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Kingdom of Loathing / Finished my first HC Bees Hate You run

« on: June 27, 2011, 07:05:35 am »

Turns Played (this run):   1,695
Days Played (this run):   12

Definitely worth taking the challenge path. I actually could've done it a bit faster, but I did a 100% familiar run as well (haven't done 5 of them yet).

The war is a pain in the ass though... you'll be losing 40% HP per fight, 125ish times.

My class was Pastamancer if you're wondering. The biggest issue I ran into was that it's basically impossible to get a hardcore chef staff with no B's involved. This made the level 9 and 10 areas very hard until I got Noodles of Fire.

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Kingdom of Loathing / Ok, that's just mean. :P

« on: June 21, 2011, 04:12:20 am »

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Power of Meep (Clan) / We has loot

« on: June 16, 2011, 09:04:17 pm »

I have no clue who has what, who wants what, and how we normally decide who gets how many items, but we have 10 to distribute.

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Off Topic / Bartle test of gamer psychology

« on: May 29, 2011, 09:18:24 am »

http://www.gamerdna.com/quizzes/bartle-test-of-gamer-psychology

It's a test that's supposed to list which gamer styles you favor. KoLers will be especially familiar with it, as it's the origin of terms like "spading".

It'll be interesting to see what some of us come out as (although probably not surprising in most cases).

Here's my results:

RESULTS BREAKDOWN: E.S.A.K.
Explorer: 80%, Socializer: 60%, Achiever: 47%, Killer: 13%

I'd say that's fairly accurate.

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Power of Meep (Clan) / Anyone up for a new Hobo run?

« on: May 24, 2011, 03:01:18 am »

Is anyone interested in starting one of these in a few days?

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Announcements & Such / Possible downtime soon - our server company was bought out

« on: May 13, 2011, 09:09:49 am »

Our server company (Slicehost) was bought out by Rackspace, who bought it only to destroy it. We will be forcibly moved into Rackspace's cloud service instead of Slicehost's VPS model. We have not yet been given a date for this move, nor full details on exactly what we get with the new service (besides the finger), but it is almost certainly inferior, especially in the customer service department.

This is likely going to be, frankly, a pain in the ass. There will be downtime when they move us to the other service... and then if the new service is run as poorly as I'm expecting it to be, more downtime while we more to a company that isn't targetted at executives lured by slightly cheaper prices and the use of buzzwords. There's also the fact that I pre-paid several months in advance for a service that it turns out will not be at all what I paid for, but that particular mess only affects me personally.

Whatever happens, I will make sure that in the end, we're on a reliable server from SOMEWHERE.

I'll have more updates as I find out in more detail what's going on.

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Kingdom of Loathing / Whee! Finally!

« on: May 13, 2011, 04:18:10 am »

Took me 26-28 days I think, but I got it.

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Announcements & Such / Spambot Attack

« on: April 28, 2011, 08:44:36 pm »

We're currently being hit by spambots that are able to bypass our CAPTCHA. I'm not sure if they actually have an OCR script that can defeat it, or if they're paying sweatshop employees to spawn the accounts, but in either case, they're getting through.

The way the attack works is that they register several accounts, wait a few weeks, and then start sending spam, via PMs, to all non-mods and non-admins. They also like to use names like "Forum Staff" to get you to open it. The only legit CC bot account is messagebot. If you receive anything from a bot account that isn't messagebot, it's spam.

I just purged all known spammer accounts, and I *think* I got them all, but they will of course continue to create them. Please let me know when the next spam wave hits so I can purge it as well.

I'm going to implement a couple of additional measures to halt the spambots. If it becomes necessary, I will switch accounts to require admin approval, but I only want to do that as an absolute last resort, as it makes real people less likely to ever actually use their account.

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Off Topic / Happy birthday GPH!

« on: April 26, 2011, 10:49:09 pm »

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CC General Discussion / Odd user names have been appearing

« on: April 20, 2011, 08:42:25 pm »

We've been getting some weird usernames registering on our forums, including a few that look like they were spat out by an RNG.

I was expecting to start seeing spambot posts, but as far as I can tell, these accounts haven't done *anything* since registering.

I don't think they're data mining bots, because you don't need an account to read the forums, only to post of them, so you don't need an account at all for that.

Has anyone gotten any spammy PMs or anything?

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Other Games / Minecraft Server?

« on: April 13, 2011, 08:37:59 pm »

I'm thinking of starting up a Minecraft server, but our present server doesn't have the required resources, and would need an upgrade to do it. I'm quite willing to pay for this, but I want to make sure the server will actually get used first.

If you're interested in this, please post here.

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Kingdom of Loathing / Super holiday, log in ASAP!

« on: March 17, 2011, 04:55:18 am »

The feast of St. Boris collided with real St. Patrick's day, so there's monsters in the Sneaky Pete stupor that are dropping epic booze at 100% rate.

There are 3 new epic boozes from this, and this event will likely *NEVER* occur again.

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Kingdom of Loathing / Epic Failure

« on: March 04, 2011, 05:01:50 am »

So, as I write this, 999 hippies and 999 frat boys are dead.
I'm in hardcore.
Wanna guess what isn't in my inventory?

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Kingdom of Loathing / A few of us are playing / playing again

« on: March 02, 2011, 07:01:47 pm »

I've started to play again, and few people from our TW fac are joining as well.

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Announcements & Such / TW is doing awesome, Lomaz is now an admin, other stuff

« on: February 25, 2011, 10:19:24 pm »

TW

Our TW fac is now doing very well. We have 48 members, around 2/3 of them are quite active, and I'm pretty sure that makes us the 3rd largest fac in the game.

More importantly, we have a good social group forming - we have have a regular chat room running again (via XFire if anyone wants to hop in), and in short, CC is back in business.

If anyone wants to try TW that hasn't - or did briefly but gave up at level 1, the game has become far, FAR more newbie-friendly than it used to be, so you may want to give it a shot.

Lomaz

Lomaz, for those who don't know him, is the co-leader of our TW fac, and a very major part of why our fac got to where it is. He has now been promoted to CC admin as well. Congrats.

These Forums

If you're wondering why not much has been added to the forums, the issue is that our forum software is currently in limbo. Version 2 has been on release candidates for almost a year, and most new mods are made for that since 1 will quickly die out. I'm hesitant to switch us to what's basically late beta software, but I'm also hesitant to code us stuff that will have to be modified or flat out redone in a few months. Once SMF 2 comes out though, expect more cool stuff on these forums, and yes, the xp system is coming back.