Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

There are plenty of bots that can auto dodge in extremes and savages raids already. You must not be in the know I guess, but most of those fights are 90% predictable, like most of the game. That's why its pretty easy to do because theres always that one strat that must be used for every end game content after you force yourself to watch a 20m+ long video. Main reason I don't even bother in that end-game.

Mmm, there's tons of third party tools for auto callouts, auto marking for randomized targeting mechanics, extra telegraphs, and other such similar things.

Don't think there's any automatic dodging software though. That'd be quite the feat to implement. Show me where you saw some, cause I ain't heard about it.

Also, multiple strats are possible for every fight, it's just the basics of resolving mechanics and not getting hit are always pivotal. It's scripted, yes. Predictable when new? No. The fights are very fun when new, when there are no guides for them yet.

Um there is, a lot of them in fact. I don't wanna post links and such to bots, but anyone with some basic google knowledge can find them. That game is not as deep as you seem to think it is lol. Of course anything new won't be predictable, for the most part, but they do often reuse mechanics from one fight and add it to another, so you can p much plan around that.

Put up or shut up. I've never heard of them. It's a bit deeper than you'll ever be willing to give it credit for.

An auto dodge bot wouldn't be able to clear most Savage/Extremse, for instance, unless the bot writer had a specific group to put it into for his script vs. the fight script. There are always mechanics that are doled out in a random order that resolve 1~3 party members at a time, requiring them to get hit in certain ways in specific positions of the fight. There's mechanics that require you to "die." There's boss rearrangement, proximity AOEs, backwards debuff execution, mechanics tied to role, and much more.

Go ahead, just link me one of these automatic dodge bots in a PM. Show me.

Nah I'm good, you can just keep thinking it's impossible to bot, ignorance is bliss. I already told you how you can find it.

Your salt about XIV never gets old, Diehard Draylo.

Sure, keep thinking XIV has no intelligent bots lol. Imagine thinking that in 2021. I guess you're the diehard for XIV then

It's not as much a matter of intelligence as it is about the fight design being explicitly designed to not be straight forward. A bot would have to be loaded up with the proper reaction to every single mechanic, have perfect pathing to the other bots/players, be able to execute its damage rotation simultaneously, heal and shield at the right times, and do all of that over and over again in case of error or wipe.

I don't think it's impossible, just impossible when fights are new, which is when they matter most. I've literally encountered zero bots in Extremes/Savage. I know plenty of folks who cheat with third party add-ons, whether it be automated calls or extra telegraphs.

Only reason you're getting so defensive is because you can't actually link me one of the bots you're suggesting exists. Whenever you get the time, fill me in. Till then /shrug

In other news, Sarah and me carved pumpkins the other day. They've already rotted. Didn't think about preservation, whoops!

Or a single finger gently on the lips vertically

*Places a single finger gentle upon Josi's Canadian lips, vertically of course.*

You didn't say whose lips, doll. <3

Well, I never!

I don't believe Josi is packing another set, Hugs.

is there a cure and how do I look deeper internally to know if this might be the case? any other signs?

Hey I'm serious btw.

I'm playing outward. It's got a co-op option. It's a lot of fun in a different kinda way. Co-op is some of the most fun I've had since super bomberman on the SNES in 1993

Nice :D

I'm tending to find in life (work primarily) that there's a threshold in team sizes. Once you cross a certain point in size, you start to get diminishing returns measured in outcomes, and complexity that grows exponentially with each additional part (person/team). As a global civilization we just don't have a solution to this. Beyond a certain size, you just add more problems than benefits. Modern management hasn't kept up with the times. Kind of like the US. Such a massive country with so many resources and power, yet you still have the largest prison population in terms of number and %'s. No universal healthcare, largest wealth disparity in history. All signs of utter incompetence to managing the affairs of the state and the governed. Especially when you consider it is THE democratic model from which all others have replicated their own. Pretty scary when you realize the majority of global orgs are betting on A.I to solve all this. That's a lot of power to hand over to A.I. Perhaps a death sentence for our species.

Channeling a bit of Elon today for some reason.

Outward by the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lySsepk3-u8

Jeez. I hope that's not the case.

Reminds me of the time my dad sent me an SMS using voice-to-text. The text read something like "mom had passed", which made my heart jump. Did my mom die? Did his elderly mother just die? What in the world?! And then he sent me another text about 30 seconds later

The prison population is due to politics and racism. The healthcare is because of "campaign contributions" and our prioritizing of the needs of health care executives for massive wealth over our need for health care.

As to wealth inequality we can't begin to hold a candle to ancient Rome. Marcus Licinius Crassus's income was 1/4 of Rome's GDP.

We seem to be doing a great job of making the planet uninhabitable with nothing but biological intelligence and unenlightened self interest.

can we not do politics here?

Please just insert girders and move along people

Speaking of girders, I think Nintendo really dropped the ball with the "Muscular Pokemon" line.

I get that Timburr would be the weakest, using only a timber beam as its weapon. But then Gurdurr, holding a steel beam, evolves before Conkeldurr, using concrete columns. In what world is concrete stronger than steel?

Structural steel is over 10x stronger than structural concrete in compression and (practically) infinitely stronger than concrete in tension. Concrete is so weak, in fact, that it needs steel as part of its design. Wood on its own can do more than concrete on its own...

I would think that the concrete beams are reinforced.

But does Conkeldurr hit things with them or merely drop them on things?

Even reinforced concrete is weaker than steel. The greater the ratio of steel to concrete, the stronger it is. But you're still better off with a purely steel member.

During concrete design, you design the steel "tension" half of the beam to be just weak enough to yield before the concrete "compression" half of it fails altogether, but not so much that the steel would also fail first. Though you can beef up the compression side with extra steel as well, requiring even more steel in the bottom.