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Okud
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Hunting intervals

Postby Okud » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:37 am

Could we change it so you can hunt every 7.5 Cantr hours?
With the current system people who can log in once a day will only manage to hunt every second day.
BTW, I suspect a bug in the routine that checks if you are allowed to hunt or not: it compares timestamps lexicographically. Which means that if I last hunted fireflies at 2.8 I will be able to hunt them the next day at 2.9 but not anymore at 2.10 because "2.10" < "2.8".
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Postby Chris Johnson » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:49 am

The animal hunting limitations are exactly the same as character combat. It is unlikely they will be changed

You are incorrect about the lexicographical comparison , thats not how it works.
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Postby wichita » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:38 am

I generally log in once per day and always manage to hunt with that character.
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Postby Doug R. » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:52 pm

This issue, I think, is that it's by the hour, not the minute. So if I hunt at 1500-4, I won't be able to hunt again until 1501-5. I think what Okud is saying that if you only log in once a day, at generally the same time, you can only hunt every other day, because hunting doesn't reset until the full 8th hour goes by. I have experienced this pesonally on all my characters that hunt; my daily hunting is always an hour later each day.
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Postby the_antisocial_hermit » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:08 pm

Doug R. wrote:This issue, I think, is that it's by the hour, not the minute. So if I hunt at 1500-4, I won't be able to hunt again until 1501-5. I think what Okud is saying that if you only log in once a day, at generally the same time, you can only hunt every other day, because hunting doesn't reset until the full 8th hour goes by. I have experienced this pesonally on all my characters that hunt; my daily hunting is always an hour later each day.


Not so, it goes by the minute.

1479-6.19: You skillfully hurt a bear using a crossbow, which loses 42 strength.

1480-6.21: You skillfully kill a lion using a crossbow.


You can't hunt until like the minute after the minute you hunted the day before, I think.
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Postby Doug R. » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:54 pm

Ok, but the point still stands, Cantr minutes being significantly longer than RT ones.
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Postby marol » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:09 pm

The rule is:
You will be able to hit again next day at the same hour but after 12th minute of that hour.
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Postby Sho » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:40 pm

Attacking other characters works the same way?

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