Halas 10 "Pound" pies.

[Iannyen]

=teh suck.
I always used to complain that the unit of measure designated "pound" wa snot used anywhere else in the game. And it also bothered me that a ten pound pie only weighed 7 stones weight. But then it hit me. I did a run of 80 HTP attempts the other night. 1 skillup. 10 times was how many times I "POUNDED" the keyboard.

Thus endeth the lesson.

[Lilosh]

*crickets chirping in the background*

*crickets stop, leaving dead silence*

[Iannyen]

Admit it, you missed me.

[cattywumpus]

Best I can figure, A 17 pound fetid bass weighs 1.7 so those pies actually weigh 70 pounds each. Thats why they last so long

[Morani]

The weight system in EQ has always made my brain hurt. In EQ you can find a shield usable by a gnome mage that weighs 20 stone. 1 stone is equal to 14 pounds. So in other words: you can have 3 foot high, scrawny person actually USING a shield that weighs 280 pounds (127 kilos)! I suspect that the shield weighs 2-3 TIMES what the gnome weighs.

[Lilosh]

Admit it, you missed me.

Aye, but my archery skill is going up rapidly.




With better aim,
-Lilosh

[Forthofer]

unit

Verant doesn't actually say what the unit is.

Some possibilities include,
pound
kilogram (2.2 pounds)
stone (14 pounds)

If the unit were 'stone', a human could carry 1,400 pounds of stuff. That seems a bit unrealistic, even for Verant.

We can also compare coins with the large, one-ounce Krugerrand (gold).
If the unit were 'stone', EQ coins would weigh about six times as much, while if the unit were 'pound', EQ coins would weigh about the same as a U.S. quarter. (40 coins weigh 1.0 units.)

I think of a unit as a 'pound', despite the weight of a Halas 10-"pound" pie. Hmm... maybe it's related to the issue of a quarter-pound hamburger before and after cooking. How heavy are the individual ingredients of a Halas 10lb. Meat Pie add up to?

[Morani]

Curse you for giving me puzzle to solve!!

I looked into various units of measure to see what MIGHT make sense. Unfortunately, I only know of two examples that "tell" you what they weigh: Halas pies and fetid bass. If you believe the bass, the unit of weight is likely to be 1 unit = 10 lbs (Weight of an imperial gallon). If you go by the Pies, 1 unit = 1.388888 lbs (very close to 1 tenth of a stone).

Either way, its a game so it doesn't even have to follow the laws of physics or be consistent. But I want to KNOW darn it!!!

[KyrosKrane]

The best answer I've found is that 1 unit = 10 pounds, as shown by the Fetid Bass.

The Halas 10lb. Meat Pie would actually be misnamed; it should in fact be a 100lb. meat pie. That would be the weight of the meat pre-cooking. After cooking, it's reduced to 72 pounds, or the 7.2 in-game units. (Or whatever the precise weight of the pie is; I forget.)

[Delfontes]

That doesn't work either....

Unless you think this Wizard with a few +str items can carry 1100 lbs of equip...

Heck, I could carry 600 something on a CR . Comfortably.

I assure you, their isn't muscle 1 under that robe, it is just some spare collapsable containers.

/em imagines a warrior in battle with a Grand Piano on his back, saying "I'm only carrying 2,500lbs, I can carry another 550 before I break a sweat.

[Iannyen]

It gets worse, since I think a full stack weighs the same as a single....

[Morani]

Using Delfont's example of the Wizard, at 1 unit = 1/10 of a stone, that would mean is Wiz could carry ~153 lbs of STUFF. Reasonable.

As for the stacking, that isn't SUPOSE to make sense. at least not any more sense than being able to carry eight backpacks at a time. (I've TRIED, the best I could do was 5.)

[splunge]

... and fight and run and jump and cast spells.. all while your bags have 10 stacks of 20 sheets of metal in them. Each. Oh and one sheet of metal weighs the same as 20 sheets.

Yaaaahh.. riiiiight.

=)

[Lilosh]

Don't forget that a backpack can hold 200 pelts, each of which is big enough to be it's own backpack.

And that you can carry 8 of those backpacks.


-Lilosh

[Morani]

Careful folding.