1 Reply by Spacial

(18 replies, posted in General discussion)

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How many people use the same password to log into the game as they do to log into the email address they use for the game? I would guess somewhere around 90%, and at least 50%.  Finding email addresses is like taking candy from a baby. As far as security, the email address to begin with is sent unencrypted and therefore reveals half of the security of an account every time you log in to the site or the game.

To keep any account as secure as possible, the username part of the log in should be just as, if not more, secret than the password. The password can always be changed. The username, well, probably won't see this change as it is rare and more difficult to implement. this is why you don't usually use an email adress for such things as you generally cannot change these things without manually editing the database.

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2 Reply by Spacial

(4 replies, posted in Q & A)

honestly, i don't get it

Why this 1+ and 1/ crap? So someone doesn't figure out your equations? A lot of good that did . . . .


"keep it simple, Stupid!"

Why over complicate it, which I assume everyone does and why I tried EVERY alternative I could think of before I post this question. Sure I could have searched a bit better, the post you replied with is helpful, but did not stick out in this situation when I saw it.

This also basically means that first point you get in most any skill was only for it's install value so you can upgrade it, and has little to no bearing on your stats. . . .

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3 Topic by Spacial

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Something didn't seem right.

http://img593.imageshack.us/i/perpetuum … 70309.jpg/

Based on this screenshot the extension reduces the targeting time by 5% for each level. I have 4 levels in it; therefore, I should get a 20% reduction in targeting time.

The base targeting of a Baphomet is 12.5 sec.

Quick math:

12.5 sec - (12.5 sec * 20%) = 10 sec

Looking at the adjusted listing of my stats on my activated Baphomet, you should notice the targeting time is 10.42 sec.

So I even thought, ok, what if it's compounded every level like so:

12.5 - (12.5 * 5%) = 11.875
11.875 - (11.875 * 5%) = 11.28125
. . . . . for 4 levels, you get the point and the final answer was:

10.181328125 sec. Still not what is listed on the adjusted stats.

Doing other math I found this game has A LOT of rounding down done in it's math so I even recalculated compounded and rounded down every answer to 2 decimal places. That gave me 10.125 sec.

So lets find out: 10.42 is what percent of 12.5?

(10.42 / 12.5) * 100 = 83.36%

The reduction is 16.64% then. That means each level of the extension only reduces targeting time by 4.16%.

Tooltip wrong? Where are these numbers coming from? What am I missing?

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