My Unsung Hero – The Guy Who Broke 100

[Tagger 2,722]

With the amount of awards that Rauno Palo ( @jRuutu) has won, I think people will rightly raise a red flag as to his potential status as an “unsung hero”. However, while his success in the sim over the recent seasons have rightly seen his player receive a lot of adulation, there’s one magnificent feat that he achieved that I don’t believe has received nearly enough attention and therefore more than warrants his status as an unsung hero. What did he do?

 

He broke the 100 mark in an attribute

 

“How is that even possible though?” I hear you ask. The portal has always actively stopped players from going over 99 in an attribute when they allocate their TPE, so surely this is a lie? Well yes, it would be if every attribute was upped using TPE but that isn’t the case, for Experience is an attribute that can only be gained through end of season performance and player store purchases and well, let’s just say Palo was a fellow who was committed to the cause of being the most experienced player in the VHL, to the point of being too committed in fact.

 

This was brought to my attention in the updater’s forum by Beketov, the simmer of the VHL at the time, who put out a call for the updaters to go through Palo’s update log and find out how much Experience Palo should have had for the portal had “bugged out” and that had put Palo at a whopping 103 experience! 103! Of course it was a bug! What else could it be? And at first that looked like the case as the initial calculations that Will made only put Palo at 95 experience citing that it “must have been a double claim”. Thus, Palo’s Experience was immediately edited to this after Will’s testimony, taken as a fact and done with such pace that they would only hope that no-one would ever notice should anyone actually find a weakness in the machine’s armour.

 

However, as a seeker of the truth and someone who believes that the power of man is capable of overcoming any machine, I simply would not accept that Palo’s experience got to this figure by mere chance, there had to be another reason! Thus I sat down, warm beverage at hand, and decided to peruse through the updating scrolls to see if my suspicions were indeed correct. Now, through experience gained through the end-of-season allocation alone, Palo had no reason to be anywhere close to 99, let alone 103, as this occurred following his sixth VHL Season, so even if his team had won the cup every single season, he could only be at the very most, an 88. However, my research revealed that on December 28^th 2018, the man bought a late Christmas present for himself, 10 experience points. An experience feast fit for a king certainly, but still not nearly enough to break into the hollowed ground of the third digit number. But as it turned out, our hero wasn’t done, as on May 11^th, he put down another $3 Million and commanded the store owner Josh to give him all the experience he had on him. Josh stared into the windows of Palo’s soul, admitted defeat and yielded, granting him a further 10 experience points.  Combined with his end-of-season experience haul, Palo had, in just six seasons achieved ground that no other being had ever even dreamed of reaching, breaking the 100 attribute point plateau with 103 Experience. This was no “bug”, this was through no “double claim”, this was a demonstration of the true power of the human spirit.

 

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So I told Will he actually was right to have 103 and he said “Right, fuck that, we’re putting a cap on that” and he was promptly edited to 99 Experience.

 

So the lesson for today? If you can reach for the stars, hold back a little, because someone or something will fuck you up when you grab one.

[Banackock 8,049]

Ya ya ruutuuuuuuuu

[Beketov 9,025]

To be fair the season before the portal had indeed had a bug which resulted in my experience being higher than intended so I had every right to assume that’s what was happening haha

[jRuutu 2,464]

Thank you for the kind words!

 

My motto has always been: ´Try everything at least once´, so that is the main reason why my experience levels as a old man are through the roof.

 

I've been everywhere, man - I've been everywhere

Edited December 17, 2019 by jRuutu

[diamond_ace 3,112]

Sorry to bump a dead thread, but Tagger linked to this from elsewhere, so I'm reading it for the first time. When the experience was edited down to 103, that effectively meant that Palo was only given 60% of what he purchased - was he then credited back the other 1.2 million?

[mediocrepony 1,216]

On 5/22/2020 at 7:16 PM, diamond_ace said:

Sorry to bump a dead thread, 

same