Hows this for bad luck.
In Anarchy Online (the MMO that I play) theres the hardest boss in the game and its name is "The Beast". Now in this game, there enemys Health bar is seperated into "blocks" of hp, so the entire HP bar of the boss has some number of blocks that its seperated into. The amount of blocks depends on the amount of HP the boss has, in this case (being the final boss and all) there are a lot of blocks, roughly 40. Now I have figured out a way to solo this boss without actualling being at my computer, I just have to set a macro to run and it goes ahead and kills it.
Now this is where basic elementary maths comes into play. Based on my damage output, each block takes approximately 4 minutes to go down and with 40 blocks then that takes a total of about 160 minutes to kill the entire boss. 160 Minutes is 2 hours and 40 minutes. The next important piece of information to consider is that this boss has an ability to heal and the healing is somewhat randomized (I could tell you exactly how it works buts it not really all that important). Basically when the boss hits 75% of his HP theres a 1/2 chance that he heals up an extra 5 or so blocks. The same thing happens at 50% and 25% of his HP. So if you work it out, the chance of it not healing a single time is 1/16 which is 6.25%
SOOOO this means that if the boss doesnt heal once, then he would take 2 hours and 40 minutes to kill. Although this is unlikely to happen so its safe to say that it will take longer than that. I should also mentioned that when the boss dies, you have 30 minutes to loot the corpse before the body disappears or 'rots'. Now yesterday I was killing "The Beast" using this method and it took me (i timed it) 3 hours and 20 minutes to get him to 1/2 a block remaining. Now remember, 1 block takes 4 minutes to go down so then 1/2 a block takes 2 minutes. So the boss is 2 minutes from death. Now I am still having trouble getting over this part mentally but it JUST SO HAPPENS that at 1/2 a block remaning....the entire Anarchy Online servers suddenly crash for no real reason. Everybody from the game crashed including myself. Now what does this mean? It means that the boss is 2 minutes away from dieing and I am unable to kill it.
Now, this boss is in an instance and the only way to keep this particular instance would be for me to team up with someone (you have to be in a team) immediatley after I re-login, otherwise the game will recognise im not in a team and I will be kicked out of the instance. So I try to log back into the game as fast as possible only to get the message "Error - Player is already logged in", I got this message because I didnt log out properly since I rapidly crashed out of the game. So here I am spamming the login button constantly getting this message and then I decide that maybe I should close the launcher and re-open it (this sometimes fixes this problem). Baaaad mistake. Every so often (I simply cannot figure out why this happens... its a vista problem
) after I close the Anarchy launcher I cant re-open it without restarting my computer. So im like "OMG IF I DONT LOG IN FAST I WILL GET KICKED OUT OF THE INSTANCE". So I immediatley recognise that this problem has occured and so I restart my computer without delay.
Upon getting back to the desktop, I open up the launcher and yay I dont get the error message anymore. I log in and......................................Poof, kicked ouf the instance. So what does this mean? It means that re-entering "The Beast" room will have a new beast, with full HP and I have to start allllllllllllllllllllllll over again from the beginning and this has happened because the game just so happened to crash for no reason when the boss was 2 minutes from death.
Ok. Now. That happened yesterday. Today in my opinion is even more ridiculous and it makes me want to cry. The chance of a combination of unlikely events that all happened in the way they did is so slow that it depresses me. Lets start shall we. I should also mentioned that once The Beast is killed, you are unable to kill it again for another 9 hours.
11:30:20, 11:30:21, 11:30:22...
I set myself up for a beast kill in which I solo it. My older brother today has decided to go out and test out some T.V's that he is interested in buying and he wants me to go with him to test out Input Lag in smash melee. I tell him, Hold on, let me get my beast Macro running so I can kill it while we're out testing this stuff. Knowning that Richard will be home and I know that if something goes wrong (which it shouldnt) then Richard can deal with it or ring me and I can direct him to what to do.
12:01:04, 12:01:05, 12:01:06...
I get the macro going, I start my stopwatch to keep track of beast kill time, I go get changed and am ready to leave. We pack up the wii and all the cables etc and we go out.
1:53:31, 1:53:32, 1:53:33...
We have 3 different T.V's that we need to test out, each of which are at different stores. The first store by this time we have already tested and the lag was bad and so we went to the next store. By this time, we have tested this T.V and have found that it is good for almost everything except that it doesnt have some features that my bro is looked for. The guy there at the store keeps us with him trying to get us to buy this gimpy T.V and basically says that the next model up (the one my bro wants) is out of stock everywhere in every store and nobody will be getting any of them in stock for another 4-6 weeks. My brother and I know this isnt true, he just wants us to wait for 4-6 weeks so we buy it from THAT store so THEY get the money. Knowing this, we head to "The Good Guys" for our final visit.
2:40:56, 2:40:57, 2:40:58...
By this time it has been 2 hours and 41 minutes through killing the Beast. Now I know that if im super lucky and the boss doesnt heal once then Beast would have just died 1 minute ago meaning I have another 29 minutes to loot it. In the back of my head I'm saying "the chances of beast not healing once is so low its not even worth considering". Although I wasnt satisfied with that and so I decided to ring home to see what was going on. Ring....Ring.....Ring... no answer. I ring again.... No Answer. Now you have to understand, the chances of not a single member of my family being home is just crazy low, theres ALWAYS SOMEONE home. Ok now I am worried but my bro still has a few things he needs to test and I let the "chance of beast not healing is so low" logic to keep me going.
3:01:24, 3:01:25, 3:01:26...
We are in the car and just started heading home. I know I have 30 mintues before the corpse rots and I also know that a chance of 6.25% of it being dead at 2 hours and 40 minutes is super low.
3:18:58, 3:18:59, 3:19:00...
I arive home and the first thing I shout out is "anyone home??", and I see Richard in the room and I ask "why didnt you pick up the phone when I rang?" and he said that he was in the shower at the time and didnt hear it. I rush to computer while im asking this and I see on my screen that I am not fighting Beast (so its dead) and that there is no corpse (so it has rotted).
DAMi
NIT! I think to myself I cannot believe that richard was in the shower from the time I rang him until now roughly 45 minutes and I also wonder how long ago it rotted. I can check when it rotted by knowing when it died, and I can check when it died by knowing how long it is until I can kill beast again (remember there is a 9 hour lockout). I type in /raid locks and the time is shown....8 hours, 26 minutes, 57 seconds.
..........................................................This means that beast died 33 minutes before I checked this timer. Which means it rotted 3 minutes ago. Which means that the super low chance of 6.25% JUST SO HAPPENED to happen. Now I didnt think of checking the /raid locks until about 2-3 minutes after entering the house. THIS MEANS THAT I WAS LITERALLY 30-60 seconds LATE and because of this I am now locked out of the beast for another 9 hours AND I missed ALL the loot.
.............. /wrists ..... ????
tehers a few garmmar miskates but i dnot crae enuogh to fix tehm. it mkaes the sotry a ltitle mroe intersting!
