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Does levitating time count towards meditation achievements?

Anyone... Anyone... Staff?

Posted 11 months ago by DUG1138 Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • This calls for Science!

    I'll have an answer for you by tomorrow evening.
    Posted 11 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bump for an answer, Humbabella?

    --Me
    Posted 11 months ago by SchWM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would say... Yes? Maybe. It has a cool down.... So.
    Posted 10 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm really curious how you'll figure this out, Humbabella; is there some way to tell how close you are to the next meditation achievement (or any other)?
    Posted 10 months ago by Credulous Ralph Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My schedule to figure this out was overly ambitious.  I'm still working on the answer, but it will take me considerably longer than I planned.  I should have it by the end of the weekend, though.
    Posted 10 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I suppose she would levitate over and over and mesasure that time and if it went over the maximum amount of time she needed for her next badge (next badge time minus last badge time) the answer would be no?
    Posted 10 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Humbabella:  I believe that would properly be called !Science!  ;-)

    I would be very interested in the answer to this, though my guts seem to thing that the answer is "no."  That said, my guts have guano for brains, so there you go.
    Posted 10 months ago by Grem Sketch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My guts say yes and no.
    And I thought teleporting to parties counted as a teleport. Costed energy... but no cooldown...
    So judging the fact that levitation has cooldown as well for my guess. Though my second pair of guts says no.
    Posted 10 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow,that's alla guts, Palindrome! ^_^V
    Posted 10 months ago by Tumahura Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Palindrome In theory, though do people actually track things like seconds of meditation time so far?

    My assumption is that if you thought you were close to the next badge you could only levitate and see if you got it, but you'd surely need to know you were pretty darned close in order to predict how soon you'd know one way or the other. Hence my question.
    Posted 10 months ago by Credulous Ralph Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, the right way to do it is to levitate until you've done it enough and then see whether you get the badge or not.  Levitation lasts 5 seconds and the bottom meditation badge is 23 minutes.  So 12 levitations per minute would give 276 needed levitations to get there.  Since each one has a 20 second cooldown, that would require 6900 seconds to do, which is 115 minutes or just under 2 hours.

    What really delayed my efforts, though, is that Levitation requires Rambler, 1st Class to learn.  Leveling a new alt to level 4 and learning the skills is basically almost no time requirement at all.  Running around to more than a quarter of the streets in the world means I have to find time to do that.
    Posted 10 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I believe that RascalMom tested the "teleport to parties" theory and reported that it did not count toward your teleport badges. 
    Posted 10 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah, via an alt, got it.
    Posted 10 months ago by Credulous Ralph Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Answer: It does not.
    Posted 10 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well... That sucks.

    You rock though, Humbabella, for doing the science you definitely rock!
    Posted 10 months ago by DUG1138 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ok, did Shepherd Ralph say it did, and Humbabella say it didn't?

    Just needing a little clarification. :)
    Posted 10 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No, I was just saying that I finally understood that Humbabella would do it via an alt (couldn't figure out how to reasonably do it with a character that's already done a ton of meditation).

    And yes, thanks Humbabella!
    Posted 10 months ago by Credulous Ralph Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As a staff member so rudely pointed out to me when I asked this question, no, it does not.
    Posted 10 months ago by TaDa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bah staff!  Science!

    http://www.glitch.com/profiles/PUV7M5PR4VM2CUD/
    Posted 10 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Go to know for sure that levitating does not count toward the badge.

    Other question, is it only levitation that doesn't count? Do all the others count, or are there other exceptions?
    Posted 10 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My guess is that whenever you see the orb appear in front of you and roll around you are meditating for the purpose of the achievement.  I strongly suspect that Focused Meditation and Transcendental Radiation both count.  Martial Imagination is a good question, but much harder to test.
    Posted 10 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink