Stat recalibration.
Discussion on stat wordification recalibration.

But that nonesense isn't of any concern right now. "So, what is of concern, Rastus?", I hear you asking. That's what you're asking, isn't it? Hello? Bah...

Anyhows...

A long time ago, on a MOO pretty much the same as our own... a wise and powerful old Wizzen master by the name of Johnny took the force and reshaped it, altering a mystical power that shaped and bound the abilities all things. A part of the force known as... stats. Using ancient and mystical powers he reshaped this 'stats' force, creating a new and superior way of utilising it. Unfortunately, the worlds way of interpreting this force in a visual form remained unchanged, out of sync with the new way. This led to confusion amidst trainees and new travellers to the world, many of whom felt strangely powerless and disadvantaged in their new enviroment...

Feh, I can't be bothered with this anymore. I've recalibrated the stat wordification system, that being the system that converts your numerical stat data into the words you see when you type @stats. The old system was calibrated for a time when stats used a different system to calculate the totals, some of you may remember the time the stat system was changed and you stats 'appeared' to have dropped. We've added 11 new word levels to each stat and narrowed the point range between levels, subsequently lowering the level of 'average' to something attainable in chargen. If you type @stats your levels will now appear totally different to what they were previously, most, if not all, of you should find an apparently significant raise in your levels.

HOWEVER!!!

And this is the important bit. Even if you ignore the rest of this post entirely, read, comprehend and inwardly digest the next line.

YOUR NUMERICAL STATS HAVE NOT CHANGED IN ANY WAY.
The numbers that are stored on your character have not in ANY way been touched, just the way they are read and converted to words has been changed. Your ability to do anything has been TOTALLY UNAFFECTED. You are no better -OR- worse than you were in the eyes of the MOO code than you were prior to the change. The one and only effect of this change is the way the MOO displays the data to you. The new system will be far more chargen friendly and will also give you a better feeling of progress in your stats.

Any thoughts, questions or need to discuss. This is the forum to do it in.

Danke

For the moment I've patched it by duplicating the old skill words to create the required number of entries. Since the code now accomodates it, I'm working on a list of unique wordified skill levels...

Same rule applies to skills as did stats, the words may change, but the underlying code used statistics remain TOTALLY uneffected.

After you graduate highschool, and you figure out what that thing between your legs is for, after your skin clears up and you quite living in your parents basement, after you've read more then one book on the Lit. post under General Discussion, then you can sit down for a few hours and come up with some interesting little way to try and belittle me.  

Until those things all happen, go fuck yourself.

Also, the level change threshold for all stats at all levels have moved by 1 point. That's down to a mistake I made the first time that I didn't notice until recoding. So, if you were boarderline in a stat, it may appear to have dropped a level. A small number of UE will rectify this, restoring you to your previous level.

As ever, underlying stat and skill levels have been uneffected, just the method of display.

Suck it down.

I could see this implementation being useful for newbies to gage how good they really are...since average really isn't average around here, is it?

The third questions/request is the concept of having relational @stats. So "average" is "average"...well, maybe not average be average. (The concept of having every character be in direct relation to the boundaries of the existing playerbase would be both fantastic and totally freak everyone out.) but being able to know where you faired with your stats to everyone else would be awesome to know.

For example: imagine you typed @stats and saw the (+) and (-) beacons next to every skill/stat detailing whether they were above or below the average player...or perhaps the average player and npc.

That's what I got out of it. However, I am also drunk...but young. For whatever my two chy is worth.

That being said, it's not a bannable offense to track this information, it is however a bannable offense to share this information with other players, so don't do it. Trust me =]

P.S This makes the game more fun for me, adds depth to the development of my character when theirs no RP to be had when things are slow. I try to make a game out of tracking my progress with use of spreadsheets for Stats/Skills and I use spreadsheets to track revenue from means of making money ICly, I always keep an e-note handy to simulate the idea that I have the tools to make use of these spreadsheets ICly. and If i could and if it wasnt' so cumbersome I'd store them in an e-note, but for now atleast it makes some kind of sense even if the data cannot be stolen from my e-note because it can't exist with the current code.

Quote: from Murphy on 8:59 am on Dec. 13, 2010[br]

Quote: from Rastus2 on 2:39 pm on Sep. 20, 2010[br]
For what little it's worth (ie, nothing), I'd still be against the idea of posting the list purely because it's a token stand against SD being another number-crunching game.

Thing is, players just compare words or UE cost. Not that I'm going to try and argue in favour of putting up a list - I really couldn't care less at this point - but players will typically always find a way to wave their moo-penors at each other.

Best way to wave your moo penor is to kill someone.

(Edited by DigitalTyranny at 9:25 am on Dec. 13, 2010)

BTW, There is an IC way to explain the progress of intelligence or gaining a skill. You simply invent knowledge you've acquired and track it in IC terms within a e-note as if you've kept a journal of your achievements..

It would be silly but totally IC.. Those terms would relate to OOC ways of determining skill levels and it'd all work out.

I wouldn't do that. But like I said, I was referring to revenue tracking via spreadsheet.