Feature Improve fortune cookie counter discard logic

[zarqon]

If you have more than 3 active cookie counters, it can only mean that you have not visited adventure.php since your last semi-rare adventure was up, and therefore all of them are invalid -- and they should be all be discarded, probably along with printing a message explaining why (or linking to why).

 

[Veracity]

"It can only mean", eh?

My multi got 6 different numbers from two fortune cookies a while ago. I just checked, and it turns out he ate them the turn after he completed 500 turns in the basement. So that IS consistent with your argument.

 

[xKiv]

Wasn't it spaded that the first cookie eaten would set your SR number, and therefore one of the numbers from the second cookie would be correct?

(and therefore: if, after this cookie, there would be more than 3 active cookie counters, or none of this cookie's numbers match any active cookie counter, remove all active cookie counters and then (re-)process this cookie's numbers)

 

[Veracity]

[37005] Fernswarthy's Basement (Level 500)
Encounter: Fernswarthy's Basement, Level 500
You acquire an item: Discount Telescope Warehouse gift certificate
...
eat 2 fortune cookie
You gain 2 Adventures
You lose some of an effect: Got Milk
You gain 2 Adventures
You lose some of an effect: Got Milk
Lucky numbers: 124, 236, 10
Lucky numbers: 2, 37, 105
...
[37006] Limerick Dungeon
Encounter: The Apathetic Lizardman
You gain 10 Magicalness
...
eat 1 fortune cookie
You gain 2 Adventures
You lose some of an effect: Got Milk
Lucky numbers: 200, 172, 175
...
[37179] Limerick Dungeon
Encounter: The Bleary-Eyed Cyclops
You acquire an item: cyclops eyedrops

None of the numbers from the first 2 cookies was correct. One adventure.php turn and the next cookie gave 3 numbers, one of which WAS correct.

 

[zarqon]

This also happened to me -- ate one cookie and all the numbers were rejected as out of range. What?? So I ate another, and two numbers were accepted, however it had a number in common with the previous cookie, that number being 283. This threw me for a loop until I ate another one and ended up with 5 cookie counters. I finally realized what was going on, so after clearing counters and visiting adventure.php, I ate another cookie and the numbers were good again.

 

[lostcalpolydude]

Wasn't it spaded that the first cookie eaten would set your SR number, and therefore one of the numbers from the second cookie would be correct?

(and therefore: if, after this cookie, there would be more than 3 active cookie counters, or none of this cookie's numbers match any active cookie counter, remove all active cookie counters and then (re-)process this cookie's numbers)

Eating a cookie reveals the counter, it doesn't set it. If you spend a bunch of turns at the shore or in the basement and fail to set your semirare counter, the numbers from a fortune cookie are all meaningless.

 

[forgot my password]

My multi got 6 different numbers from two fortune cookies a while ago.

If you'd eaten 3, though, you'd be guaranteed to get 6 wrong fortune cookie numbers. You'd need to check each fortune cookie for a few cases, depending on whether you'd spent turns since the last one.

 

[zarqon]

I suppose a related improvement would be to warn about cookie consumption if you haven't visited adventure.php since your last known SR flag. "Are you sure you want to eat a cookie? All of your numbers will be random and meaningless!"

Either way, discarding all cookie counters if you get more than 3 would be helpful.

 

[stannius]

If you'd eaten 3, though, you'd be guaranteed to get 6 wrong fortune cookie numbers. You'd need to check each fortune cookie for a few cases, depending on whether you'd spent turns since the last one.

You're not guaranteed wrong numbers, are you? Otherwise you could eat a few hundred cookies and rule out everything but the correct number. That would be pretty amusing.

 

[Theraze]

You're just guaranteed random numbers... eat 2 cookies, you'll probably have 6 possibilities. Eat 3 cookies, you'll probably have 9 possibilities. Eventually it'll think it's found what's "right", but it's not actually based on reality, just randomness.