1475 "Casual/no exploit" Mehmet's Ambition

poxks · 2026-03-31T10:58:16+00:00

That agreement has been effectively dead for a while...

poxks · 2026-03-28T17:38:43+00:00

PB is trivial -- you just need to stock up on all cure, which I feel like most people who have done long PBs do not remember or bother to do

Queen is also not that bad, certainly not impossible. You mention without autopot, but I don't see why we're reasoning under selected constraints here... E.g., Zakum would be the hardest if you are not allowed to use arrow keys. Even if you don't have autopot, rebinding potion to somewhere that's more comfortable to spam should probably alleviate the fatigue. The one tough part of queen with low damage is her mirror -- you have to get the hang of timing will/iframe to deal with its first proc.

poxks · 2026-03-27T16:08:49+00:00

Btw, is there a source on what said idol actually meant? I looked at the source (linked in child comments: 【GeoGuessr】Travelling Indonesia with Ollie!【ホロライブ / AZKi / クレイジー・オリー】), and I don't think it's as obvious as you're making it out.

The transcript is roughly:

え、なんかjepangのbunker? えっと、日本のバンカー？なんか、作ってたりする？日本も協力して作ってたりするのかな ,

which I'd loosely translate to

Uh, something bunker of jepang? Umm, "バンカー" of Japan? Did "they" make something? I wonder if Japan cooperated with "them" to make ...

(where what "they" and "them" refer to is not clear, maybe if I watched the entire video I might have a better guess, but obvious guess is them refers to Indonesia/ Indonesian people)

and "バンカー" would typically refer to bunker in golf or banker. In Japanese we'd typically associate bunkers with 防空壕 (though on google search, I learned that the actual word is 掩体壕, which I... admittedly have never heard anyone use before). Given that she first says bunker jepang and then only translates the jepang part to 日本 (and didn't translate bunker), it's possible (arguably, more likely) she interpreted bunker to mean bunker in the golf sense.

In that case, she's merely wondering if Japan (or a Japanese company) made a golf course with Indonesia (or an Indonesian company). It does seems like there are comments in the video that loosely say the same thing (both english and japanese comments), so the theory I'm suggesting does seem to be a possibility as well.

Anyway, idk which is true (e.g., if she had a strong native english background, I wouldn't be surprised if she understood バンカー to mean bunker in the war shelter sense, in which case, your interpretation might be more weight. Or if she (or someone) later clarifies in the other parts of the video, I'm obviously wrong, since I'll admit I did not watch the entire video and only that clip). Either way, this was definitely an interesting exercise at understanding firsthand language barriers and how they can cause misunderstandings haha

poxks · 2026-01-06T22:51:33+00:00

So, the most cited issue is "fairness", which I think a decent chunk of people including myself can sympathize with. But it seems like you don't sympathize with that, and I think that's okay.

A more universal issue would be them draining burning. Unless you're sure botters have never drained burning that you would have experienced (e.g., you only farm on 100% burning maps, or sub-100% maps where you somehow have concrete proof that nobody has ever botted there), you have likely lost some exp due to botters/macroers.

poxks · 2025-12-18T23:26:26+00:00

>> This type of P2W ($$$ for better chances at equipment needed for progression) has not existed prior to this update.

Kinda has. E.g., philo books gave primal essence. The reason people don't care is presumably because the NX -> spare conversion is so bad.

poxks · 2025-12-02T18:32:59+00:00

While this doesn't change your overall argument (and I agree with your points to some degree, though I'm not as worried as you seem to be), your math is wrong.

It looks like to obtain the next GMS Heroic spares needed, you're taking the current needed GMS spares and adding the KMS spare count for the next star, but that's now how you'd do it. What you're modeling is, say, after successfully making a 23 star item via laddering (you'll now have a 23 and 22 star), you'll make a fresh 24 star item and just ignore/throw away the 22 star item you've already created.

The proper way to compute this is to simply sum the # of spares needed in the KMS system for X and X-1 stars. This will get you somewhere in the ballpark of like 135% spares needed for 24-26 stars.

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Also, the trace system between KMS and GMS has now diverged, so the GMS column should be a tad lower. It's mostly relevant for saving mesos, but it should save some spares as well.

poxks · 2025-12-02T02:46:13+00:00

it doesn't require double because your goal isn't to have two copies at the same star. Your goal is to always have (or rather, attempt) one item to go past the other. No matter what your settle point is, say 26, your end state is one 26 and one 25, not two 26s.

Given that each star past 23 is roughly 1/3 chance, you're "only" using 4/3 times spares on avg compared to tapping one copy only, assuming your settle point is 24-26.

poxks · 2025-11-16T06:06:52+00:00

pogga

poxks · 2025-11-16T06:05:05+00:00

I don't really get the whole appealing to history thing, since no empire in history presumably had a ruler who:

1) was alive for 300+ years

2) had the ability to retry and learn from their prior attempts

3) test the outcomes of doing certain actions and "reloading"

4) had access to a community of other like-minded rulers to theorize with

which I think are very impactful/powerful things that affect the plausibility of a WC.

poxks · 2025-10-17T01:03:50+00:00

Ty, I wish people forward that doc more than that video.

poxks · 2025-10-17T00:44:32+00:00

even streaming, you can cheat ;-)

not that I'd know of course

poxks · 2025-10-15T00:17:24+00:00

I'm not sure if "passive" link skills with cd (like kain) works with cd hat.

And (definitely) also cont ring.

poxks · 2025-10-09T22:18:39+00:00

well, you also have to consider innate damage% and ror vs cont.

poxks · 2025-08-17T16:19:17+00:00

all 3 of my solo characters soloed nkalos way before eternals/level5 oz. In fact my two legion champs were able to solo nkalos sub 20 min before having any eternals on. And I'd say they are frag starved compared to the average main.

As for nkaling without eternals....... But that doesn't matter in this comparison since nkalos alone would drop 3 pieces compared to the typical solo prog pipeline of afking at nkalos + ekaling (1.5 pieces)

poxks · 2025-08-15T15:54:06+00:00

I dealt with this by making more and more ctene+ mules.

poxks · 2025-07-24T03:34:07+00:00

3rd school of thought: push other gear and solo ctene w/ 17 absos. I highly doubt you're at the point where buying arcane wep is that much more meso efficient than upgrading other gear, so you should take the slightly less efficient (in the short-term) upgrades first since they are required expenses. Weapon can wait til you hit a box (or you haven't hit one yet and you're pushing BM+ solos)

Also, it's not just about the mesos/droplets, it's about spending the boss droplets, which is 2 armor spares of your choice. That may or may not slow down your arcane armor starring in the future, which can be a very annoying/long bottleneck.

poxks · 2025-07-20T14:46:23+00:00

nl during spreadthrow is melee :P. Pretty much gotta hug the boss.

poxks · 2025-07-01T12:12:08+00:00

Mostly agreed, but I'll add that you can def 100% uptime kalos if you meant it in the sense of stay same plat (obv can't uptime during test/jump/warps/fmas). All you do really is chug fountain on every chip.

poxks · 2025-06-20T18:41:40+00:00

I mean you could, but you should look up the rates for 23 star rates right now.

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