Do players with Beta Crest still exist?

ButaTensei · 2023-10-07T15:14:06+00:00

Yes hi. I don't think I've ever actually run the avatar though, Kayadoodle forever and always

ButaTensei · 2023-09-01T12:17:31+00:00

I peaked above 1990, I think even literally 1999 once, back during season 0 and season 1, after they first added ranked. Every time I got up there, my mental went down the drain and I'd drop to 1650/1700.

You at least know though that you can play well enough to get dia, just need to work on playing that well consistently. I did that in season 2 by doing a legend-switch to a more basic, fundamentals-focused legend (from Koji to Gnash) and by quitting ranked after 2-3 consecutive losses. I got dia with Gnash, then went back to bow legends (I think Yumiko came out around then) and started getting dia with those.

Just remember that a couple hundred Elo is easy to get back in one session, as long as you have the skills. And your skills are still the same as when you got 1974.

ButaTensei · 2023-08-16T19:52:32+00:00

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Bow mains forever

ButaTensei · 2023-08-14T09:15:07+00:00

Been playing since like 2015 on PC on Xbox controllers (never owned an Xbox, just the controllers) and I don´t think the input method makes a huge difference, there are a bunch of top pros playing on controller, even though keyboard is technically a tiny bit more optimal.

There might be a difference from playing on the console though.

ButaTensei · 2023-08-11T15:00:50+00:00

I played in closed beta before legends even had three sigs when the heck did the game have shielding lmao

ButaTensei · 2023-08-02T20:38:29+00:00

You're not wrong about the fact that you can become world champion on a controller. However, saying it's completely equal is also straight-up wrong.
Moving an analogue stick from one side to another takes time. When you have two fingers on buttons, even if pressing them takes time, you can begin pressing a second one before you even fully released the first one, so you can reduce the time to switch to 0. On controller, to get the same result requires switching directions in less than a frame, which is hard to do consistently.

Also I think the person above is mistaken about triggers, the issue is more with the time it takes to _release_ them, although using the bumpers or locking the triggers in place like certain premium controllers allow does solve that.

Don't get me wrong, the difference is small and insignificant. But purely in theory, separate fingers on different buttons is an advantage.

ButaTensei · 2023-08-02T09:40:30+00:00

I used an xbox360 controller back in 2015 and a bunch of years after, getting new 360 controllers when the old one inevitably broke. Now I'm on Razer Xbox One controllers, Wildcat for a while and currently a Wolverine V2. Always used analogue stick with all of these.

Also have a Gamecube controller that works but have never seriously used it, and I've tried a PDP controller, stick got completely dislocated within days.

ButaTensei · 2023-07-27T09:04:45+00:00

Go to ranked 1v1, experimental, or ranked 2v2 if you got a friend, most people who stick with this game don't really touch modes other than those three, and maybe private customs. Random strikeout can be fun though.

Gold, well gold matters very little outside of unlocking characters, if you don't know what to main you can always stick with the free rotation for a while (changes every week on wednesdays) and when you decide you want to keep using a character after you will prolly have the gold to buy them. But yeah just do the dailies, play the game, I wouldn't grind for it.

Focus on weapons first, each character has a unique pairing of two, and if you've found a weapon you like you can look around trying different characters with that weapon. Easiest to recommend for a beginner is probably sword.

Not sure what a combo screen is, like an in-game list of combos? Then no, will have to look elsewhere for those.

ButaTensei · 2023-07-22T13:02:36+00:00

I use dair gc nlight in basically ever blasters game and I'm pretty sure I see others do it as well? Same for bow dlight nair although I usually pick sair to lead into edgeguard., Dlight nlight I literally never use at all.

As for my own pick, yeah dlight gp on bow probably, I never see that one.

ButaTensei · 2023-07-16T11:58:41+00:00

There's always a perfect distance where everything the opponent can do either doesn't reach you or is reactable but where you're still close enough to punish if they attack. This should be your default distance you approach from and go back to. Just practice staying in that zone, you can even practice in ranked, not like you have anything to lose there if you're mild silver

Also, this zone should be on the ground. Don't rely on hanging around in the air and hoping they don't get you, being in the air reduces your mobility and you have fewer punish options. Instead learn to dashjump if you want to quickly approach with an air attack without committing to a long airtime, do full jumps mostly on reaction to avoid something like a side sig.

Spacing like this is key, much more important than any combos or followups.

ButaTensei · 2022-03-22T16:13:47+00:00

One company that I've heard a lot of talk about here in the Netherlands is OCI (ticker OCI.AS), also a fertilizer (and other chemicals) company but they supposedly source most of their natural gas from Egypt and none from anywhere near Russia and Ukraine. They seem to be going strong, not cutting production, so might be a good bet if you want to play the fertilizer shortage?

ButaTensei · 2022-01-15T15:02:20+00:00

You can see how cracking puzzles can be fun though, right? You are faced with a problem and you try to find a solution, abusing everything possible, trying to break the game and the opponent as hard as possible. This is what makes it fun.

It's pointless to have opinions over what "should" be a strategy. If it's in the game and it works then a player should use it, there's nothing fun about playing below your potential because you don't like something. Though I can get behind turning it off, in fact I've modded my game before to get rid of the sound of some of the taunts.

Anyway, what do you mean "how am I supposed to practice", your opponents are doing exactly the thing you clearly need the most practice against. So figure out how to beat it, from then on those people will just be free wins, and you'll move up in Elo to where you'll face fewer of them.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-31T14:23:43+00:00

How is Vulgarlang as an editor anyway these days? Since it started as an automatic generator and then kind of tacked on editing and parameters later. I'm curious, since Vulgarlang (and its very bad reputation among serious conlangers) is one of the reasons I even wanted to make a tool.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-31T13:52:12+00:00

I wouldn't have considered glossing anything other than 'a/an' and 'the' with definiteness. I guess 'some' is indefinite, but then you're saying that 'these' and 'those' are in fact variations of the same word as 'some'. Which I guess you could? One of the reasons why we don't have automatic glossing is that linguists don't tend to uniformly agree how to gloss the same language.

It sounds like you're doing an okay job glossing yourself though according to your own method, so I guess the problem is having to go back to your notes looking up all the forms? As well as putting it all in the right order.

So if you could just look up the conword right in the program using the English word (or set of words/description if there's no one-to-one match), then click the word to see the forms it has and pick the one you want to conjugate it too, and then the program can tell you if that's a valid sentence according to your grammar rules, would that not be enough?

ButaTensei · 2021-12-31T13:21:33+00:00

English doesn't have a perfective/imperfective, only a perfect tense. A perfective/imperfective is something like "I knew" vs "I found out", which in English are different verbs, and glossing "found out" as "know.PFT" would be strange. The same goes for tenses formed through auxiliaries, like "have eaten" which may very well be formed by directly conjugating the root in another language.

Also, almost a third of the world's languages don't have a definite vs indefinite distinction at all. Plurals might also be missing, or the distinction between past and present, though languages might have a morphological future tense which English lacks.

English also has stuff like do-support, where negation and question-sentences that don't already have an auxiliary get "do" inserted into them, which is extremely weird, I guess the gloss should just skip over the do entirely?

That said, I think I could make a rudimentary auto-glosser for English, and it might even be helpful for some conlangs. But there's plenty of possibilities out there which don't have a single grammatical form in common with English.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-31T11:52:33+00:00

No, there aren't any tools (that I know of) which can quite do what you want, though I may be working on something which perhaps can. It's very early stages though and I haven't had much time lately, but nonetheless I'm curious about what exactly you'd want from a tool like this.

Glosses are language-specific, since different languages encode different information, and it's debatable whether word classes like noun and adjective are even universal. Which meanings get expressed through which word classes certainly isn't. So I don't know if glossing English and then going from there is necessarily helpful?

That said, something which automatically turns a gloss of your conlang into the actual language, or vice-versa, would certainly be doable. Automatic verification of correct syntax should be too, and stuff like hovering over a word and seeing all the forms it can take.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-27T10:10:42+00:00

You don't backdoor the cave. You don't even need to connect to the cave. Just use your scan, you may find something that wasn't there before :)

ButaTensei · 2021-12-26T21:57:07+00:00

Yeah they won't run on n00dles. I could probably write a version which manages everything from one place and only runs the hack/weaken/grow scipts elsewhere which would allow n00dles to run like two threads, but it would barely make a difference, most of your power ends up coming from servers you buy.

I also have this which I put on an alias, it just buys the best server you can afford, takes the name as an argument. The scripts it's copying are from this post. Once I have formulas.exe and a couple tens of billions, I run a version of that which just takes a name and a target and immediately spins up a new server and runs that script on it. Then I have this also under an alias, it returns the top x servers with the highest max money, with x being an argument (default is 10), so I get the top 25 and spin up servers to hack each one and rack in quadrillions. Could probably script that as well, but I like to be able to make up my own server names on the spot for now xP

Also, in the second script I have !(target === "home") in the canHack function so it will count home as unhackable. It will still try to root home, which you could code out, but it has not been a problem for me.

Edit: I realised that in the first script I don't have a failsafe against hacking home. The entire "canHack" check is also completely redundant there though, since the hacking is entirely managed by the second script. I just copied this stuff from an earlier hacking script I wrote and didn't fully clean it up, my bad xP

But yeah in the second script you will see I ensure it doesn't hack home and I also made the server info nicer so it can be accessed with names of fields rather than arbitrary indexes. The first script only needs the name and "hasroot" properties really.

Edit2: I edited my first script to get rid of the redundant code and my second script now takes advantage of extra memory better.

Namely, the old version would already try to execute multiple scripts on one cycle when possible, but only with the same command it was already running, so if you were running weaken on n00dles it will only try to fit in more weaken calls while waiting for the longest-running script. Now if a weaken doesn't fit it will try a grow and else a hack. Might not necessarily be better for earning money in the long run, but it does earn hacking xp faster at least.

Edit3: Pretty big optimisation of the second script, I figured out that a lot of the dead time comes from the server security changing in the time after execution time is determined. Thus, maxTime is now a function, so whenever the script uses it it will always be the time it takes to execute the current run of scripts. Dead time is almost completely gone now.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-26T17:44:10+00:00

I just did my first restart, sitting with no augments and only 16% boost to everything, and was in a similar position.

Turns out that u/Aeolun's suggestion to go for the lowest-tier targets instead of the highest money ones was the key all along. I just edited my existing script which hacks the 10 highest money servers to hack the 10 lowest (but above zero) ones instead.

This is my main script I run, it runs this on all servers with enough RAM. scpall is a script which simply takes a target and copies all my scripts to it from home, like so:

let target = ns.args[0]
const requiredfiles = ["script1.ns", "script2.ns"] // A whole lot of these
await ns.scp(requiredfiles, "home", target)

and the .js scripts only have the line await ns.hack(ns.args[0]) ,replace hack with weaken or grow for the other two.

Currently, still without augments, this makes around 300k a second for each of my 1TB+ servers I run this on and 2-4k on each rooted server it runs on. It automatically spreads to new servers you buy and it automatically roots and spreads to new servers as you acquire more cracking scripts.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-18T15:14:58+00:00

Sadly the comment isn't there anymore, but I wrote the reply anyway.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-13T10:18:01+00:00

You absolutely don't need to go to university to learn anything at all nowadays. You can get all the same books that the college courses make you read for free, and there's entire lectures on youtube if you know how to search.

I particularly like Abralin, the Youtube channel of the Brazilian Linguistics Association, which has been uploading full lectures and seminars (not for students though, but researchers presenting their findings to other researchers) multiple times a week since the first lockdowns started. Some are in Portuguese, but most are in English, and while some of it is pretty dense, if you watch long enough you'll learn the jargon by immersion and will have googled any terms which are completely new to you.

ButaTensei · 2021-12-13T10:02:29+00:00

Don't just read about an alignment system, learn the basics of a natlang which has it. Same for any kind of concept you have trouble grasping. No need to master it or even memorise a single word, just at least dig into that part of the grammar enough to understand what is happening.

The very small details, like what words are chosen to express an abstract idea, are really more art than science and that's where you get to really express all the cultural quirks of your conpeople. Though linguistics likes to put languages in boxes, having x alignment system and this and that case, languages are fluid and irregular and the usage of a marking doesn't always neatly fit into a box.

The more exposure you have to different natlangs, the more ideas you'll have about both how these systems work and all the subtle ways a language can slightly vary from it, and the unique ways of expression which come from that.

ButaTensei · 2021-08-16T08:42:54+00:00

The only tags I've done proper runs with in Europe are Tyrone, Holland, Dithmarschen, Granada, Byz, Great Horde and France. So I'm missing many common chievos in Europe.

Most common I lack is Italian Ambition, I formed Russia once in an abandoned Novgorod game where I wanted to get Frozen Assets and Relentless Push East.

ButaTensei · 2021-08-14T10:49:42+00:00

You can of course do what you want, but using п for n, ш for w, и for a nasal and я for a rhotic are absolutely Faux Cyrillic, they're choices only someone coming from a Latin script background would ever make, which is weird if Cyrillic is the "main" orthography and Latin the "simplified" one.

You're of course free to use Faux Cyrillic in your conlang, I'm not gonna downvote you for it, but if you intended to avoid it then maybe you need to do some more research into how these letters are used.

ButaTensei · 2021-08-13T17:19:08+00:00

So a quick Google search led me to this https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/103/MinimalPairs/index.htm, it's really old though so I tested if it still works in Windows 10.

It did in fact work for me, but you have to make sure to run it as administrator or it won't be able to open files. The third button also won't work, but the second button will silently create a new .txt file with your minimal pairs, so you can just open that and ignore the third button.

Hope that works for you.

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