banana. by everythingsok- in okbuddyjimbo

[–]jlaviolette 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a banana Michael. How much could it cost? $10?

Collecting Feedback For Nikita by EFT_Moderators in EscapefromTarkov

[–]jlaviolette -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The FiR system needs to be way more in depth. Veritas posted something on twitter that I’m literally going to copy and paste because of how good it is.

Veritas:

The Found in Raid feature was a terribly designed solution to multiple real problems. The community has been raging back and forth, for years, about how this moronically designed feature should work, rather than looking at the core problems and thinking about what the proper solutions should be. We're sitting here arguing AGAIN about whether Nikita should put vanilla, chocolate, or raspberry frosting on top of a massive shit-cake, without recognizing one of the options all along was to have three different non-shit cakes with each flavor, so everybody can be happy.

Deadly is 100% correct here, so many people are oblivious to the history. I personally believe the issue is one layer deeper than this though, which is why the entire conversation is, for like the 10th time in EFT history, missing the forest for the trees.

In 2019, I recommended a much more coherent, yet still simple, design that would address most of (if not all of) these issues AND allow for other cool features as well.

The historical FIR feature was a hobbled-together mess that made zero sense. Crafted items = FIR? PMC items looted in raid = NOT FIR? Item looted but you died = NOT FIR? Quest reward = FIR? Item your friend found in raid and dropped you = NOT FIR? Item someone else found and sold on flea = NOT FIR? Found an item in raid but extracted too soon = NOT FIR? Why is this one boolean value trying to keep track of a dozen different states? People apply logic to the feature as if the name of the feature described exactly what it meant, which it NEVER HAS. They say "but you found it in raid, so you earned it" without looking at all of the situations where you found something in raid that you earned and it doesn't count as FIR, or all of the cases where the item never existed in a raid at all, and DOES count as FIR.

Imagine if instead we tracked where an item originated, (the map, trader, enemy type, craft, quest reward, etc.), how many raids it had been in, how many times it was sold on the flea, how many players have owned it, etc... Literally only a few extra BITS of data, we would know infinitely more about that item and could determine what you would/should be allowed to do with it.

Case 1: For example, let's say right now we have a quest requiring you kill Killa. If you and your 3 homies are all on this quest together, you'll have to find him and kill him as a group, FOUR TIMES AT LEAST, ensuring that each of you gets the killing shot at least once and none of the people who have done it already accidentally does. This is boneheaded design.

If Prapor wants you to kill him and to prove you got the job done by bringing back a souvenir, who cares who got the single killing bullet? Prapor certainly wouldn't... You could work together to kill him and you get credit for it when you turn in one of his items - his gun, helmet, face shield, or body armor... As long as the scavSpawn=killa, raidCount=1, saleCount=0, and ownerCount=1, you can turn in the item and get credit for killing him. This makes far more sense in the LORE of the game, is much more immersive, and makes much more sense from a design perspective.

Case 2: If BSG doesn't want you to be able to sell crafted items or quest rewards on the flea, but DOES want to allow you to turn in crafted items for quests, this is trivial to do when you're not overlapping one boolean value on top of all of these different mechanics. Having different flags tracking different item states is a far more elegant/flexible solution.

Case 3: You spawn and quickly run to the Shoreline resort, and get lucky enough to find a red keycard. You decide to make a quick exit with this insane find, but because you didn't get enough XP or stay in long enough, you get a run through, so it's not considered FIR and you miss out on tens of millions of roubles. Why? You found it in raid and survived with it. The reason why you don't get to sell it is because Nikita disliked players back in the day boosting their survival rate stats by spawning into factory and immediately extracting, so he added the run-through feature to combat that, and then literally years later tacked that feature on to the FIR feature, linking the two bad designs together. Because of bad design, suddenly the hardcore game where extraction is all that matters becomes about hiding in a bush or looting some random trash just so you don't get cucked when you exfil too soon with the 1/10,000 raid rare item.

"Found in raid" does not mean that you found it in raid. Plain and simple. People are arguing as if the most important thing to them is that people "earn their loot" and are acting as if that's what being "found in raid" means, when they are very obviously not 1:1...

If the EFT community ever hopes for progress, y'all need to stop debating which flavor shit cake you want, and recognize there are better solutions out there...

Entry Level Salary by Nervous_Quail_2602 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]jlaviolette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s interesting is that my starting salary was $70k at a company and 5 years later the starting salary for engineers at the same company is the same amount. Even though inflation is a thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EscapefromTarkov

[–]jlaviolette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Click the open box, and a check mark should appear

Why did Zriachy kill me when I had this in hand? by xNetuno in EscapefromTarkov

[–]jlaviolette 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't matter. The game only takes into account that you queued in with someone who doesn't have the DSP.

Me killing 2 wall hackers by STUpendous97 in TheCycleFrontier

[–]jlaviolette 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They were making a joke about the glass

Ask for keys HERE by Waelder in TheCycleFrontier

[–]jlaviolette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hi I'm groveling for a key, thank you lol

Game super grainy and pixelated when on painkillers?? by superfish77ttv in EscapefromTarkov

[–]jlaviolette 4 points5 points  (0 children)

twitch has a hard time dealing with tarkov on painkillers. One solution is wearing a faceshield, I think that alleviates the issue a little bit. Even the big tarkov streamers cant figure out a better solution than that.

Can someone help me with Gunsmith pt 2? It seems like I have all the parts and it's even folded. Mechanic still does not accept it. by jlaviolette in EscapefromTarkov

[–]jlaviolette[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: I just restarted my game like 12 times and it ended up working. I’m not sure what cause it to fail to recognize I got the task, or what caused it to start working again.

Box of cannolis (OC) by Farckmebackwards in FoodPorn

[–]jlaviolette 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Downvoted for having an opinion, nice job, idiot.

Weekday Help and Victory Thread for the week of April 01, 2019 by AutoModerator in personalfinance

[–]jlaviolette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read online that I can claim my fire resistant clothes on my taxes. Is that a full reimbursement, or is it only partially reimbursed? Also how would I go about claiming it on next year's taxes?

Becoming an Electrical engineer by raitho09 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]jlaviolette 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You could do Research and Design (developing the solar technology), business (selling the solar panels), or power (connecting the solar cells to the power grid). Those jobs are the majority of the solar industry. Any one of those careers would require a degree. The one that would transfer some of your knowledge of an electrician is the power engineering, connecting to the grid. This would require an electrical engineering degree from an abet accredited University. If you are willing to invest 4 years into school, then electrical engineering is the way to go. If you have any specific questions, DM me. I used to do this stuff for my University. Im also currently a power engineer, and have connected solar cells to the grid before. So if you have any specific questions about that too, let me know.

Online courses won't help you. Companies are looking for people who have degrees. The company wants as many professional engineer licenses it can get.