Homunculus

[wussypuff]

well until we get homuncs i'm taking a hiatus from the server. it's too frustrating to *try* to play alchemist when you get no buffs, no humoncs, and crappy job bonuses. ugh.

i don't see WHY homuncs are such a huge issue. they're NEEDED as an alchemist tool, which is WHY they were created and WHY alchemists get crap bonuses and crap skills.

it's no different then anything else. you can autoclick to mine, you can reflect armor to level, you can bot without being caught 100% of the time....you'll ALWAYS have problems. it seems the general consensus on this server is "homunc BAD" which is simply not true, or if it is true, it's true of mining/fishing/autoreflect armor as well.

if you look at the AI program, you CANNOT auto feed/auto rez. the way the program WORKS is this:

your homunc dies, the AI program shuts off. you cannot autorez as that would be a script in the AI program which is shut off. the only way it would work is for you to lag EXACTLY right EVERY time for it to happen. with how laggy the server is, it may happen 1/99 times. autofeeding isn't possible in the homunc AI script from what we were able to find, and again requires an outside botting program.

the website you linked me to from what i translated says you'd need a botting program to fully create the "AFK"emist....they also state that the ai program auto shuts off and you can't do it in there....at least from what i can translate (using bablefish and my high school/college years of japanese language) the site also talks about the AI jRO made for their server, and THAT'S what has the problem. so it is just with jRO and not eA.

the theory behind (and practice of) afkemists is you get loyalty very high and feed it to the point that you can walk away from the computer for hours on end and come back to a homunc with full hunger and barely any loyalty left. this means you'll have a very high level homunc with next to no loyalty, which means you can't evolve it. you trade evolving for char levels and no base levels. this requires a lot of math, and frankly with the bot checks on this server, i don't see it as a problem. all you have to do is either warp to the alchie/creator, check 'em, and if they fail warp them to a jail cell. if they still don't respond, kick 'em. same as any bot.

i wish this server would actually test this things instead of presuming they exist. it's REALLY frustrating to try to level an alchemist without a homunc, and frankly i miss my little buddy. there's no reason we shouldn't have homunc by now with all the "looking into" the gms have done. if you need help coding these things and testing them, we'd be more than happy to help. if you need the server base the help with some afkemist checks, we'd be happy to do that too.

just please, PLEASE give us our homuncs already :cry:

EDIT: forgot to mention, if you OVERFEED your homunculus, you LOSE intimacy. the perfect time to feed your homunc is between 14-24 hunger, where you get 1 full intimacy point. below that you lose, above that you get about .5, and above that you get next to nothin and above that i think you lose intimacy (if i'm remember correctly)

i have a PLETHORA of info i'd be happy to share/link/explore/whatever with you, but show some love to our poor little soul shards D: