I'm suddenly left with the image of some Dracnari beastmaster pinching his neck and saying "Tsst!"

That's how you get mauled.

Should Zayden have separate nekai for hunting and for combat? What are good stats for each?

Can someone give me one last explanation of monking? I think I understand it, but I'm not entirely sure.

Also, respectively, what are good stats for hunting/combat rapiers?

Erm..I see people eating myrtle for blindness and/or deafness. What woud be a reason for choosing deafness/blindness herbs when it's myrtle vs faeleaf and myrtle vs earwort?Thanks.

And..this:

1344 an empty glass bottle the poison haemotox 50 *

pour 1344 into 208195
Trying to empty out an empty glass bottle would be futile.
sip 1344
You cannot drink from an empty glass bottle.
p 1344
The bottle is made from thick glass and is rather small. Stretched over the mouth of the bottle is a
nipple made from a supple rawhide.
It weighs 8 ounce(s).

It's..weird.

I choose myrtle because earwort and faeleaf are expensive. Myrtle seems to be the cheapest herb.

Eating myrtle is a little easier than applying healing potion, and you usually want to sip that healing potion. I suppose there could be some more complex logic behind when you choose to do what, but I find it works well enough to just go with myrtle in most situations.

Where are you shopping that faeleaf is always more expensive than myrtle? I can systematically find faeleaf for 3-4 sovereigns per less than myrtle, and that's just using the aetherplex.

it's faeleaf << myrtle < earwort

that being said..and the different uses of each herb, which should I use for deafness and blindness?

No. You want maximum speed, which is 110. Because of how kata weapons work (stats always total to 300/600 for 1h/2h weapons respectively), that means 95/95/110. This is for hunting and combat.



Can't help at all here!



I made a thread on the nitty gritty of this over in the survival of the forums. But roughly, for hunting, max speed, rest in damage. For fighting, speed precision mix that seems to vary from person to person.

I will never reveal my source.



Oh, thaaaank you. Completely forgot about that thread, silly me.

Oh, I feel like I've seen the whisker twitch several times...

Also, dogs -enjoy- being touched and petted all over the place! Unlike some other canine.

This is going to make me sound like a pretty incompetent culture minister. I was trying to write this post encouraging people to go to the theatre because it's fun and helps our culture, but I realized I still only barely know what the numbers in CULTURE reflect. How often are they updated? How are theatre activity and theatre score calculated? Do orgs get bonus power equivalent to their culture score, and if so, how often?

From what I have been told, Culture is theater and stage (exact percents in each I don't know.) So people using the stage (making productions and such) help as well as writing books for the library.

I feel bad myself I too don't know the specifics on such beyond this basic thing you could reason out yourself. I believe membership score (however that is calculated) helps too. The help file I believe says that just signing in does nothing.

Theater scores are calculated the same time that the winner is chosen, and do not change for the two-year period to follow.

Theater Activity depends on overall activity of the productions made at your stage (and activity on those productions at the world stage still counts). The actual formula is a mystery, but it includes factors for the activity of your submitted production (counts the most), productions that have been recorded during the last two years (count next most), and all other productions (counts the least). The activity for each production, in turn, depends on three factors: the amount of time and people involved in production (counts the most), time and people watching the live performance (counts the next most), and time and people watching replays (counts the least).

Orgs gain power equal to their culture score at month end. (Or is it weave end? I forget now.)

The upshot of it comes to: the more stuff people do with your stage's productions, the higher your Theater Activity. Churning replays helps, but not nearly as much as people producing things and watching them being performed live.

The Theater Score number is done similarly but depends only on the submitted production. Note, however, that if you don't submit a production, you don't get Theater Activity, no matter how much activity you actually had.

This is not a simple question. However:

Power Generation:
-Culture gives you your culture score in power each weave ("The cultural strength of the Adjective Noun Organization has generated X power ")

Bards and Scholars:
-Bards and scholars add 1 power immediately and 1 culture score for that month. Bard and scholar counts reset each weave.
-Scholars that have been given stories from the Weeky Pedia quest give 2 power and 2 culture points.

Library:
- The library gives culture 300, 150 or 75 respectively for being the 1st, 2nd and 3rd most scholarly and most literary libaries.
- The largest library receives an additional 300 culture. This is reevaluated once per weave.
- The fastest growing library receives an additional 300 culture. This is reevaluated once per weave and is based off of your books over the last year.
- Library culture scores are based off of book weightings. Bigger books count more than smaller books and prestige counts even more
- The winners of either prestige prize receive 500 culture points for their home library.

Credibility:
- Each library receives 300 credibility points. In theory, these go up or down based on critiques, but in practice the system is never used because nobody wants to risk it. These are added directly to culture every weave and are revaluated every time prestige winners are announced.

Cultural Activity:
-This is generated based off of some opaque formula involving topguild rankings, novice activity, guild size, active citizen vote weights, topmudsites.com votes, the phase of the moon and the size and frequency of Krellan's credit purchases. There is nothing that you can do, practically speaking, to interact with this score.

Theatre:
- Stages generate culture points (for a year?) based on the average rating of all of their submitted plays whenever a new play is submitted.
- The organization that receives the best average vote out of all currently submitted plays receives a bonus that is dependant on the average rating of all of the plays. This bonus goes up the better plays are in general.
- People watching (recent?) plays in your theatre gives you bonus culture based off of the same opaque voodoo that produces cultural activity scores.

Culture Centre:
-Whoever has the biggest culture before the centre bonus is made into the cultural centre and gets an extra 1000 power per weave.

The first of each month.

Incorrect. Ratings have nothing to do with it anymore, haven't for a very long time. Also, it's for two years.


It's certainly fairly opaque, but not nearly as opaque as cultural activity; see my post above.

Thanks a million!

Do kephera blink? Insects don't have eyelids, normally.

They have compound eyes after all! So they don't direct their gaze, but have multi-directional supervision that would be horribly disorienting to anyone else.

But, if a Kephera uses the blink emote, you should totally do:

say (gapes at (person) What the Nil was THAT?!