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Average restaurant electricity bill?

Bogardan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:58:47 +0800

Hi guys,

Would like to find out how much other restauranteurs are paying monthly for their electricity.
Currently, im running:

1x 4-door standing freezer (running 24 hours)
1x 4-door standing chiller (running 24 hours)
4x horizontal chillers (24 hours)
1x standing chiller (24 hours)
Kitchen ventilation (12 hours)
3x 3 horsepower casette air-conds (12 hours)

Lighting should contirbute a small % because they are all flourescent and energy saving which are left on for about 12 hours a day.
Operations are 7 days a week.

Lowest ive paid is RM3.2k, while highest is about RM3.9k monthly. Is this normal?

Edit: Restaurant size = 1,500 sq ft. and seats about 65pax. Kitchen takes up approx. 1/3 of the area.

WTS Xbox 360 Elite Original w/ 5 ori games

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

Dwarf Spriest xfer 2 Jubei'thos

Bogardan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:41:22 +0800

Hi, thinking of xferring off this low pop server for some pve/pvp action! Up for adoption!

Scratches on Halo 3 CD

Bogardan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:37:46 +0800

Yeah, got my Halo3 CD today, but found that the game CD was not locked in place in its holder when i opened the box. So, there are some scratches due to that. Game works fine so far.. what would you guys do?

Xbox Live

Bogardan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:46:36 +0800

So for online games, Streamyx gives better service depending on the ipaddress that we are on. Is that apparent for games played on xbox live as well? Do most of you guys connect the modem directly to the xbox or PC?

Intending 2 buy

Bogardan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:07:40 +0800

Dear All,

I have read the sticky about buying & have a few questions still.

According to the Buyers Guide above,

"Currently Xbox 360 Premium (Asian) is selling for around RM 1400 - RM 1500 (some shop even sell as low as RM 1300) and Xbox 360 Core (Asian) is selling for around RM 1200. Japanese Xbox 360 is selling for around RM 1200 - RM 1400 (some shop sell as low as RM 900). Price for Xbox 360 Elite US version is USD 479.99 and the pricing (and release date) for Asian version is still unknown." -Buyers Guide Sticky

1) How accurate are the prices now for Premium, Core & Elite.

2) Im interested in getting a Xbox for the purpose of gaming online (GoW, Halo3). Which package (US/Asian) is suitable for me (Which console does the majority own?)?

3) Do Asian & US consoles connect to the same Xbox live, or are they mutually exclusive?

4) Any other advice for me?

Thanks in advance 4 your help.

Recruiting for arena!

Bogardan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:31 +0800

LF decent-geared (& skilled) warrior for 3v3 on Dark Iron PvP (Shadowburn BG) 8pm or later on weekdays (+8GMT). We are the top 2v2 alliance team (highest rating so far = 2,287), aiming for rank 1 by the end of season.

Some info on Dark Iron:
1) Mainly US player base.
2) Only 1 (or 2) Illidan killing guild(s).
3) <1min AV queues
4) Relatively easy going & friendly community.

Any other class interested in 5v5 please drop me a note as well. See if we can work something out.

Additional information:
1) We enjoy pvp very much but we still know there is much to learn & do our best to.
2) We do get pissed with ourselves when we lose 28 points in 1 loss after spending 1-2 hours getting 0-4 pts per game. However, we dont get emo (that much). Rather just learn from it and try to pick it up again.
3) We're both working adults, so we dont have time to raid.
4) I have crap dps gear.
5) The lock is a BG9 Gladiator.
6) I mess up stupidly sometimes.

So if anyone is in a similar situation like us & would like to be a Gladiator, or have any questions, just reply or PM me.

Thanks!

Anyone on Dark Iron PVP

Bogardan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:13:18 +0800

hai im here

LF Oceanic Arena (2's/3's/5's) 1700+

Bogardan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:10:31 +0800

Currently, play most of my arena games only on Saturday's 12pm (+8GMT) bcoz thats when the whole team can meet.

Any alliance teams out there that play at approx 8pm (+8GMT) that have an opening for a paladin?

In a nutshell, im on;
+1500 heal
354 res
10k/9.7k hp/mana
16k armor
(2pc Season 1, 3pc Season 2 (after tonight)).

Currently, my arena teams are around 1.8k rating, but are not really serious as we just play to get the 10+ games every Saturday.

For 2's im interested in looking for a geared lock as a partner. 2nd choice = merciless warrior.
For 3's or 5's, any particular sound matrix is fine.

IP hunting script broken?

Bogardan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:04:17 +0800

Found that today, was unable to dc and reconnect to streamyx straight away. Needed a 5 min + interlude before attempting the next connection. Intentional control put in place by tmlolnet, or just their connection being sucky as usual?

List of Coefficients

Bogardan — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:14:59 +0800

General guidelines

1) If it has a casting time (or is any mage spell), and does direct damage, the base coefficient for the DD is casting time before talents / 3.5.
2) If it's channeled and is not a mage spell, and does direct damage, the base coefficient for the DD is casting time before talents / 5.0. (Apparently there are some exceptions tho, such as Starshards.)
3) If it has a DoT, the base coefficient for the DoT is duration before talents / 15.
4) If it's both direct damage and a DoT, the direct damage part gets its base coefficient multiplied by DD / (DD + DoT), and the DoT part gets its base coefficient multiplied by DoT / (DD + DoT), where DD = average direct damage before talents and gear, and DoT = average damage over time before talents and gear. (NOTE: fireball seems to be an exception to this rule; there are probably others.)
5) If it's AOE, multiply by 1/2; except for healing spells multiply by 1/3. In some cases, apparently when the effect lasts for 8 seconds, additionally multiply by 0.83. (Note: this used to be just 1/3 for everything before patch 2.0.3, after which things make much less sense.)
6) If it has a snare component (frostbolt, mind flay, etc), multiply by 0.95 or 0.9.
7) If it does both damage and healing (life tap, devouring plague etc), multiply by 0.5. (NOTE: only in some cases - compare life tap, siphon life, drain soul, vampiric touch etc.)
8) There are probably other rules as well but I can't think of them right now.

Preliminary notes

First off, even if a spell gets 0% of the character's spell damage, it will be affected by talents, debuffs on the target, etc. Example: The DoT portion of a rank 12 fireball normally ticks for 19 damage, but with both the fire power (+10%) and playing with fire (+3%) talents, it will tick for 21-22 (19 * 1.1 * 1.03); and with improved scorch (+15%) on the target it will tick for 24-25 (19 * 1.1 * 1.03 * 1.15), etc.

Second, all damage (and healing) increasing talents, as well as all mana cost decreasing talents, now seem to be multiplicative (see above). All empowered talents however are additive, as said on the talent: "gains an additional X%". For example, the normal coefficient for arcane missiles is 5/3.5, and the max rank of the empowered talent increases this to 5/3.5 + 0.45. One exception is the druid talent empowered rejuvenation, which increases the relevant coefficients from X to X * 1.2; this also affects the initial heal of regrowth. Other exceptions might exist.

Mage spells - thanks Eylirria, Kelith & co

Fireball - 100% / 0% (3.5/3.5)
Frostbolt - 81,4% (3/3.5 * 0.95 - snare)
Fire blast - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Arcane missiles - 143% (5/3.5)
Blizzard - 94,9% (8/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.83 - aoe, 8 secs)
Scorch - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Cone of Cold - 20,4% (1.5/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.95 - aoe & snare)
Arcane explosion - 21,4% (1.5/3.5 * 1/2 - aoe)
Pyroblast - 115% / 20% (custom as of 2.0.3 - 25,02% * 12/15)
Flamestrike - 23,6% / 9,9% (417/757 * 3/3.5 * 1/2 - 340/757 * 8/15 * 1/2 * 0.83 - aoe, dot 8 secs)
Blast wave - 19,3% (1.5/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.9 - aoe & special snare)
Frost nova - 2,79% (1.5/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.13 - aoe & immobilization - custom)
Dragon's Breath - 19,3% (1.5/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.9 - aoe & "snare")
Ice Barrier - 10% (custom)
Molten armor - 0%
Arcane blast - 71,4% (2.5/3.5)
Ice lance - 14,2% (1.5/3.5 * 1/3 - normal damage against frozen; one third against non-frozen)

Water Elemental

QUOTE

Lhivera wrote:
I did some figuring based on some helpful tests a guy ran for me, and came up with the water elemental getting:

~30% of your stamina, and 7.5 health per point of stam
~30% of your intellect, and 5 mana per point of int
~40% of your +frost damage gear, modified of course by the 2.5 second cast time

These values were able to predict the elemental's health, mana and damage range with various gear and buffs (buffs to mage and/or elemental) with pretty good accuracy.

Warlock spells - source - thanks Krythal, Gagorian & others

Shadow bolt - 85,6% (3/3.5)
Corruption - 94% (custom as of 2.0.3 - used to be 120% = 18/15)
Curse of agony - 118% (custom as of 2.0.3 - used to be 160% = 24/15)
Drain life - 71,5% (5/3.5 * 0.5 - both healing and damage)
Drain soul - 215% (15/3.5 * 0.5 - both "healing" and damage)
Searing pain - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Rain of fire - 94,9% (8/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.83 - aoe, 8 secs)
Shadowburn - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Siphon life - 100% (30/15 * 0.5 - both healing and damage)
Hellfire - 214% (15/3.5 * 1/2 - aoe)
Death coil - 21,4% (1.5/3.5 * 0.5 - both healing and damage)
Immolate - 19,8% / 65,3% (34,7% * 2/3.5 - 65,3% * 15/15)
Soul fire - 115% (custom as of 2.0.3 - used to be 171% = 6/3.5)
Unstable affliction - 120% / ?? (18/15 - proc apparently scales, but dunno how)
Curse of Doom - 200% (60/15 * 0.5)
Drain mana - 0%
Conflagrate - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Shadowfury - 19,3% (1.5/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.9 - not confirmed)
Life tap - 80% (custom)
Dark pact - 96% (custom - not confirmed)
Incinerate - 71,4% (2.5/3.5 - not confirmed)
Seed of Corruption - 120% / 21,4% (18/15 - 1.5/3.5 * 1/2 - not confirmed)

Pet scaling: TODO

Priest spells - thanks Bekah

Shadow word: pain - 120% (18/15)
Vampiric touch - 100% (15/15)
Mind blast - 43% (1.5/3.5)
Mind flay - 57% (3/5 * 0.95 - snare)
Mana burn - 0%
Starshards - 171% (6/3.5)
Devouring plague - 80% (24/15 * 1/2 - both healing and damage)
Shadow word: death - 43% (1.5/3.5)
Renew - 100% (15/15)
Flash heal - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Greater heal - 85,7% (3/3.5)
Smite - 71,4% (2.5/3.5)
Power word: shield - 10% (custom - not confirmed)
Holy nova - 7,1% (1.5/3.5 * 1/3 * 0.5 - aoe, heal, both damage and healing - not confirmed)
Holy fire - 73,5% / 17,7% (402/547 * 3.5/3.5 - 145/547 * 10/15 - not confirmed)
Prayer of healing - 28,6% (3/3.5 * 1/3 - aoe, heal - not confirmed)
Lightwell - 0% (not confirmed)
Circle of healing - 14,3% (1.5/3.5 * 1/3 - aoe, heal - not confirmed)
Binding heal - 42,9% (1.5/3.5 - not confirmed)
Prayer of mending - 14,3% (1.5/3.5 * 1/3 - "aoe", heal - not confirmed)
Shadowfiend - thoroughly unknown, probably 0%

Paladin spells - thanks Snow & co

Avenger's Shield - 14,3% (1/3.5 * 1/2 - "aoe") - NOTE: crits for 200% damage
Consecration - 94,9% (8/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.83 - aoe, 8 secs)
Hammer of Wrath - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Holy Shield - 5% per charge (unknown derivation)
Flash of Light - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Holy Light - 71,4% (2.5/3.5)
Holy Shock - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Exorcism - 42,9% (1.5/3.5 - not confirmed)
Holy wrath - 28,6% (2/3.5 * 1/2 - not confirmed)
Crusader strike - 40% (hey, it says so on the spell )
Judgement of Command - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Judgement of Vengeance - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Judgement of Righteousness - 73% (unknown derivation)
Seal of Command - 20% (unknown derivation)
Seal of Vengeance - 17% per tick (unknown derivation)
Seal of Righteousness - depends on weapon and weapon speed:

Coefficients are 9.2% per 1.0 Speed for 1H and 10.8% per 1.0 Speed for 2H

Seal of Righteousness with +198 spell:
Rank 8 (58 - 1.6 Speed 1H) | 36- 37 | 65- 66 | +29 | 15%
Rank 8 (58 - 2.2 Speed 1H) | 47- 47 | 86- 87 | +40 | 20%
Rank 8 (58 - 3.2 Speed 2H) | 95- 96 | 164-165 | +69 | 35%
Rank 8 (58 - 3.7 Speed 2H) | 118-119 | 197-198 | +79 | 40%

Druid spells - thanks Boevis & Kazanir

Starfire - 100% (3.5/3.5)
Wrath - 57,1% (2/3.5)
Moonfire - 14,9% / 52,2% (34,8% * 1.5/3.5 - 65,2% * 12/15)
Entangling Roots - 90,0% (27/15 * 0.5 - immobilizing)
Healing touch - 100% (3.5/3.5)
Rejuvenation - 80% (12/15)
Regrowth - 28,5% / 70,1% (49,9% * 2/3.5 - 50,1% * 21/15)
Insect swarm - 76% (12/15 * 0.95)
Hurricane - 107% (10/3.5 * 1/2 * 0.9 * 0.83 - nonsensical derivation)
Tranquility - 22,2% (10/15 * 1/3 - aoe, heal - not confirmed)
Lifebloom - 46,7% / 42,9% (7/15 - 1.5/3.5 - not confirmed)

Shaman spells
Healing wave - 85,7% (3/3.5)
Lesser healing wave - 42,9% (1.5/3.5)
Chain heal - 23,8% (2.5/3.5 * 1/3 - "aoe", heal)
Earth shield - 286% (10/3.5 - not confirmed)
Lightning bolt - 85,7% (3/3.5)
Chain lightning - 35,7% (2.5/3.5 * 1/2 - "aoe")
Earth shock - 38,6% (1.5/3.5 * 0.9 - annoyance)
Frost shock - 38,6% (1.5/3.5 * 0.9 - snare)
Flame shock - 21,4% / 17,1% (50% * 1.5/3.5 - 50% * 1.5/3.5 * 12/15 - not confirmed)
Flametongue weapon - 10% (custom)
Frostbrand weapon - 25% (custom)
Searing totem - 367% (55/15 - not confirmed)
Fire nova totem - 21,4% (1.5/3.5 * 1/2 - aoe - not confirmed)
Magma totem - 66,7% (20/15 * 1/2 - aoe - not confirmed)
Healing stream totem - 133% (60/15 * 1/3 - aoe, heal - not confirmed)
Fire elemental totem - unknown, if any
Earth elemental totem - no idea
Water shield - unknown

Downranking
Each rank of a spell has a "maximum level"; this means the level before the next rank of the spell is learned. For example, Dragon's Breath rank 2 has a max level of 63, as rank 3 is learned at 64. However there seem to be some exceptions - with some spells and ranks, the max level differs by up to 3 in either direction (source: Gagorian: personal communication). This isn't entirely clear yet and more research is needed.

Anywho, assuming we know the maximum level of each rank of each spell, the following coefficients then apply:

Healing spells: (max level of spell + 6) / player level

Damage spells: (max level of spell + 4 ) / player level

That is, the final effect of the spell is multiplied by this coefficient.

These are from Gagorian and are (apparently) tested and verified by him. Some discussion, though not necessarily on this matter, can be found here.

Deviations from the base damage

Spells (well, at least damage spells - probably healing spells too) scale when you go up levels. When you learn a spell, its base damage (before talents, gear, etc) is what you see on Thott or Alla; however, when you then level up, the same spell will do slightly more damage, around 1-10 points. There doesn't seem to be one simple number to explain how much additional damage each spell receives; rather, from some preliminary testing done by Gagorian indicates that most spells have two unique coefficients that determine this scaling, according to a common formula. Note that the game's default tooltip does not take all damage-increasing talents into account (but does take some), and is therefore also inaccurate in reporting these differences. In addition there are rounding issues (we do not know which values are rounded and how). All in all, unless you just learned the spell and didn't level up after that, it's difficult to tell exactly how much damage it's supposed to do... until someone (myself, Gagorian, whoever) figures it out.

TODO: non-shadow priests; druids; shamans; warlock pets; damage spells downranking; and of course all the unknown and uncorfirmed stuff

http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewtopic.php?id=9593[/quote

Any1 in Battlegroup 9?

Bogardan — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:40:35 +0800

Welcome to PvP s0n..

BF2 with M'sian connection ?

Bogardan — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:44:19 +0800

Before blowing few hundred bucks on a copy of BF2, just wanna know how does it fare on our local connection ?

Is there a monthly fee ? Are games easy to find ?

WoW in 2006

Bogardan — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:40:55 +0800

What is the playerbase from M'sia on US servers now (about 14 months after release)?

Anyone still around or just started recently?

BTW, feel free to ask any questions about anything related to WoW (Alliance side preferrebly).. weapons, tactics, farming areas, boss strategies etc.. I will try my best to offer some advice.

I have a lvl 60 paladin on Blackrock which i have raided with in one of the top guilds of the server (alliance side). We clear MC with 35ppl in 3 hours and 15 minutes, BWL in 3.5 hours on a good day and Ony in 7 mins average (4-5mins fastest).

Basically, i have seen all the end game content up to c'thun stage 2, so i might b able to help with some issues that anyone might be facing.

Started work, so taking a break indefinetly from WOW. Might transfer to a server with more Malaysians when open transfers are imlpemented for a fee. Changed my mind about selling account, sorry admin/moderator, didnt read forum rules b4 posting.

WTS: WoW Account (Paladin)

Bogardan — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:26:54 +0800

Selling original WoW Client + account.
Contains 1 lvl 60 Paladin on Blackrock PvP server.

2500+ hours of time invested in character since January 2005.

Possibly best geared paladin in Malaysia.

Epic Items:
Lawbringer Helm
Lawbringer Chestguard
Lawbringer Bracers
Lawbringer Boots
Lawbringer Legplates
Lawbringer Gauntlets
Lawbringer Spaulders
Lawbringer Belt

Judgement Helm
Judgement Breastplate
Judgement Bracers
Judgement Boots
Judgement Gauntlets
Judgement Belt

Zandalar Freethinker's Breastplate
Saphirron Drape
Avenger's Pauldrons
Therazane's Link
Legguards of the fallen crusader
Empowered Leggings
Salamander scale pants
Taut Dragonhide Gauntlets
Helm of Destruction
Eskhandar's Collar
Charm of the Shifting Sands
Malistar's Defender
Aurastone Hammer
Jin'do's Hexxer
Azuresong Mageblade
Obsidian edge blade
The Unstoppable Force
Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight
Dragonslayer's Signet

to name a few... have many other epic gear as well as rare items (those worth keeping)

300 skill engineer

Honored with the Brood of Nozdormu, the latest dungeon Ahn Qiraj.

Killed Twin Emps with guild 1 week after gates opened.

email me: -removed- H@H@-

Will be able to transfer character to any of your friends servers when Blizzard starts open realm transfers.

This character is a good investment for newbies and pros alike.