GQ Minmax Tips

The infamous note:

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From : Myth: Myth did 27 gqs in one day
Forum : General - #29766
To : all
Date : Fri Feb 3 20:30:07 2023
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| Hi everyone,
|
| An Imm recently approaced me, and asked that I address
| a few things on a public board. So here it goes:
|
| 1. "how you win so much and how you're not botting them"
|
| The most challenging part of winning many GQs is joining
| many GQs. For the most part it's a combination of basic
| math statistics and an eager to power-level at any
| given time, regardless of double, mood, tiredness,
| or life events. Btw I don't use any complicated math
| stats (I tried in the past, but found that they don't
| bring any meaningful benefit), so now I just look at the
| current gq ranges, and do my best guess. As a matter of
| fact, I see the output of "gq ranges" like this:
|
| All: Left 18: -----=---#|##-----=-@=--=--==---=--==--==--===---= mine: 29-40,37-48,41-52 65-,77-,89-
|
| As for the botting, just ask yourself a simple question:
| What do *YOU* think I am botting *EXACTLY*? And assuming
| I really do, how can EXACTLY that alledged botting
| help me getting the numbers I do actually get?
|
| 2. "everything thinks you know the gq running list"
|
| If I actually knew the gq cycle, I'd be easily
| getting 20+ gqs EVERY single day.
|
| 3. "you do something special that no one has ever thought of"
|
| I sure do. Lots of that, that's my spice. And I won't
| share it here as I still use much of it. To give you a
| taste of what it's about, here's a small quiz for you
| that's not relevant anymore after room VNUMs were made
| public, but I think it's still interesting:
|
| Q: How do you reliably navigate Gauntlet maze all the way
| to the Dragon room, without random wandering, without hunt,
| without checking room VNUMs, and assuming all mobs are dead?
| HINT: you need a pet mob for that.
|
| Cheers,
|
| P.S. I do have a gq alarm and I do currently run it at
| night (I usually silence it between 12:30am and 6:30am)
| since mid-December and till the end of next week.
|
|
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From : Sath: Re: Myth did 27 gqs in one day +
Forum : General - #29768
To : all Myth Wars
Date : Sun Feb 5 18:00:55 2023
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| Reply to: Note 29767 posted by Wars
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| For what it's worth, a lot of people stack commands that resolve
after
| they end up at their destination, which can allow someone like Myth
| to get in the engagement even when arriving later (things like
scanning,
| putting away a portal, map commands from the ascii map pugin, or the
echo
| {end running} command that's built into the mapper). Some of those
may
| even be invisible to you if you're running a plugin and aren't aware
of
| those features. From my perspective as an expert campaigner, having
| beaten Myth in a couple GQs, and as some who adheres very strictly to
| the MUD's botting rules, his level of performance is totally
achievable
| within the confines of the botting rules.
|
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From : Alison: Re: Myth did 27 gqs in one day ++
Forum : General - #29769
To : all Myth Wars Sath
Date : Sun Feb 5 18:28:29 2023
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| Reply to: Note 29768 posted by Sath
|
| Real GQers have every single one of their 300 different portals
splayed out
| in their inventory instead of packed neatly into a bag. That way they
save
| that crucial 0.3 seconds from putting the portal back in after they
xrt!
|
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Global Quests, also known as GQ’s, are a great way to earn Quest Points.

There are 3 kinds of GQ’s:

• All Players
• 10 or fewer wins
• 200 or fewer wins

Play styles to consider:

• Do you want to have a mix of leveling, questing, campaigning, and gquesting, and optimize for QPs earned? Good for active players.
• Or do you want to maximize the number of gquests you can participate in, in order to win? Good for casual players.
• Or do you want to try to win 3 GQs per level for each level, with noexp turned on? Good for players who are more busy, but can come to computer when GQ alarm goes off.

Rewards:

• 3 QPs per GQ mob killed. Limit: 100 GQ kills per level. Max possible points from kills per level: 300
• Maximum of 3 GQ wins per level, with rewards ranging from 15-25 QP typically, plus the occasional trains, practices, and trivia point.
• If the GQ does not have the special rewards, consider letting the GQ time out or another player win, or ‘gq quit’ so that you have an opportunity to win 3 GQs per level and roll a GQ with a TP reward.

Go Fast:

• Practice getting fast at GQs by doing a good number of campaigns (CPs), and getting decently good at them (being able to complete them in under 5 minutes). All tips for CP apply to GQ, except you can’t use chaos portals in GQ, but you can in CP.
• If you have lots of chaos portals (which the author does not), consider getting a plugin to disable chaos portals during GQ.
• Keep all portals out (but be careful of rot-death and melt-drop portals). Getting them out of the bag and putting them back causes a delay.
• Run point to point — don’t recall if possible
• “Containers are for losers. All 2000 portals must be top level of inventory. Always go point to point. Never recall. Set alarm for GQs. Be Myth.” – Orphean

Participate more to win more:

• Easiest to win: solo GQ. Check players in range using ‘who’
• Apart from level 1, there are new GQ ranges every 4 levels, with each range spanning 12 levels (or an 11 level difference from the most-powerful player in the range to the least powerful player in the range) for the lower ranges, eventually expanding to 15 levels.
  • 4-level range
    • 1-4
  • 8-level range
    • 1-8
  • 12-level range (Ideal levels: 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120)
    • 1-12
    • 5-16
    • 9-20
    • 13-24
    • 17-28
    • 21-32
    • 25-36
    • 29-40
    • 33-44
    • 37-48
    • 41-52
    • 45-56
    • 49-60
    • 53-64
    • 57-68
    • 61-72
    • 65-76
    • 69-80
    • 73-84
    • 77-88
    • 81-92
    • 85-96
    • 89-100
    • 93-104
    • 97-108
    • 101-112
    • 105-116
    • 109-120
  • 13-level range
    • 113-125
  • 14-level range
    • 117-130
  • 15-level range (ideal levels: 125, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180)
    • 121-135
    • 126-140
    • 131-145
    • 136-150
    • 141-155
    • 146-160
    • 151-165
    • 156-170
    • 161-175
    • 166-180
    • 171-185
    • 176-190
  • 13-level range
    •  181-193
  • 15-level range
    •  186-201
  • 9-level range (2x)
    • 191-199
    • 191-199
  • 2-level range (2x)
    • 200-201
    • 200-201

To catch the most ranges:

• Levels 1-120 are the easiest to “power-level” to get into range of a GQ — just 4 levels away
• For Levels 121 and beyond, try to stay at the “boundary” levels to quickly level up to, and then stay around:
  • 125 (eligible for 113-125, 117-130, 121-135)
  • 130 (eligible for 117-130, 121-135, 126-140)
  • 140 (eligible for 126-140, 131-145, 136-150)
  • 150 (eligible for 136-150, 141-155, 146-160)
• ‘gq range’ commands shows which GQ ranges are still available in this cycle
• Easiest to power level to get into the next GQ range by being a T9 (up to 3k TNL), or a well-equipped, hard-hitting T0-T1 (to be able to kill mobs quickly). Otherwise, T2-T8 seems to be at a strict disadvantage for participating in a lot of GQ’s: see ‘exptable’
• You must be online when the GQ is announced, in order to join. However, you don’t have to be in the range when it is announced in order to join. You just have to be able to get into that level range. From when a GQ is announced, you have 4 ticks (2 minutes). That means, do you want to power-level 4-5 levels in 2 minutes? That’s 30 seconds per level, very doable, but can be fatiguing.
• Trigger phrases for setting “alarms”:

  • Global Quest: Global quest # * has been declared for levels * to *.

  • Global Quest: Global quest # * has been declared for levels * to * - * or fewer wins only.

  • Global Quest: Global quest # * for levels * to * has now started.

  • Global Quest: Global quest # * for levels * to * - * or fewer wins only has now started.

Special GQs and How to Maximize QPs Earned

• 10 or fewer wins (light blue). If you stay under 11 wins (10 wins is okay), you will be eligible for all 3 types of GQs! Recommend to stay under 10 if you just want to maximize QPs earned while leveling but not trying to win GQs.
• 200 or fewer wins (purple). Recommend to finish 10 GQ wins so you can feel like a winner, and then stay under 201 (200 wins is okay) until you are ready to face serious players.
• At the ideal level ranges, you are eligible 3 GQ ranges. If you are also eligible for the 10-wins and 200-wins GQs, that means for each ideal sit-level, you are eligible for 9 GQs. Each GQ easily has 10 mobs.
• See ‘help gq range’. And then read it again.
• GQ Ranges cycle about once every 1.5 hours. That means if you are eligible for all 3 GQ types, and you join them all, you could earn up to 100 qps per 1.5 hours from GQ kills alone!

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