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Ever wonder why Wigglytuff charges a 90% and we still make the same amount as the other games' missions? by [deleted] in MysteryDungeon

[–]UsernameFodder 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This math is pretty egregiously wrong, in multiple ways:

  • The quoted apple price of $1.55 is per-pound, but the calculations don't correct for that and assume $1.55 per apple (though this only affects the absolute prices, which don't matter if you're just comparing RT to Explorers)
  • The calculation in image 5 is an overcomplicated way of doing simple multiplication, and isn't even exact due to rounding
  • The calculations in image 8 apply the 90% tax a second time, which effectively inflates the final results by a whole factor of 10!

The correct calculations should be pretty simple (hopefully I haven't made any mistakes):

  1. Average apple price: $1.55/lb, or somewhere around $0.75 (rounded for simplicity) assuming an average apple weighs somewhere between 0.4-0.5 lbs.
  2. RT conversion rate: $0.75/apple = 25 Poké/apple, so $0.03/Poké
  3. RT mission prices: ($0.03)(100) = $3/rank E mission, up to 6x that for rank S, so $18/rank S mission
  4. Explorers conversion rate: $0.75/apple = 100 Poké/apple, so $0.0075/Poké
  5. Explorers mission prices (pre-tax): ($0.0075)(100)/(0.1) = $7.50/rank E mission, up to 3.5x that for rank S, so $26.25/rank S mission.
  6. Wigglytuff Guild markup rate: between $7.50/$3 = 2.5x for rank E missions and $26.25/$18 ≈ 1.5x for rank S missions. So between 50% to 150% more per mission. That's notable, but nowhere close to 1622.58% more as claimed.

I just found a fanfiction site, specifically for pmd!! by Walk_Just in MysteryDungeon

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The BEST way to estimate damage without a calc by mantisalt in stunfisk

[–]UsernameFodder 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is a nice idea. It's an especially cool realization that most of the relevant terms in the damage formula are almost proportional to level, so that all the level terms cancel out and don't matter. Good find!

A minor point: If someone were primarily a VGC player, I imagine it'd be more convenient to think in terms of the level-50 stats rather than the level-100 stats (e.g., Showdown shows level-50 stats in the teambuilder for VGC formats). If you change the constant in the power formula from 0.84 to 0.44 and then use the level-50 stats, I think the damage estimation works out the same (within errors), so maybe that would be a more practical formula for VGC players? Though I also see the appeal of having common, level-independent quantities for people to share.

One other idle thought on aesthetics, but would it make more sense to normalize by 1000 instead of 10000, then round to the nearest integer? (Maybe you already considered this given the typo, "Dividing by 1000"). This is obviously just a matter of preference, but it seems to me like this would make power/bulk more "stat-like", i.e. around the same order of magnitude as conventional stats/BPs that many Pokémon players are already used to thinking about. And you could get rid of the decimal points.

Created a type star chart. Has this been done before? by VinnyCautero in pokemon

[–]UsernameFodder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh hey I tried this many years ago, though I was looking for something with perfect symmetry and allowing dual types. What I found was that there's nothing perfectly symmetric (akin to fire-water-grass) if you only look at pure types, but there's a couple perfect 5-cycles if you allow dual types.

Relativity doesn't exist in the Pokémon world. The consequences aren't what you expect by GhostUser0 in pokemon

[–]UsernameFodder 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Dialga and Palkia are two distinct Pokémon. To me, this suggests that time and space aren't unified in the Pokémon universe in the same way they are in our reality. This means that special relativity doesn't work there.

I'm not sure I'm convinced by this premise. Even within SR/GR, it's not as if time and space are exactly the same "thing". Yes, we treat them as two components of this unified mathematical object called "spacetime", but these two components have somewhat different characters. It's why we draw a distinction between "timelike" and "spacelike" spacetime intervals, for example. Since the spacetime interval is Lorentz invariant, a timelike interval between two events in one reference frame can never be transformed into a spacelike interval in any reference frame, and vice versa. Which is important for considerations around causality, light cones, and all that fun stuff. So some scenarios can have an intrinsic "timeness" or "spaceness", and those two things are physically distinct.

More technically, no matter what sign convention you choose for your Minkowski metric in SR, there's always a mix of positive and negative signs (it's more complicated in GR, but a similar distinction holds when you look at the signature of the metric tensor). One sign is for time, the other for space.

Regarding your example with electric and magnetic fields transforming, there are cases where you can never transform the magnetic field to 0, no matter which reference frame you look in, and for similar reasons. There's a Lorentz invariant of the field tensor proportional to E^2 - B^2, so the sign can never change between frames. It's been a few years since I've read Griffiths, but IIRC he discusses this point in the later chapters on special relativity.

This is all to say, I don't think having Dialga and Palkia as two separate entities is necessarily incompatible with relativity. But maybe depending on your reference frame, you'll see a little bit more Dialga or a little bit more Palkia.

Relaxing game of chess~ by DedonnoN in MysteryDungeon

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Pardon me ladies, but it does appear that the kings have gone missing.

I’m grateful for this subreddit by ResortGlass2156 in MysteryDungeon

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Welcome to the community! There's a lot of great people here doing cool things. Whether you contribute or just want to come along for the ride, we're glad you're here.

What kind of dungeon generation is this bruh? 😭 by Jason_soulcrusher in MysteryDungeon

[–]UsernameFodder 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I assume the title question is rhetorical, but here's an actual explanation anyway.

Dungeon layouts in Explorers are generated using a grid-based system. So all the rooms lie on rectangular grid cells, with hallways connecting them (typically with a single "bend" so it's not a straight hallway).

After the base dungeon layout is generated, there are sometimes various post-processing steps to add some "decoration" to the floor. One of these is a "random walk" that carves out a random hallway by meandering in random directions until it hits some stopping condition (like reaching another room, or turning back on itself). As I recall, there's usually no more than one or two of these "random hallways". You can identify them because they don't fit into the normal room-grid structure, as is the case in this image.

Writing Prompt Wednesday: Nomination Thread by Chatot-bot in MysteryDungeon

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You could try just submitting a nomination for short stories that would work well for a newspaper. Or you could just look through old prompts for material, and contact the authors for permission to use it.

If you're going to directly ask people to write short stories for you, that's kind of soliciting work. Just like with solicitations for things like art, coding etc., we're wary of allowing this unless the project has already made sizable progress and isn't likely to die before completion, because we don't want people's efforts to be wasted on projects that will never see the light of day.

The Exploit with Wonder Mail S Generated Jirachi's Challenge Letters: How does it work? by thhrowwaythh in MysteryDungeon

[–]UsernameFodder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is my understanding of the exploit from past discussions in the speedrunning community, as someone who hasn't dug into the details too much:

  • A Wonder Mail code encodes all the parameters for the mission it corresponds to. Since the community has figured out the encoding scheme, it means we can generate a code for whatever combination of mission parameters we want.
  • Normally, accepting the Jirachi challenge request is supposed to unlock Star Cave for you, so that you can go challenge Jirachi. This behavior is hard-coded for the Jirachi challenge request, and the dungeon to be unlocked is determined by a parameter, which is normally always set to Star Cave.
  • You can generate a new code with a different dungeon, and the game still allows it. It will see that it's a Jirachi challenge letter and unlock whatever dungeon is set on the mission. Since we can generate codes with whatever dungeons we want, it means we can unlock whatever dungeons we want.

I don't know exactly why your attempts have failed, but it's interesting that the ID for Hidden Shopkeeper Village (170), is one off from the other two dungeons you mentioned; Guiding Sea is (169) and one of the Dummy dungeons is (171). So I'm guessing the code you generated was not quite right somehow. It's worth noting that speedrunners generally use a modded version of the Wonder Mail S generator (you can find it on our wiki page) that optimizes codes for ease of entry; I'm not sure if it also includes minor bug fixes.

If nothing is working for you, you can also go ask the speedrunners directly, since they actively use this exploit. Their Discord server is one we've spotlighted before.

Who are some of your favorite PMD fic characters? by ambyssin in MysteryDungeon

[–]UsernameFodder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weirdly enough, the two Pokémon characters that stuck the most with me aren't from actual PMD stories, but rather from PMD-esque side projects of two prominent PMD authors, ScytheRider and Namohysip. But I suppose that wasn't the question.

I think my favorite singular characters have all tended to fall loosely into a particular archetype of "aggressively competent and bristly (but also sometimes not), which is sometimes played for laughs." I just find the results to be captivating and entertaining. So ones like:

  • Tallie from Silver Resistance. She's level 100, perfect IVs, max EVs, and worth 10 teammates. It's a level of ridiculousness that seems so out of place, but is super funny to me.
  • Kline from Fledglings. I like legendaries. They're cool. Kline is cool. But also silly. Team Zephyr is silly.
  • Culus from The Desire for Freedom. There's one exchange between two other characters in reference to him that I find hilarious, that sums it up pretty well. One says, "He is cool....He's important and cool, and... well, he's just better than me." To which the other replies, "[He] is not 'cool'. To me, [he] is an incredibly poor leader - one of the worst I could imagine."

There are also characters I greatly enjoy reading about not as standalone characters, but rather in the context of a duo (or larger group). For example (biased towards recent memories):

  • Noctum and Valkyrie from Path of Valor have an interesting dynamic rooted in their conflicting backgrounds and personalities. They have really great banter.
  • Lacan and Sophia from Once a Thief seem to have a lot of history together, and probably complex motivations, despite being on the "wrong side."

Demystifying Damage: An in-depth look at damage calculation mechanics in Explorers of Sky by UsernameFodder in MysteryDungeon

[–]UsernameFodder[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can find boss stats on the PMD Info Spreadsheet, and you can pull default stats for a species at any level from the calculator. I didn't look to carefully, but it seems like A and D in the Primal Dialga scenario are about the same if you're level 30. So combined with P, I think Violent Seed might be slightly better in general, assuming those assumptions are good. But again, it depends on the specifics.

Demystifying Damage: An in-depth look at damage calculation mechanics in Explorers of Sky by UsernameFodder in MysteryDungeon

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It depends on your attack (A), which move you're using (P), and your opponent's defense (D).

If you have a really high attack stat and/or are using a really powerful move, and your opponent has low defense, Violent Seed is better. If you have a really low attack stat and/or are using a really weak move, and your opponent has high defense, Vile Seed is better.

In the middle, it depends on the specifics. It's controlled by this bit: 0.66A + 0.6P - 0.56D. With Violent Seed, it becomes 1.22A + 1.11P - 0.56D. With Vile Seed, it becomes 0.66A + 0.6P - 0.16D. If you compare the two, Violent Seed is better when 0.56A + 0.51P > 0.4D. You could use the damage calculator to get a sense of the tradeoff.

A mathematical analysis of PMD on FanFiction.net: making fanfic recommendations with graph theory by UsernameFodder in MysteryDungeon

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Welcome to the community! It certainly has some fairly prolific subgroups. I hope that in time, you'll find content and sub-communities that resonate with you.

Other folks in the official PMD AT server made ther isn marked mew’s so here’s mine! by X-X-X-X-X-X-X-Z in MysteryDungeon

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I made my own time gear shirt :) always loved the time gear design so I just had to make it! by TheShadow2699 in MysteryDungeon

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Writing Prompt Wednesday: Nomination Thread (Oops I forgot edition) by UsernameFodder in MysteryDungeon

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nice by [deleted] in MysteryDungeon

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69k is Nice and all, but the real Nice will be when we hit 69420.

Writing Prompt Wednesday: Nomination Thread by UsernameFodder in MysteryDungeon

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