Talk:Daily Loathing Ballot

New Candidates

Since the candidates and initiatives will change daily. Candidates for 11/4/18

Bob Juprezrez - The Extra-Terrific Party is dedicated making the Kingdom more habitable to alien lifeforms. Purely for tourism purposes.

"It has come to my attention that your people don't have... well, it isn't pronounceable in your language, or with your vocal cords. Let's call it "health juice". It is a wondrous chemical that my people use to ensure we have all the correct vitamins and minerals for the health of our physical bodies. If elected, I will be happy to share this technology with you, and even set up distribution within your drinking water."

Agent Dale Reed, Federal Dept. of Commissions - The Bureau of Efficient Government is dedicated to making the Kingdom's government operate in a more efficient manner, by streamlining and removing redundancy and inefficiency in the Kingdom's government.

"I don't think I need to tell you that graveyards are a terribly inefficient use of space. I pledge to immediately re-zone all such areas as parking lots and grazing fields." --Butterflygirlkmc (talk) 06:40, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Forum Post and some spading

Kol Forum IOTM Thread Some information found there, at this post here(same page lower down) Short version, the candidates change what wandering monsters you get when you are wearing the ["I_Voted!" sticker]. Monster & drop detail has been pushed to that page it seems. Azsedcf (talk) 04:46, 6 November 2018‎ (UTC)

Question about current effect

Is it possible to see which wandering monster effect is in effect for that day? Azsedcf (talk) 05:36, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Clarification: Is it possible to see which wandering monster effect is in effect for that day without using any adventures with the badge? Azsedcf (talk) 05:39, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Positive/Negative Initiatives

Of the four initiatives, you get three positive initiatives and one negative initiative. I feel like it'd be useful to sort the list and put all the positives in one group and the negatives in another, but I don't feel strongly enough to do it myself, lol. If anyone does, the +10 ML initiative is considered a positive (I also got it with -2 famxp, which is clearly negative). I think the -10 ML is also positive, but don't quote me on that. --Deus Ex Machina (Talk) 21:44, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

-10 ML is also a positive effect (today I got it with -30% Init). --Deus Ex Machina (Talk) 02:54, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Initiative seeding

The PHP (5.3) code behind initiative seeding appears to be as follows

$positive_modifiers = array(
    "Monster Level: +10",
    "Food Drop: +30",
    "Monster Level: -10",
    "Initiative: +25",
    "Stench Damage: +10",
    "Sleaze Damage: +10",
    "Pants Drop: +30",
    "Maximum MP Percent: +30",
    "Moxie Percent: +25",
    "Ranged Damage Percent: +100",
    "Experience (Mysticality): +4",
    "Experience (Moxie): +4",
    "Weapon Damage Percent: +100",
    "Stench Resistance: +3",
    "Booze Drop: +30",
    "Item Drop: +15",
    "Cold Damage: +10",
    "Hot Resistance: +3",
    "Weapon Damage Unarmed: +20",
    "Muscle Percent: +25",
    "Experience: +3",
    "Spell Damage Percent: +20",
    "Spooky Resistance: +3",
    "Hot Damage: +10",
    "Meat Drop: +30",
    "Experience (familiar): +2",
    "Mysticality Percent: +25",
    "Cold Resistance: +3",
    "Experience (Muscle): +4",
    "Gear Drop: +30",
    "Adventures: +1",
    "Candy Drop: +30",
    "Maximum HP Percent: +30",
    "Sleaze Resistance: +3",
);

$negative_modifiers = array(
    "Maximum MP Percent: -50",
    "Initiative: -30",
    "Moxie: -20",
    "Experience: -3",
    "Spell Damage Percent: -50",
    "Muscle: -20",
    "Meat Drop: -30",
    "Adventures: -2",
    "Item Drop: -20",
    "Critical Hit Percent: -10",
    "Experience (familiar): -2",
    "Gear Drop: -50",
    "Maximum HP Percent: -50",
    "Mysticality: -20",
    "Weapon Damage Percent: -50",
);

function voting_booth_initiatives($path, $clss, $daycount) {
    global $positive_modifiers;
    global $negative_modifiers;

    $seed = (4 * $path) + (9 * $clss) + (79 * $daycount);
    
    srand($seed);
    $mods = array_rand(array_flip($positive_modifiers), 3);
    
    mt_srand($seed);
    $negative = 15;
    
    while ($negative > 14) {
     $negative = mt_rand(0, 15);   
    }
    
    array_push($mods, $negative_modifiers[$negative]);

    shuffle($mods);

    return $mods;
}

Thanks to everyone on spading-ideas-and-results on the ASS discord, and to everyone who contributed to Voting Booth spading on Excavator!