Idiots guide to use based decay

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Idiots guide to use based decay

Postby Phalynx » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:35 am

Can someone give me an idiots guide to use based decay?

I notice the wiki give two different figures now 'Rot per day' and 'Rot per day of use'.

Do these both apply independently or is it simply the latter?

I of course fully understand if the Wikki is out of date - there's a lot to change now I guess.
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Postby Talapus » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:17 am

I have been working to update the wiki on this matter. Rot per day is applied to each tool once per day. Rot per day of use is applied to a tool for each day of use it recieves. Actually, it gets one eighth of that per hour. If you have more then one tool of the appropriate type, the use based rot is spread across all of those tools. As a general rule of thumb, use based rot is five times the daily rot, so therefore a tool being used rots at six times the rate (five times for the use rot, and the single dose of daily rot) of a tool that is not being used (to include tools in repair projects in the future).
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Postby Phalynx » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:19 am

Talapus wrote:I have been working to update the wiki on this matter. Rot per day is applied to each tool once per day. Rot per day of use is applied to a tool for each day of use it recieves. Actually, it gets one eighth of that per hour. If you have more then one tool of the appropriate type, the use based rot is spread across all of those tools. As a general rule of thumb, use based rot is five times the daily rot, so therefore a tool being used rots at six times the rate (five times for the use rot, and the single dose of daily rot) of a tool that is not being used (to include tools in repair projects in the future).


:shock:

I assume the daily (non-use) rot has been reduced significantly..

oh and thanks for your reply!
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Postby Sho » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:20 am

Yes, it has. That was the idea.
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Postby Phalynx » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:21 am

Yes well I assumed so, but I am always one to look a gift horse in the mouth!
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Postby Talapus » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:42 am

Phalynx wrote:I assume the daily (non-use) rot has been reduced significantly..


Reduced quite significantly (too much in my opinion). An unused crowbar will last more then 165 years before it needs to be repaired (almost twice as long as this game has been running), and I doubt any crowbar will fall apart in less then 160 years.
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Postby Sicofonte » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:59 pm

Oh, that can be funny... if a language group becomes extinct, "ancient artifacts" would be waiting for another language group to discover it.

(IMHO, two or three generations is a reasonable time for a steel artifact to disapear).
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Postby Marian » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:18 pm

What about things like weapons and shields?
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