Comborobin

[Airwolf]

Great Abyssal Knight!

[sanka]

May I ask the password too?

I started the (later won) MuCK, and played it to Vault 4.

[Airwolf]

Sent.

[Airwolf]

Greater Deep Elf!

[Airwolf]

Greater Deep Dwarf!

[Blade]

I wouldn't mind playing some comborobin games. Could someone send me the password?

[Lacuenta]

I'll actually have some good working internet tonight, so I'd like to join the fun.
Could someone send me the pw?
Edit: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18762 to prove I'm not the worst player, since I rarely play online.

[Airwolf]

Sent and sent.

[xentronium]

A note to everyone, make sure you know what you're doing if you continue an existing caster character on cszo. Hurricos doesn't like it when people kill them!

[Blade]

Had some time over the past couple days so I did DrFE and MfEE. Fun games. I think it's a greatmerfolk now.

[HilariousDeathArtist]

Could someone send me the password please and thanks

[xentronium]

Sent, welcome to the crappy combo phase of comborobin

[Airwolf]

Had some time over the past couple days so I did DrFE and MfEE. Fun games. I think it's a greatmerfolk now.

Nice work!

[Airwolf]

Greater Spriggan!
Great Gladiator!

[le_nerd]

Its happening so fast now! There is still that VpWr XL19 on CDO trunk. Combo already won, but it could be a stepstone for a 15runer. If noone wants to finish it I'll quit it friday.

[edgefigaro]

So, in the spirit of completion and titles and such, and inspired by this thread, we should pick up greaterorbrunner.

[xentronium]

So, in the spirit of completion and titles and such, and inspired by this thread, we should pick up greaterorbrunner.

Good use for duplicates I suppose.

[Blade]

Its happening so fast now! There is still that VpWr XL19 on CDO trunk. Combo already won, but it could be a stepstone for a 15runer. If noone wants to finish it I'll quit it friday.

There's also a bonus GhAM sitting on CSZO 0.17. It might not the best char for greaterorbrun, though...

KoVM down.

[amalloy]

Greater Spriggan!
Great Gladiator!

Why did you start another SpGl when there was already a SpGl sitting around on CAO trunk with two runes?

Anyway I 15-runed the SpGl so that game wouldn't be a total waste given the duplicate win.

Edit: oh hey, got the SpGl high score, as well. comborobin's third hs.

[Airwolf]

Greater Spriggan!
Great Gladiator!

Why did you start another SpGl when there was already a SpGl sitting around on CAO trunk with two runes?

Anyway I 15-runed the SpGl so that game wouldn't be a total waste given the duplicate win.

Edit: oh hey, got the SpGl high score, as well. comborobin's third hs.

I didn't start another SpGl or win it. I was just announcing comborobin milestones.

I actually started that SpGl on CAO trunk that you got the high score with. Congrats on the high score. I'm stunned: I'm very slow (high turn count) and spent a lot of early XP on maces.

[AvImd]

May I ask for password too?
I played some games on CXC as pipel.

[Airwolf]

Sent.

[Sphara]

FeVM done.

About that visually missing (but still official) KoNe win.. If anyone has a problem with it not showing on the scoreboard, feel free to play it again. Neil told me CXC game log should be 'regenerated' and that should fix it. I don't know what that means but he told me it would be a serious effort and would require at least CXC to be shut down for a while.

We have such a party of high profile players that one win, not officially shown, should not affect the grand goal. If someone is not fine with that KoNe showing up on the scoreboard, then play it again Sam.

Otherwise, buddies, this is about being done!

[Airwolf]

I second the plan for KoNe, although I didn't play the lost game.

[amalloy]

Greater Spriggan!
Great Gladiator!

Why did you start another SpGl when there was already a SpGl sitting around on CAO trunk with two runes?

Anyway I 15-runed the SpGl so that game wouldn't be a total waste given the duplicate win.

Edit: oh hey, got the SpGl high score, as well. comborobin's third hs.

I didn't start another SpGl or win it. I was just announcing comborobin milestones.

I actually started that SpGl on CAO trunk that you got the high score with. Congrats on the high score. I'm stunned: I'm very slow (high turn count) and spent a lot of early XP on maces.

Haha yeah, I noticed that, and went along with your maces stuff until I found some kind of decent rapier, as I recall. The high score surprised me as well: I'm not a fast player typically (though not as slow as you are, apparently), and have no high scores of my own, and I wasn't particularly trying for one on this character. I think the SpGl high score was just not very good.

[edgefigaro]

The KoNe on CBRO trunk is crazy strong, just cleared lair, has Jihad, Leech, invis cloak, rings of +5 AC and +5 slay, and a +5 triple cross. Could be a candidate for greaterorbrunner.

[ManMan]

Can someone send me the password? I won the DsWz and DgWz, as well as a few others I can't remember (it's been a while).

[le_nerd]

Woot! We are currently at 95,61%! THE END IS NEAR!!!

[Airwolf]

I missed quite a few:
Greater High Elf!
Greater Merfolk!
Greater Tengu!
Great Arcane Marksman!
Great Artificer!
Great Transmuter!

[xentronium]

We're down to the last 15 combos..

[amalloy]

Whose is the HaFE on cao trunk? Normally I am happy to take over someone else's game, but this guy's skill training is so confusing I'm pretty sure I'd just kill him, and I don't want to do that to a game someone started with the intent to win. But it looks like HaFE has been won in the mean time, so nobody is going to be excited to play that one except the original owner. Does anyone mind if I just die on purpose so I can get on with a real comborobin char?

[Blade]

I started that HaFE and forgot to quit I when I realized halflings couldn't wield longbows. Not my favorite game. It's totally okay to quit it.

[nilsbloodaxe]

I cleaned up the spreadsheet a bit and since KoNe was won again, I just copied the wins from the CAO scoring page to the Combo Data sheet. Since the Won Characters sheet is all kinds of fucked up (seems like some extra lines and missing characters), I added another way to check to see if a combo was won using the Combo Data sheet. The rune sheet is a bit wrong since with multiple wins it just picks the first one, and not the one with the most runes (just sort by combo and runes fixes this), but since every won combo is in it, it now counts the number of won combos.

[Hurricos]

Absolute rip. I just realized I picked up the abyssal rune before grew orb on the TeIE, meaning that despite getting 11 runes after the orb, it's still not a greaterorbrunner

[Airwolf]

I thought I counted that correctly...

You've got to do another greaterorbrunner!

We also need 15-rune Vp and 15-rune Be.

Edit: Or for the masochistic, a 15-rune VpBe.

[Blade]

VpBe sounded about 50x more appealing than any other Vp combo, so I started one on CAO 0.17. It's quite well equipped--Robustness, Vitality, a +8 triple blade, the works. I got three runes and may get one or two more, but I'm not super fond of extended. If anybody likes doing extended, he's there; if not, I'll probably go through it myself in a few days.

also he has the second-best title in the game and if anybody changes it from "Vampiric Blade"...I will be sad

[mopl]

also he has the second-best title in the game and if anybody changes it from "Vampiric Blade"...I will be sad

And what is the best title in the game ?

[Blade]

also he has the second-best title in the game and if anybody changes it from "Vampiric Blade"...I will be sad

And what is the best title in the game ?

Well, my online account name is demonblade, so Demonic Blade wins by a longshot
"demonblade the Demonic Blade"

[Blade]

rip VpBe dream.

Got dispelled by a shadow fiend in pan after 8 runes.

Both still need 15-runers

[nilsbloodaxe]

Just watched a KoWz, that I got 2 runes with, die on Z:5 after being petrified with MR++++ and then LCS'd twice by an alich. So sad.

[Airwolf]

rip VpBe dream.

Got dispelled by a shadow fiend in pan after 8 runes.

Both still need 15-runers

Cheers for the attempt.

[amalloy]

Who ^qyes'd my KoWz on CAO trunk, only to start a GhFE and take 0 turns with it? I thought comborobin's policy was to not ^q a character anyone else has played, unless that combo has already been won by somebody else. Isn't an incident like this exactly what caused us to restrict access to the account?

[nilsbloodaxe]

The ^q may have been because there was another in progress that was pretty far. Granted it may not have been the best idea since that one died.

That being said, I think it is bad form to start a character that is already in progress as well.

It would be really nice if people would actually update the spreadsheet, too. Make sure we know what is actually being played.

[amalloy]

Personally I think it would be nice if people would check either !comborobinchar or !locateall comborobin on IRC, which is guaranteed up-to-date without fiddling with a spreadsheet, and knows about in-progress chars as well as won chars. My KoWz was started before this other guy's, not after.

[nilsbloodaxe]

True, but not everyone uses IRC and the spreadsheet is in the first post, so it is good to have both. Hell, the only reason I played the KoWz that was not quit was because it was further along when I found it. As I said before, it was bad form to start it without checking to see if it was in progress elsewhere.

How does !comborobinchar work anyway, what is the meaning of the numbers for each combo after "Best chars to play with comborobin:"? Also I note that some details in !locateall are wrong (mostly character level).

[amalloy]

!comborobinchar lists, for all combos that have not yet been won and are not in progress anywhere, how many recent wins of that combo there have been, globally. It's a reasonable approximator of difficulty; this mattered more when there were hundreds of combos left, but now you might as well just pick whatever is left. !locateall, like all sequell queries, can only see milestones, so if you've gained levels since your last milestone those details will be out of date.

Personally I don't use the spreadsheet because it's a hassle to figure out what I need to edit and where, and what I should leave alone; and I know it's always out of date. Conversely, IRC makes it easy to just pick something that will be productive. This means I end up duplicating work sometimes, which is fine with me really. I only brought this up at all because someone broke the only comborobin rule I was aware of, by suiciding my character, and then didn't even make use of the space to do anything

[nilsbloodaxe]

There are really only two sheets that you need to update. That is the "Ongoing Characters" sheet (at least put the combo in the appropriate server/version cell) and the "Won Characters" sheet (add the combo at the bottom if you win). I have been updating the "Combo data" sheet regularly, so don't worry about that one. The "Runes" sheet doesn't need to be updated at all, it does everything automatically.

On a side note, there are 2 DrNe's going (one of Pak on CSZO and one of Jiyva on CAO). While the one on CAO is further along, the one on CSZO is a Red Draconian, the only Draconian color not yet won by comborobin.

[dpeg]

I don't have anything to do with the comborobin, but I think the spreadsheet is superfluous. Everyone who can win comborobin games should be able to work IRC.

amalloy: Just give people a bunch of the commands they need, so they have something to follow.

Now is not a good time to get stuck

[elmdor]

Greater vampire!

[elmdor]

Great Fire Elementalist!