So how anal retentive are you on managing your characters?
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Posted on: 2010-09-21 11:14 in Victory
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It's insane to NOT come up with someway to track your sets over multiple characters.|
Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Wrong. Just because SteelClaw is bat**** insane doesn't make Hamster any less insane.
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I didn't so much say Hamster wasn't insane, as say that there remains a lot of... upside to what is possible. |
Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Wrong. Just because SteelClaw is bat**** insane doesn't make Hamster any less insane.
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(Or at least I meant to imply as much.)
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Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Wrong. Just because SteelClaw is bat**** insane doesn't make Hamster any less insane.
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Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster
It's insane to NOT come up with someway to track your sets over multiple characters.
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HOWEVER......we all know Mental doesn't really play any chracters (even while "leveling" them) so there really isn't a need for him to keep track of anything. *shrug*
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See my early quotes of MG. |
Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Probably not as detailed as whatever is on the other side of those links, but I:
* keep track of "hours to 50" for every character I do * use Mids and keep builds for all the characters I've had / started, and usually have at least a 2nd build as a second file. Generally this is the last build I had or sometimes a future build if I get around to it * 2 excel files for badges with multiple tabs. Thinking of combining it into 1 file since badges aren't segregated any more. * 1 excel file listing story arcs and their merit rewards with notes regarding how long it took me to complete the arc and any hiccups/gotchas that either make or break redoing the arc again I should get around to cataloging what all I have stored in my 2 bases. I just don't have the time for it. |
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I think it's worse. This confirms Voodoo to be crazier then all of us. He's talking about these spreadsheets before. He has a full spreadsheet tracking EVERY badge all his characters have, including explorations. The guy needs help.|
Originally Posted by PennyPA
See my early quotes of MG.
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Rock, rock on Hamster.
Someone said I was *n*lly retentive. I found the definition of it is "someone who makes lists". Now let me give you 10 reasons why I'm not....
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The only quotes I've seen from you about him are not fit for the public to view |
Originally Posted by PennyPA
See my early quotes of MG.
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Craziest one of all?????????? I think not. I'm the most normal one here. In spades. Colorful, argyle spades.
Least the voices in my head agree with me. Now if they'd just go back to speaking English
I've already forgotten about most of you
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Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Least the voices in my head agree with me. Now if they'd just go back to speaking English
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I've already forgotten about most of you
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Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Can't see pictures from people dead to me
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Rock, rock on Hamster.
Should we just let them all know we're one person using 2 accounts?
I've already forgotten about most of you
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Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Should we just let them all know we're one person using 2 accounts?
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Duuuuude, we've known that like for 3 years now.
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Then why do you like HIM better?!?!?!?!? It makes no sense!!@|
Originally Posted by PennyPA
Duuuuude, we've known that like for 3 years now.
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....but we've been here for like 6.5 years
I've already forgotten about most of you
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Well, I am a little slow... |
Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
....but we've been here for like 6.5 years
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Since we're sharing, I also have a list of everyone I've ever teamed with, recently using Global Names, with anecdotes and star ratings; the ingame star rating is notoriously flaky for me 
In this list is a star rating of 1 to 5, and the reasons why they are whatever I deem they deserve.
In another column is what I'd like to do to them in person, based on what they did to earn their rating.
Once in awhile, I like to roll a D10 and match up a fantasy TF team with this pool of people. I then roll play what would most likely happen, again based on the comments I have written down and the star ratings.
I've already forgotten about most of you
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Having just watched Spaceballs over the weekend, I now picture Voo like the scene with Lord Helmet and his action figures.
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Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Once in awhile, I like to roll a D10 and match up a fantasy TF team with this pool of people. I then roll play what would most likely happen, again based on the comments I have written down and the star ratings.
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Too soon.|
Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Since we're sharing, I also have a list of everyone I've ever teamed with, recently using Global Names, with anecdotes and star ratings; the ingame star rating is notoriously flaky for me
In this list is a star rating of 1 to 5, and the reasons why they are whatever I deem they deserve.In another column is what I'd like to do to them in person, based on what they did to earn their rating. Once in awhile, I like to roll a D10 and match up a fantasy TF team with this pool of people. I then roll play what would most likely happen, again based on the comments I have written down and the star ratings. |
And sadly, I don't believe Penny got the intent of your *sharing*.
Unless she actually believes Voodoo=Hamster.
Personally, I feel that you are separate people, just that one of you lives in the others basement...
I refuse to speculate as to which one of you is on top.
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I more picture Voodoo as:|
Originally Posted by PennyPA
Having just watched Spaceballs over the weekend, I now picture Voo like the scene with Lord Helmet and his action figures.
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That... certainly makes it amusing. As opposed to creepy. Hehe.|
Originally Posted by PennyPA
Having just watched Spaceballs over the weekend, I now picture Voo like the scene with Lord Helmet and his action figures.
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I pretty much only keep track of things with my Mid's Builds. I make a "wishbuild" for the goal end for each toon, and then have a separate build for each that is their "ongoing" build as they level up. Pretty much all I need, and not all that anal retentive to my mind... not sure how else I could make a good overall build without it. At least without making too many or too few purchases, etc.
Now that markets are merged, I only have one crafter, GP. He's been slowly working on all those badges anyway, and my villain that did a bit of crafting was way behind. No need to duplicate, especially with the e-mail system.
I usually try to keep track of players with the rating system, as I haven't had any issues with those being saved (doesn't always like to display like I tell it to). I don't really bother with it more than starring people I know, other than the few bad players I have encountered and decided to avoid like the plague (one was a Tanker with all the power pool picks he could get, didn't run his toggles or try to tank, etc.).
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I am also a fan of keeping track of ridiculous amounts of character info with Excel.
This is a chart of my characters' levels over time. You can tell at-a-glance how neglected most of my characters are. The drop off of a dozen characters recently was when I deleted and remade a bunch as Praetorians.
The data table of my characters ranking by level over time... highest level, second highest, 34th highest, etc. Yes, it goes over 100, because I have 112 characters right now. This data generates a chart similar to the other one.
Those are just examples. I have four excel files, each with a few different sheets of raw data and charts of different styles, plus several text files of single types of data, Mids builds for all my character, new builds without Stamina for all my characters for I19, and even a character list on paper.
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You have some characters that drop in level for a few data periods. Obviously, you're lying or jerk hacking the game.
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Rock, rock on Hamster.
Like I said, with the big dropoff in a bunch of levels at the same time (and also a few other times), characters' levels drop because I deleted them and then remade them.
Another example of insane listy-ness is the detailed character list that's linked in my signature.
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I was most thinking of the white x line which dropped 10 levels for one data period.
IE, you made a typo.
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Actually, that's one of the characters I remade. The y scale is in months. I deleted that character when they were in their low 30s, remade them, and got them into the low 20s before the end of the month. Since they were the highest character I'd ever deleted, I made a concerted effort to get them high level again. 
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