Wait. HOW many possible character combinations?
The customization in this game was so far ahead of it's time 8 years ago that no other game has caught up 'yet'. That's why i still play COX. Other games just don't have the individuality of this one.
.... and yet, with all those possibilities... I had to make a Brawl only Brute?
That must make me some sort of special kind of idiot, I would guess.
Mike
/That the game *let me do that*, and get him to 50 solo street sweeping, is testament, in my opinion, to the games veritable unique awesomeness.
//Yeah, I love talkin' about him. He's my absolute favorite, and no I WONT shut up, make me.
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The customization in this game was so far ahead of it's time 8 years ago that no other game has caught up 'yet'. That's why i still play COX. Other games just don't have the individuality of this one.
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Nice. It never occurred to me to try out that many combos.
I did however spend some time doing the math to get a rough estimate of how many costume combo options there are in-game. It's a number with a lot of zeros at the end.1 1 (10 trecedillion (10^42) costumes) |
Print 5 costumes per sheet of paper.
One sheet is about 0.0025 inches thick. Or 400 pages per inch (2000 costumes per inch.)
That gives you 5^39 inches of paper. Or-
4.17^38 Feet Or-
7.89^34 Or-
1.34 ^22 Light Years Or-
From here to the visible edge of the universe (42 billion LY away) 319,000,000,000 times.
More or less.
My first short story (detective fiction) came out in Jan-2012. Other stories and books to follow, I hope. Because of "real writing". COH was a big part of that happening.
So basically, what everyone is saying is that, based off the rough numbers listed in this thread.. costume combinationss x primary/secondary combinations x powerset combinations each character is 1 in 1,511,583,785,054,616,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000?
Barring of course, accurate Arcanaville math.
Edit: And of course it should be multiplied by 3 for the different genders(?) and if we assume 1-100 for the sliders, it'd be 4.698631734685421662262508644835e+143? Oh man I'm confused and I don't even know how to write this out, etc. I'm going to get some coffee!
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So basically, what everyone is saying is that, based off the rough numbers listed in this thread.. costume combinationss x primary/secondary combinations x powerset combinations each character is 1 in 1,511,583,785,054,616,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000?
Barring of course, accurate Arcanaville math. |
My first short story (detective fiction) came out in Jan-2012. Other stories and books to follow, I hope. Because of "real writing". COH was a big part of that happening.
If we multiply the 4.698631734685421662262508644835e+143 I got in the edit with the sliders by the 70 possible skintones and the 160 colors and 2 for the two colors, even though it isn't the right way to do the math, we get 1.052493508569534452346801936443e+148.
..And I'm done with this whole "math" thing. There're well over a googol of combinations and that's mind boggling. No. Mind bottling.
.... and yet, with all those possibilities... I had to make a Brawl only Brute?
That must make me some sort of special kind of idiot, I would guess. Mike /That the game *let me do that*, and get him to 50 solo street sweeping, is testament, in my opinion, to the games veritable unique awesomeness. //Yeah, I love talkin' about him. He's my absolute favorite, and no I WONT shut up, make me. |
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If we multiply the 4.698631734685421662262508644835e+143 I got in the edit with the sliders by the 70 possible skintones and the 160 colors and 2 for the two colors, even though it isn't the right way to do the math, we get 1.052493508569534452346801936443e+148. ..And I'm done with this whole "math" thing. There're well over a googol of combinations and that's mind boggling. No. Mind bottling. |
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This is one of the reasons I never took very seriously people who asserted they'd played every powerset combination to 50.
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Altoholic Monkey of the Repeat Offenders issued a challenge to do just that (Alty's Ultimate Power Challenge) on January 1, 2011. Thus far (and likely ever more if the game ends), I'm the only one in RO to have completed the challenge (on August 25, 2011). I then re-completed it every time a new powerset came out, and I've had a blast doing it.
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At the moment my total number of primary/secondaries comes to 97, represented by 68 lvl 50s, all leveled without PL'ing.
My Thugs/Nature Affinity MM is lvl 48 right now... which very sadly is the last one left to complete.
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I've been in shock since the announcement came down. I was really looking forward to the new sets. Some alts I've liked more (my DM/Shield brute, my permaHasten permaPA Ill/TA... awesome!), and some less (Energy/Elec blaster, Inv/KM tanker... meh), but it somehow never occurred to me that there would ever come a time when no additional sets would be coming.
68 Level 50s, all made the old-fashioned way.
Original: Quasar Lad - Fire/Kin troller. Latest: Asp Kicker - Grav/Poison troller.
Completed the "Full Alty Challenge" - level 50 in every archetype, and "Alty's Ultimate Power Challenge" - level 50 in every available powerset in the game.
Member of the Repeat Offenders
Maybe I'll do it again before the end.
Arcanaville can shut down a power grid just by crunching numbers. Now that's a scary superpower.
Loose --> not tight.
Lose --> Did not win, misplace, cannot find, subtract.
One extra 'o' makes a big difference.