Hey what happened to Leveling Pacts?

[Glacier Peak]

Title says it - these were a thing if I remember correctly. I could've swore I did this with a friend back in the old legacy days.

[Astralock]

They literally broke Torchbearer the day Homecoming launched and were quickly disabled.  It doesn’t work on large, active shards.

[Glacier Peak]

  On 10/14/2022 at 10:28 PM, Astralock said:

They literally broke Torchbearer the day Homecoming launched and were quickly disabled.  It doesn’t work on large, active shards.

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Oh whoa, had no idea. Thanks!

[Luminara]

[Grouchybeast]

They were removed on Live (wiki says I21).  I guess they decided it wasn't worth keeping it after super-sidekicking came in.

[Astralock]

  On 10/14/2022 at 11:08 PM, Grouchybeast said:

They were removed on Live (wiki says I21).  I guess they decided it wasn't worth keeping it after super-sidekicking came in.

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IIRC, it was disabled back in Issue 21 for the same reason it was disabled here.  It grinds the server to a complete halt if it is large and active.

[Greycat]

Yeah, well, even on live when they *were* active they ended up being wonky, so... no surprise when dealing with the spaghetti.

[Glacier Peak]

I remember being able to level pact with an alt, so I did like a dual identity character who had two distinct (Ice and Fire) powers depending on who logged in. 

 

Thanks for the insight all!

[Outrider_01]

  On 10/14/2022 at 10:47 PM, Luminara said:

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Nemesis plot? 🤔

[Luminara]

  On 10/15/2022 at 9:28 PM, Outrider_01 said:

Nemesis plot? 🤔

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Mender Silos' notes.  Simple!

[Snarky]

It is a Nemesis plot.

[Glacier Peak]

ANAGRAMS

[Luminara]

  On 10/15/2022 at 10:10 PM, Glacier Peak said:

ANAGRAMS

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Sodium, Silver, Radium and Samarium.  Not bad on a sandwich, but it gives me the worst heartburn.

[Glacier Peak]

A Toyotas a Toyota!

[High_Beam]

  On 10/15/2022 at 10:10 PM, Glacier Peak said:

ANAGRAMS

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I need to get my eyes checked because that was not the word I thought I saw.  I thought I saw some new word for a colonoscopy.

[MoonSheep]

what were they again?

[Snarky]

  On 10/16/2022 at 9:55 AM, MoonSheep said:

what were they again?

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They were Levelling pacts.

[MoonSheep]

  On 10/16/2022 at 11:48 AM, Snarky said:

They were Levelling pacts.

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ah great, thanks 

[Snarky]

A Leveling Pact is a feature introduced in Issue 13 (and disabled in Issue 21 after changes to the Sidekick system had reduced the need for it) and an innovation to MMORPGs; this system allows two players to create new characters (or use existing low-level characters) and have their experience be permanently synced, whether or not both characters are online. They will always be the same level, even if one pactmate plays ten times more often than the other.

[Redletter]

  On 10/16/2022 at 12:19 PM, Snarky said:

A Leveling Pact is a feature introduced in Issue 13 (and disabled in Issue 21 after changes to the Sidekick system had reduced the need for it) and an innovation to MMORPGs; this system allows two players to create new characters (or use existing low-level characters) and have their experience be permanently synced, whether or not both characters are online. They will always be the same level, even if one pactmate plays ten times more often than the other.

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So it's multiboxing, but, the server is the box!

[Snarky]

  On 10/16/2022 at 12:37 PM, Redletter said:

So it's multiboxing, but, the server is the box!

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It was envisioned (i suppose) as a way to keep a super team balanced as they progressed through content but allow for some individual romping off to do whatever when their friend was not on. 
 

In practice it was a farm method and it has broken everything everywhere everytime it was used

[catsi563]

  On 10/15/2022 at 11:44 PM, Luminara said:

 

Sodium, Silver, Radium and Samarium.  Not bad on a sandwich, but it gives me the worst heartburn.

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Thats because youre not using enough mustard 😛