Let's Play Uru Live - part 35 - Minkata

We take our first look at Minkata. This video was re-uploaded because YouTube wasn't processing it properly before.

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Gaming

Tags:

• myst
• online
• uru live
• let's play
• cyan
• rand miller
• atrus
• yeesha
• nora

[Mikemc]

I don't understand your calculations. How can 1 set of 2 symbols be 5x25 and another set be 14x25, +10? Why not x10 or x(10x25)? How do you know when to use a plus and when to multiply by 25?

[Dilandau3000]

@Mikemc It depends on the position of the number. When converting base-25 to decimal, you take the value of the digit multiplied by 25 to the power of the digit's position in the number, counted from the right with the right-most digit being 0. Then you add the value of doing that to each digit together. The one that was 5*25 is actually 5*25^1 + 0*25^0.

Google "conversion between bases" or something for a more detailed explanation.

[TruKnight355]

Sven is the Kwisatz Haderach of Myst games imo =)

[Dilandau3000]

@TruKnight355 FATHER! THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED!

[binvjoh]

I just stumbled onto your channel minutes ago and I gotta say you seem to have some really well done let's plays.

Just out of curiosity, you wouldn't happend to be Swedish?

[Dilandau3000]

@binvjoh No, I'm Dutch. Only my name is Swedish. :)

[ZZDaikun]

This book reminds me of the fireplace codes.

[mookie34545]

i still have nightmares about this age back in uru live on gametap. *shudder*

[MichaelCapelle]

@Dilandau3000 I KNEW IT! LOL! =)

[briang9581]

I always enjoy your Let's Play videos & Nora being there too, only adds to the experience, btw A dry desert with three suns and large bones lying around is obviously a reference to Hades - from the film Pitch Black.

[PeterRabbitTV]

If the Age were real, the suns probably would move.

[lemonrind]

There is always much debate about whether the D'ni number system is base-25 or base-5. Such debates are silly, because really, it is both. It has a base-25 "place value" system, where each digit is multiplied by a power of 25. Each digit though has a mini 2-digit base-5 number system embedded within it. The sub-digit number system uses "rotational notation" instead of "positional notation", and is limited to 2 digits. As you can see, I've given this a lot of thought. :)