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Perfect World: Genie

westworld — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:12:23 +0000

How do I get a genie?

via Quest from npc “Watcher of the Earth”.
via “Watcher of the Earth” npc (buy)
trade with players

What type of genies can I get?

Name	STR	Dex	Vit	Mag
Zeal	5	3	5	15
Longevity	5	15	5	3
Discipline	3	5	15	5
Infliction	15	5	3	5

Skill list

Every genie starts with one skill. You get extra skills as your genie gets more levels.
The results of your skills are influenced by your genies attributes:

Strength – STR: damage output of skills
Dexterity – DEX: effect of skills and duration
Vitality – VIT: MP pool
Intellect – INT: MP Recovery and the amount of skills (each 50 INT = +1 MP recovery)

Every time you use the genies skills, an amount of stamina will be spend. You can restore your genie’s stamina with Chi stones. (Chi stones can be made by decomposing player equipment.)

To restore stamina, simply return you genie to your inventory and drag some stones on it. (Beware: genies are expensive)

Yiyuan stone:	+40 stamina
Liangyi stone (3 Yiyuan):	+80 stamina
Santsai stone (9 Yiyuan):	+160 stamina
Ssuhsiang stone (27 Yiyuan):	+240 stamina
Wuhsing stone (81 Yiyuan):	+320 stamina
Liuho stone (243 Yiyuan):	+400 stamina
Chihsing stone (729 Yiyuan):	+480 stamina
Pakua stone (2,178 Yiyuan):	+560 stamina
Chiukung stone (6,534 Yiyuan):	+640 stamina
Perfect stone (19,602 Yiyuan):	+720 stamina

Genie skills can have restrictions based on where they can be used. Some will only work in water, others will for expl. only work while in flight. Racial restrictions might apply as well (expl. “Hollow fist” can only be used by Venomancers). Some skills might have other skills as prerequisite.

Lucky points

Lucky points are the points that you use to upgrade your genies attributes (STR,DEX,…). Every level your genie will recieve one lucky point. Every ten levels an extra bonus amount of lucky points (between 1-10) are added. The more bonus lucky points you get the more rare your genie will be.

The higher the random stats determine not only the look of your genie but the combat ability as well as rareness. It can be classified as follow:

Orange – This color indicates this genie gained 10 random stats per every 10 level. (extremely rare)
Gold – This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 61 – 99 points. (rare)
Purple – This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 51- 60 points. (uncommon)
Blue – This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 41- 50 points. (less common)
Green – This color indicates this genie gained random stats between 10 – 40 points. (common)

	0-40 Lucky Points	41-50 Lucky Points	51-60 Lucky Points	61+ Lucky Points
Infliction
Zeal
Discipline
Longevity

Affinity

In addition to increasing their attributes (Str,Dex,…), players can also upgrade a Genie’s elemental affinity.
Genies have five elemental affinitys

Metal
Wood
Earth
Water
Fire

The elemental affinity is important for your genies skills. Different affinities will be needed to unlock the skills that you want. A maximum of 26 affinity points can be earned and distributed among affinitys. These points can be reset at the “Elemental Ambassador” in any of the five main cities.

Genies start with 1 Affinity Point, and will gain an additional Affinity Point every 5 levels. When a Genie reaches Level 100, it will gain 1 Affinity Point every level. The number of points required to master an Affinity is 8.

Leveling your genie

There are three ways of leveling your Genie:

Using EXP stone.
Using Character EXP
Using Character SP, 1SP = 5 EXP points.

A genies level cannot be higher than the level of the character using it
There is an exp penalty when your level is much greater than the genies. Much of the exp you give it is lost in transit. The lower the gap between you and the genie, the less exp is lost.
When you use the exp stones, the penalty is based on the level of the exp stone. The closer a genie is to the level of the stone, the less exp is lost. If the genie is higher level than the stone, no exp is lost. The max level is currently 105.

Leveling your genie skills

To level your genie skills, please see the new NPC.

Equiping your genie

Players can buy equipment for their Genies from the NPC “Watcher of the Earth”. Genie Equipment includes Jades, Mirrors, Orbs, and Charms. Unfortunately, the cost of these items are one and three million coins and once equipped, they cannot be unequipped, only replaced.

Trading your genie

Genies can be traded with other players after they have been converted into TRADE READY state. Click the Trade State button in the Genieinterface menu in order to access this feature. It will take 7 days toconvert your Genie into to TRADE READY state. By default, a Genie isset to NO-Trade state. In this state, the Genie cannot be traded, sold,or discarded.
http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=289292
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rLOoJPhcwXKWFa0vQjjRm_A
http://pwi.perfectworld.com/guide/genie
http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=281472
http://www.crimsonspot.com/pw/genie.html

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Info on OOP

westworld — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:44:29 +0000

Over the past few days I’ve gathered some info on OOP and testing. Below are some video’s and slides about best practice in JAVA and PHP

Misko Hevery:

Clean Code Talks

The Clean Code Talks: Unit Testing (video)
The Clean Code Talks: Don’t look for things (video)
The Clean Code Talks: Global state and singletons (video)
The Clean Code Talks: Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing (video)

Testing design skills

Testing design skills – 1 What is Untestable:

Testing design skills – 2 Ask for things

Testing design skills – 3 Global State

Testing design skills – 4 Inheritance

Testing design skills – 6 Value Objects vs Service Objects

Testing Design Skills – 7 Intro to GUICE

Testing Design Skills – 8 Mocking

Guide for writing testable code

Fabien Potencier

Dependency Injection

PHP 5.3 in practice

Decouple Your Code For Reusability (International PHP Conference / IPC 2008)

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Pdo get column names

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:39:37 +0000

PHP’s Pdo doesnt have a default columnname function. After searching Google I found that many people seem to be looking for this function. You can get the columnnames with an easy query to the schema:

$querystring = “SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns where TABLE_NAME = $table”;

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PHP-GTK: making an “About” dialog

westworld — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:53:47 +0000

Below is an example of how you can code an About dialog in PHP-GTK.
The mail_hook and url_hook are callback functions to open your default email client and webbrowser.
These functions have been tested under Windows XP. I don’t know if they work on Mac or Linux.

static public function About(){

$dlg = new GtkAboutDialog();
		$dlg->set_program_name('Myapp');
		$dlg->set_version('0.0.1');
		$authors = array ('John Doh<john@doh.com>');
		$dlg->set_authors($authors);
		$documenters = array('John Doh','Mr Smith');
		$dlg->set_documenters($documenters);
		$dlg->set_comments("you comments go here");
		$dlg->set_copyright('Copyright (C) 2009 myself');
		$dlg->set_license("Anyone is free\n to distribute\n and alter the code");
		$dlg->set_logo($dlg->render_icon(Gtk::STOCK_CDROM, gtk::ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR));
		$dlg->set_translator_credits("I like to thank my producer and my mom'");
		$dlg->set_url_hook("Mainwindow::url_hook");
		$dlg->set_website('http://www.yoursite.com');
		$dlg->set_website_label("www.yoursite.com"); 
		$dlg->set_email_hook("Mainwindow::mail_hook");
		$dlg->run();
		$dlg->hide();
	}

static function url_hook($dialog, $url){
	$shell = new COM('WScript.Shell');
	$shell->Run('cmd /c start "" "' . $url . '"', 0, FALSE);
	unset($shell); 
	}	
	
	static function mail_hook($dialog, $mailto){
		$shell = new COM('WScript.Shell');
		$shell->Run('cmd /c start "" "mailto:' . $mailto . '"', 0, FALSE);
		unset($shell);
	}

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PHP GTK: liststore error (undefined class constant)

westworld — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:42:28 +0000

Been experimenting with php-gtk over the last few days. When I was trying to use a liststore, php threw a fatal error. “Undefined class constant ‘TYPE_STRING’”.
After testing the example from the PHP_GTK site I got the same errror. The PHP-GTK example is out of date. Starting with PHP-GTK 2.0.0 the TYPE constants were moved from the Gtk::class to Gobject, so use Gobject::TYPE_STRING instead.
Below is the correct code.

<?php
/*  GtkListStore example
 Here we create a list of the largest cities.
 For that we need a list store with two columns:
 The name and the number of inhabitants.
 The "name" is of type "string", and the number
 of inhabitants is of type long (big integer).
*/
$store = new GtkListStore(Gobject::TYPE_STRING, Gobject::TYPE_LONG);
 
/*
* Using the "set" method
*/
 
//at first, get an iterator for a new row
$iterator = $store->append();
//now use that to set the name at that row (column 0)
$store->set($iterator, 0, 'Tokio');
//same row: set the inhabitants into column 1
$store->set($iterator, 1, 34100000);
 
//You can set a whole row at once:
$iterator = $store->append();
//we add the data "Mexico city" at column 0 and 
// "22 million" at column 1 at the row $iterator
$store->set($iterator, 0, 'Mexico city', 1, 22650000);
 
//Or, even faster: don't even create an iterator variable
$store->set($store->append(), 0, 'Seoul', 1, 22250000);
 
 
/*
* Using "append" to add a row without an iterator
*/
$store->append(array('New York', 21850000));
$store->append(array('São Paulo', 20200000));
 
 
/*
* And now show what we've got in the store
*/
function echoRow($store, $path, $iter)
{
    $city   = $store->get_value($iter, 0);
    $number = $store->get_value($iter, 1);
    echo $city . ' has ' . $number . " inhabitants.\r\n";
}
$store->foreach('echoRow');
?>

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Cleaning up after an emailing

westworld — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:48:23 +0000

As a web master, I often send out mass mailings. After the mailing is done, the bounced emails are returned to my Outlook. I go through them manually. The real bouncers are put in a “Bounced” folder and, Out of office messages in the “Trash”. The rest of the emails are addresses I need to update in my database or people that wish to unsubscribe. Since sorting through 2000 bouncers can take up a lot of time, I did some research on how to automate this.

PHP offers a set of functions to connect to a mail server (IMAP/POP3). The plan was to let my web server connect to the mail server and sort out the bouncers for me. Below is a little script to give you some ideas of what I came up with.

<?php
// fill in your SERVER, LOG and PAS!
$mbox = imap_open("{SERVER:143}", "LOG", "PAS");

echo "<h1>Mailboxes</h1>\n";
$folders = imap_listmailbox($mbox, "{SERVER:143}", "*");
if($folders == false) {echo "Call failed<br />\n";}
else{
	foreach ($folders as $val) { echo $val . "<br />\n";  }
}

$list = array(); // array will store all bounced email adresses
$result = imap_search($mbox,'SUBJECT "failure notice"'); // find all with subject 'failure notice'
if(!empty($result)){
foreach($result as $msgno) {
    $body = imap_fetchbody($mbox, $msgno,1); // fetch the body of the message
	$find= "To: "; // look for the 'To' part
	$foundatloc= strpos($body,$find); //remember the location
	if ($foundatloc > 1){ // test if a mail adres was found
		$findend = "\n"; 
		$foundendloc = strpos($body,$findend,$foundatloc); // find  the location of EOL
		$foundendloc = $foundendloc -($foundatloc + 5);
		$adres = substr($body,$foundatloc+5,$foundendloc); 
		$adres = str_replace("<","",$adres); // strip <, > and spaces
		$adres = str_replace(">","",$adres);
		$adres = trim($adres);
		array_push($list,$adres); // put the adres is $list
		imap_mail_move($mbox,$msgno,"INBOX.Trash"); // flag as  "move to trash"
		imap_expunge($mbox); // execute move to trash folder
	}
}
unset ($result);
}
// put function to process bouncers/$list here		 
imap_close($mbox); // close connection
?>

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Some great tools

westworld — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:51:02 +0000

Over the past few months I’ve been using a couple of new tools. Since they are free and might be helpfull to website designers and managers I decided to share my find:

test your website for 404 pages: Linkexaminer
scrape a file/folder for emailadres: Shark Email Extractor
make sitemap for a website: gSiteCrawler
Sitemap drawings: GraphViz
Site visualization: Gephi
Pongo is a poor man’s usability lab

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Canvas: flip image

westworld — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:02:09 +0000

Below is a sollution for flipping an image on the

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Windows 7: no mailclient

westworld — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:25:20 +0000

I just noticed that Windows 7 does not ship with Windows Mail or Outlook Express. Users of Windows 7 can download a mail client on the Windows live site. This seems to be the only mailclient for users on the 64bit version. Mozilla Thunderbird 3 64 bit is still in beta at the moment.

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Skype: bulk import

westworld — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:05:41 +0000

Out of the box, Skype doesn’t have a bulk import feature. I only found one extra and it costs 15$.
Here’s a tip how to do it for free.

Open Skype and go to ‘Contacts’
Go to Advanced
Backup contacts to file
Open the backup with Notepad or another text editor
The file is full of vcards, just copy a vcard, and past it at the bottom. All you have to do is alter the info. (ref is reference to importtime so you don’t have to alter this tag)
if you need to import many contacts, write a script to add extra vcards.
When your file is ready, go back to Skype/Advanced and import restore the backup.

An autoit script to do this might look something like the code below (untested)
Phone.xls has a column with nummers and a column with names
#include $oExcel = _ExcelBookOpen("phone.xls") _ExcelSheetActivate($oExcel,"sheetName") For $i = 1 To 3 ;Loop $phone = _ExcelReadCell($oExcel, 1, $i);cell with phone $name = _ExcelReadCell($oExcel, 1, $i);cell with name $file = FileOpen("backupfile.vcf", 1)


; Check if file opened for writing OK

If $file = -1 Then

    MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")

    Exit

EndIf
FileWriteLine($file, "BEGIN:VCARD")

FileWriteLine($file, "VERSION:3.0")

FileWriteLine($file, "N:"+$phone)

FileWriteLine($file, "X-SKYPE-PSTNNUMBER:"+ $phone)

FileWriteLine($file, "X-SKYPE-DISPLAYNAME:"+ $name + " " + $phone)

FileWriteLine($file, "REV:01091022T130411Z")

FileWriteLine($file, "END:VCARD")

FileClose($file) Next _ExcelBookClose($oExcel)

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