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Gameplay Discussions / SNI Experience
« on: March 24, 2015, 07:42:22 am »
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?
*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?