New Content - Implemented Xiblaxian Holo-Companion now has Arena Skills

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I ran the Familiar Trainer on the Xiblaxian Holo-Companion the other day. I noticed that it aborted after one of each contest - which is what it does if it gets a "This familiar sucks" message for that contest. However, there was no message, just a blank line.

I composed a lengthy bug report, in which I concluded that one of two things was happening:

See that blank line there? The is where the "this familiar sucks at this event" message would go for a familiar with 0 skill at the event. That is what happens for every contest with this familiar. I see two possibilities:

- You intend for this familiar to suck at (some) contests, but forgot to enter a "this familiar sucks at this contest" message
or
- You do not intend for this familiar to suck at (some) contests, but forgot to enter a non-zero skill.

Lo and behold, I got a response

From HotStuff (#59035) [reply] [quoted]
Date: Sunday, October 05, 2014, 02:56PM

> When you bring a familiar into Susie's Familiar Arena, it has a skill level for each of the 4 events.

> - You do not intend for this familiar to suck at (some) contests, but forgot to enter a non-zero skill.

The little Xiblaxian guy no longer sucks at anything. Thanks for the report!

So, I guess it's time to rerun "Learn Familiar Strengths" in the Familiar Trainer for this familiar.

 

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Revision 14836

I may have to rerun this next ascension; it gave up on Hide and Seek after only 3 iterations because the opponents "I suck at this contest" message was mis-interpreted as this familiar's message.

 

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I had a multi buy one of these guys and do the test.

Results for Xiblaxian Holo-Companion after 12 trials using 144 turns:

Contest         XP[1]   XP[2]   XP[3]  Original Rank Derived Rank
Cage Match      50      12       3          1              1
Scavenger Hunt  41      57      32          2              2
Obstacle Course 57      30       5          1              1
Hide and Seek   48      55      47          2              2

We're good.