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Klappschiffe are old, more than 100 years. They were used to build the channel in germany which connects the atalantic with the baltic sea. They were used to transport earth/slick/sand from cleaning a harbour. More stabile when loaded with a swim-bagger. It seems that the Bottsands have some disadvantages: cruising speed of maximal 9knots and the oil is sucked away at openings at sea level. Too high waves result that too much water is sucked in together with the oil, reducing the capacity for the sucked up oil. But good results in the Baltic sea and in the german bight. Next generation of planed oil capture ships The Futura-Type commercial freighters and tankers are build modular. The bow of these ships which was planed for low fuel consumption seems to be usable for oil capturing (which wasn't planed). A Futura-type tanker would already have a high speed, fire protection, oil carrying capacity. All what would be needed would be a module with a big rubber band running between the 2 bow parts and transporting oil slick from the surface into a tank. Futura Type at uglyships So it is planed that modules for these ships would be developed. The ships would be hired at a oil disaster but could be used for transports the rest of the year. A physic professor playing sacred send me a link to a whole doctor work about next generation of oil fighting, including all the formulas to calculate waves, oil drift, wave reflection at double bows, chaotic wave amplitudes .... Now I have to filter all the information so that my daughter can understand it.

Well, fear I am the one who keeps germany's alcohol consum per head low. At work we handle with explosives so biggest amount I drink a day is one class of beer, if I drink at all. My wife is assistant surgeon and doesn't drink much too. What we normally do is 'apple juice' or 'apple wine' mixed with 2 third mineral water. Apple wine is similiar to cidre but not sparkling. In our region the Apfelwein is called Speierling, because we add a few Speierling to the apples at production. Speierling is the fruit of the service tree (?). We also add Mispeln (common medlar). But that is special to our family. We have several dozen Mispel-trees. Its wood was used for fine wooden work. We put all the apples, Speierlinge and Mispeln on a truck and drive them to a Kelterei (a place where fruits are pressed and bottled as juice or transformed into wine). If you bring a ton (or more) of fruits they promise that you receive your own juice and wine. Else all is weighted and you get just random juice and wine. Not knowing which apple sorts, sprayed against insects and such. A ton sounds much, but we are at 30 litres milk a week which equals to 1.5 tons milk a year. And I share the juice and wine with the rest of the family, parents, family of brother and 2 sisters, ....

My daughter has to write a homework about the oil disaster at america's coasts: about the haircutters collecting hair for oil barriers, people trying to wash sea birds from oil, ... But there is one question I couldn't answer: Does the american navy has no ships comparable to our Bottsand class ships? What would be the keywords to search for equivalent ships in the US-, mexican or canadian navy? The Bottsand class are Klappschiffe (folding ships?) used as a Ölfangschiffe (oil capture ships?). The Bottsand is normally patrolling the baltic sea, either to capture oil or to do water research. Given the small tons replacement and being a folding ship it is probably not wise to cross the atlantic in a storm, but they could be carried on a supertanker I think. It took me 5 minutes to find a contact address and a page with possible equipment in case of a spill disaster at german coasts. http://www.havariekommando.de/en/cis/inven...sand/index.html But I lack the needed technical words to do the same search in english. Their is a joke in the german navy that the Bottsand was designed to capture sun oil at the Bottsand beach, which is a nudism beach and was equipped with the best the german optical industry could produce Edit: Found this: http://www.epa.gov/oilspill/ which is only for inland waters. They redirect to a page for coastal waters: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/ Which reads: this page is currently being updated So we are still searching

Interview with a Dev about party experience It's in german, contains maths and was done late in night .... All that made it terrible to read... If people plan to work out these maths too I can give a translation a try, piece by piece whenever I have time: Party experience is affected by team size (Teamgröße), which is the number of members of a team in a certain distance teamlevel ist quasi von jedem Spieler in Reichweite: (9 + Stufe) ^ 2 team level is for each member in range: (9+level)2(edit by chattius: sum of (9+level)2 for all players?) angepasste stufe ist allerdings auch wieder nur stufe + 9 zum quadrat adjusted level is again (9 + Stufe)2(edit chattius, thats why I think it is a sum for team level) MP Faktor = ( (expTeamBonus balance variable / 1000.f) ^ (team size - 1) ) * ( angepasste Stufe / teamlevel ) MP Faktor = ( (expTeamBonus balance variable / 1000.f) ^ (team size - 1) ) * ( adjusted level / teamlevel ) und der wird mit den basis xp multipliziert also dann MP Faktor = ((exoTeamBonus balance variable / 1000.f) ^(team size -1))*((9+Stufe)^2) / teamlevel ) * basis experience MP-Faktor is then multiplied with basis-experience ((expTeamBonus balance variable / 1000.f) ^(team size -1))*((9+Stufe)^2) / teamlevel ) * basis experience ja, aber nun mal schauen wie die basis experience zusammen kamen now we look how to calculate basis experience: Formula: experience = value(CRBONUS_EXPERIENCE) * BonusFac * LvlDiffFac * LvlCapFac * MobFac * LvlDampFac *MultiFac till 22:38 some talk, it is stated that the experience for a certain monster is same, if level and difficulty is same.... Some unmathematical talk, therefor hard to understand , is following: LvlDampFac seems to be Dragonsbrothers graph MultiFac same as MP Faktor value(CRBONUS_EXPERIENCE) are mentors, survival bonus, equip (edit chattius: dev not mentioning experience-Buffs, they forgot to code that in?) LvlDiffFac: less experience if you are too high level for the played difficulty EXPERIMENT TO PROOF THE THEORY Some team calculations if I guessed right that team level is a sum, people should proof them with play experience: So for a Level11 teaming with a Level21 adjusted level: (11+9)2= 400 adjusted level: (21+9)2= 900 team level 400+900 = 1300 share for the level 11: 400/1300 and for the level 21: 900/1300

Hock and Hachse sound related. With Hachse we normally name the roasted variant. And at soccer slang: Auf die Hacken treten = to step/kick on someones lower legs Eisbein is not a icy leg (Eis = ice and Bein = leg). Ausbeinen is a still used word in german and means to cut the bones(bein) out (aus) of the flesh. The Eis ( old german is) was the old name for the bone below the elbow in a foreleg. Eisbein from a cow is named Hesse everywhere in germany except in the state of Hesse it seems. We eat it normally as Beinscheibe (leg disc): Cooked for 2 hours in a herb soup (which is then served before the main dinner) and the flesh served with selfmade horseradish (grews wild around the house) sauce and potatoes. The bone still has the mark so it results in a tasty soup. The fine fibres in the flesh will make a very tasty meat.

It was an advertisement of the SPD, a political party in germany. Translate it as: Sex at your working place is hot. Too bad 4.6 million unembloyed can't enjoy it. In the year 2006 germany was holding the soccer world championchip. The slogan was' The world as guest at friends'. The biggest bordello in Cologne changed it into 'The world as guest at girl-friends' and painted the flags of all countries playing the championship at the wall. The flag of Saudi Arabia holds a writing about allah and so court and police forced them to remove it, Iran was protesting too. So both were painted black. Another court martial the owner was winning: He did a sign inside: 'We were informed that the flags of our best customers are black this year for not winning at soccer.'

Mother's Day We just finished washing, ironing clothes and preparing a late breakfeast so my wife could sleep a bit longer. Suddenly the phone rang and my wife was called to hospital, being at standby. We planed a bicycle tour, but had to change. So my wife drove to hospital and myself taking the kids and visiting my parents at Wetzlar. We walked to a Climbing forest just 3 Kilometres away from my parents. It is a forest with ropes, rope bridges leading from tree to tree in 4-8 metres above ground. My father stayed home to prepare an evening meal, because it's mothers day he said. In evening, and my wife joining an hour before, the kids were a hell of hungry when returning and my father surprised us with a special sort of Eisbein. In southern germany and in the alpes Eisbein is roasted. In our region it is normally cured and then cooked and served with Sauerkraut. He was marianating some Eisbein at saturday with herbs. He planed to cook some at sunday and use the rest at thursday which is a holiday here, not knowing that our plans would change and we would visit them. When he said he would organize some evening meal I was thinking of a pizza or something like this. But he surprised us with Eisbein in 6 variants, cooked, roasted, roasted with a herb mantle, cooked with a herb mantle, roasted with beer and herb mantle and cooked with beer. He said he didn't know what my kids would like and honestly the only time my oldest ate Eisbein was in Munich, roasted at a Biergarten. And the youngers never ate it. It is way to time intensive normally to do it. And in my youth I only remember to have eaten it was at village festivals when whole village came together in a big tent to do Kirmes (kermesse?) or to celebrate a village team to win championship and stuff like this. So I was surprised to have it served by my dad and even more that my kids were devouring all the variants, without saying something like IIIIIEKS, that is too fat. I asked why he never did it when I was young and he said he wasn't retired then to have time.

Obviously no movie from the 80ties, 90ties, 00ties can be it. I never watch a movie more than one time a year if I can choose. So it has to be an old one. I think there is only movie which I watched more than 30 times, more or less with or without being forced. The Bridge Die Brücke First it was 2 times a year at school, then 2 times a year at army and now my daughters are old enough to write essays about it for school and it runs on DVD on our only TV. It is a bitter, sad , hard but really good movie, no question. But once I know every dialog I normally stop watching a movie. Second world war stopped 8th of may so at saturday 'Die Brücke' was on 11 channels if I counted right.

Where to store the cars Our main-barn (Schuppen) close to the house has 4 floors above the cellar. The floor above the base floor (1st in german counting, 2nd in other some other countries) is sturdy enough to hold cars. Just use a winch and 2 planks. Then there are 2 barns (Feldscheunen) we are no longer using and which hold the tractors, unimogs and such. They are like 150 metres away from the house with a pond between (in old times for firefighting). Schuppen is like a barn but to store machines and carriages. Scheune is a barn to store stray and hay. Feldscheune is a barn for stray and hay but away from the main houses (risc of fires) in open field (Feld). My family were carpenters and not exactly farmers. The farmland was used to feed the horses needed for the wood transport and enough food for the families. With Trucks and unimogs the horses and with them the farmland was not needed anymore. Citroen needing Super Super and normal fuel is same price in germany, so several fuel stations stopped selling normal fuel already. Enfields My grandpa in law(?) uses to say: speeds up to 110 are easy in repair, brakes, engines. But each 10 km/h above 200 doubles the trouble. There is a small company building diesel-bikes about 50 kilometres away: I saw one of her machines and when asking about the price I decided to do it myself. The engine used is a diesel engine from a ship, normally used to drive a winch. The grandpa of my wife was state champion in motorbike cross country with sidecar, so I had professional help. A cousin of my wife build a similiar bike and we exchanged experiences. But an Enfield is really easy to repair and work with. Same for the engine which was designed for winches on yachts, designed to function even if the next mechanic is weeks or an ocean away. Messerschmitt It was called Schneewittchensarg, coffin of snowwhite (laying in a glas coffin in the faerytale). Kleinschmittger One of my teachers had one of those, 1/8 litre engine. To drive backwards you had to leave, lift the car and turn it. Goggomobil Even Gogo is well known in this forum, it is only a rumour that the Goggo was named after him. Watch the Wackeldackel (dachshund as a bobblehead) in the rear. One of them still exists in a neighbour village. Lloyd The Leukoplastbomber. Leukoplast is a adhesive tape used in medicine and obviouslly to repair this car. It was made from wood, so my grandpa told me that people owning one were rather visiting him (as a woodworker) than a mechanic to have it repaired. NSU Prinz and TTS A NSU TT was my first car, I bought it 4th or 5th hand with my first self owned money. It had a 1 litre engine in the back and was easy to tune. Mine was around 110 horse powers at a weight of 700kilo. Terrible quick little devil on countryroads through the forest, where top-speed is nothing and acceleration everything. You could open the engine cover and had a rear spoiler and better cooling A this age I would have told people crazy who would have said that I later would study mathematics. I liked to work with my hands and calculations were just to make my car faster. Steppenwolf, born to be wild

When my younger sister was 8 she played left forward in a mixed soccer team. She was a very fast runner (she still holds the record for 200 metres running in our district for more than 20 years). Defenders tried to stop her 2 times while she stormed along the left outer line. She crashed hard 2 times but always jumped up again and continued running and made a goal. She was running to our family to be celebrated and was waving when suddenly her left underarm made crazy moves. Both bones pre-broken at falling but moved apart not before winking. She started whining when the coach took her out of the game because of the broken arm. She still says today that she whined because she thought it was unfair because she really played good this day. She felt the pain first time 2 minutes after she was out, but not before. I remembered this when I watched champions league this year and Fabregas shot a penalty breaking his leg, which was probably pre-broken by the foul before. 2 years back our second daughter was vaulting, even she knew that she wasn't allowed to do it allone. So when she felt from the horse she was not telling anyone. 6 days later she was late for school and stormed down the staircase and tried to grap her schoolbag while running. Then she suddenly cried holding her arm. It was swollen and hurt when touching it. She nearly fainted out when I tried to move it a bit. Hearing some nasty sounds from the arm I thought sh*t, that always happens when my wife is at work (she's a doc). I brought her to kid's hospital and they found out that the bones were broken already for around a week. One bone was broken again but the other partly grew together in a wrong way. It had to be broken again to fix it properly. My uncle played soccer starting when he was 5 and still plays it today with 57! He never had any injury on a soccerfield, except one: when he was 38 his son (aged 5) was fouled and whining. He wanted to carry him from the field and dislocated a shoulder when trying to pick his son up. Injuries are often just random and out of my experience they happen more often if you are afraid to be injured.

Perhaps it is because the name Desert Eagle is probably copyrighted by Magnum?

Yes, Iso in italy was building scooters and refridgerators. Isetta means little Iso and was licensed by BMW. There is a joke that an Isetta was just 2 scooters welded together and put into a refridgerator and then some windows cut into the sides .... Driving an Isetta or a 2CV4 is way more relaxing than driving a Golf. If you drive a countryroad with just 80km/h to watch the countryside and sit in a Golf people behind you will use the signal horn and show you the middle finger when passing you. If you sit in an Isetta or a Duck the people smile and wink when passing. I got my Isetta nearly 13 years back. A man died and the woman, who had no kids, asked me to help her to move to her step-daughter in another state. The Isetta was used as a container for garden stuff and heavily rusted because it stood unused for nearly a decade in an allotment(?) a bit away from the house. I got it for free and it took me a summer to make it drivable again and a winter to have it look good, rotten seats, canvas top, ... But even there is a wave of retro design: new Beetle, new Fiat 500, new Mini, ... I doubt that a new Isetta will fulfill modern crash tests because of its design. Seems at Sacred2 and in real life I do the same, experiment and try to make stuff running:)

My daughters were playing Kungfu Dryads. In teamplay it is possible to stack dust devils modified for combat art block. But dust devils have a cooldown so they are not as useful as expulse. Arcane elves: My elf to test out my modified horse Combat Art's is pure arcane. Expulse magic is a very good way, another possibility is to use shadow step to teleport to them and be invible for some seconds. At around level 150 I was able to reach close to permanent invisibility: able to teleport again while still being invisible from last teleport. Dragon Mage: If you leave away elementalism you can reach high hitpoints with the dragon magic buff if you have the lore too. Add constitution, all in vitality and runes of protection modified to block combat arts. I was using alchemy to have full working heal potions in case a Combat Art was passing the runes.

I just read into this thread again after weekend to see if people did some experience values so I could try out some maths, ... And dragonbrother has a graph already... an the graph clearly shows the jumps. So my attempts to type powers as ** to find out 3 posts later that the forum allows superscript were not as useless as I thought We planed a bicycle tour and some other stuff for mother's day and then my wife was called to hospital for an emergency (she was on standby this weekend). So we weren't playing but did a visit to my parents at Wetzlar and did some walking and climbing in a beech forest: So I had no time to do my own tests. Hope we can do the tour at the holiday at thursday. My wife and me are both not on standby.

INSURANCE Here you need a car license to get a bus license. A car license is 18 years, 17 years if you drive with an adult on the other front seat. Busses are always at least 18. The license would be needed to drive the bus not to own it. And bigger busses are 21 years if they have the weight of trucks. For a car, you can either allow your kid to share your insurance, but then her insurance reduces only slowly use a low powered car use a car older than 25 years so insurance is fixed at 100% use a camping mobile, again fixed 100% but bigger engine = bigger taxes Old Citroen 2CV4 or something equivalent is normally best. 25 years old, engine volume is below half a litre (volume and dirt emission define taxes). Or the quarter litre engine of the BMW in my signature. But our BMW Isetta is currently driven by my niece. BMW Isetta are nicknamed Knutschkugel (something like petting/kissing bubble) because it is barely enough room for 2 persons and you sit very close together. BIO FUEL One reason for the Mercedes T1 was its old engine. No modern TDI, CDI, GDI, or whatever... Once the engine is running I can remove the battery and it is still running -no electronic involved. So its quite easy to run it with rapeseed oil. We have Rübsen and Raps which look nearly the same, colza and rapeseed? I think UK, USA, France uses more Colza. I have even a diesel motorbike which I use when I drive to work. 1.3 litres rapeseed oil per 100 kilometres. Frame from an old enfield made in india (500 euro) and a modern diesel engine added (800 euro), 1 year work with a friend (we build 2) and small pieces and paint another 500 euro. The tractors and unimogs can eat rapeseed oil anyway.

1 PS is like 735 Watt. PS = Pferdestärke = horse power Biggest I drove myself at army: 1500 horsepowers license was planed for tanks with mounted jet engines to blow out burning pipelines. In gemany you can drive a car with 17 if you have an adult controlling. That's why I have my signature. My daughter drove Porsches, Mercedes and Lamborghinis but isn't allowed to drive a VW Beetle yet. Speaking about insurances: An oldtimer will be always at 100%. A newbie starts at 175% and goes down to 30% if he drives without an insurance case for 20 years. So I keep a Citroen 2CV4 (we call them Ente =Duck) and a VW Beetle, both more than 25 years old. Big Barn So she will pay the first years just the 100% till the insurance for a normal car is below 100%. The Citroen is very low on taxes because its small engines.

Reformation Day used to be a silent day in our state Hessen. It took place on 31.10. A silent day means that the praying of people be it at church or at home shouldn't be interupted by unnecessary noise. Several older people here get angry if kids ring for halloween. At the village of my parents people who will give sweets to kids put a pumpkin before their door and parent tell the kids to ring only at houses with a pumpkin.

Sacred2 is designed so complex that smart people give up understanding and just play. And then there area idiots like me who try to understand the math's involved ...

@FrostElfGuard There was a soccer tournament and my daughter got a trophy as best goalie of her age from Nia Künzer (she lives in my birth town). Nia asked who would be her hero: Kahn or Lehmann, and my daughter said Trautmann. They had signed gloves from Kahn and Lehmann and planed to give them as an extra Half a year later the organisator of the youth tournament sent a letter with the picture. Trautmann has a youth camp at Berlin and the organisator seems to sponsor that too. My daughter never met him. @Dobri The link in Post 12 Edit3 claims that the gloves also helps if the hand is already injured.

At level 100 you get 10000 At level 101 you get 10000*0.985= 9850 At level 102 you get 9850*0.985 = 10000*(0.985)²= 9702 At level 103 you get 9702*0.985 = 10000*(0.985)³= 9557 .... The question is what will happen if you reach level 125 or 126. Will the 0,985 change to 0,98 for all the levels before? So is it 0.98524*0.98 or 0.98025 First would be if the jump would be just for one level, the second if the jump would be applied backwards for all former levels. The difference between the two calculations is like 12% which is closer to the reported 10% than the jump from 0,985 to 0,98. What makes the calculations even a bit more tricky: if you climb with level the enemies will too.

Speaking about goalies and injuries (edit and machester city). My daughter has a signed picture of the best goalie of all times and her personal hero in her room: Bernhard Trautmann. I hope she will never get famous the same way he did. Quote from wiki about the english cup finale Winning a cup finale with a broken neck... And when he stopped his carreer the goal poles were removed from the stadium in Manchester,no one would be good enough to defend them again. When I did my 8 years at army an english soldier told me that it was Trautmann, as a former enemy, who stopped his father from hating all germans. The english soldier said that the english never understood why Trautmann was not allowed to play in the german team which won world championship in 1954. I kinda felt like an idiot, because I didn't know at all who Trautmann was. (No internet in this time, only 3 TV programs, so no english football) He ended his carreer before I was born. When Queen Elisabeth gave him the Order of the British Empire for his work to better the german/english relations I knew his name and told my daughter who he is when watching the news. She played her second year as a goalie then. That was the time she started to throw balls after catching them rather than kicking. She wanted to be like Trautmann. Edit: I bet if Trautmann would have been an american there would be a Hollywood movie already. Edit2: Just found that there is a new autobiography of his life, might be a good birthday present for my daughter Newpaper from April 2010 Edit3: Finally found an english page describing the new goalie gloves technology: http://www.reuschusa.com/tech.php The page reads that orthotec also protects an already damaged hand. Reusch does the new gloves allready for kids and women (longer finger compared to width of the hand). So my daughter has gloves with orthotec. The different technoligies used in the gloves are on the right side of the page. If I remember that I was using just garden gloves with a sewed towel part on the palm as a kid , technology explodes these times. Exoskeleton for fingers, shock protectors, special material for optimal grip, (did I really just spit in my hands and rubbed them when I was young ?),...

Yes, the real risc is that you play UWR in a mixed team and a girl looses her suit and some idiot opens his mouth 4 metres below surface to say 'Whow!'. Movements are slowed below water. A bullet can't kill once you are 2 metres away, same is for kicks, punches and such, they are slowed down that much that they do no harm. No injuries from jumping, falling, .... Back to soccer: Ask Dobri how many times he was underrun while catching a high ball. You come down hard and have no free hands to control falling. Or how many times you had a ball safe but an enemy attacker couldn't stop sliding into you or failed to jump over you. And the main disadvantage of a goalie in a small soccer club: You are normally the last entering the shower, because a goalie needs more time to get out of the protection stuff. So when I wanted to take a shower the nice teammates already used up all the hot water and it took half an hour for the boiler to heat up again. The new gloves came after my active soccer time. Now I mainly coach a team of one of my daughters. The gloves are quite new and sadly not cheap. Costs are around 60 euro and more. If you play or train on red sand the fine sand on dirty balls will ruin the inside of gloves quickly so you need up to 4 gloves a year out of my experience. I was stitching pieces of towels to ruined gloves to recycle them. At rainy days the towel pieces gave a better grip.

0.985**25 = .685 0.980**25 = .603 Would be 12% at the level jump from 124 to 125. If the all 25 levels above 100 would use 0.98 instead 0.985 once reaching level 125. That is close to the reported value of around 10%.

Sometimes I think that the latest patch changed the cooldown/regeneration time behaviour. Earlier it was that reg-time was first and then cooldown was done. The voodoo dryad of my daughter looks as if now the cooldown comes first. Have to check if this is that expert touch splits the cooldown in a combination or if they changed the order Rooster do you think that the explanation I did is okay if there is no cooldown involved? The numbers are more that a 6s spell will do 4s in each aspect. For the tests I did some week ago, I used the correct 33% percent reg-time reducing and got still better reg times with combinations. If it is really done the way I did explained I don't know. But it fits with my small database of 4 hours trying. Splitting the regeneration time of a combination on 3 regeneration channels is faster than old system at my tests. But you pay for this that you won't be able for a while to do Combat Art's if the combination reg-time is too long. But you can use normal weapon attacks with RpH after a combination. So my conclusion so far is: Use old regeneration system if you use single combat arts of several aspects in a random order. Use expert touch if you play only one aspect or if you always use combinations. RpH works on all three channels. Which favours expert touch too. If the last Combat Art in a combination is a weapon attack with RpH expert touch really shines.

We could keep the van if we claim that it is a bus. The problem is: old german driving license allows to drive cars and small trucks up to 7.5 tons and 9 people. But if you do the driving license for a bus to transport people you will get the new european union license which overwrites the old german license. So with new license cars are only up to 2.8 tons, car license does not include a scooter or tractor (unimogs are licensed currently as fast tractors below 7.5 tons) anymore, .... I have no trouble, I got the whole licenses at army up to 1500 horsepower and 100tons. But my wife has just the old car license. It was enough for up to 7.5 tons, but not if the van changes into a bus politically. So it is either a new van or doing the license. And the license is time eating... driving classes, 40 hours truck drives with a teacher, learning transportation laws, 6 weekends red cross training (at least this she wouldn't have to do, she is a doc), ... So it would be like 200 hours driving training and lessons and about 5000 euro costs and just to drive the same car she did for 6 years now.