A couple things to remember re: the whole Reset debate:
1. In May there was 6.3B meat in the economy; it was considered way too much by Jick and a primary reason to reset. Today there is well over 100B.
2. Over 70% of all accounts were registered while the Reset was certain (Reset FAQ posted). In other words, the majority signed up knowing all their work could be gone within two weeks.
Unrelated, but check this from Fnord7: "...Yesterday, not counting radio subscriptions, chatbot had about 2300 interactions." Whoa, go chatbot!
[posted by trog dor @ 2:15 AM]
I personally boycott, but for you KoL Trance fans, an anonymous source sent me this:
Firestorm ZERO says:
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"New Stuff Planned For Kol Trance Don't wanna let all the commoners know.
Adventures - All the non-combat stuff with stat and meat gains.
Rares Database - The stories behind them all.
Daily Dungeon and Fernswarthy's Basement Puzzles
References page
Casino Mechanics
Bounty Hunter Hunter
Finished Locations
Monster Hit Points, Meat Drops and Item Drops.
Archives for the CoL, Kol Weekly, Fu Pie, Not A Comic I and II and KolBrand.
Large Miscellaneous Page - With Elements, Chat Functions, Chat Channels, Pixel Stuff, Star Stuff, Autosell Buyers, Dreams, Starting Items, Forum Rankings, 1337 Alphabet and Stats needed for character/familiar levelling.
Mall and Clan pages.
I hope I can trust you all not to leak this. "
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[posted by trog dor @ 1:23 AM]
Friday, October 29, 2004
Major stuff is going down, that's for sure. I hope this Havaack-inspired turmoil is a catalyst for major changes, but I'm not holding my breath. I am getting a kick out of all these wise old sages coming out with their "I too once ran a huge MMORPG, let me tell you how these things go."
In other news, "gspawn" needs to stop posting on the forums. Permanently.
And much thanks to my new clan, Warehouse 23, for accepting me into their group.
[posted by trog dor @ 2:46 PM]
My unofficial Gallery of Custom Avatars - some very cool ones there. I love Jurgen's hermit one, props to Skatje, xZanu and Winston Churchill for theirs as well. Though really most are quite pimp.
Issue 5 of the KoL Weekly Magazine is up. Continuing the trend, it's worse than the previous one. Ah well I still skimmed through it.
[posted by trog dor @ 2:26 PM]
HotStuff is trying to find the drunkenness cap so send him any Dark Potions you may have sitting around. Just do it. All the cool kids are.
[posted by trog dor @ 2:27 AM]
Monday, October 25, 2004
Ooh, drama in Lounge - there be spies! Oh noes!
Hopefully Jick will enforce a strict No Multis policy now. And starting booting the riff raff too (but not Riff).
[posted by trog dor @ 12:33 AM]
Sunday, October 24, 2004
A week or so ago I told Jick to add a link to the Policies of Loathing under "Enter Chat." He said it was a good idea and added it 30 seconds later - only, he did it to the dev server and forgot to roll out the changes until today.
Quote of the Day: TheBub (private): hay sexxy wanna cyber a/s/l?
[posted by trog dor @ 10:05 PM]
Friday, October 22, 2004
Sorry I haven't posted recently. The History has me busy of course. Thanks again to everybody sending in suggestions and corrections - Qrbrbirlbel gave me quite a few and Inconnu's been helping with some stuff before my time. A couple guys have volunteered to work on some really cool stuff for it so hopefully that'll come about soon.
I'm glad to see a few people using my reset buttons on the forums, that made me laugh. A few links:
Quato posted his KoL interviews, with folks like Riff, HotStuff, balam, and myself.
Ohayou has an interesting graph of KoL average load by hour. Seems 4-8am EST is the best time to adventure.
[posted by trog dor @ 9:15 PM]
My History of Loathing site is up. Ch-ch-check it out. Naturally, Xenophobe and Firestorm Zero pissed all over it but that's to be expected. I think most people will find it interesting and useful.
A couple actual statistics and guesstimated statistics from Fusilliban:
- Roughly 250k total accounts
- Some 70k active ones this month
- Percentage of players who go in chat: 30-40%
- Percentage of those players who trade outside of the mall: Probably 20-30% or so.
Quote of the Night: "how do u become the mod warning. is it that u have to kill the hermit. if so how do u kill him" - psp
[posted by trog dor @ 2:53 AM]
Monday, October 18, 2004
I finished my first draft of the History of Loathing. It's currently 38 pages long and I already have a list started for stuff I need to find the dates for and add in. Hopefully it'll be online by the end of today or early tomorrow. If you've got webspace I can use that would help greatly in this department...
[posted by trog dor @ 6:52 PM]
Illuminati is back down to #2. Congrats to HotStuff though for breaking onto the Top 25 Most Powerful list.
Also, check out BoozerBear's bbq pics from this weekend. Thanks to Gigs, TheBub's pictures are here.
[posted by trog dor @ 1:05 AM]
Sweet, the forums are on a new server. Thanks Jick!
In addition to the game itself and my ever-growing list of ideas for it, I'm also working on amping up the documentation as well as compiling an extensive history of the Kingdom. Tedious work, but interesting.
[posted by trog dor @ 1:00 AM]
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Ok I suck at graphics but I made a few buttons for like-minded folks:
[posted by trog dor @ 11:18 PM]
Meat Day seemed to have gone very well yesterday. All of Newbie was seriously beside themselves with excitement. I received almost 1.3M meat - thanks to Countess Ravioli, BunBun, Bowser, chatbot, adwriter, Vultar, and Verve. I hope the newbies I helped didn't blow it all already. I also got 600 advs of The Smile of Mr. A from BoozerBear because, well, he's just that cool.
Speaking of, Boozer's disbanded Mahi and moved in with Warehouse 23. This bumps my clan, Illuminati, up to the #1 spot. Sweet, I think.
[posted by trog dor @ 2:10 PM]
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Tubby is the man - as his 2nd customer I received this free of charge. It's fantastic. Tubby says, "It's meant to be you watching the newbies... And yes, that is the fabled ban-hammer."
Ok this is semi-old but I wanted to bring it up again because it's genius:
"Diagram of the Internet" by Bashy
click for full-size
In other happenings, folks are getting too desperate for Lounge access. Sources confirm an anonymous someone is trying to buy their way in with a Talisman of Baio and 10M (!).
[posted by trog dor @ 3:07 AM]
FireballX301 is quickly headed towards my list of ignoramuses. This has to be one of the most asinine and anserine threads I've ever read. Words escape me. This post certainly didn't win him any favour with me. By the way Fireballx, my statement there was simply sarcastic, not sardonic nor cutting. Sorry bud.
[posted by trog dor @ 2:54 AM]
Happy Meat Day - but more importantly, Happy-Decade-Free-of-Cancer Day for BunBun!
In forum news: stop posting meatsink ideas. Seriously. I'm so sick of that word. If y'all are really so pro-meatsinks, just kindly let Jick know you're pro-reset too, for that'll really take care of the excessive meat problems around here.
[posted by trog dor @ 12:13 AM]
Friday, October 15, 2004
The cumulative ban system Jick implemented some weeks ago is truly fantastic - I believe it's Birdy who deserves the most credit in pushing Jick to do this. Believe it or not, a couple folks are currently serving 10-day+ bans
[posted by trog dor @ 6:57 PM]
Lots o' hacking discussions going on. And nobody getting hacked. Folks, don't hand out your password and then wonder why your account is gone the next day.
Aelfrhian needs to be made a forum mod immediately. Seriously. And then she can delete every single one of RavioliofDoom's threads. Perhaps start locking all these Bashy threads too. I know it creeps him out and me too. People need a hero I guess.
[posted by trog dor @ 5:00 PM]
re: "You say to give Jick notes of encouragement. How can this be accomplished, might I ask?" The easiest way is to PM him in-game or through the forums. I can almost guarantee you right now that you probably won't get a response but hey, that's not the point. He literally gets hundreds of msgs a day but everyone loves to get You-rock-thanks-man mail.
Also, if you haven't checked the RKOL website recently you really should, it's pretty sweet: Radio KoL.
[posted by trog dor @ 3:42 PM]
Jacka18l has a KoL card deck for uber-players, er something. Not sure what it is exactly, but I think I'm honored to be on it. ...
Ok. Seriously. Where's Jick?
[posted by trog dor @ 12:54 AM]
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
My quest for 500 adventures - though apparently I wasn't the first to do the 19-mafia-wine thing (I should've known). Ah well it was interesting.
Elsewhere in the Kingdom, I sent some ideas to Jick via Boozer, who's chatting with him tomorrow. HotStuff sent in 12 pages of bugs and ideas. He's the "rox0rz." There's a couple things in the works relating to me, hopefully I can speak of them soon...
[posted by trog dor @ 2:05 AM]
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
I forgot to celebrate my half-birthday on the 8th! Trog's officially been in the Kingdom for 6 months.
The 9th marked Jick's 3 month independence. Except on Monday he said it was the first time since quitting his job (for KoL) that Asymmetric and KoL felt like a job - "the thrill is gone." Just a reminder to occasionally send Jick a little note of encouragement or something - he really does work hard for everybody.
[posted by trog dor @ 8:13 PM]
Monday, October 11, 2004
Tomorrow, Wednesday, I'm going to attempt to max out my adventures. Theoretically it's possible to do 500, but I think I'll be lucky to get 400. I've spent an ungodly amount of meat on mafia wine. Wish me luck.
"Becomes the guy to do the thing to be the one that says WARPIG HERO! working most for not to do, but likes these. thank you please friend good thread had."
- Pocket Hell
[posted by trog dor @ 11:43 PM]
Woot! My first hatefest, kinda fun. Too bad it was closed so soon. I'm really not a fan of all the thread-locking going on...
[posted by trog dor @ 2:25 PM]
Dear Sir.,
I am Trog Dor, the son of BoozerBear, former Nigerian Foreign Minister - who were killed in the attacks on the Penguin Information Center. In wake of attacks I came upon good fortune that was,, to my relief, secret to all but the utmost of those deserving the secrecy of that which was upon hitherto not in my possession prior. I know we havenot met but I know I can trust in your confidence and honesty and have full will that you can aid me. Simply set up a multi for me to deposit all my funds (I cannot do it myself for fear of repercussions of which you need not know) - after which on agreed upon date I will repossess the multi and take the meat, except your fair. share of course. To confirm your trustworthiness, please pass along you're password and 50M meat to made sure you have trust and patience and expedite this business endeavor of ours.
Sincerely,
Trog Dor
[posted by trog dor @ 12:41 AM]
Sunday, October 10, 2004
I really want a custum avatar but don't know what to put in it. If you have any suggestions please let me know.
In other news, the Mr. A market (as always) is nasty. Enter at your own risk. I'm considering retiring from it again. Getting Boozer 1000 Mr. A's was as good as it'll get I'm afraid.
I'm also a little excited because it looks like I'm fast closing the gap between me and the Most Powerful leaderboard.
[posted by trog dor @ 6:50 PM]
Friday, October 08, 2004
It's amusing to me how there can never be a single day in KoL without controversy and gossip. Inari's been "hacked" - she and her multis are no more, though someone has already taken up that character name. Now folks are pissing on the Mr. Store, something the KOL community itself asked for. Three cheers for more servers though!
Reminder: Muscle Day is tomorrow, so save up your adventures.
[posted by trog dor @ 12:21 AM]
Thursday, October 07, 2004
The Mr. Store has opened in Town on the Right Side of the Tracks. It's very sweet. I bought a Golden Mr. A and Cheshire Bat for starters. This, kids, is an example of how to get rich: buy low, sell high. Prices jumped by 100M in less than an hour. I have to give props to Gigs here who was also a co-conspirator and, like me, made a very nice profit off the whole thing.
[posted by trog dor @ 3:30 AM]
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Vote in my poll: Would you like to see a trivia channel? There's really no reason not to create one. Personally I think there are enough mods but if necessary, appoint more. Newbie is just way too crowded these days.
[posted by trog dor @ 10:19 PM]
For those curious, yes this isn't for real. But hey, go ahead and send Nyt your fences anyways.
[posted by trog dor @ 10:14 PM]
To all future chat jackasses: if you want to create multis to incite chaos, you might consider making your multis' names at least vaguely different. You may think you're being tricky by changing a letter (or maybe two!) but most of the chat moderators read English fairly well. We see through your clever ruse oh mighty hax0r.
[posted by trog dor @ 8:08 PM]
Wow the Kingdom of Lagging is struggling - if you haven't already donated please consider it so we can add more servers to handle the load.
[posted by trog dor @ 12:25 AM]
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Wow this site looks shady, I need serious design help. If you know a little about CSS and want to offer your aid please msg me in-game (#33932) or post here. Thanks.
[posted by trog dor @ 10:06 PM]
Some recent KOL stats for you...
There are between 25k-30k active players and a little over 130k active accounts. On average there are 1000 new sign-ups/day - though this spiked by 400% the day CNET ran their KOL article by John Borland
Alexa has more interesting traffic data for the KOL website.
[posted by trog dor @ 9:51 PM]
Papa Zito has a new KOL program that aims to go beyond the simple HTML helpers so common. It appears to still be very buggy but give it time and this could turn into something great. I give Papa huge props on the effort. You can download the program here.
[posted by trog dor @ 9:40 PM]
Welcome to the resurrected KOL blog! I deleted the old posts though it was a nice nostalgic trip to read what Kingdom life was like back in May. Regardless, stay tuned for a bigger better blog updated semi-regularly.
[posted by trog dor @ 9:21 PM]
The Kingdom of Loathing
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The Mr. Store has opened in Town on the Right Side of the Tracks. It's very sweet. I bought a Golden Mr. A and Cheshire Bat for starters. This, kids, is an example of how to get rich: buy low, sell high. Prices jumped by 100M in less than an hour. I have to give props to Gigs here who was also a co-conspirator and, like me, made a very nice profit off the whole thing.
