use on playing instruments afk

someone used one of these on me while i was playing instruments and working on a score in 3mle a while back, and i recently tried to use it on a troll who was afk to make him stop playing default music horribly in the middle of dunbarton, but couldnt, anyone know why?

Playing Instruments will not reset your combat mode status, so if you were in combat mode before playing a song, you will stay in combat mode, which will allow the use of a quiz bomb.

ah, that could be, since it used to be a myth that going into combat mode or out of it increases chances of getting a successful play

You people and your superstitious stuff.

even science is superstition till it gets proven as science by having worked enough times in a row for enough people

If you say so, sir. I won't argue against what you believe.

im just pointing out that science is nothing more than a set of experiments which come out the same way every time, its based on observation and thats it.

And superstitions are...?

superstitions are based on what one person said once as a rumour, and are in fact impossible to replicate reliably, such as luck changing based on behavior around dark cats, ladders and mirrors

Now how does that even come close to science?

ask GLaDOS

also, its only really different in that it cannot be reliably replicated, and was started not based on observation, but on a rumor.

So... science = superstition because science != superstition?

i know how to spot a logical fallacy, and no, thats not what im saying.

what i am saying is that most of science is based on the assumption that if you do a certain thing a certain way and the result is always the same, then its a fact. this is not always true, since one could be ignoring some of the variables that way.

what im saying in relation to mabinogi skill related superstitions is that the only way to know for sure is to decompile the client and pack files and sift through to see if you can find any proof

The bomb is weird sometimes. I tried it on *X*****r one time in EvG and it didn't go through. It works on Ik*****i though.

Ticking Quiz bomb works fine as is. You probably went into combat mode, afk played, and consequently, you were stuck in combat mode. If you have the need to afk play, I highly suggest less densely populated areas. As far as the whole "Combat Mode helps success," it's all superstitious rumors. You actually have a set "hidden" percent success, part of that success rate being god-like performances and such, at least from what I've been told.

Off topic but, as far as EvG, yes it does work in EvG. Good way to piss people off lol

I know that combat mode does nothing for success rates. the conversation was more about what constitutes "science" and what doesnt. That being the case, if you want to talk about what DOES seem to affect success, if you unequip and then re-equip your instrument, it seems to reset the success rate counter, which sometimes helps, and sometimes doesnt. then again, it could just interrupt your attempts long enough to get you into a different part of the random success rates number generator.

as for the idea that i: "afk played,"

no, i clearly stated that i was not afk, just not watching the chat log because i was creating another MML in the 3mle editor, please dont assume im one of the annoying people who afk in a populated area with instrument playing going, i am NOT one of the troll bards.

"someone used one of these on me while i was playing instruments and working on a score in 3mle a while back"

the very first line indicates that i was NOT afk, thanks for trying though

It was pretty early in the morning and only read the thread title. my bad. As far as the whole ticking bomb thing, and using limited wifi, it works fine in various situations. Just be cautious about playing instrument and make sure you're not stuck in combat mode.