Remind me why we aren't using CounterBot?This thing is ridiculously incomprehensible. *grumble, grumble, get off my lawn* I miss CounterBot.
This gives me the strangest urge to write a story about political intrigue between the Banana Republic of Kong and the Mushroom Kingdom.[x] Where to live
- [x] Moon
-- [x] Only the Dark Side
[x] Profession
- [x] Professional Latecomer
[x] Meal
- [x] A Happy One
[x] Meal
- [x] A Sad One
-- [x] You have to be able to taste the tears, at least
[x] Profession
- [x] Banana Vendor
[x] Where to live
- [x] Banana Repulic
*slightly less panicking in Kagome*In retrospect, I really should have PM'd that. Sorry for the alarm, folks.
Let me offer some reassurance: Thursday is going to be an interlude because @Velorien is completely out of spoons and @OliWhail and I are not far behind. Also, none of you are about to get powered down (in relative or absolute terms). We're discussing some things that will be to the advantage of the playerbase. Full details tomorrow, once Velorien is awake to review the draft of the announcement.
Many of the players apparently feel that we have somehow mistreated them by not taking the sole directive "build a fort" and magically turning it into an uber-defense that would prevent the enemy from intelligently using long-range abilities such as mist drain and lightning geysers.
I really didn't want to get dragged back into this discussion. But asking us to define terms such as 'fort' and what it may be used for is pretty much asking us to derail any and every discussion with minutiae.
How about when we are not using the clearly defined and accepted definitions of a term we will make it explicit. otherwise use google if you are unclear on what a word means.
define:fort - Google Search
fort
a fortified building or strategic position.
Okay it sounds like they want to fortify this location to protect it during the ninja exam.
If you look at the resources we have available and decide the best we can do with something like MEW, a Pangolin combat engineer and 6 hours = a 1/10 fortification and that only confers +1 to scouting and defence. Ok at least its better then nothing. If we say we want to lay traps around it using our given resources then again confer bonuses or rolls for others to defeat and possibly increased successes to defeat in a way that does not notify the defenders.
What i do NOT expect is to be in a fortified position and to go from
1. 'Incoming Mist' scouted
2. What is your action?
3. TOO LATE it is inside your seal, you are surrounded, being drained, you fall back outside the fortification, you have 1m LOS in the middle of a swamp, you have separated from everyone you gathered in the fortified location previously, none of your traps activated.
4. LOL What a poor plan!!! fortifications or highground mean nothing to ninja.
So just Hazou, got it.
I'm 95% certain that Keiko would be able to gauge time accurately enough for us. We could combine it with training to find touch acceptable: She taps Noburi or Hazou (whichever) to indicate when draining should start.A major downside I see is that the units are "Seconds of draining at Noburi's current VD level", which means that we're going to have to run a recalibration every time Noburi levels VD, just so that the units of different experiments make sense in each other's contexts.
I'm 95% certain that Keiko would be able to gauge time accurately enough for us. We could combine it with training to find touch acceptable: She taps Noburi or Hazou (whichever) to indicate when draining should start.
That's a fair point, although...That's not what I mean.
If Noburi drains 50 genin with a mean drain time (dt) of 3s, and then four months (and some levelling of VD) later he does a different experiment we would have to have him drain 50 genin again to see what his new mean dt is so that we can adjust the units of the second experiment as a multiple of the units of the first.
Like, if his new dt is 2s, and we call the units of the first experiment U1 and the units of the second experiment U2, then 1U1=1.5U2.
You see the problem? In order to keep the units consistent across experiments we have to make more work for ourselves.
It's not as scientific, but Noburi is capable of estimating relative-chakra-pool-size, so I figure if he drained enough people (particularly genin, academy students, and civilians), he might be able to tell those with larger pools apart.
I mean, Noburi can drain at as low as 1 cp/s. So we can just ask him to drain at his slowest speed possible and go from there numerically.Well there's your first problem.
If we want numerical data (and I do) then we need to have a way to mathematically compare the units of experiments. And, while we can do that in the outlined protocol, it's kinda clunky and time-consuming and I'd prefer to find a better way if we can.
I mean, Noburi can drain at as low as 1 cp/s. So we can just ask him to drain at his slowest speed possible and go from there numerically.
Let's flip this around.I really didn't want to get dragged back into this discussion. But asking us to define terms such as 'fort' and what it may be used for is pretty much asking us to derail any and every discussion with minutiae.
How about when we are not using the clearly defined and accepted definitions of a term we will make it explicit. otherwise use google if you are unclear on what a word means.
define:fort - Google Search
fort
a fortified building or strategic position.
Okay it sounds like they want to fortify this location to protect it during the ninja exam.
Let's flip this around.
In an update, Jiraiya comes to you and says, "Hazō, I want you to build me a fort." He doesn't give you any further specifications.
You vote to carry out the request.
In the next update, Jiraiya comes over and says, "This fort sucks. Why didn't you just look up 'fort' in a dictionary and make one of those?"
Is he being reasonable?
We would still have to do recalibrations to confirm in-universe that his "lowest speed" doesn't change as he gets more powerful. But in the long-term this would save effort, after it's been well established through years of marked improvements in his VD but no change in lowest speed that his lowest speed is a constant. Alright. That's an improvement.
but it shouldn't be a problem to have the seal immediately expend the chakra in measurable ways.
I don't have any stake in the argument as a whole, but aside from the "dictionary" part... yes? Jiraiya's request implicitly includes "fit for purpose", and if Hazō doesn't know how to make a useful fort then continuing to try without asking for help feels like malicious compliance.In an update, Jiraiya comes to you and says, "Hazō, I want you to build me a fort." He doesn't give you any further specifications.
You vote to carry out the request.
In the next update, Jiraiya comes over and says, "This fort sucks. Why didn't you just look up 'fort' in a dictionary and make one of those?"
Is he being reasonable?
Pet peeve: a given sample size isn't intrinsically good, bad, large or small. It depends entirely on the study performed and the thing being measured. In this case the systematic error seems larger than the random error, so the sample size should suffice.we want 50+ members in each, which is pathetically bad by modern standards but we're working with small populations here
Mist drain through air dome requires there to be mist in the air when the dome forms, which then gets stuck in the solidified air.@eaglejarl @OliWhail @Velorien
Point of curiosity regarding the ability to Mist Drain through an Air Dome:
The ability to Mist Drain implies the ability to drain even when there discontinuities in the connecting water. The ability to drain through an Air Dome re enforces that.
Mist Drain comes about after a certain threshold of VD is achieved. This suggests that the there might be a threshold after which the user could just drain at (probably very short) range without needing mist or water at all.