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So, just came back to the game for a brief look around...
*crickets*
and other than the lack of any discernible player body,
*more crickets*
I had an interesting realization.


Where are all my SNIs?


I am aware SNIs are, depending on which post you read, either going to be untradeable, or no longer creatable. OK. I can handle that. But I had about three high-level avatars worth of SNIs, maybe four, sitting in storage boxes in my Inventory. They are no longer there.


"Maybe you tripped, slipped, and inserted them without noticing?"
No. First of all, chipping them in with the time delay would have made for at least a six hour process (estimating the number of chips by how many storage boxes I had full of them). Second, I'd be well over level 65 in a lot of stuff, and I'm not. Third, I'd be horrifyingly skilled in the refining skills, which I am absolutely not.


"Maybe h4xx0rs/fiends/grumpkins got them?"
Eh, no. Still plenty of valuable stuff on the account, including AWD, weapons and HKs that haven't been available for a decade or were unique, the best armour in the game, etc. There's still... Well, everything, really. But not the SNIs.


"Maybe they're hiding?"
Do you have any idea how many chips that was? If Storage units weren't some kind of wormhole into D&D saddlebag-space, and those storage crates were the size of an average cardboard box, I would need a fleet of U-Hauls to move them from one part of my storage to another.


"Maybe you are stupid/crazy, or having a psychotic episode/manic mood swing?"
I am on meds now, much to the joy of everyone forced to be around me for extended periods of time. But I doubt this would affect where my SNIs are now. Either way, no, I don't think this is one of those cases.


Any ideas? Considering that it's the difference between being skill level "oh, cool, he's still the most skilled guy in the game," and "wait, that's a number?" I'd like to figure it out.


Second of all...What's the story with SAU? Obviously if they changed the SNI system, SAU no longer factors in... So what did they replace it with? If nothing, what do people do with blocked skills? I had many tens of millions of SAU--I have unblocked skills I hadn't unblocked because I wasn't using them and wanted to save, and enough to account for the skill levels I'd be increasing once I chipped all in.




*EDIT* It occurred to me to look for remnants of SNIs, rather than the SNIs themselves. Under my SNI-tab there are dozens of empty boxes where they should not have been empty. They should have SNIs. They did have SNIs. They no longer do. So, there are definitely many, many hundreds of SNIs that are not in my storage.
What is going on?

Omg, is that really you Cayden? It has to be you cause nobody else can write like this.
Well yeah, Bank is gone for good and the rest of the dev team has given up the project as well. You might even get back the SNI's, but... then the next question rises, what's the point?

Oh well, but your "Absent SNI's Note" was an enjoyable reading nevertheless, reminded me another timeless gem - an irish folk song called "Paddy's Sick Note" which goes like this:

Dear sir I write this note to you to tell me of me plight,
And at the time of writing, I am not a pretty sight.Me body is all black and blue, me face a deathly gray.And I write this note to say, why Paddy's not at work today.

While working on the fourteenth floor some bricks I had to clear.Now to throw them down from such a height, was not a good idea.The foreman wasn't very pleased, he being an awkward sod.He said I'd have to carry them down the ladders in me hod.

Now, clearing all these bricks by hand, it was so very slow.So I hoisted up a barrel, and secured the rope below.But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see;That a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me.

So when I untied the rope, the barrel fell like lead.And clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead.While I shot up like a rocket, to my dismay I found,That halfway up, I met the bloody barrel coming down.

Well, the barrel broke my shoulders as to the ground it sped,And when I reached the top, I banged the pulley with me head.Well I clung on tight though numb and shock from this almighty blow,And the barrel spilled out half the bricks fourteen floors below.

Now, when these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor,I then outweighed the barrel, and so started down once more.Still clinging tightly to the rope, I sped towards the ground.And I landed on the broken bricks that were all scattered 'round.

While I lay their groaning on the ground I thought I passed the worst,When the barrel hit the pulley wheel, and then the bottom burst.Well a shower of bricks rained down on me - I hadn't got a hope.As I lay there moaning on the ground: I let go of the bloody rope.

The barrel then being heavier it started down once more,And landed right across me as I lay across the floor.Well it broke three ribs, and my left arm, and I can only say;That I hope you'll understand why Paddy's not at work today.

Bottomline, never worry the fun hasn't left the world. I'm sure we'll meet again somewhere somehow someday

Hi, Fifth. Good to see you, as always. I think seeing your post "and so the miracle begins" was the reason I logged in at all again. You are truly unique. And, thanks for the hilarious song... I had never heard it before. Normally I would have needed something like that to calm down a bit, but logging into a dead AW already gives me a dull heartache. The loss of an incredulous number of SNIs don't really compound much on that. So, I can't get anxious over the loss of SNIs, I'm already heartbroken over the loss of the entire game.
(That, and the fact that I'm on so many antidepressants now, I'm a veritable zen master.)




Looking at my PNote wallet gave me something of a shock.




Snowy, wow, amazed to see you still around. Hello again. Thanks for the idea--I didn't know there was such a terminal. (Also encountered a TT on my way there, that was interesting. Glad they listened. Kind of. Eventually.) The Missing Items Terminal was just brilliantly off-the-wall enough to be the right answer... But not in this case. I did, however, find an extraordinary number of charged batteries. Perhaps the "missing items" terminal is the place where single socks, fully charged batteries, and pens go when they are lost? I have always wondered what that sector of the universe looked like. Now I know.




Typing on this forum makes me nauseous. There was a reason I avoided coming back for so many years.

heya m8 wb

hehe heya m8