Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo

Das Auto

@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

From its conception, my code has always been balanced around a specific target number of credits earned per xp spent. This has never been true. its conception, my code has always been balanced around a specific target number of credits earned per xp spent. This has never been true.

This is Banshee, and before anyone takes him seriously, know that he would modify Force code on the fly because he was losing a combat scene.

Still, now that you’re here, some questions have been asked that may be answered.

Why are @pemit and @remit not restricted when players like Hadrix use them to fake rolls?
Why does @sweep send a staff-only alert when a player uses it?
Why did Force Lightning change right after your Sith character lost a fight?
Why did Force Deflect change right after your Sith character got shot?
Why did you appear in this thread after it came out that staff set a romantic partner suspect and snooped on her messages?
If you’re a coder, why does Cujo keep telling people he doesn’t have a coder?

64bitjedi

@GF Well, I can’t prove that I didn’t do something someone accused me of, so I’m at a loss there. All I can do is welcome further enlightenment regarding those instances and check my behavior into the future. I don’t know how to provide restitution for something I don’t know existed and still do not know to whom I owe it.

blu

GF

@64bitjedi So, just to be clear on this, your response to being told your behavior is creepy is to say you can’t change until the people you’ve creeped out reveal themselves to you in your position of authority with all the risk that entails, and also personally instruct you in how to do better in the future?

I’ve spent the last five minutes trying to think of a profanity that encapsulates my exasperation, but nothing covers it. Never mind. Just keep on doing exactly what you’re doing, 64bitjedi. Clearly the fault rests with all your victims being too lazy to do the work of making you a better person.

64bitjedi

@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

This is Banshee, and before anyone takes him seriously, know that he would modify Force code on the fly because he was losing a combat scene.
Still, now that you’re here, some questions have been asked that may be answered.

Why are @pemit and @remit not restricted when players like Hadrix use them to fake rolls?
Why does @sweep send a staff-only alert when a player uses it?
Why did Force Lightning change right after your Sith character lost a fight?
Why did Force Deflect change right after your Sith character got shot?
Why did you appear in this thread after it came out that staff set a romantic partner suspect and snooped on her messages?
If you’re a coder, why does Cujo keep telling people he doesn’t have a coder?

Because nospoof exists, and nobody has suggested to me that was happening.
I don’t know who set that up or why.
On March 11 2020, we posted an update to the Force Skills specific +attacks. AFTER the conclusion of the referenced scene (in which I realized it had not changed), on August 17 2020, I posted an update, stating: o +sinfo electrokinesis now reflects the intended update from March in its text. It is entirely possible I forgot to make these updates to the helpfile themselves.
This post still exists, and the timeline associated with it. The update was made after the conclusion of the scene and posted publicly for all to see. Heck, you can still see that post. +bbread 8/128.
I dont recall +force/deflect being modified, other than turning it off when we added the more robust command of +attack/deflect.
My understanding was the claim regarding a member of staff setting Blu suspect was done by a very brief and former HeadWiz of the game. Blu and I have a history, and it is possible nobody told me about this or the spying on her private scenes because I would have responded poorly to them doing that.
Because I don’t do everything he tells me to do.

64bitjedi

@GF No, I also said, “and check my behavior into the future”.

shit-piss-love

DarthSmegma

A lot of us are more interested in knowing why nothing has been done about the multiple harassment complaints against Hadrix specifically.

64bitjedi

@DarthSmegma said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

A lot of us are more interested in knowing why nothing has been done about the multiple harassment complaints against Hadrix specifically.

I only knew of one, myself. The target of said harassment was an individual that I have never gotten along with. Other staffers were able to and did investigate it. They even made a determination. But, I recused myself because I feared I lack impartiality. With other staff tapped to handle it readily available, it seemed the respectful thing to do. Any involvement from my part would only invite further vitriol.

Jennkryst

@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Jennkryst said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

See also: weekly +paycheck also pulling percentages based on the skills, but the careers being in no way balanced. Some careers need 20 skills, but pay less than another that only needs 8?

Or maybe they finally fixed that.

From its conception, my code has always been balanced around a specific target number of credits earned per xp spent. This has never been true.

Never been true, you say? Be a shame if there were convenient screenshots from someone who chose ~~violence~~ pedantry to disprove this.

Let’s start with Bounty Hunter, because… Boba Fett.

So you can see the payscale between December of 2015 and 2020 are (practically) the same (it actually goes down from 13,500 to 13,080, corrected in the edit). No new skills were added, so it is consistent. The standard!

How about… Courtesans?

Some skills were changed, but just the names. Nothing added. So if the code has always been balanced, why need to raise be weekly paycheck from 4,500 to 14,430?

And how about Explorers?

No skill change AT ALL, no new skills added. But they jump from 4,500 to 13,320.

So it may be balanced around a specific number of credits earned per XP spent. But it very much has not always been the case.

Edit for accuracy re: Bounty Hunter payscale.

Double edit because I can’t read, but I am leaving this up for posterity - mixed up 13 and 31. Damn me for giving myself more work here.

The third edit, because I still can’t read, explorer vs engineer

64bitjedi

@Jennkryst Prof Analyzer.png

64bitjedi

@64bitjedi At one point the target number went from being 3, to 6, yes. That’s the “ratio” number you have there.

helvetica

@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@DarthSmegma said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

A lot of us are more interested in knowing why nothing has been done about the multiple harassment complaints against Hadrix specifically.

I only knew of one, myself. The target of said harassment was an individual that I have never gotten along with. Other staffers were able to and did investigate it. They even made a determination. But, I recused myself because I feared I lack impartiality. With other staff tapped to handle it readily available, it seemed the respectful thing to do. Any involvement from my part would only invite further vitriol.

@64bitjedi Okay, let’s say that you only knew of one. You know about the rest, now. What’s up? What’s the next move? Continue to stake your name and reputation in the hobby in support of these obvious problem elements? Push for any kind of accountability on the game you help maintain? We know you’re not fully ignoring it all because you’re here.

Jennkryst

@64bitjedi Current code means nothing. You said ‘this has never been different’ and I demonstrably proved it was.

Particularly since if x3 and not x6, Bounty Hunter should have only made 15…

(This is the moment I realized I done fucked up/misread the screenshot, but will begin a new hunt to continue to prove pedantry anyway)

64bitjedi

@helvetica said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@DarthSmegma said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@64bitjedi Okay, let’s say that you only knew of one. You know about the rest, now. What’s up? What’s the next move? Continue to stake your name and reputation in the hobby in support of these obvious problem elements? Push for any kind of accountability on the game you help maintain? We know you’re not fully ignoring it all because you’re here.

I don’t honestly know what the next step is. I can’t tell you how to take something like this, and the people involved, and make everyone feel better about what’s happening. I don’t know what the next step is because I don’t know what people want, here. I know somehow I have a game full of people that have to feel like they are safe, each and every day after this all came to light. And that’s an uphill battle that is adding a lot to my brainpower.

But, here I am opening myself up to the forum. I don’t know what the next step is. I’m making this up as I go along.

64bitjedi

@Jennkryst said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@64bitjedi Current code means nothing. You said ‘this has never been different’ and I demonstrably proved it was.

Particularly since if x3 and not x6, Bounty Hunter should have only made 15…

(This is the moment I realized I done fucked up/misread the screenshot, but will begin a new hunt to continue to prove pedantry anyway)

Yes, EVERYONE’s credit earned to xp spent ratio went up, from 3 to 6. Not just Bounty Hunter. I may not have been very clear.

RedShoes

@64bitjedi Of the staff on AoA, three people are the ones that brought forth the evidence regarding the abuse I believe. That leaves Cujo, Banshee, Yeti, Hadrix-the accused, and what? One other staffer? If you excused yourself from the investigation, which staffers were tasked with looking into the abuse complaints?

blu

@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

But, here I am opening myself up to the forum. I don’t know what the next step is. I’m making this up as I go along.

You know what the next step is, because it’s the step Cujo never has taken ever since he sold the game for a fedora and Selkie had to come in and save it:

He needs to put on his big boy pants and actually address these issues to this community.

64bitjedi

@Jennkryst It was also meant to suggest my methodology with this stuff. Professions were always designed around a specific ratio of credits earned to xp spent. If someone spent 185 xp on a prof, and that profession only had one skill, they would be getting the maximum paycheck of 1110 credits, and would have a ratio of 6 credits for every xp spent. We had designed that number lower, and then changes were made to the economy and we brought the ratio up to 6 to offset the credit loss of other avenues.

helvetica

@64bitjedi I mean, if I were you I would cut ties with this mess. Maybe you could help build something worthwhile with some of these players who are dedicated to making a better, more socially responsible game.

You fucked up but as far as I can tell, you’re not actively being predatory? So just own that you shouldn’t have looked the other way, stop being shady with game mechanics, and don’t look the other way anymore.