It's the Witching Hour!

baddmoonrizin · October 15

Howling ghouls and creatures crawl to seal your doom!

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11571839

questerius · October 15

Fluffy.

Edit: if we give the sword to your EMH, does that EMH refer to itself as Schweitzer?

phoenixc · October 15

Beowulf’s Blade is account-wide, now the question is whether Grudge (and/or the other cats) is account-wide as well.

bratsa · October 17

I would like to know who named the pet, because one of the words is a derogatory word for black people and Australian aborigines.

I do not know if it was called that in Discovery as am not really into Disc, but that is a bad choice in naming.

And if you do not know which word I am referring to it begins with C.

sthe91 · October 17

> @bratsa said:
> I would like to know who named the pet, because one of the words is a derogatory word for black people and Australian aborigines.
>
> I do not know if it was called that in Discovery as am not really into Disc, but that is a bad choice in naming.
>
> And if you do not know which word I am referring to it begins with C.

Grudge is that breed of cat. It is not being used in a derogatory manner here. Remember words can have more than one meaning.

flaxegg · October 17

> @bratsa said:
> I would like to know who named the pet, because one of the words is a derogatory word for black people and Australian aborigines.
>
> I do not know if it was called that in Discovery as am not really into Disc, but that is a bad choice in naming.
>
> And if you do not know which word I am referring to it begins with C.

I can't tell if you're trolling or serious, but Maine Coon, assuming that's what you're referring to, is literally the name of a real-life cat breed. Neither the writers of Discovery nor STO were in charge of naming the cat breed.

bratsa · October 17

flaxegg#2138 wrote: »

> @bratsa said:
> I would like to know who named the pet, because one of the words is a derogatory word for black people and Australian aborigines.
>
> I do not know if it was called that in Discovery as am not really into Disc, but that is a bad choice in naming.
>
> And if you do not know which word I am referring to it begins with C.

I can't tell if you're trolling or serious, but Maine Coon, assuming that's what you're referring to, is literally the name of a real-life cat breed. Neither the writers of Discovery nor STO were in charge of naming the cat breed.

No I was not trolling I tried looking for it but could not find it. I had another look and its becuase it has other names, and it is known by one of them where i live and why they could not use one of the other names its known by, I mean coon means was used in the same way in the US as here.

But sorry if you think I was just trolling, and I am not at all suprised it was named in the US.

pottsey5g · October 17

This has been broken since day 1. Any chance its going be fixed this year so we don't get the same path 99% of the time when its meant to be random?

phoenixc · October 17

flaxegg#2138 wrote: »

> @bratsa said:
> I would like to know who named the pet, because one of the words is a derogatory word for black people and Australian aborigines.
>
> I do not know if it was called that in Discovery as am not really into Disc, but that is a bad choice in naming.
>
> And if you do not know which word I am referring to it begins with C.

I can't tell if you're trolling or serious, but Maine Coon, assuming that's what you're referring to, is literally the name of a real-life cat breed. Neither the writers of Discovery nor STO were in charge of naming the cat breed.

The name of the breed refers to the fact that they are very big for housecats and (at least from the back) with the size and fur length/patterns they almost look like racoons (in fact, an old myth is that they started out as a crossbreed of cat and racoon). My family used to have a large (28 pounds without being overweight) tomcat of the breed, very friendly and patient (though playful) and in a roomful of people he would go from person to person to get attention.

They have some strange quirks, like playing fetch like a dog and almost always coming when called, they actually like water (Buzzer even used to like to swim in the ditch out front after a big rain, and when he got out most of the water would run right off him like a duck), they often eat dry cat foot by picking it up in their paw and eating it from there (which he did), and they often hum and chirp while purring which is a rather odd sound. They are also surprisingly strong, ours would occasionally open the refrigerator or push through a swinging door that would stop our Siamese no matter how hard she tried to push it open.

rattler2 · October 17

bratsa wrote: »

flaxegg#2138 wrote: »

> @bratsa said:
> I would like to know who named the pet, because one of the words is a derogatory word for black people and Australian aborigines.
>
> I do not know if it was called that in Discovery as am not really into Disc, but that is a bad choice in naming.
>
> And if you do not know which word I am referring to it begins with C.

I can't tell if you're trolling or serious, but Maine Coon, assuming that's what you're referring to, is literally the name of a real-life cat breed. Neither the writers of Discovery nor STO were in charge of naming the cat breed.

No I was not trolling I tried looking for it but could not find it. I had another look and its becuase it has other names, and it is known by one of them where i live and why they could not use one of the other names its known by, I mean coon means was used in the same way in the US as here.

But sorry if you think I was just trolling, and I am not at all suprised it was named in the US.

I'm just gonna leave this here. There was no racism intended when the breed was named, it was literally thought to be a cross between a Cat and a Raccoon.

pottsey5g · October 30

baddmoonrizin wrote: »

Howling ghouls and creatures crawl to seal your doom!

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11571839

Hi @baddmoonrizin a while back we talked about the odd chance of going in rooms. At the time you had the same problem as me with the spider room being the rarest room and the Alchemy room being more common when it should be the other way around. I have still not ended up in the spider room and still see the Alchemy room almost every single time. Are you still having the same problem? Our old discussion is below

baddmoonrizin said "By that thinking, then I should have a greater chance of ending up in the spider room, but for me it is the rarest room to get. I'm much more likely to end up in the alchemy room."

My reply was "That's why I think something odd is going off with the random chance. If we had some sort of 5 sided dice. We should get 2 roles that put us in the spider room, 2 roles that end up in the book room and 1 role that ends up in the Alchemy room.

Or another way to put it 4 players end up outside the Alchemy room and only 1 player ends up inside the Alchemy room so it should be by far be the rarest room to see. Yet there seems to be a pattern where some players are ending up almost exclusively in the spider room and other players are ending up almost exclusively in the Alchemy room.

Just finished my last runs of the event for this cycle and yet again I failed to get into the spider room. Not once this year or last year. Pretty sure I had the same problem 3 years back as well."

Unless I counted wrong this year will be 4 years now of not seeing the spider room and 90% chance of the Alchemy room.

baddmoonrizin · October 30

Yep. I've been getting similar results this year. And I started running the "Witches Brew" patrol towards the end instead of the full TFO, and have been getting the same results with me being the only player. So, yeah, there could be some RNG issues there.

coaldust · October 31

pottsey5g wrote: »

baddmoonrizin wrote: »

Howling ghouls and creatures crawl to seal your doom!

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11571839

Hi @baddmoonrizin a while back we talked about the odd chance of going in rooms. At the time you had the same problem as me with the spider room being the rarest room and the Alchemy room being more common when it should be the other way around. I have still not ended up in the spider room and still see the Alchemy room almost every single time. Are you still having the same problem? Our old discussion is below

baddmoonrizin said "By that thinking, then I should have a greater chance of ending up in the spider room, but for me it is the rarest room to get. I'm much more likely to end up in the alchemy room."

My reply was "That's why I think something odd is going off with the random chance. If we had some sort of 5 sided dice. We should get 2 roles that put us in the spider room, 2 roles that end up in the book room and 1 role that ends up in the Alchemy room.

Or another way to put it 4 players end up outside the Alchemy room and only 1 player ends up inside the Alchemy room so it should be by far be the rarest room to see. Yet there seems to be a pattern where some players are ending up almost exclusively in the spider room and other players are ending up almost exclusively in the Alchemy room.

Just finished my last runs of the event for this cycle and yet again I failed to get into the spider room. Not once this year or last year. Pretty sure I had the same problem 3 years back as well."

Unless I counted wrong this year will be 4 years now of not seeing the spider room and 90% chance of the Alchemy room.

I get the opposite. I get spiders almost constantly and can count the alchemy room trips on one hand with fingers spare.

splatty · November 1

I've only had the spiders once. I'd say 60/40 split for the library and alchemy room. Same as last year.

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