September 05, 2009
Going for broke
BvS madness continues. A long description of an Out On Top attempt follows behind the cut.
I'm pretty much done with Season 1. My ninja has defaced the stone village monument, then repaired it, then vaulted it. He's defeated endless nameless hordes with nothing but a minigun equipped with a sandwich dispenser. He beat down the council of soul reapers. He -ate a cathedral-. He's got a cool coat and cool shades. There's a perpetual sandstorm around him. He's got a sword, a pistol, a scythe, and a giant cardboard robot. There's even a little zombie ninja sidekick.
The only thing left to do is try to go Out On Top - that is, achieve #1 in the daily rankings (which are broken up by season and then across season by ninja rank; since he's a top-ranked ninja, it's a good thing I'm only competing against other people in Season 1!) If I can hit #1 in today's rankings, then start Season 2 tomorrow, I'll receive a neat ending theme that gives free experience.
So how do you become the best? By cheating, naturally... or at least taking gross advantage of game mechanics. There are three different ways of getting lots of ranking points. You can be a fairly bad-ass ninja and run a lot of missions, each of which will give you ranking points, and get more by running tougher missions and more of 'em. Or you can drink silver elixirs, which give you 100,000 points a pop. Or you can throw truly legendary parties, requiring silly amounts of money. Of course, if it's #1 you're going for, you'd better do all three at the same time...
The day starts off with a quick "bingo" - an attempt to attack and kill (really, not more than mildly annoy for an hour) a ninja from another village. I picked a poor guy from Fansub Village (if I'm gonna go randomly attacking people, might as well hit ones who deserve it), and got around the messy details of who'd actually win the fight by using my last Death Note page. Why'd I start off my day with an act of unprovoked aggression that didn't actually yield any daily ranking? Two reasons, as it so happens. My possession of a Death Note means that bingoing someone gives me the "Note Rush" - a 20% bonus on my daily ranking (and experience, if I hadn't been topped off) for the rest of the day. Also, by bringing the ally Palmface in my team, I gained 50 extra appetite ("all that chewing has made you hungrier!")
At this point I retired my bingo team and brought out Lulu and CiCi (the demented programmer turned Code Geass into a fast food restaurant...) Their team bonus makes me use 10 less appetite per consumed item, which is very important here. I start a day with 240 appetite (enhanced by the village's Enormous Buffet upgrade and my possession of a Hollow Leg), so with Palmface's chewing, I'm up to 290. Eating a quick bowl of Diet Ramen increased that to 330. Drinking six Apertifs (+5 each) from the "Juice" Bar brings the total to 360. (Total cost for the Apertifs is about 16k.)
A single silver potion costs 50 appetite; with the Greassmonkeys bonus they're 40 each. I promptly guzzle nine of them, for 900,000 points. I'm already pretty high on the daily ranking list and I've hardly started the day.
After that, it's party time. I go to the Party Room, where I can throw "All-Out Bash" parties for 18k apiece (with the costs increasing by 18k for every two parties thrown, so 3 and 4 are 36k, and 5 and 6 are 54k). Using the "Perfect Goth Evolution: Loli Loli" technique that I learned from Nadeshiko, I can double the ranking effect of each party in exchange for 25 stamina; not ideal, but a better return on the stamina than running missions. Each party gives either 50,000 or 100,000 ranking points, determined randomly, then doubled by the Loli Loli technique. I have enough cash for six parties, and two of them give 200,000 points. That's another 800,000, so I'm at 1.7 million points.
Time to push through as many missions as possible. I switch teams to Pinky lvl 2 (this is the Sakura from Naruto character) and Stalkergirl lvl 2 (Hinata, likewise) because they make missions consume 1 less stamina each, plus Emosuke lvl 3 (his 4 strength and 3 range are the best of any single character I have available). I've got the difficulty crank set on level 1, as high as I'm allowed to crank it in S1, so I get an extra 5% out of each mission in exchange for the difficulty and successes each being increased by 1.
Before I get started, I grab all the stamina bonuses I can lay my hands on. As it happens, that's not that many. I can't drink a potion (I'm about to barf from the silver potions already) and I can't eat stamina-providing ramen (the diet ramen was more effective than the equivalent stamina increase would be, by about 60%). I take a quick ninja vacation and spend a z-reward on a nonja party for a total extra bonus of 245 stamina. (A full set of stamina bonuses would have included the 7-day consecutive playing bonus, which I've been getting on Thursday, plus a 50-spar sparring bonus which would have taken me another week to get to 250, plus a possible 300 stamina from a Storm Favor if I'd been willing to grind for another month.)
Why did I go today, if I don't have access to those bonuses? I'd been looking at the Top Player lists for a while. Conventional wisdom (as much as that means in a game where you can kick a whale's ass) is that serious OOT runs should be attempted during the week, when a lot of players can't play because of school. I'd noticed that, contrary to the CW, the weekend totals tended to be a lot lower. Maybe this is an effect of the "serious" players all following the same advice? Characters who aren't serious about trying for #1 aren't going to stumble into millions of ranking points, after all. So I'll soon see if my theory is correct...
I then proceed to run a lot of AA-rank Taijutsu missions. Taijutsu because that's my most powerful statistic, so those missions are easier to beat anyway, and also because there's a limited number of Taijutsu AA missions and one of them has a chance of giving you back 20 extra stamina. Each mission costs me 8 stamina, I get the occasional 20 back from that one mission, and my stamina pool gets expended. On my final mission, I use "Ninja Art: Hottie Regeneration" (learned from The Rack, more popularly Tsunade from Naruto) and get an extra 100 stamina, in exchange for not being able to use any chakra-based abilities for the rest of the day or tomorrow. Eh, I'll be hung over tomorrow anyway from all the Apertifs I had to drink earlier.
Total score: 2378803. If I'd made the run yesterday, I would have come in second place - someone partied his way to 3 million. There are days during the week where I wouldn't have even made it into the top 3 with this score. But it would have taken first by a mile for the last three Saturdays running, so I'm hoping. I'll find out tomorrow, I guess...
(Even if I don't get first, if I'm in the top 3, that's still enough for entrance to the Halls of Awesome and for me to collect a Pirate Hat - ample reward for the effort, though I'd prefer the win...)
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I'm pretty much done with Season 1. My ninja has defaced the stone village monument, then repaired it, then vaulted it. He's defeated endless nameless hordes with nothing but a minigun equipped with a sandwich dispenser. He beat down the council of soul reapers. He -ate a cathedral-. He's got a cool coat and cool shades. There's a perpetual sandstorm around him. He's got a sword, a pistol, a scythe, and a giant cardboard robot. There's even a little zombie ninja sidekick.
The only thing left to do is try to go Out On Top - that is, achieve #1 in the daily rankings (which are broken up by season and then across season by ninja rank; since he's a top-ranked ninja, it's a good thing I'm only competing against other people in Season 1!) If I can hit #1 in today's rankings, then start Season 2 tomorrow, I'll receive a neat ending theme that gives free experience.
So how do you become the best? By cheating, naturally... or at least taking gross advantage of game mechanics. There are three different ways of getting lots of ranking points. You can be a fairly bad-ass ninja and run a lot of missions, each of which will give you ranking points, and get more by running tougher missions and more of 'em. Or you can drink silver elixirs, which give you 100,000 points a pop. Or you can throw truly legendary parties, requiring silly amounts of money. Of course, if it's #1 you're going for, you'd better do all three at the same time...
The day starts off with a quick "bingo" - an attempt to attack and kill (really, not more than mildly annoy for an hour) a ninja from another village. I picked a poor guy from Fansub Village (if I'm gonna go randomly attacking people, might as well hit ones who deserve it), and got around the messy details of who'd actually win the fight by using my last Death Note page. Why'd I start off my day with an act of unprovoked aggression that didn't actually yield any daily ranking? Two reasons, as it so happens. My possession of a Death Note means that bingoing someone gives me the "Note Rush" - a 20% bonus on my daily ranking (and experience, if I hadn't been topped off) for the rest of the day. Also, by bringing the ally Palmface in my team, I gained 50 extra appetite ("all that chewing has made you hungrier!")
At this point I retired my bingo team and brought out Lulu and CiCi (the demented programmer turned Code Geass into a fast food restaurant...) Their team bonus makes me use 10 less appetite per consumed item, which is very important here. I start a day with 240 appetite (enhanced by the village's Enormous Buffet upgrade and my possession of a Hollow Leg), so with Palmface's chewing, I'm up to 290. Eating a quick bowl of Diet Ramen increased that to 330. Drinking six Apertifs (+5 each) from the "Juice" Bar brings the total to 360. (Total cost for the Apertifs is about 16k.)
A single silver potion costs 50 appetite; with the Greassmonkeys bonus they're 40 each. I promptly guzzle nine of them, for 900,000 points. I'm already pretty high on the daily ranking list and I've hardly started the day.
After that, it's party time. I go to the Party Room, where I can throw "All-Out Bash" parties for 18k apiece (with the costs increasing by 18k for every two parties thrown, so 3 and 4 are 36k, and 5 and 6 are 54k). Using the "Perfect Goth Evolution: Loli Loli" technique that I learned from Nadeshiko, I can double the ranking effect of each party in exchange for 25 stamina; not ideal, but a better return on the stamina than running missions. Each party gives either 50,000 or 100,000 ranking points, determined randomly, then doubled by the Loli Loli technique. I have enough cash for six parties, and two of them give 200,000 points. That's another 800,000, so I'm at 1.7 million points.
Time to push through as many missions as possible. I switch teams to Pinky lvl 2 (this is the Sakura from Naruto character) and Stalkergirl lvl 2 (Hinata, likewise) because they make missions consume 1 less stamina each, plus Emosuke lvl 3 (his 4 strength and 3 range are the best of any single character I have available). I've got the difficulty crank set on level 1, as high as I'm allowed to crank it in S1, so I get an extra 5% out of each mission in exchange for the difficulty and successes each being increased by 1.
Before I get started, I grab all the stamina bonuses I can lay my hands on. As it happens, that's not that many. I can't drink a potion (I'm about to barf from the silver potions already) and I can't eat stamina-providing ramen (the diet ramen was more effective than the equivalent stamina increase would be, by about 60%). I take a quick ninja vacation and spend a z-reward on a nonja party for a total extra bonus of 245 stamina. (A full set of stamina bonuses would have included the 7-day consecutive playing bonus, which I've been getting on Thursday, plus a 50-spar sparring bonus which would have taken me another week to get to 250, plus a possible 300 stamina from a Storm Favor if I'd been willing to grind for another month.)
Why did I go today, if I don't have access to those bonuses? I'd been looking at the Top Player lists for a while. Conventional wisdom (as much as that means in a game where you can kick a whale's ass) is that serious OOT runs should be attempted during the week, when a lot of players can't play because of school. I'd noticed that, contrary to the CW, the weekend totals tended to be a lot lower. Maybe this is an effect of the "serious" players all following the same advice? Characters who aren't serious about trying for #1 aren't going to stumble into millions of ranking points, after all. So I'll soon see if my theory is correct...
I then proceed to run a lot of AA-rank Taijutsu missions. Taijutsu because that's my most powerful statistic, so those missions are easier to beat anyway, and also because there's a limited number of Taijutsu AA missions and one of them has a chance of giving you back 20 extra stamina. Each mission costs me 8 stamina, I get the occasional 20 back from that one mission, and my stamina pool gets expended. On my final mission, I use "Ninja Art: Hottie Regeneration" (learned from The Rack, more popularly Tsunade from Naruto) and get an extra 100 stamina, in exchange for not being able to use any chakra-based abilities for the rest of the day or tomorrow. Eh, I'll be hung over tomorrow anyway from all the Apertifs I had to drink earlier.
Total score: 2378803. If I'd made the run yesterday, I would have come in second place - someone partied his way to 3 million. There are days during the week where I wouldn't have even made it into the top 3 with this score. But it would have taken first by a mile for the last three Saturdays running, so I'm hoping. I'll find out tomorrow, I guess...
(Even if I don't get first, if I'm in the top 3, that's still enough for entrance to the Halls of Awesome and for me to collect a Pirate Hat - ample reward for the effort, though I'd prefer the win...)
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Good luck!
I was planning to save my cash until I could hit 3 million or so, but then I looked at the rankings, and it's actually easier in S2 than S1. So I'll definitely do it before I loop again.
I was planning to save my cash until I could hit 3 million or so, but then I looked at the rankings, and it's actually easier in S2 than S1. So I'll definitely do it before I loop again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 05, 2009 11:37 PM (PiXy!)
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Depends on the night. Once you get past 2 million, it's really heavily dependent on parties (and, by extension, on money, though a Catgirl Entourage is a big help too). I'm just hoping that all I run into are S1 guys hoping to get lucky on their weekend Sannin run. ;p
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at September 06, 2009 12:13 AM (pWQz4)
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Dang! #2. Ah well, at least I got a Pirate Hat for the trouble.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at September 06, 2009 04:18 AM (vGfoR)
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Curses! At least you'll look stylish. 
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 06, 2009 11:44 PM (PiXy!)
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Got another Kaiju in Turtle - bishies this time - and I'm hoping for a drop. There's currently only one other Sannin apart from the leader (the other looped to S4), so I stand a decent chance.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2009 06:03 AM (PiXy!)
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I'm trapimitated in the zomjia forest.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at September 15, 2009 07:33 PM (aXMnk)
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You can always retreat (unless you're zero HP or Nommed). Anyway, I stopped by and healed you. 
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 16, 2009 04:10 AM (PiXy!)
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Regrettably, no zombjas for my alt. He got invited directly after the map started...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at September 16, 2009 01:55 PM (pWQz4)
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Ditto, and I missed out on the Bishie attack, too. I'm a sad duckie.
Posted by: Wonderduck at September 16, 2009 04:56 PM (/O6qY)
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Eh, there will always be more monsters. And early on you can't really contribute much to fighting them - each "hit" is a roll, where you do damage equal to the number of successes you generate, modified by frankly a whole lot of things. I've hit monsters with a pretty good S1 sannin character for over 160 in a single shot, but the new alt chunin I have would be lucky to do 3 points of damage. (He doesn't have nearly the stamina, either...)
Zombjas is different, as it's a game completely independent of your stats in the main game. A S10 kaijukage who's never done zombjas before is exactly as good as a freshly-minted S1 genin.
Zombjas is different, as it's a game completely independent of your stats in the main game. A S10 kaijukage who's never done zombjas before is exactly as good as a freshly-minted S1 genin.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at September 16, 2009 06:43 PM (vGfoR)
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I got my kaiju drop this time.
Useful one too - money printer.
Useful one too - money printer. Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 19, 2009 04:33 AM (PiXy!)
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