation seems a bit rigid as well, but I suppose it works, I actually enjoy it a little. The stat increases at level up, to me, seem grossly overpriced. As do the gem rewards. 5 dollars for 25 is far too much, especially if this is the beta and even more especially if character data will not be saved. I… don’t like the energy system too much, but do understand why it’s there. More random encounters would help to diversify the game, I do rather like the puzzles and math problems even if they are rather simple. Also, I’m using the Priestess as my ally and she is kind of….. dumb. As some others have suggested a ‘defensive’ and ‘aggressive’ setting would be nice. Anyways, sorry to have been rambling, but excellent game, keep up the good work.