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Post #4 How big is the Dreadnaught? Tl;dr: Length of the Dreadnaught is equal to the Moon's diameter: 3,475km. Hey Guardians. I have seen few popular posts that discuss the mindblowing size of the Dreadnaught. Let's face it, that thing is HUGE. I wanted to nail down a more accurate sizing of the Dreadnaught and this [1] photo seems to be the best, though it is horrible due to the perspective. Here [2] are notable landmarks for the Rings of Saturn with Dreadnaught included. Edit 1: User /u/JazzmastaJ [3] posted a similar analysis here[4] with a much more detailedimage [5] . Between the two of us, we should be able to nail down an accurate range of size. So let's add some numbers. The C Ring is 17,500km across compared to Earth's diamater, which is 12,740km. So already we know that earth will fit inside C Ring with room to spare. B Ring is 25,500km across, but due to the perspective of this photo that number really isnt of much use. I took the liberty of comparing the distance from the edge of C Ring to the edge of the 'hole' that the dreadnaught created and it appears to be about 8,750km (due to perspective it could be as large as 12,115km but lets be conservative). The Dreadnaught is about 40% the size of the hole, and the hole itself appears about the same size as the distance from C Ring to said hole (making the hole 8,750km). This gives the Dreadnaught length as 3,500km! (Our moon is 3,475km in diameter) That's no moon... Let's talk about mass. Most of the dreadnaught is seemingly empty space. In the darkblade strike you walk into what seems to be a middle chasm and mostly empty space with giant hanging prisons or something. Let's guess that the Dreadnaught is about 25% mass, and 75% empty space. I would assume the material is probably somewhere between the density of Iron (7.8 g/cm3) and Limestone (2.7 g/cm3) for an average of 5.25 g/cm3. The width of the Dreadnaught appears to be 27% of the length, making it 950km across (diagonally since it is a diamond shape). We can now calculate the volume: 950x950x3500= 3,158,750,000km3. Multiply by 25% for mass: 789,687,500km3. 5.25g/cm3 = 5250 kg/m3 & our mass = 7.897e+17m3 Multiply! 5250 * 7.896875e+17 = 4.15e+21kg! (7.35e+22kg is the moon's mass) but these are hard number to conceptualize, there is only one option... Do more math! Okay! Let's find out what the gravitational pull would be if you were standing on the edge of the hole the Dreadnaught made. We have the mass, we can assume a standard 100kg Guardian, we know the radius of the hole (8,750,000m), and we can look up the universal gravitational constant (6.67408e-11 m3 kg-1 s-2). Now plug into the gravitational force equation: F=G((m1*m2)/r2) = 0.3617N. Which gives an acceleration of 0.0036m/s2. This is 0.03% of Earth's gravity which would hardly compare to Saturn's gravitational influence on the Rings. Edit 2: Some have pointed out that other images in-game would provide better scale and I believe they are right! If you can find a good image and put it up on imgur I can take a look and refine my results. I noted below that the current possible range of size should be somewhere between 3400km - 5500km based on perspective of the first image. Hopefully we can get that range narrowed down some. Edit 3: /u/JazzmastaJ [6] came up with some great images: Image 1 [7] & Image 2 [8] . Based on some rough calculations and measurements: Image 2 shows the Dreadnaught at 1,275km (quite smaller than our original numbers). Image 1 is more difficult. I cannot tell quite where C Ring ends and B ring begins, there are two options that give the Dreadnaught size at: a) 1,600km or 3,635km. 'a' is more in line with image 2, but 'b' is more in line with our original calculations... Conclusion: We need more data! Edit 4: /u/monarch_j [9] pointed out this[10] post where /u/DLuke5853 [11] came up with a length of 3,444km which is very nearly the number I got from the first image! I am calling it now, that the design of the 'naught is intended to be the diameter of the Moon and is therefore 3,475km

Post #3 https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3s6wdz/equilibrium_adjustment_in_destiny_a_crucible_data/ Equilibrium Adjustment in Destiny - A Crucible Data Analysis Story *Warning – This is a rather long discussion of some data analysis, which reaches conclusions that most likely everyone already knows. But it’s a cool data-story. If you want the quick and dirty, you can see the related graphs in this album [1] * Background Last week, u/MasterBarek [2] visited my website and suggested looking at K/D stats for individual weapons over time. The idea was that seeing usage weapon rates like those here[3] is useful, but information on the effectiveness of weapons in PvP, and possibly identifying under-utilized guns, would also be nice to see. After thinking about the problem and analyzing some data from the API and my website, I came across some patterns which I thought people might find interesting. What follows is a discussion of the data analysis I went through, and some probably not novel conclusions that came out of it. The basic patterns are similar for most weapon types, so I’ve focused the discussion on Pulse Rifles and Nirwen’s Mercy. I’m more of a PvE person personally, so I would appreciate any other thoughts / explanations as I don’t have the most in-depth understanding of PvP issues. Comparing Weapon Effectiveness and Usage So, one initial thought might be that more effective weapons should be used more, and we should see a positive relationship between usage rates and effectiveness. I’ll explain later why I think we don’t end up observing this, but for now I want to focus on measuring effectiveness. For each match, the API lets you observe how many kills a player got with a specific weapon, and how many overall kills/assists/ and deaths. It does not let you see how many times a player died while having a specific weapon in hand. So, in terms of K/D, I look at the number of overall kills to deaths of players who used specific pulse rifles as my first measure of effectiveness. Of course, Kills aren’t the only measure of performance. To get at overall performance, I also look at two other statistics. First, what is the ex-post win percentage of players who used a specific weapon? This is pretty simple – for each player-game observation (where the player got at least 1 kill with the specific weapon), what is the percentage of observations that won? For a more specific measure, I used an SVM to calculate the probability of winning a match based on your Specific weapon Kills / Remaining kills/Deaths/Assists/Suicides/Resurrections Performed/and Orbs dropped. This is a quick and dirty approach, which only has a successful prediction rate of around 70%. Regardless, I like this a little better than the ex-post win percentage, because players who had a good game but lost will still end up having a pretty high “effectiveness” score. Below are scatter plots for each measure of effectiveness vs. the number of player-game observations in a random sample of Rift and Control matches where player’s used a pulse rifle: K/D Measure [4] Ex-Post Measure [5] SVM Prediction Measure [6] It may not be surprising that there’s not a clear relationship. That is, the guns which are used most have effectiveness ratings pretty much in the center of the distribution. Does that mean people are using bad guns? I think the answer is no, and here’s my thinking: 1) As we move down to less-used guns, there are less observations, so the measurement of effectiveness is getting noisier (more variance). 2) We are observing an equilibrium outcome, and the “effectiveness” measure we see is mostly reflecting the fact that it is a highly used gun. Point (2) is really the main explanation and deserves a little more discussion. Consider this extreme example: Imagine there was a gun that was so good, everyone used it. What would the expected win-rate be of players using it? Well, since everyone is using it, it would be 50%. This doesn’t mean the gun is bad, or that there are better alternatives out there, in fact it’s quite the opposite. Equilibrium Adjustment – The Case of Nirwen’s Mercy So my hypothesis (which is not novel, and has likely been known in this game’s community, as well as other games like LoL, for some time now) was that what we are seeing in the scatter plots is just the result of a game-theory type equilibrium playing out. Once a good gun is discovered, it initially does really well. Then more people discover it. This can happen from either playing against it, or through information dissemination – Social media / watching streams / etc. As more people start to use it, the average “effectiveness” stats will start falling. Additionally, we might expect that the first people to discover the good gun will be high-skill players, both because they simply play more and also they might be more likely to notice advantageous differences between weapons. Nirwen’s Mercy provides a great way to test this hypothesis. As can be seen here[7] , Nirwen’s Mercy suddenly became very popular in mid-October. So, using a random selection of Rift/Control matches, I gathered the Skill rating for players using Nirwen’s Mercy over time, sourced from Destiny Tracker[8] . Measuring player skill is a very complicated and difficult task, and DTR does a rather nice job at it. Then, I plotted the average player skill against usage and effectiveness: Nirwen’s Mercy – Daily Average Skill vs. Average Usage [9] Nirwen’s Mercy – Daily Average Skill vs. Average Effectiveness [10] Now, these measures are noisy for sure, but the graphs seem to show that the hypothesis plays out somewhat nicely. The rapid increase in usage is accompanied by a decline in average player skill. Moreover, on the initial uptake of the weapon, the average player performance with the weapon falls quite substantially. This makes sense, as it was a new weapon and players need to learn how to use it effectively. After about 4-7 days, behavior seems to reach equilibrium. So adjustment time in Destiny appears to be rather quick. Epilogue I saw this and thought it was a cool example of how player behavior adjusted to an equilibrium in Destiny. Similar patterns played out for the shotgun Conspiracy Theory-D, and the graphs for that are below: Conspiracy Theory-D – Daily Average Skill vs. Average Usage [11] Conspiracy Theory-D – Daily Average Skill vs. Average Effectiveness [12] So, hopefully that was interesting, and provides some food for thought. The main takeaway for me is that measuring weapon-effectiveness based on match outcomes alone is probably not going to be very informative, and I’ll need to do some more thinking as to whether or not a reliable measure can be created using just the API available data.

Should probably put that in its own post.

Post #2 You will never be Max Light Level, and I'll show you why. (statistical breakdown) So, I decided to do some math and figure out how exactly the new "Forever 29" thing was going to play out. The following data uses a few assumptions, some of which I put into Bungie's Favor, as I didn't know exact numbers. In the data below, the following was assumed: The Max Light Level will increase in 4 months (or approx 18 weeks). This is based off the release schedule of year 1. All items in the Raid have a 50% drop rate (obviously, they don't. Some items are in more than 1 loot pool) An item has a 10% chance to drop at max light level. This means you have a 10% chance of a 50% chance to get a max light level item in any given slot. You're only means of Max Light Level gear is from the raid So on to the data. This is template for a single player in the equation. Basically, every they get one roll at each slot every week. If that Roll is a 1-5, then they hit a jackpot and got Max LL item. An "O" is flagged at the bottom to show that a Max LL item in this category has been obtained. If after 18 weeks, a player has obtained 1 max LL item for each category, they have hit Max LL and their "X" becomes and "O". http://i.imgur.com/Fmnf8N2.png [1] Now, These markers carry over to this template here: http://imgur.com/2SC3Vcr.png [2] What you'll notice is that in 20 cases, 0 players will have reached max light level. Obviously, 20 isn't enough for a solid statistic, so I ran it multiple times. Out of 2000 players, only 12 players reached max light level. Or 0.6%. Again, obviously some of this is bad data and doesn't match the actual drop rates in game, but I'd like to think I've been generous with the possibilities. If anyone is curious about the excel functions. The basic attempts are used as =RandBetween(1, 100). Conditionals were =IF(OR(Attempt1<DropRatePercentage, Attempt2<DropRatePercentage, etc... So what this means, is that yes, we are back to the Forever 29 scenario. You will never be max light level. Lastly, there are obviously other ways to get Max Light Level items, and that is great, but considering all of them are also on weekly 1-time resets, your odds are still terrible.

Followup to Post #1 I just spent a lot of time testing this last night, was going to write up a post but may as well add it here. I have more details (don't have my notes with me) but my testing lines up with OP's results. I tried blues, purples, exotics, all got the same amount of XP. Also tried equipping some fully leveled items, didn't change how much XP was applied to non-leveled items. I did my testing by loading destinystatus.com, applying some XP, then reloading destinystatus.com Class item boost means equipping a class item that has "increased rate for hand cannon/etc" Item Weapon Armor (including Ghost shell) Subclass/Light Level Bar 2500 XP Bounty 525 XP 500 XP 2500 XP 3000 XP Bounty 600 XP ? 3000 XP Mote 1000 XP 1000 XP None Mote with Telemetry 1312 XP N/A None Mote with Class Item Boost 1312 XP N/A None Mote with Telem + Class Item 1312 XP N/A None As you can see, bounties are either bugged or have been nerfed for some reason. ------------------------------------------ "... bounties are either bugged or have been nerfed for some reason." Nerfed. It would explain why Bungie gave us 16 bounty slots... Because we'll need them. Looking around Destiny, it also aligns with other displays of Bungie logic (paraphrasing to follow): Bungie statement: "Hey kids! In light of all the salt about weapons parts droughts we're going to allow you to buy weapons parts for glimmer very soon." Bungie action: Nerf glimmer earning potential when you make too much too fast, in spite of the fact they've given us glimmer supps and ghosts that increase earnings. It's all subterfuge on their part. There is just too much of this type of logic displayed since TK dropped, and in too many ways, for it to be interpreted as anything other than them publicizing what they give to us while simultaneously taking something/changing/nerfing an associated item.

Post #1 https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3sitny/bungie_it_took_me_32_bounties_91750_xp_and_44/ Bungie: It took me 32 Bounties (91,750 XP) and 44 Motes of Light + 1 Focused Light Buff totaling - 157,750 XP to max out a pair of Bog Wild Boots. Please tell me there was a "bug," if not, this needs looked at. Over the past couple days I've been wondering how much it takes to level up gear. After doing multiple tests and using DestinyStatus.com, the first circle on Legendary Boots only takes 5,058 XP to fill it in. Which went in line with most of my testing I did when I used Motes of Light AND turning in bounties. So, here we go to the reason why I am making this post. This was after 16 Bounties (41,500 XP) : http://i.imgur.com/MJL8Xpm.png[1] This was after another 16 Bounties for a TOTAL 32 Bounties at 91,750 XP : http://i.imgur.com/hpjAPq1.png[2] Feeling pretty frustrated, I then started testing how much a Mote of Light gives, they give 1,000 XP. I then popped a Focused Light Boost (Red Bull Code 50% increase), so that would mean now a Mote of Light = 1,500 XP. I tested it on a Kingslayer Shell and it did in fact jump to 1,500 XP when I refreshed the page. With a Focused Light popped, I then had to use 44 Motes of Light exactly to fully upgrade my boots. For a total of66,000 XP just on Motes of Light. Making it a grand total of 157,750 XP used to level up ONE single piece of gear. SURELY there has to be something wrong here. It shouldn't take 3 days worth of bounties to level up 1 piece of gear, that's completely insane. Are the bounties "bugged" where some are not giving their CORRECT pay out of XP or not giving it at all? Either way, where did all the XP go? EDIT #1 : I just did another test. I completed a 2,500 XP Bounty. I made sure I only had on ONE piece of gear (Boots). I turned in the Bounty and the FULL 2,500 XP was applied to my Light Level Up Bar (for the 5 motes) and only 500 was applied to the Boots. There is something clearly wrong here OR they have nerfed how much XP is applied. Either way, this was never brought up by Bungie. EDIT #2 : In one more test, Motes of Light XP (1,000 or 1,500) are FULLY applied to said piece of armor/weapon. EDIT #3 : Video proof of applying only the 2,500 XP to my Boots only : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JrFxrwhQw[3] XP Bar Prior to 2,500 XP : http://i.imgur.com/NfD1ToY.png[4] XP Bar AFTER Turn In : http://i.imgur.com/6XmSAhm.png[5] Boots Prior to 2,500 XP : http://i.imgur.com/W2FyvVU.png[6] Boots AFTER Turn In : http://i.imgur.com/bXHE2R9.png[7]

So my number one problem with Destiny is what we all know as "The Grind". Whether it is Weapon Parts, Motes, Faction, Etheric Light, etc.... we have all played for over a year to acquire shiny objects that did nothing more than reinforce that we needed to Keep playing. It has bothered me for the last few months to a point however since TTK it has bothered me more because it is far more blatant. I don't know if you guys care, but I was going to gather up the various posts across the internet and share them here. My goal is not to make others stop playing, or get folks upset, but to actually track the changes as Bungie does their best to create newer and shinier carrots.

Power armor sinks. Don't try to fix pipe leaks with it on. It's a long walk out of the lake. If you assign a companion to a settlement, you can assign them to a task. Codsworth is now running a scavenging station for me instead of meandering about with no job. Build a bell in a central location in every settlement (Resources > Miscellaneous). Ringing it calls every settler to it, and makes it easy to find new settlers and assign them tasks. Equip all your settlers with a marker piece of common equipment, like a bandana. Makes it easy to spot new ones in a crowd, or make it task specific Star-light drive in: It's not just the barrels. The unrusted crashed car is also leaking radiation.

General Sell Fusion Cores to traders before they run out, you will get much more for a partially charged core, over an empty core. Pickpocket enemies with power armor to steal their Fusion Cores, this will cause them to leave the armor, and you can steal the frame The Lone Wanderer perk still provides bonuses with Dog Meat as a companion When Leaving your power armor remove the Fusion Core so no one will decide to use it. When hacking look for [],(), <>,and {} with anything in between the brackets, clicking the leftmost bracket will reset your attempts to give you more tries, or remove dud words from the list. Try to always carry a weapon of each ammo type, that way you are less likely to be completely out of ammo. Some companions can pick locks and hack terminals for you. More specifically: Cait for lockpicking, Nick Valentine for hacking You can tag specific crafting materials by going into your junk section in your inventory, and switch to material view. There is no level cap. Don't fret about spending perk points. The game's enemies don't scale with you, but they do get harder farther from the start, and the farthest away points of the map have level 50 enemies. There's no shortage of things to take down and no shortage of points to get strong enough to do it. To force a companion to equip, or apparel switch to their inventory in the trade menu, and a button will show up to have the npc equip the item. ( "T" for PC, "Y" for Xbox, "Triangle" for PS4) For Power Armor: sprinting, strong melee attacks and VATs drain your Fusion Core faster than walking or standing still. Fast Travel in Power Armor doesn't use and Fusion Core battery, and you can still fast travel with no charge in the core. You can zoom in on the pip boy by right clicking. Crafting You do not need to break down junk items to get components by hand the game will do it for you if the junk items are stored in your settlement workbench or inventory. Extra resources will be deposited in your settlement workbench.(It may take some time to appear) You can grow your own adhesive by cooking Vegetable Starch with Corn, Tato, Muttfruit, and Purified Water. When naming weapons, put a hyphen or space at the beginning of the name (EX: -gun name), and those weapons will default to the top of the list in your pip-boy. If you look at the Junk section of your inventory you can switch to a list of all the components your junk breaks down into (with C on PC). In that list you can set or remove a search tag. When you upgrade a weapon, the current mod will be placed in your inventory. If you transfer all mods to your workbench, if you put that upgrade on another weapon, it will use the mod before crafting a new one. You can salvage weapon sights by modifying the weapon with the no sights attachment, which costs no resources to make. If a gun/armour has a mod you can't build, you can still swap the mod out and install it on another weapon. Settlements When building settlements you can raise and lower objects by holding E and using scroll wheel on PC, X and L1/R1 on PS4 When building your first settlement use E to move the initial workbenches instead of scrapping them. You can remove the radiation from Starlight Drive by scrapping the barrels in the center, and the Unrusted Crashed Car. Water pumps, farms, and traders deposit the Items and Caps they produce into the workbench. To help place objects in hard places use a small rug then place the object on the rug, pick up the rug and the item will remain attached but the game uses the rugs collision detection.(This allows you to clip objects into walls!) To assign settlers select them in the crafting screen then select the object you want them to work Settlers can work up to 6 Food at a time. Meaning a settler can tend to 12 plants that produce .5 food each. To reduce raider attacks make sure your defense state is higher than food + water. Highlighting a settler in workshop mode will also highlight anything he's assigned to. Fast Travel in between settlements will instantly grow all crops that have a settler assigned to them. When your selecting something through the workshop build interface if you press and hold the move command(Press and hold [E]) this will pickup all items attached(or very close) to the object you are picking up. (Be careful as if your walls are all attached you can pickup very large parts of your settlement!) (Swiped from Reddit)

Most online games have Dedicated servers that everyone connects to, and that parses out information. The need to worry your connection to an every changing host is ZERO in games like Battlefield, or Destiny, or WoW, or Daoc, or Eq2, or Guild wars, or Wildstar, or EVE, or Elder Scrolls, or Final Fantasy, or Team Fortress, or Mechwarrior Online, or.... Do I really need to continue? You know this, stop being silly.

If you built a PC back in the 90's and early 00's, you will have absolutely ZERO issue building a PC now. The connections have not changed.

Your local connection doesn't have anything to do, up to a point, with how you connect to any server in the world. You have to remember that you do NOT have a 1:1 connection with that server. From my current location, going to www.callofduty.com, I have to pass through 9 servers first. I have no idea what the actual IP is for the game, but I imagine it is at least as many, if not more, servers in between. You should only be 1-2 servers away from your ISP's when you measure traffic for your 60/20 connection, or whatever, but it is the other servers that fuck your connection. Not to mention, when you are playing Multiplayer, you also have to take into consideration how many servers between you, the host, and then the other players. This is why CoD will ALWAYS have shitty connection issues.

I only did Software Etc, and Best Buy I think you guys had it worse

Dude bought a Jeep and they screwed him. This is how he gets revenge

Yea, my wife declared last night that if we can't buy it online, then we don't need to get it. I want to say Black Friday got its name from the fact that so many sales happened starting on that day, that the rest of the year, the stores would be "In the Black", or as non accountants would call it, everything sold for the rest of the year would be pure profit. ~Hits Wikipedia~ I am sort of right, there are a ton of things that started the term being used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Origin_of_the_term If you want to read it

I'd love to see one for all of them. Pretty sure Roger Moore was worse What I liked about Spectre/ Daniel Craig Bond: Casino Royale->Quantum->Skyfall-> Spectre are all one continous story. Which is something Bond films have never done. (Even if the connection between Sky and Spectre was horribly bad) I think for me what could summarize the disappointment was a general sense of wasted potential. The action scenes had good ideas and were nicely shot but never culminated into anything great. The opening tracking shot was amazing... but pointless. The helicopter fight felt like I had seen it before. The snowy plane chase was boring. The train fight was probably the best action scene but had no real pain or weight like in Casino Royale. The escape from the lair was laughably brief. The worst offender was the car chase in Rome which off the top of my head is the worst car chase I have ever seen. I kept waiting for it to start. Every few moments I would be anticipating a burst of action but it never came. Bond was just being perused at slightly elevated pace glancing in the mirror every now and then. There was no shooting, no clashing, not even pedestrians jumping out of the way. Bond ejected himself and it was over. That was it!? Even the headache-inducing car chase in QoS was better than that! Jupiter Ascending, quick and dirty thoughts: It had a ton of potential. Rarely does a new Science Fiction universe come along, and so I was excited for this one. The villains were petulant children, they were boring, and honestly you get annoyed by them more than you ever care about them. The heroes are just as bad. You honestly never care about any of them, their plight, or their story. The action sequences were better than most movies. Also, zero shaky-cam bullshit The CGI was really solid and amazing.

Some good buys in there as well! Thanks chris

Jupiter Ascending //facepalm.jpg

Just came across this. If I come across others, I will post them here Best Buy http://blackfriday.bestbuy.com/?category=doorbusters

How good is Anno 2205 you ask? So good that I played an hour, maybe, of Fallout 4, before coming back to this game FYI: The Arctic is a bitch

It would amuse me if streamers were responsible for how I got it. Sorry, but not going to happen. It is out there, it is easy to find. Just be smart and use a VPN if you do grab it. This game on PS4 will not compare to how it will be on PC. You can easily build a PC to run this for the cost of a PS4. Maybe not at 4k resolution, or Ultra video settings, but still.

This game right here. Such a huge PITA to get working with AMD, it makes no sense but once you get it going, it is worth it

Some versions go "Live" today

Servers must be hammered, I am looking at 8 hours 7 minutes to download it

With the weapon parts and other items to be sold at vendors sometime soon we need the glimmer issue fixed please. I want to be able to buy stuff with glimmer again and not be held back by a temporary time-gate on glimmer gain. Especially since we soon will be able to buy weapon parts and turn them in for faction rep. Text Verison: Essentially, Bungie put in a mechanic to slow down your glimmer gain by restricting your character from gaining glimmer if you get over a certain amount within a certain time. In the video I show that I have on the Ghost that gives glimmer when killing Hive and you see right at 168 glimmer gained that I stop getting glimmer BUT I keep gaining candy. I am not at max glimmer. The other part of the video shows fighting Fallen and how I have the Ether Seed buff active with 6 minutes left and I am not gaining glimmer. EDIT: Anyone else feel free to contribute your own vid evidence if you have some so we can maybe figure out a fix for it? Maybe it only happens under certain circumstances. //Why yes, Time Gated anything is fucking bullshit