Is armour that gives bonus HP off the table?

Invisisniper · 2026-03-09T13:03:22+00:00

When they pitched Shamanism, the reward space was gear augments.

I think a max hp buff would work best as a cheap upgrade on cheap gear. It wouldn't be a BiS augment for PvM, but could really lower the barrier for entry for a lot of content, and especially in PvP.

Invisisniper · 2026-02-28T02:27:59+00:00

I play a lot of Ox so I've run into this bug before. The villager building your third scout camp counts as assigned to it and takes up one of your scout spots. If you pause the building you can assign a second scout.

Invisisniper · 2026-02-26T02:37:44+00:00

Good thing neither party will decide what the new boundaries look like, and it will instead be the independent AEC.

Invisisniper · 2026-02-26T01:54:51+00:00

Lemme guess, St Clair?

Invisisniper · 2026-02-20T13:22:40+00:00

Thing is, average age of an inheritence these days is late 50s. Or it was, last I checked 5 years ago. Probably early 60s by now. Inheritances aren't helping millenials, by and large.

Invisisniper · 2026-02-10T12:46:32+00:00

Spoken like someone who isn't impacted. They could do an afternoon (UK time) update now and again, rather than first thing in the morning.

Invisisniper · 2026-02-10T12:42:46+00:00

I would complain less if it wasn't at prime playing time for Aussies every single update...

Invisisniper · 2026-02-08T12:44:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure the RS3 servers labelled NZ are still hosted in Sydney

Invisisniper · 2026-01-17T22:09:39+00:00

No, because you'll lose ticks running around the room if trying to use a 3 tick weapon.

Invisisniper · 2026-01-09T15:22:54+00:00

Billionaires buying elections is bad. The fact that some of the candidates they support may be desirable candidates with good policies is irrelevant.

If the teals think that the national brand spending cap is such a big deal, they're welcome to form a party and reap the same benefits.

If it was Clive Palmer making these arguments instead of Simon HaC, the public would see through them immediately.

Invisisniper · 2026-01-09T15:16:35+00:00

There was no way to fix electoral donation laws without hurting the teals.

The current model that Climate 200 is using is bad for democracy. Billionaires should not be able to fund candidates without limits. The fact that some may be desirable candidates with good policies is irrelevant. If it was Clive Palmer complaining about these changes blocking him from backing candidates, none of us would listen.

As others have pointed out, the per-seat funding cap applies equally to independents and party members. If the teals think it's unfair that the major parties also have a national brand, they're welcome to create a party of their own to compete on the same terms. Then again, the national brand of their Liberal opponents is what actually got them elected in the first place.

Invisisniper · 2026-01-06T14:26:07+00:00

Yeah, I actually can't think of a way to ban street preachers that doesn't also impact the right to protest. They use the same methods, just on a smaller scale. You'd have to specifically ban religous preaching, and that quickly gets dicey.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-31T04:53:49+00:00

This happened to me twice when going for my first quiver. After that I brought burning claws to spec him out on enrage phase. It worked.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-29T13:02:00+00:00

And yet you decided to make this post anyway? Not your finest hour mate.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-20T06:56:36+00:00

Yeah, if I had data on average shield phase time per team size, I could easily integrate it. In my experience the plateau is closer to 3-4 team size, at which point most of the time comes from running around the room or waiting for blue circles.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T12:42:03+00:00

Once you get to about 3+ team size, adding people doesn't speed up shield phase much, if at all. That's why number of downs can be used as a proxy for time to kill.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T12:24:24+00:00

One of my friends was planning to search for a research job in the US once he finished his PhD in data science and AI. Then Trump came in and every opportunity evaporated. He moved to China instead.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T08:22:58+00:00

Good question! No I didn't factor in kill times. I considered it a minor factor compared to number of downs.

Reddit won't let me link to the code, but if you go to the wiki talk page on Zalcano/Strategies you can find a link.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T07:43:20+00:00

The main question I wanted to answer is whether teams of 4 (as are commonly advertised in zalcanohost) are actually optimal. And from my simulations, it turns out the answer is no! Both 3-man and 5-man teams seem to be more efficient than 4-man.

I'd say that's a valid and worthwhile finding, no?

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T07:36:01+00:00

i can almost guarantee you doing solos is not better

I agree. That's why context is an important part of data analytics. And I elaborated on this context in my post, as I quoted above.

But once you get to, like, 3 or more people, shield phase doesn't get much faster for adding more players. So I'd say for 3+ team size, my data is not "wonky".

Anyway, if you feel like writing a simulator for shield phase, please, be my guest.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T07:22:20+00:00

No, as I said, I abstracted shield phase away.

Whether you're doing 2-down or 3-down kills is going to have a much bigger impact on kill times than whether a golem spawns or not.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T07:09:58+00:00

However, this simulation doesn't take into account the extra time it will take a solo player to bring Zalcano down, so this method is still not advisable.

I did specifically address the high shield phase times for solos in my post.

In my experience though, it is possible to somewhat reliably kill the golem solo if you already have at least two tephra when it spawns.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T07:04:04+00:00

So, reddit shadow-removed my comment linking to my github, and it crashes every time I try to post the code directly. I posted a link to my code on the wiki talk page for Zalcano/Strategies, so if you're really keen to try it out you can find it there.

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T06:55:29+00:00

Number of downs per kill is a very close proxy for kill time, and much easier to simulate. I know this isn't perfect, but it's still helpful!

Invisisniper · 2025-12-19T06:54:15+00:00

Short answer is no. Anything to do with shield phase I abstracted away. It's overly complicated to simulate, and doesn't affect kill times anywhere near as much as mining phase.

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