[X] My Assistant

Riddlemaster

The pony riddles are now multiple-choice and can have several correct answers. The generated image will always show three ponies; these can all be the same pony, or be two or three different ponies. To solve the riddle, check all the ponies you see in the image and hit Submit Answer within the time limit.

If you do not submit the answers to the riddle within the time limit, it will automatically submit it and use the checked answers unless the answer is more than a couple seconds overdue; if it is, it will be considered a blank answer for accuracy purposes. You do not get the buff in the latter case.

The riddlemaster no longer tells you if the answer is correct or not. It will always give the buff if you answer within the time limit, as well as the heal if the answer is given within the bonus time limit, both of which were adjusted. A spirit heal was also added.

Instead of valuating answers as binary "right" or "wrong" it will internally calculate an accuracy score based on how many unique ponies were displayed and how many right and wrong answers you made. Instead of docking stamina directly, the recent average of these accuracy scores is used internally to adjust the per-battle stamina cost.

The obfuscation factors (blobbiness and graininess) are now dynamic and adjusted internally based on various factors, primarily your level and how much you played lately. Most other aspects of the generation have also been reworked.

Because the images are all randomly generated, you may occasionally (rarely?) encounter jumbled riddles that are difficult or near-impossible to fully discern. Due to this, you will still keep the normal stamina consumption up to some margin of error.

In other words, while it is more difficult to answer perfectly, it is also more forgiving of occasional mistakes.

If your accuracy is low enough to suffer a stamina penalty, the "Stamina" readout at the top of the screen will show in red. Detailed internal numbers (accuracy calculations/requirements, stamina cost factors, obfuscation factor thresholds etc) are not disclosed and no readout will be provided for them.

Note that soliciting people to submit riddle images with answers as well as providing such are now bannable offenses - riddle images can be traced to the account they were generated for. (This doesn't disallow "look at this stupidly impossible riddle lol" kind of posts at a small scale.)


Equipment Cores

- When salvaging Legendary and Peerless equipment, you will now gain "Equipment Cores" - these will be used for a future mechanics where you can improve the base stats of legendary and peerless equipment. See "Future Changes to Equipment Mechanics" below.

There are six types of Equipment Cores; Legendary/Peerless, corresponding to the equipment quality, and Weapon/Staff/Armor, corresponding to the equipment type. Shields count as Armor for this mechanics.

"Rare" equipment types (Phase/Shade/Power Armor as well as Force Shields) give 5 cores, while other equipment types all give 1 core.

Equipment Cores obtained in Isekai will be transferred to Persistent at the end of each season.

Peerless Cores are not tradeable, primary due to the lottery. Legendary Cores may however be traded freely.

- The lottery now has an alternative 1st prize that only rolls for people who DNW the equipment, which replaces the old bonus to 2nd-5th prize win chance. This prize is fixed as the type and number of peerless cores the regular 1st prize would return, plus one bonus core.


Item Backorders (Item Bot)

- The "Item Bot" was renamed to "Item Backorder" to make it clearer what it does.

- Item backorders can now be placed for all current and historic tradeable + sellable + non-staple items. Eventually very old one-off items may be made untradeable to prevent this list from growing excessively.

- Item backorders no longer expire. They are only deleted if the backorder is filled, or if you are the highest bidder for a backordered item sold to the item shop and you don't have the credits to buy it.

- The "Bot Profit Share" mechanics was removed, primarily due to some bad interactions with player locking and people using scripts to sell one item at a time. You should probably be using HVMarket or the forums for selling anyway.


Misc

- IW stamina cost now rounds to the nearest .1 decimal rather than rounding up to the closest whole digit.

- The base durations for most debuff spells was significantly increased.

- When shrining trophies for armor, you can now select the armor slot of the generated equipment. (The new UI also saves 1 whole click over the old way.)

- Catalysts are no longer tradeable. They will likely be retired in the future, with the forge charging credits directly instead, so you should avoid stocking up a huge number of these.

- The limit for primary attribute reassignments was removed. You can now freely reassign EXP at any time.

- Replaced the old "system message" popup. You can now click anywhere to dismiss it, and it no longer lets you click through to the background outside the box.

- Various UI tweaks and improvements.


Future Changes to Equipment Mechanics

Future updates will rework the internals of how equipment is generated and stored to, among other things, allow base stats improvements. Base stat improvements will be limited to Legendary and Peerless equipment only; the ultimate goal being to increase the odds of being able to obtain the ultimate equipment set to a level slightly above "mathematically insignificant" while still preserving the value of existing equipment and not making any existing ways to obtain equipment pointless.

The long and short of it is that with a lot of credits (in the hundreds of millions range) and legendary cores, or a lot of peerless cores, you will be able to turn a Legendary equipment into a Peerless equipment. Peerless equipment will (probably) also be possible to upgrade further.

The "base stat improvement" and "upgrade" mechanics are separate, though there will be various changes to the "upgrade" mechanics as well; you will no longer be "upgrading" stats individually, and tweaks will be made so that "upgrading" below-Legenday equipment is still viable. Existing upgrades will be converted, but I'll get back to the details on that later.

All existing equipment will be converted to the new system, and there should not be any differences between old and new equipment. After the conversion to the new system, any future changes to equipment can also be made retroactively, meaning that the concept of "prepatch" and "postpatch" equipment will no longer be a thing. Various disabled equipment types will also be re-enabled as rare drops.

These changes will also involve replacing the existing "potency" mechanics with a different (less random) system. Existing unlocked potencies will not carry over in any way. The Item World will basically work like The Tower, and will be used to increase an equipment's upgrade cap.

Due to the scale of the changes, it is unlikely that it all makes it into one update. Until the changes have been fully implemented, the updates will be deployed to Isekai only. In other words, this won't be be relevant for Persistent for at least one year.

When the changes eventually reach Persistent, it will no longer be possible to get a refund on upgrades by salvaging, due to a combination of conversion complexity and the fact that equipment stats will be permanently altered. You will of course have the option to do until the updates make it to Persistent.

Further details will be made available as the updates are deployed to Isekai.

I've just got a pony chart with four ponies in it. Is this right?
[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/PQ9N61Y.jpg

Also is it possible to make fluttershy not stack on anyone else? She just disappears whenever she's stacked. So far my strategy is if I can't find the third horse, it's probably just fluttershy.

I've just got a pony chart with four ponies in it. Is this right?
[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/PQ9N61Y.jpg

Also is it possible to make fluttershy not stack on anyone else? She just disappears whenever she's stacked. So far my strategy is if I can't find the third horse, it's probably just fluttershy.

Oh, I think there should be five.
Two Rarity
Two Pinkie Pie
One Rainbow Dash

I've just got a pony chart with four ponies in it. Is this right?
[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/PQ9N61Y.jpg

Also is it possible to make fluttershy not stack on anyone else? She just disappears whenever she's stacked. So far my strategy is if I can't find the third horse, it's probably just fluttershy.

This is right, there is one image of two ponies and it's a pinkie riding a pinkie, that counts at 1.

Also I suggest not doing that, I believe it was shown it is more harmful to get one wrong that it is not to answer it, at least that has been my strategy and I haven't ever gotten in the red....yet.

It's suppose to be harder the longer your play and the higher level you are, so it seems likely it is harder.

No wonder my ISK puzzles are very hard.
I think the time of playing and accuracy are also included into the difficulty. I got several visionally "unclear" puzzles and then got one looking a bit clear.

This is right, there is one image of two ponies and it's a pinkie riding a pinkie, that counts at 1.

Also I suggest not doing that, I believe it was shown it is more harmful to get one wrong that it is not to answer it, at least that has been my strategy and I haven't ever gotten in the red....yet.

Mee, too. I only select the ones which I'm sure about, although I still got red in ISK. I think partial answer is better than wrong answer.

Seriously, why do we get something on the level of crappiness of Google Recaptcha with the Riddle Master?
I remember 2 or 3 versions ago, it was still friendly, not that hard to recognize things, and using the provided link to existing ponies, if you were really willing to do it seriously, you had 100% chances of getting it right.
What's the point of the thing in its current state?
Does it protect against something really worth that much? Wasn't there a better solution, both for the player and the hardware involved?
I just don't understand how we ended up in that situation. I don't see any "win" for anybody worth that.

edit: oh right, I forgot, a bug appeared: custom font choice seems to no longer affect the box displaying items brought by monsters in Monster Lab (so in my case it suddenly look HUGE)

This post has been edited by uareader: Jan 27 2022, 20:13

BUG REPORT - re-posting with additional infos, since it was probably overlooked ...

I think I've met a little bug in this new HV.89 (only visual, but still annoying).

When you enter the Monster Lab and the Gifts window pops up, the popup background is now transparent, and the written text is illegible, as being superimposed to the text of the underlying window.

You can notice it immediately if you don't have any script active (like Monsterbation).

The problem stems from an incorrect color value (#E3E1D1EE) in the background property of the "messagebox_inner" element, as can be seen in the following inspectors image.

Changing it manually to #E3E1D1 seems enough to fix it.



This post has been edited by mundomuñeca: Jan 27 2022, 20:40

The ponies need to be much more distinct, especially for random encounters. Even when not using any kind of dark mode skin or overlay they are often really indistinct.

BUG REPORT

This is weird.

I disabled the scripts, and everything continued normal.

BUG REPORT - re-posting with additional infos, since it was probably overlooked ...
The problem stems from an incorrect color value (#E3E1D1EE) in the background property of the "messagebox_inner" element, as can be seen in the following inspectors image.

Changing it manually to #E3E1D1 seems enough to fix it.

That's a hexadecimal notation: #RRGGBBAA , AA is an optional alpha component that represents the color's transparency.

Some older browsers support a rgba() functional notation but not an alpha-hexadecimal one.

That's a hexadecimal notation: #RRGGBBAA , AA is an optional alpha component that represents the color's transparency.

Some older browsers support a rgba() functional notation but not an alpha-hexadecimal one.

Yet it worked correctly (with same Firefox browser) up to 3 days ago, i.e. before 0.89 hit ...

EDIT : and yes, my Firefox is about 2 years old or so (old but not really obsolete, I'd say), but is the most recent version still supporting .MAFF archives (that I use a lot).


This post has been edited by mundomuñeca: Jan 28 2022, 01:49

What it take get out of red stamina?

Get accuracy up? (if so, depend on how is average this can be very hard, or not)

Wait some time?

I not realize that can be multiple ponies when picture change (that my fault not read instructions, just thought picture change or something) and now I in red.

Since I can no see accuracy (single puzzle or overall), i not know is red because i do ~5 puzzles not realizing instructions change, or if is red because i sucking on puzzles since then (I can no tell if im still getting wrong or no...)

Also, I agree with what some others say, how can overlap can make it difficult. If the point is to be difficlt then okay i can understand, but difficult together with not knowing any information about results means learning to be better can cost me a lot of stamina (since only way I can learn if i do correct is to leave red. If i stay red i have no clue what ponies I am missing...)

Yet it worked correctly (with same Firefox browser) up to 3 days ago, i.e. before 0.89 hit ...

Firefox has supported hexadecimal alpha notation since [caniuse.com] Firefox 49 which is six years old.

Browsers older than the current ESR are not supported, but you can of course use a userscript/style if you must.

Firefox has supported hexadecimal alpha notation since [caniuse.com] Firefox 49 which is six years old.

Browsers older than the current ESR are not supported, but you can of course use a userscript/style if you must.

Okie dokie, thx

What was the answer to this pony chart?

I see Rainbow Dash

But I'm not sure what the pony on the right is here. Maybe Flutteryshy, but i dont think that looks like in the chart... (Unless there is another rpony like rarity or on top?)

[imgur.com] https://imgur.com/a/SdkoEgi

1x rainbow dash
2x fluttershy

1x rainbow dash
2x fluttershy

Wow you are quick! Thanks.

Fluttershy hair look like it curl differently in puzzle than in chart to me Am I the only one? (Like, in chart it go out straight to the left-of her face - but in puzzle it looks curling downward to the left)

Also:

If you do not submit the answers to the riddle within the time limit, it will automatically submit it and use the checked answers unless the answer is more than a couple seconds overdue;

Also, How can answer be more than couple seconds overdue if it automatically submit when time up?

This post has been edited by monk31: Jan 28 2022, 22:32

They aren't exactly the same as the chart, multiple images are used for each pony, the chart is just there to help you learn features for them, such as the style of hair, tail, whether they are wearing a hat, etc.

They aren't exactly the same as the chart, multiple images are used for each pony, the chart is just there to help you learn features for them, such as the style of hair, tail, whether they are wearing a hat, etc.

Ahhh, now I get it

Thanks again!

with a lot of credits (in the hundreds of millions range)

If that's the case, don't even bother making the system.
It will not be affordable and basically be pointless.

There are very few peerlesses that are actually worth that much by default, so the system would be useless for basically anything else.
Which goes literally against the point of making a new mechanic.
It just won't be used.


Also again I will repeat, making Peerlesses upgradeable is a terrible idea.
A peerless is a, like the name says, flawless equipment.
It's already perfect. It's already maxed.
Making it upgradeable doesn't make any sense.
And at that point would make upgrading legendaries to peerlesses even more pointless.
Why bother spending HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of credits to cap a legendary when the base peerless is the same and can be upgraded further?

The whole "hundreds of million credits" range and the upgradeability of peerlesses to "uber peerlesses" is definitely in need of a very radical revision.

The name argument isn't that convincing. If it's that bothersome, just rename all current Peerless to something else like Cataclysmic, and then after we max out Cataclysmic they become the new Peerless.

Or come up with a better name for the final maxed level beyond Peerless, like Hentaifu. Yarr, behold my Hentaifu Hallowed Oak Staff of Heimdall.