Shrap booster

[Cheese]

today i typed ?iteminfo shrap booster

the result was different than last time

 

+------------------+
| Shrap Booster    |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| Buy Price | Sell Price | Exp   | Ships    | Max | Ammo             | Item Types                     |
| $25000    | $22500     | 4000  |  2 4 6   | 1   | None             | Shrapnel, Gun                  |
+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+
| The Shrap Booster is not meant to be used directly to fire bullets. It is designed to create high powered shrapnel on bombs. |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property Name    | Property Value |
+------------------+----------------+
| bounce           | +1             |
| gunlevel         | +3             |
| bulletdelay      | =45            |
| bulletenergy     | =39            |
| initialbounty    | -1             |
| bombenergy       | +35            |
| bombdelay        | +15            |
| shraplevel       | +1             |
+------------------+----------------+

 

notice that shraprate +1 is nowhere to be found?

was this an accident?

[Kilo]

It boosts the level of your shrapnel ("shraplevel.")

[Cheese]

yes, it says that.

 

but it no longer adds to shraprate? =S

[Kilo]

...Yes? The one was traded for the other.

[Cheese]

deliberately?

 

that is one hell of a downgrade to an already bad item

[Kilo]

not really, though. it's been like this for longer than i can remember.

[Cheese]

never knew your memory didnt go past 2 weeks ago

[Kilo]

well you can choose to believe that's even remotely close to when it changed to shraplevel, but then you'd be choosing to be wrong.

 

i'll give you a hint, all of the bombs have had shraplevel properties for exactly as long. do you happen to remember when entropy missile was introduced? not 2 weeks ago, not 2 months ago.

[Samapico]

In one of my 2009 log files, I have this at line 235180:

 

Samapico> ?messages

[May 04 02:49] < some message>

 

And this at line 226618:

Samapico> ?iteminfo shrap booster

+------------------+

| Shrap Booster |

+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+

| Buy Price | Sell Price | Exp | Ships | Max | Ammo | Item Types |

| $23000 | $18200 | 3000 | 2 4 6 | 1 | None | Shrapnel, Gun |

+-----------+------+-----+-------+----------+-----+------------------+--------------------------------+

| The Shrap Booster is not meant to be used directly to fire bullets. It is designed to create high powered shrapnel on bombs. |

+------------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

| Property Name | Property Value |

+------------------+----------------+

| bounce | +1 |

| gunlevel | +3 |

| bulletdelay | =49 |

| bulletenergy | =40 |

| initialbounty | -1 |

| bombenergy | +40 |

| bombdelay | +25 |

| shraplevel | +1 |

+------------------+----------------+

 

 

You do the math

 

 

(my logmaker thing wasn't working during that time, for some reason... now I'm back to one log file a day, which would have allowed me to give more accurate dates )

[Cheese]

really?

 

that means im remembering this from 2 resets ago then

honestly, that seems like something i would have noticed sooner >_>

 

this is a shame, it was already hard enough to get shrap in hs anyways