Doctor Archive
Thread: Buffs, LD and meta-game abnormalities
No falmes! Constructive post!
Going LD should have no effect on doctors' buffs!
Ok, I was on Dathomir, searching for fun after the Endor nerf, and had accumulated quite a bunch of wounds. I saw a master doc - the only one in the outpost - and we talked. He couldn't heal me - he was out of stims - but he without being asked buffed all my stats sky high (I tipped him many thousands, although he didn't ask, in case you are getting concerned!).
Anyway, full of cockiness I head out hunting again with a friend and or grauls. On the way uot - 2 minutes into a two hour buff - I go LD. The system dumps me and when I get back? Woot. 150 strength, stamina and willpower. The latter not even buffed, since he was a doctor!!!
Firstly, the fact that an out-of-game factor like going LD occurs whould have no effect on in-game considerations. I am on a euro connection (though a very, very good one - I'm a techie and I have rnu a bunch of tests), and i accept I will go LD every now and then. But I would never again ask (or pay) to be buffed if i am gambling that I won't drop for 2 hours.
Second, these are not drugs, so why do I get a massive downer? Have you ever tried regenerating HAM with 150 stats? Glaciers move faster than those little bars!
Third, it shouldn't touch willpower under any circumstances! I was using no other buffs, and there wasn't a dancer in the system, let alone the cantina...
If I am reposting stuff that *everyone* knows.. erm.. sorry. One star me for being a dumbass. Though I did check likely-looking posts on the first few pages of the forum...
Endie
There are currently a number of bugs with buffs. Any buffs, including Doctor, food & spice.
I never had my buffs drop like this on LD & I'm sure they will fix it pretty soon. The Chef Correspondant has been told there will be a quickfix very soon for these problems.
What tends to happen is that your stats will decrease by the amount of the buff when it wears off, down to a minimum of 150. For example, if you have 400 Stamina and eat food which gives you 100 extra, you will be down to 300 when the buff wears off.
This also seems to affect other stats randomly for some reason. The only thing you can do to clear your stats back to normal is to die and clone. Being resuscitated doesn't work, you actually have to go to the cloner.
Let's just hope they fix it in the first couple of days this week....
Psimons wrote:
if you are logged off for 10 minets or so your buffs drop and you get a message saying you cant buff you already ahve an enhancment. its not going LD its the bad buffing system
Yes, i agree that i have encountered that n the past, and it is a pest, but generally - even with the increased number of crashes to desktop that I (and a couple of others) have experienced since the patch - that's not been a biggie. Usually you can get in pretty quick on a broadband pipe and a P2 2.8 
This was just LD - disconnect - back logged in within 20 seconds or so. Thus the horror of 150 secondaries!
Endie