i wonder what the counter actually means, is it a randomly generated number or does it get its value from some specific data
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Serri
It does gather some sort of data. But how cat is gained is beyond me. Just know everyone started at 0, except for Noxid, who started at 1,000,000. It's April Fool's exclusive, tho.
EnlightenedOne
Ah dang I missed it.
andwhyisit
There is a history behind the cat count. CookedChef once jokingly wrote:
So as a joke I implemented the cat count in 2013.
Then this happened:
https://forum.cavestory.org/threads/getting-rid-of-cat.5220/
So cat was abolished, but when I implemented the April Fools logic last year I re-implemented cat.
The logic for calculating the cat count is...
Noxid:
([time since joined in seconds]/1000)+1000000+([user id]%2000)
Everyone else:
([time since joined in seconds]/10000)+([user id]%200)
So as a joke I implemented the cat count in 2013.
Then this happened:
https://forum.cavestory.org/threads/getting-rid-of-cat.5220/
So cat was abolished, but when I implemented the April Fools logic last year I re-implemented cat.
The logic for calculating the cat count is...
Noxid:
([time since joined in seconds]/1000)+1000000+([user id]%2000)
Everyone else:
([time since joined in seconds]/10000)+([user id]%200)