I agrre that it is technically possible to have a completely optimal script. I just don't think it's feasible.
Universal Recovery Script
- Thread starter Bale
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Piling on to an off topic discussion, I find that I am not enough of a spade to even learn what is optimal play. I have a job. I have a life. I design and write optimal algorithms (as well as "good enough ones") and code professionally. KoL is a game, a diversion, a guilty pleasure. All that said, I have learned much about playing the game optimally by discussions of features included in scripts and learned by reading scripts. So I am all in favor of making a script play as optimally as possible, as understood by the author. I then appreciate features that make it easy for me to use the script in a way that the author considers sub-optimal - which are usually preferences and tweaking parameters.
My preference for getting something to work before getting it to work well, combined with my goal of automation leads me to select automation over optimality if I have a choice.
My preference for getting something to work before getting it to work well, combined with my goal of automation leads me to select automation over optimality if I have a choice.
Bale
Minion
This is the really tough one.
Hey Bale (which sounds like an agricultural product, but I digress)
I have been cursing you out because automation stops with me beaten up in spite of my best attempts to tune settings so that doesn't happen. Turns out I consistently miss a big one and it's all my own darn fault. When a character Ascends something resets the AutoRecovery options to "Don't" and so all my cursing at you was horribly misplaced. This is nothing more than operator error so nothing needs to change. Public humiliation might help me to remember to check the setting before I start a new run. Thank you for all the times I get the settings right and UR quietly goes about its business.
I have been cursing you out because automation stops with me beaten up in spite of my best attempts to tune settings so that doesn't happen. Turns out I consistently miss a big one and it's all my own darn fault. When a character Ascends something resets the AutoRecovery options to "Don't" and so all my cursing at you was horribly misplaced. This is nothing more than operator error so nothing needs to change. Public humiliation might help me to remember to check the setting before I start a new run. Thank you for all the times I get the settings right and UR quietly goes about its business.
Theraze
Active member
fronobulax, if you use newLife, that sets the automation levels down to nearly nothing... I actually tweak it myself back to the settings I prefer, but if you have a postAscension script like that in place, check for hpAutoRecovery and mpAutoRecovery (and their 'Target' values as well). Speaking of which, apparently I broke my copy of NewLife sometime recently, as it doesn't have the settings in there I actually use. Time to scan and see what else I might have lost. 
KoLmafia itself disables automatic HP and MP recovery when you ascend:
Code:
// Reset certain settings that the player almost certainly will
// use differently at the beginning of a run vs. at the end.
MoodManager.setMood( "apathetic" );
Preferences.setFloat( "hpAutoRecovery", -0.05f );
Preferences.setFloat( "mpAutoRecovery", -0.05f );