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Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer computer role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Disney Interactive in 2003, intended for younger children. Essentially, the game is about Toons working together to rid the streets of Toontown from the menace of the "Cogs" - businesslike robots.
Toons use gags they can purchase with jellybeans at Goofy's Gag Shop. They can also earn more experience points in their various gag tracks in order to earn new and more powerful gags. The gags include things like dropping pianos, throwing cream pies, hypnotizing Cogs with goggles. In terms of EXP, for example, scoring 10 points in the Toon-up track opens up the level 2 toon-up gag, the Megaphone.
The game plays very much like other RPGs, but teamwork is clearly stressed in the game, especially as Toon-ups (healing gags) cannot be used on yourself. As a result, to be healed in battle, you need another player to use toon-up on you. Furthermore, in their most advanced stages Toons can carry only 80 gags and have 112 "laff" (life) points, not enough to complete the tallest buildings, and defeat the Sellbot VP by himself.
Algorithms
While the game was intended for children, actually there are many algorithms running within it. A mastery of these algorithms is necessary for the toughest battles, for example:
A Level 10 cog with 132 laff points has a Birthday Cake which does 100 damage aimed at it. Should you aim to throw a Whole Cream Pie for 40 damage, the Whole Fruit Pie for 27, the Water Hose for 30, or try him out with a $5 bill (Throws have 50% more damage with a Lure)? In the Sellbot Cog VP Battles, it is essential that Toons have the teamwork to not create an "overkill" situation, when they are stuck in a tough battle, having run out of all their strongest gags.
Some formulae involved
Cog LP = (l + 1)(l + 2) where l is the level of the Cog
Applying a binomial formula, that comes to
ll + 2l + l + 2, or
l squared + 3l + 2.
Throw/Squirt used on lured Cog = 1.5d where d is the regular damage
2 similar Gags used on Cog = (a+b)/5 where a and b are the attacks
The probability of a Throw hitting is 75%. Take this into account when fighting.
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