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Game Forum / Role Playing Games / Diablo / May 2005Yet another HC necro bites the dust.
Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. Level 78, in the maggot lair, level 3 hell. Not my usual lag-spike type death but something else I've been noticing recently (although not with fatal consequences until now). (My ISP buys its bandwidth through our monopolistic, money-gouging NZ Telecom who have decided to deliberately introduce latency and jitter (lag-spikes) into it's wholesale product to combat the spread of VoIP. It's criminal IMO but what can you do? I've been emailing the govt and the Commerce Commision to no avail.) Anyway, recently I've noticed that when I change my right-click skill it doesn't always register (and I don't always get time to look at the little square to check). Like, I'll be using what should be Amp. Dam. and I'll be popping Clay Golems everywhere instead. So far this has been merely inconvienient. Not anymore. I have a Spellsteel unique axe on switch for teleport charges. It's great with a summoning necro, to be able to teleport with all your minions. I had found Coldworm Burrower's chamber and, of course, ther was just one skelly in the front *very* slowly killing a beetle minion. At that rate I think my skellies would have died one-by-one before we got in there. So I hit <w> for weapon switch and right-clicked just in front of the skelly doing the hitting. The necro and all minions ended up just inside the chamber and started to fan out killing so I right-clicked and teleported back up the tunnel a bit, hit <w> and then right-clicked smack-bang in the middle of the chamber. It should have been amp damage. *Should* have been. Instead I teleported right on top of Coldworm Burrower, in the middle of a boss-pack of scarabs and a boss-pack of maggot-things. The <w> press hadn't registered. My lightning resist was around 50, fine for carefullly killing. *Not* fine for being in the middle of a bunch of scarabs all being hit at the same time and spitting out masses of lightning sparks. I started trying to move and hitting purples but with a reaction time of 0.1 of a second and ping-times of 400ms (0.4 of a second) and higher it was never going to work. I got the "deeds" screen. :-( I had a purpose-built enchant slave in the game and had the task of trying to loot a body in a room full of angry powerful critters with a sorc with pretty much just maxed 'chant and a merc about 20 levels lower than her. No easy task, no easy task at all. Her resists were miserable and defence even worse, she wasn't designed for combat. She did however have an inventory full of dexterity charms and a Kuko and Monstermash's portal was close. So I chant her and her merc, switch to the Kuko and go down the portal. Start walking towards the chamber (now teeming with young magoots as they'd been triggered to lay eggs) and she gets ambushed by scarabs from a side-passage! Man! Fat purps and running backwards (so to speak), a dead merc and back through the portal! Whew! So I ressurected the merc (I must level him for next time, if there ever is one) and went backdown, this time expecting the scarabs. I fed the merc pots and stood on the spot, held <shift> and fired exploding arrows down the passageway. Ok, killed all the scarabs in the passage, now for the chamber. To cut a long story short, I adopted a similar strategy for the chanber. Stood outside and holding shift, fired a couple hundred arrows into the chamber. I killed pretty much everything that moved. Unfortunately the boss, Coldworm, doesn't move. I had to sneak into a position where i could hit him without him hurting me too much. Then I was able to read his mods. Immune to fire, lightning enhanced. Everytime I hit him with an arrow a huge shower of lightning filled the chamber. I managed to find a spot still in the mouth of the chamber but where I could shoot him. One or two lightning sparks still got me but I could drink enough pots to keep alive. Now I know why Monster died so damn quick! Long story short, I looted him. (Yay!!! Got the Marrowwalks back!!) That's a good thing. I lost a bunch of stuff in his inventory/stash though. He had two sets of gear, his 'battle gear' for progressing through hell and his MF gear for NM Baal runs. I lost his MF gear. Next time I'll let the chanter hold it instead of all the other stuff that he finds, some of which wasn't that great anyway. <Phew! Long story huh?> Anyway, his replacement, Live-forever, is now level 39 and has his might merc. I'll do some normal Baal minion-runs with him to level him a bit and hopefully find some resist charms. I wish you could loot your merc too. This is HC necro number 5. They died at levels: 75, 80, 67 and 78. That's about one every week or so since I started HC. <g> Hopefully this one will live up to his name. Cheers, -- ~misfit~ > Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. Level 78, in the maggot lair, level 3 > hell. [quoted text clipped - 86 lines] > -- > ~misfit~ Hi Im sorry bout ur necro :(. And yeah that weapon switch things happens to me lots like my assassin that have plus 3 shadow claws on switch for casting shadow master or fade or my frenzy barb switching to weapons with pluses to warcries I will hit w and it wont switch or if it do first time and then i hit w again it wont switch back that when it really bad if u dont notice cuz they will go out fighting with thier best weapons turned off. And now that u on basin to like I told orion if that happens and I am on and it basin game msg me and I can check basin channel to see if there any hc players there who could help u loot body. Kaytie How in the name of the big baby jesus can you manage to level your characters so fast? > How in the name of the big baby jesus can you manage to level your > characters so fast? He just showed you his ENCHANT!! Robert Right ok my bad. Just that i didn't know that enchant made it that much easier to level. Maybe misfit already had that skellimancer prepared up to a certain level because starting a character from scratch and leveling him to 38 in HC seems quite a challenge. > Right ok my bad. Just that i didn't know that enchant made it that > much easier to level. Maybe misfit already had that skellimancer > prepared up to a certain level because starting a character from > scratch and leveling him to 38 in HC seems quite a challenge. No, with an enchantress (and maybe a BO Barb) and a players 4 game you can do it in one sitting easy. -- ~misfit~ > How in the name of the big baby jesus can you manage to level your > characters so fast? Yep, have a purpose-built enchantress with all the WPs. I also have access to four PCs and sets of CD keys so I start a game, bring in the enchantress and two other chars and away I go. Just do the essential quests (and the extra skill-point quests) and I'm usually level 24 or so for ancients. Then just do Baal runs after I get the lvl from ancients to make me 25. I get two lvls per Baal run and it only takes 5 minutes a run. 0 to 40 in about four hours. 40 to 60 in about six hours. That's with a skellimancer, it would take longer with a character without all the minions killing I guess. -- ~misfit~ Nice One. So really a HC death to you is just a minor hold back to get you to your final destination i.e. Immortality. Let the master plan commence! > Nice One. So really a HC death to you is just a minor hold back to get > you to your final destination i.e. Immortality. Let the master plan > commence! That's pretty much the way it goes. With my ISP/connection I can't let a death bother me too much, I just rush another character through. The biggest problem is the loss of charms. I can rush a character to level 60 in a couple days but that's not covering much ground so I usually have very few resist charms. The last guy had four I think, one large and three small. Hopefully this guy lives longer and gets more, then I get more choice of my gear, I don't have to wear all resist stuff. -- ~misfit~ >> ~misfit~ wrote: >> > Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. >> > live up to his name. >> > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> >> Im sorry bout ur necro :(. TRIM YOUR QUOTES! >> And yeah that weapon switch things happens they will go out fighting with thier >> best weapons turned off. Been there, dumb that! >> And now that u on basin to like I told orion if that happens and I am >> on and it basin game msg me and I can check basin channel to see if >> there any hc players there who could help u loot body. English, bitte? >> Kaytie >>> ~misfit~ wrote: >>>> Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > TRIM YOUR QUOTES! TAKE YOUR MEDS! >>> And yeah that weapon switch things happens they will go out >>> fighting with thier best weapons turned off. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > English, bitte? So, this is alt.games.diablo.absolutely.perfect.grammar now? -- ~misfit~ >> Brian Brunner wrote: >> > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >> TAKE YOUR MEDS! Can you please explain how my meds, whether taken or not, will affect the courtesy of Kaytie forgetting to trim quotes? >> >>> And now that u on basin to like I told orion if that happens and I >> >>> am [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> So, this is alt.games.diablo.absolutely.perfect.grammar now? Twit. There is a world of difference between being perfect (or using perfect grammar) and using *mangled* chat-speak. >>> Brian Brunner wrote: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Can you please explain how my meds, whether taken or not, will affect > the courtesy of Kaytie forgetting to trim quotes? Don't be silly you condescending person, they won't have any affect on Kaytie at all. What they may do is curb your urge to shout at people who don't conform to your standards in a public forum. Most usenet grammar police have psychological disorders, the grammar police thing is a symptom. It's most commonly Obsessive-Complusive Disorder, Small Dickitis or a combination of the two. Therefore it's a fair bet you're on meds. >>>> English, bitte? >> >> So, this is alt.games.diablo.absolutely.perfect.grammar now? > > Twit. Twat. (This is fun, see if you can change one letter and insult me back!!) > There is a world of difference between being perfect (or using perfect > grammar) and using *mangled* chat-speak. How true. That leaves you several options: 1) Attempt to impose your will on another person by yelling at them in all capitals. As you aren't in a position to physically intimidate her then you will have to make do with this form of assaulting her. (This is the option most often chosen by people with small penises, it makes them feel powerful, way beyond what their little pecker ever could. It is especially disturbing when the person you are attempting to bludgeon with your *BIG* *WORDS* is a 13 year old young lady. However people who choose this option rarely try it on someone who may have even the remotest chance of besting them in a contest of pugnacity. This is referred to as the soft option, rather fitting in your case). 2) Take it as a challenge, dechiper what Kaytie is saying, see if you can get it right. This is a very positive approach and encourages you to think, it also improves cognitive function. I'm sure your therapist discussed this with you but it's *so* hard to remember these things when you're strapped into a straightjacket and pumped full of Haldol. 3) Accept that the world is changing and evolve with it. 4) Take your chill-pills and slip into that happy place where nothing bothers you, not even your inadequate genitalia before reading alt.games.diablo. 5) Stop reading the posts that offend you enough to cause you to shout in a public place and show your lack of control (and bitterness at your physical deformity). If you don't trust your OCD to allow you to reliably do this then most newsreaders, including Agent, have a 'killfile' option, you won't even see Kaytie's posts. Then there will be zero chance of you reaffirming to the group that you are a mentally disturbed bully. (I left the most obvious one [Ask respectfully if the poster could conform with your conception of how things should be done] off the list as, being the most obvious one, you not using it confirms that you have some sort of psychologocal disorder. I humbly suggest that option 5 is probably your best bet. You seem to have very little self-control and, sooner or later, you're likely to forget to take your meds and embarrass yourself again. Get well soon. -- ~misfit~ On that special day, ~misfit~, (misfit61nz@hooya.co.nz) said... > Most usenet grammar > police have psychological disorders, the grammar police thing is a symptom. > It's most commonly Obsessive-Complusive Disorder, He who sits in the glass house... Misfit, why don't you just tell Brian, "leave her alone, her way of writing doesn't really hurt you, after all"? Gabriele Neukam Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de  SignatureAh, Information. A property, too valuable these days, to give it away, just so, at no cost. > On that special day, ~misfit~, (misfit61nz@hooya.co.nz) said... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > He who sits in the glass house... LOL. > Misfit, why don't you just tell Brian, "leave her alone, her way of > writing doesn't really hurt you, after all"? Yeah, that would have been the best bet probably. I see from his response that he just wanted a flame war. Cheers, -- ~misfit~ >> Most usenet grammar police have psychological disorders, Whence did you discover this? >> Therefore it's a fair bet you're on meds. You lost your bet, unless multi-vitamins constitute Meds in your view. >> (This is the option most often chosen by people with small penises, You appear to have a fixation with genitalia. What's behind this? >> It is especially disturbing when the person you are attempting to bludgeon with >> your *BIG* *WORDS* is a 13 year old young lady. My big words: TRIM YOUR QUOTES! My other big words: English, bitte? >> it's *so* hard to remember these things when you're strapped >> into a straightjacket and pumped full of Haldol. Your experience with this situation is what... >> Get well soon. Physician, heal thyself... >>> Most usenet grammar police have psychological disorders, > > Whence did you discover this? During my studies. Or did you want an exact date? People with OCD like to have things pinned down to exact dates usually. They also ask a lot of questions. >>> Therefore it's a fair bet you're on meds. > > You lost your bet, unless multi-vitamins constitute Meds in your view. Then you probably have an undiagnosed condition that only rears it's ugly head on usenet. >>> (This is the option most often chosen by people with small penises, > > You appear to have a fixation with genitalia. What's behind this? Mentioning your small genitalia in one post isn't considered a fixation. At least it wasn't when I studied psychology. >>> It is especially disturbing when the person you are attempting to >>> bludgeon with your *BIG* *WORDS* is a 13 year old young lady. > > My big words: TRIM YOUR QUOTES! Exactly. Commonly refered to as 'shouting' at someone on usenet. You should know that, being a usenet policeman. > My other big words: English, bitte? Those aren't big. >>> it's *so* hard to remember these things when you're strapped >>> into a straightjacket and pumped full of Haldol. > > Your experience with this situation is what... Studying for a degree in psychology. You get to see all sorts of stuff....... Also having an interest in psychophamocology and an understanding of how drugs work. Haldol induces amnesia for the duration of it's effect. And no, I haven't had it. >>> Get well soon. > > Physician, heal thyself... I'm fine thanks, I take my meds and I don't go around throwing tantrums, trying to intimidate people into doing things how *I'd* like them to be done. -- ~misfit~ >> Brian Brunner wrote: >> >>> (This is the option most often chosen by people with small penises, >> > >> > You appear to have a fixation with genitalia. What's behind this? >> >> Mentioning your small genitalia in one post isn't considered a fixation. At >> least it wasn't when I studied psychology. Fixation: you brought up the subject repeatedly... >> >>> It is especially disturbing when the person you are attempting to >> >>> bludgeon with your *BIG* *WORDS* is a 13 year old young lady. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> Exactly. Commonly refered to as 'shouting' at someone on usenet. You should >> know that, being a usenet policeman. They're called 'capital letters' by most people. psychophamocology or psychopharmocology would be 'big words'. >> >>> Get well soon. >> > >> > Physician, heal thyself... >> >> I'm fine thanks, I take my meds and I don't go around throwing tantrums, Your *entire post* was a tantrum. > They're called 'capital letters' by most people. psychophamocology or > psychopharmocology would be 'big words'. I hesitate to even get into the middle of this, but... On Usenet, typing in all capital letters is the equivalent of shouting at someone. SignatureMarcel http://mudbunny.blogspot.com/ >>> Brian Brunner wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Fixation: you brought up the subject repeatedly... Hey, Mr Grammar policeman! It isn't possible for me to bring up the same subject repeatedly in the same post. I can bring it up once and then comment on it later in the post but to "bring it up repeatedly"? How is this possible when it's already been brought up? You're slipping. >>>>>> It is especially disturbing when the person you are attempting to >>>>>> bludgeon with your *BIG* *WORDS* is a 13 year old young lady. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > They're called 'capital letters' by most people. psychophamocology or > psychopharmocology would be 'big words'. Ohh, there goes that OCD/grammar police thing again. I missed a letter in there did I? Spelling flames are, and always have been, the lamest thing on usenet. And, as Marcel so rightly pointed out, capital letters is considered to be shouting on usenet. >>>>>> Get well soon. >>>> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Your *entire post* was a tantrum. No, I didn't address anyone in all capitals (Shout at them) or insult their use of the English language unprovoked. Niether did I try to intimidate someone and try to force then to do things my way. -- ~misfit~ After going to <http://tinyurl.com/2tnqw> >>> ~misfit~ wrote: >>> > Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >English, bitte? Down with teh grammar.kkkops!!!11!1!! :-) Signatureno, i didn't forget the 'F's http://www.geocities.com/jerk_o2002 http://www.geocities.com/nameless_mod -My Diablo 2 Mod http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bunny.php -My theme song > TRIM YOUR QUOTES! U dont have to shout I cut out parts sometimes when I think i should I didnt think ne part should be cut out that time thats all > English, bitte? bitte not english either it german i think so u should follow ur own rules first b4 u get mad at other ppl for breaking them :P hehe Kaytie >> Brian Brunner wrote: >> >> > TRIM YOUR QUOTES! >> > >> U dont have to shout I cut out parts sometimes when I think i should I >> didnt think ne part should be cut out that time thats all Sorry for shouting. I don't have a CapsLock key to blame just a sense of vexation with many (not just you) posters quoting everything just for laziness on their part. >> > English, bitte? >> >> bitte not english either it german i think so u should follow ur own >> rules first b4 u get mad at other ppl for breaking them :P hehe >> >> Kaytie You're correct, bitte is German. I hang out on a German forum, and pass a note to people who start a conversation in German... that if they can would they please try in English (Their English is almost always *much* better than my German). So asking you to try in English, and asking you politely half in German, is a (slightly sarcastic) note that what you wrote is not clear English. I'm fairly certain that you're much better at English than I am at mangled chatspeak. Misfit, in her enflamed ranting, mentioned that you're 13, and therefore (I conclude) a victim of our current schooling system, which sucketh mightily. You have my condolences on your next 5 years of abuse by the beneficiaries of our Teachers' Union. <snip> > Misfit, in her enflamed ranting <yet more snip> Ya know, it's really common for people to think I'm female on usenet. I don't know why that is but I invariably take it as a compliment. -- ~misfit~ (With a Y chromosome) >> Brian Brunner wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> Ya know, it's really common for people to think I'm female on usenet. I >> don't know why that is but I invariably take it as a compliment. Correction noted, data logged. >>> Brian Brunner wrote: >>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Correction noted, data logged. :-) -- ~misfit~ >I'm fairly certain that you're much better >at English than I am at mangled chatspeak. I have to admit that Kaytie's English makes me cringe, too. >Misfit, in her enflamed ranting, mentioned that you're 13, and therefore >(I conclude) a victim of our current schooling system, which sucketh >mightily. You have my condolences on your next 5 years of abuse by the >beneficiaries of our Teachers' Union. I second that emotion (except that the administrators are a bigger waste than the teachers, IMO). The thing is, Kaytie is obviously much brighter than her mangled English would lead one to believe, almost to the point where I think she must be doing it deliberately -- perhaps it's just teenage rebellion against the strictures of clear, accurate expression, and she'll grow out of it. -- Roy L > The thing is, Kaytie is obviously much brighter than her mangled > English would lead one to believe, almost to the point where I think > she must be doing it deliberately -- perhaps it's just teenage > rebellion against the strictures of clear, accurate expression, and > she'll grow out of it. Or she is so excited to tell her story and wants to get it all out before she misses something that she goes for the gusto (and run on sentences) LOL Iirc we were all young once and I agree with Roy we outgrew it. (much to my chagrine, why is it energy is wasted on the young?) On a side note not everyone is perfect and we make mistakes. Unless someone specifically has asked for us to point out their errors (this not being a classroom nor are we being graded on our responses) then one should politely grit their teeth and mind their business. Yes us oldsters often jump other's shyt for misspellings etc but if you notice it is often done in a jocular manner and often because it has struck our funny bone in some context (generally sexual i.e. castrate). So I suggest that if Kaytie's particular posts are that offensive to you then you best killfile them. She is a breath of fresh air in a game that is getting stale. SignatureIn a World Full of Insanity Here I Stand. Sliver >> The thing is, Kaytie is obviously much brighter than her mangled >> English would lead one to believe, almost to the point where I think [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > are that offensive to you then you best killfile them. She is a > breath of fresh air in a game that is getting stale. A-Men. :-) Well said Sliver. -- ~misfit~ While pondering glazed doughnuts Brian Brunner <brian.brunner@verizon.net> mistakenly typed :>> Brian Brunner wrote: :>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] : of vexation with many (not just you) posters quoting everything just for : laziness on their part. That's the problem of not observing behaviour or just simply getting your point across without coming across as an a.s. :>> > English, bitte? :>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] : wrote is not clear English. I'm fairly certain that you're much better : at English than I am at mangled chatspeak. Now this is a much better attempt at being civil. It really would have been better to just leave it at this. : Misfit, in her enflamed ranting, mentioned that you're 13, and therefore : (I conclude) a victim of our current schooling system, which sucketh : mightily. You have my condolences on your next 5 years of abuse by the : beneficiaries of our Teachers' Union. Which is completely spoiled by your additional shots at both misfit and Kaytie's education. I guess you actually are an a.s. It takes all kinds on usenet I guess. -dave > Instead I teleported right on top of Coldworm Burrower, in the middle of a > boss-pack of scarabs and a boss-pack of maggot-things. The <w> press [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I got the > "deeds" screen. :-( Yeah, been there, done that. 'I' thought I was casting Orb on Lister and his boys, but B-net thought I still had teleport hotkeyed. Unfortunately B-net always wins those disagreements. Terrible way to lose a character. You instantly get that sick feeling in your stomach and then see that 'Deeds' screen all in the space of a second. Condolences on your loss. > I lost a bunch of stuff in his inventory/stash though. He had > two sets of gear, his 'battle gear' for progressing through hell and his > MF > gear for NM Baal runs. I lost his MF gear. Next time I'll let the chanter > hold it instead of all the other stuff that he finds, some of which wasn't > that great anyway. Never keep anything of value on the play character, let the looter hold it. I've been doing a lot of MFing Hell Mephy lately, and my slave holds everything I find except gems and runes (nothing high). > Anyway, his replacement, Live-forever, is now level 39 and has his might > merc. I'll do some normal Baal minion-runs with him to level him a bit and > hopefully find some resist charms. I wish you could loot your merc too. Check the HC mules. I've filled all the existing characters and two new ones with stuff I've found over the past few days. No good necro stuff, but maybe something you can use. > This is HC necro number 5. They died at levels: 75, 80, 67 and 78. That's > about one every week or so since I started HC. <g> Hopefully this one will > live up to his name. Good attitude, get right back up on the horse that throws you. Regards- Mark Bongo-fury Ach! I've been lucky then cause the worst that the weapon switch delay has given me is opening Town Portals as opposed to teleporting into a pack of beasts. > Good attitude, get right back up on the horse that throws you. This reminds me of my first fight when I was 5 years old. I was getting my a.s handed to me and kept heading home crying, walking up the driveway towards the front door. My dad would not let me in the door. He kept sending me back to where the other kid was. But when I walked back towards the house with tears in my eyes, my dad refused to let me into the house. So finally I got the upper hand on this kid and grabbed him by the chin while he was down and I was i nthe back of him and I pulled on his chin as hard as I could, like my life depended on it. Boy did that kid let a scream and start bawling. He tucked his tail between his legs and wlaked home in tears. I walked back to my house and there was my father waving me in. The sad thing about Misfit's tale is that it seems like his ISP is the "other kid" here. I admire Misfit's tenacity and his willingness to get back on the saddle and show that his balls are big enough and stong enough for him to keep returning to the HC realm. Three cheers for Misfit. Misfit's Hardcore Mantra Live Foerver or Die Trying - But Keep Playing Despite an ISP run by a Bunch of Criminals Orion Ryder > Orion Ryder You should check out the mules too, might be something there you could use. Regards- Mark Bongo-Fury > The sad thing about Misfit's tale is that it seems like his ISP is the > "other kid" here. I admire Misfit's tenacity and his willingness to > get back on the saddle and show that his balls are big enough and > stong enough for him to keep returning to the HC realm. Thanks dude, I appreciate that. I haven't had the balls to tell Bongo, Spook and Cinna that I lost the BO slave they built for me though. I was giving a WP to my necro, went there with the barb, (Ancients way, NM) looked around and all was clear went to the other PC to walk through with the necro and heard fighting noises. Ran back to first PC and just about gutted nyself on the back of the chair trying to hit purples and back off. Too late. His merc had wandered and drew attention. I learned a lesson from that but haven't been able to get the new BO guy up by myself. :-( -- ~misfit~ > > The sad thing about Misfit's tale is that it seems like his ISP is the > > "other kid" here. I admire Misfit's tenacity and his willingness to [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > -- > ~misfit~ Those freakin mercs! God damn it! Tell me about it. Bongo and I are in the Crystalline passage killing off packs and here we are licking our wounds and getting ourselves ready to move on and there's our mercs moving around and trying to make friends with the next and closest pack. And of course the valk wanders off with them because she knows that they are wimps (at least in her eyes) and that they are gonna need her help. Ever walk through one of the ice passages and meet up with a pack and there's the merc standing back behind some wall like he's waiting in ambush in expectation of you leading the pack back his way? Oh I guess you don't see that much with a necro. Well that sucks about the WC barb. Well now they know. Orion Ryder >>> The sad thing about Misfit's tale is that it seems like his ISP is >>> the "other kid" here. I admire Misfit's tenacity and his [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > there's the merc standing back behind some wall like he's waiting in > ambush in expectation of you leading the pack back his way? Yep. > Oh I guess you don't see that much with a necro. Yeah, I still get that sometimes. Damn annoying too. > Well that sucks about the WC barb. I know. > Well now they know. Yep. I've been a bit shy of mentioning it, they did me a big favour with him (and the chanter) and I feel like a bloody idiot for losing him. I've got his replacement up to about lvl 24 but got a bit stalled. -- ~misfit~ >> Instead I teleported right on top of Coldworm Burrower, in the >> middle of a boss-pack of scarabs and a boss-pack of maggot-things. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Condolences on your loss. Thanks Mark. >> I lost a bunch of stuff in his inventory/stash though. He had >> two sets of gear, his 'battle gear' for progressing through hell and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > hold it. I've been doing a lot of MFing Hell Mephy lately, and my > slave holds everything I find except gems and runes (nothing high). I just need to get into the habit of muling off the slave more often. >> Anyway, his replacement, Live-forever, is now level 39 and has his >> might merc. I'll do some normal Baal minion-runs with him to level [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > new ones with stuff I've found over the past few days. No good necro > stuff, but maybe something you can use. Awesome! Thanks. Grabbed three things. Cheers. >> This is HC necro number 5. They died at levels: 75, 80, 67 and 78. >> That's about one every week or so since I started HC. <g> Hopefully >> this one will live up to his name. > > Good attitude, get right back up on the horse that throws you. Gotta be done! :-) -- ~misfit~ > Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. Level 78, in the maggot lair, level 3 > hell. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > criminal IMO but what can you do? I've been emailing the govt and the > Commerce Commision to no avail.) Vote with your wallet. Get a new ISP. -Steve > > Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. Level 78, in the maggot lair, level 3 > > hell. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > -Steve He might not be able to. From past posts, I get the idea that there is some kind of monopoly there in New Zealand. I might be wrong. If there is a monopoly Park Place and Boardwalk aren't gonna do him any good. He'll have to land on that spot where he can buy the electric utility or whatever it is. :) Doh! Orion Ryder >>> Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. Level 78, in the maggot lair, >>> level 3 hell. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > He might not be able to. From past posts, I get the idea that there is > some kind of monopoly there in New Zealand. I might be wrong. Yes, you are right. NZ Telecom owns all the copper in the country and ultimately control what sort of service I get. They bought the telephone system off the government years back at a bargain-basement price. The govt. put a few clauses in the agreement that were supposed to limit the powers of Telecom and foster competition. However, NZ Telecom has become the best-performing listed company on the NZ stock-market and can afford *excellent* lawyers. (They make approximately 1.5 million dollars a day profit, this in a country boasting not much more than 3 million people including children). The upshot of it all is that there are other ISPs but they have to go through NZ Telecom. Telecom keep pulling sneakies to keep their product slightly better than the (usually cheaper) opposition and even their own product is over-priced and well below par as far as lag and jitter go by world standards. There is speculation that they do this deliberately so that, when the govt. slaps them on the wrist (as it does now and then) they can provide a slightly better service and say "Look how much we've improved it!!" The whole scenario stinks and, unless the govt. compells them to do something about it we're stuck with it. (There was a bit of a scandal last Christmas, Telecom gave all govt. ministers it has dealings with Ipods for Xmas. An aide blew the whistle and they all gave them back, feigning disgust. If it hadn't come to light they would have kept them. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Something is rottem in the state of NZ and it's name is NZ Telecom. To make things worse, most of our international traffic goes through a recently laid fibre-optic cable that does a big loop around the Pacific, joining the west coast of the US with Hawaii on the northern leg, then to Syndey and on to Auckland. The southern leg goes to Fiji and then back to the US west coast. Telecom has used a large proportion of it's ill-gotten gains nad invested heavilly in this project, "The Southerncross Cable", right from the word go. So even if the govt does force them to free up things within NZ they still own a big slice of the gateway. I hate them. Hate is not a word I use often. > If there is a monopoly Park Place and Boardwalk aren't gonna do him > any good. He'll have to land on that spot where he can buy the > electric utility or whatever it is. :) > > Doh! Something very like that. ;-) -- ~misfit~ >>>> Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. Level 78, in the maggot lair, >>>> level 3 hell. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > -- > ~misfit~ That is too bad. Still, I would write your government representative. Every little bit helps and if you use snail mail the message will often get through. If you can get others to write, all the better. Another thing that may help would be to write a letter to a local electronics or media magazine and hope they publish it. Unfortunately is it hard to get much support from non gamers on lag issues but keep trying. -Steve >>>>> Yes, it's true. Monstermash died. Level 78, in the maggot lair, >>>>> level 3 hell. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Unfortunately is it hard to get much support from non gamers on lag > issues but keep trying. I've emailed the Commerce Commision, maybe a paper letter would be better, I heard nothing back after my carefully worded email. The NZ PC World, our biggest local PC magazine, has an article about it in the current issue. Even the coutry's biggest newspaper, the NZ Herald The current column isn't available on-line AFAICT (they only allow access to older articles free) but is a lot more scathing than this one from last year entitled "No Backbone": http://www.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/ArchiveAuthor/3F1F2124F653ACB4CC256 F56007A25D7?OpenDocument The latest article is entitled "Telecom vs Telecom" and mentions a column by US columnist Robert Cringely dated March 17th about NZ Telecom. (This isn't the first time he's written about a telecommunications company half-a-world away. That's how bad NZ Telecom is). Here is an excerpt from that column, mainly about Voice over IP but having implications for all latency-sensitive connections: "And there are other dirty tricks available to broadband ISPs. Telecom New Zealand, for example, is reportedly planning to alter TCP packet interleaving to discourage VoIP. By bunching all voice packets in the first half of each second, half a second of dead air would be added to every conversation, changing latency in a way that would drive grandmothers everywhere back to their old phone companies. This is because phone conversations happen effectively in real time and so are very sensitive to problems of latency. Where one-way video and audio can use buffering to overcome almost any interleaving issue, it is a deal-breaker for voice." And you can forget the "planning to" bit, they've been doing it for a while. You can imagine what this does to D2 pingtimes. It virtually guarantees that they'll be 500+ms. I love this country but the internet connection is driving me crazy. -- ~misfit~ |
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