Talk:Stocking Mimic

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Revision as of 13:20, 5 December 2009 by imported>Kay Dekker (A plurality of plurals.)

The Stocking mimic seems to level up based on Level squared = amount of candy eaten. So it takes 25 candies to get to level 5, 36 to get to level six, and so forth. Dr Strange 05:54, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

  • Conveniently enough, this is exactly the way familiar experience works, wherein Familiar Level = sqrt(experience). Seems easy enough to say that one candy is equivalent to one point of experience. --Southwest 06:00, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
  • I didn't get the usual "<familiar> gains a pound!" message when my Stocking Mimic gained a pound. --Baltar 21:23, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
    • You're not alone. Neither from eating candy from inventory or after combat. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 22:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Do certain functions have a minimum level? My stocking did nothing when level one, but began to attack and confuse between levels 2 and 4, and began to heal at level 5. It might be a coincidence, but I think that it bears looking into. Dr Strange 06:17, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Candies appearing in bursts, Some times getting them within 3 combats of one another. Can not find correlation between weight and drops.
Damage for attack message appears to be Weight to Weight+3 has worked for every tested weight from 12lbs to 33lbs.
Piddles - Belch the Rainbow - +11 damage of every element for 10
BitterSweetTarts - Full of Wist - +11 stat points per combat for 10
Polka Pop - Polka Face - +55(?)% item and meat drops for 10
The BitterSweetTarts shudders for a moment, but nothing happens. - unzappable.
--Gwydeon 07:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm getting 55% for polka face too for what its worth --Eror11 08:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

No apparent weight cap (up to 35# base seen, mine at 20# just from feeding from inventory). --Gulgothica

Confirmed, I'm at weight 33 now too (base)... possible very easy trophy for 300 and 500 weight? Also a dream for pvpers? --Eror11 11:03, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Also got this message - "Happy mimics a candy-striper nurse, heals some of your wounds, and recharges your mojo. Happy Holidays!" Happy Holidays = Limit break on cocoabo? --Eror11 11:07, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm at 56lb base now, but my mouse finger has given up - it's tough work feeding this beast up at higher weights! :) --Kay Dekker 22:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

  • There's a multi-feed thing in the Terrarium, much like slimelings or GGGs/Hobos. It caps at 100 base weight. --MindlessGames 22:39, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
    • Ah, I didn't think to look for that, not having had a feedable familiar before. 100? wow. That's a lot of candy. I don't think my budget will run to that :( Thanks for the info! --Kay Dekker 22:49, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Worth spading(?)? Multiples of 11 for candy feeding causing an effect? With the KOL loves 11 pasted all over this guy. IE: Feeding multiples of 11 candy (11, 11(weight), 11 types of candy(weight) etc... --Gwydeon 03:49, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Searching for "Mimic" results in 2 different mimics (barrel and the one from the dungeons) but not this one... maybe worth adding? --Eror11 11:41, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

He Wants Candy

We now have a definitive test to see which item are considered candy in KoL. If if has a [feed to stocking mimic] link beneath it, it's candy! We should probably list and eventually categorize as such. Now excuse me, I'm off to 6-1-2 Wharf Avenue. --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 10:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Browsing my inventory I notice:

--Club (#66669) (Talk) 19:48, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

  • dwarf bread is a Halloween treat. I presume I know the answer to this, but it doesn't count as candy, does it? --Southwest 07:24, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Correct, dwarf bread is not candy. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 19:28, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

--Magnet0 20:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

--Baltar 21:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

I put some of these on the article itself, although it may be better just to create a category called "Candy" --CG1:t,c,e 05:54, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

  • JRSeibz started this with We should probably list and eventually categorize as such and so I started listing. Categorization is definately the way to go long term. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 19:28, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Yeah what Culb said. :-P I was going to make a simple change to {{item}} and add candy=1 to it for categorization, but then I got stuck on the name. The obvious is just Category:Candy, but category names should be plural, so Category:Candies?, but is Candy a collective thing, so it can be plural already?, and there's the whole countable/uncountable... arg! Is there an English major in the house? Your degree will seem useful for once, hey-o! ;), But seriously. What's the plural of candy? Candy or candies? If you say both, off to the moon with ya! Stupid trivial problem! ;) --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 08:58, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
    • I may not have a degree in English, but I am a technical writer, and I've encountered enough similar problems to be sure of this answer. Unless the countability (potential or actual) of a quantity of such objects is being considered, one uses the mass plural. "Fruit" is a good example. If there are an apple, an orange and a cherry on the table, one may say either "There is fruit on the table" - the number is not being considered - or "There are three fruits on the table" - the number is being considered. The category name should be the mass plural: "candy". --Kay Dekker 13:20, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Equipment

When the mimic found himself a bag of many confections, I didn't get the "You acquire an item" message as implied by the page. Did something change? And he equipped the item automatically, which was a surprize. I wondered why I couldn't find the item in inventory. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 19:18, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Candy Drop Mechanic

It looks like candy drops increase until you get one, then once you get one, reset back, and start climbing over again. The first adventure spent has a 1/11 chance of a candy drop, the second adventure (assuming the first didn't give a candy drop) has a 1/10 chance, third (assuming first two didn't drop one) is 1/9, until it becomes 1/1. When the player gets a candy drop, the counter resets back to the 1/11, then 1/10 ... thing. This means that on average, a player can expect it to take 6 turns for a piece of candy to drop (and at most 11 turns!). The candy drop rolls to see just "if a candy should drop" and then if it should, it selects one of the three at random. --MindlessGames 22:44, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

That doesn't match my spading today. I spent 82 adventures with one and got 14 items which nicely matches your 6 turn average. But ... I went spans of 13 turns in between items a couple times (rather than just the 11 you saw). I'm also level 13 ... but I'm sure that is pure conicidence, right? --Kpsmith67 19:56, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

And I also agree with kpsmith67... unless there's something overriding the drop, which wouldn't make sense. I spent 17 advs (my first 17) just now before it dropped (and I'm not sure when it dropped when i left it yesterday) --Eror11 00:42, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Tiny costume wardrobe

Does this work with this familiar, allowing you to have random insanely humongous familiars? Would be interesting to check. --Toxicwind 23:33, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

yeah it works, I equipped my familiar with the tiny costume wardrobe and then he turned into a green pixie. pure win! lol --Lemon-claw 05:56, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

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