The Seekrit Projeckt!

Not just any Golden Girl. A fully automatic Golden Girl android!

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edit: oh also too

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BaB got forum banned a couple times for being worse than me.

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.

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.

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.

That's damning, because its the easiest thing to figure out. Why lie about something like that, I often wondered.

And for a long time, there were Pstrings all over the game instead of the actual names/strings I remember the Shadow Shard being particularly bad for that (along with the sideways faces!).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

Yep. Also, some inventions still have %s8347593747459 gibberish that is due to broken format strings (i.e.: %s).

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.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

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.

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.

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?

Also, pstrings and whatnot are all new info to me...! Way cool, thank you!

Its this bug:



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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