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BaB got forum banned a couple times for being worse than me.
It was so over the top I actually believed for a long time you were like Mishii, just pretending to be an insider and got your knowledge out of pigg file diving or somesuch, because surely no real insider would act this obvious, and no devs would tolerate someone that insufferable.
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Its understandable: I was annoyed by the people who pretended to be insiders also. The truth is, being an insider is not all wine and roses. The great irony about being an insider is that I would often deliberately not ask or discuss certain things with the devs, because if I did that made it extremely difficult to discuss on the public forums. It was often better to not know. I had to balance knowing and helping, and not knowing and being able to rip the devs on the forums. And that was a tough choice.
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I got annoyed with people who did that as well. The times I dropped hints gathered from those methods I tried very hard not to make it sound like inside info, or anything definite for that matter. May not have always succeeded, but the effort was there.
It was so over the top I actually believed for a long time you were like Mishii, just pretending to be an insider and got your knowledge out of pigg file diving or somesuch, because surely no real insider would act this obvious, and no devs would tolerate someone that insufferable.
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In the old days, people would even lie about being able to really see what was happening in the game client. Once someone claimed to have figured the entire powers database out, so to test them I asked them a question using Pcodes (I forget now what it was). If you decoded the Pstrings they obviously combined to form a question. When he called what I wrote "gibberish" I knew he was full of crap. He didn't even know what a Pstring was.
I got annoyed with people who did that as well. The times I dropped hints gathered from those methods I tried very hard not to make it sound like inside info, or anything definite for that matter. May not have always succeeded, but the effort was there.
Of course after writing several generations of tools and automating and streamlining the process, it got to the point where I'd see people talk about "pigg diving" and think to myself, "There are pigg files? Whaaa?" ![]() |
That's damning, because its the easiest thing to figure out. Why lie about something like that, I often wondered.
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So NCSoft really is mentally handicapped, and also killed a potential new income source?
I have no words that won't get me in trouble.
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And for a long time, there were Pstrings all over the game instead of the actual names/strings
That's damning, because its the easiest thing to figure out. Why lie about something like that, I often wondered.
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;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Yep. Also, some inventions still have %s8347593747459 gibberish that is due to broken format strings (i.e.: %s).
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I've not noticed those (edit: actually, that does sound familiar now that I think about it... but I've not seen that in quite a while)... but I have noticed how so many have totally different names for the recipe vs the crafted version (both for entire sets, as well as the specific one)... Maybe should'a bugged those, but always figured that by the time it was on live, they're not gonna worry about them anymore.
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;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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... I find it easier to be honestly ignorant about all things code.
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True story: The first time I went to Firebase Zulu was before I knew what pstrings were, and when I saw all the soldiers named P72874713 or somesuch, I thought it was their service serial number or something, and they just didn't get names as a symbol of the faceless military machine.
And for a long time, there were Pstrings all over the game instead of the actual names/strings
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There was also the bug where character names in the team window were being passed through the translator, so you could name your character with a pstring and would show up to people as a really long name in the window. That was fixed quickly because it could cause client crashes, but last I checked it still "translated" the names in the character select screen.
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Is this related to the glitch in the market where if you try typing in the middle of the search name, it just leads to a near-endless string of %'s?
Yep. Also, some inventions still have %s8347593747459 gibberish that is due to broken format strings (i.e.: %s).
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Also, pstrings and whatnot are all new info to me...! Way cool, thank you!
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Is this related to the glitch in the market where if you try typing in the middle of the search name, it just leads to a near-endless string of %'s?
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I think it happens when a dev accidentally misplaces a space, and "Enhances the damage resistance of a power by 15.9% and reduces endurance cost by 26.5" becomes "Enhances the damage resistance of a power by 15.9 %and reduces endurance cost by 26.5".
Then, the %a becomes the format string for "double precision 64-bit number" and the string becomes "Enhances the damage resistance of a power by 15.9 [gibberish] nd reduces endurance cost by 26.5"
Yes, I farmed the **** out of those. I needed influence for my I19 builds, sue me.
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