We reviewed calipers due to a bug and determined that the mechanic that caused the maximum bonus of calipers to occasionally degrade with use was no longer a necessary one. The current bonus of calipers will still lower with use and you are still required to calibrate them to restore that bonus but no longer will calibrating them have a chance to lower their maximum bonus. This change will retroactively apply to your calipers upon your next use of LMASTER CALIBRATE and you will encounter the following message one time to indicate the maximum bonus of your calipers has been restored to their standard off-the-shelf value:

>> You notice an overlooked alignment issue and are able to address it. The issue was large enough that you feel further calibration may be needed. You commit the issue to memory to prevent a future occurrence.

Please note: You will only encounter that middle sentence if your calipers had degraded by a significant amount prior to this update.

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> Meraki – Greek Word of the day – Doing something with love, passion, and a lot of soul. It is what happens when you leave a piece of yourself (your soul, creativity, or love) in your work.

>> Please note: You will only encounter that middle sentence if your calipers had degraded by a significant amount prior to this update.

I am assuming that the chance for the maximum bonus to degrade must have been relatively low? I have been using the same set of calipers for many years and yet did not receive the correction message when I recalibrated them. I will note that I have been fairly diligent in keeping my calipers near "glowing with calibration" status.

-- Robert

>> A mongrel kobold points at you and yells, "Mine! Chasin!"

>> I knew calipers degraded, but I didn't know they would be permanently lowered over time!
>> I am assuming that the chance for the maximum bonus to degrade must have been relatively low?

It was a fairly rare occurrence and likely had gone unnoticed by most.

>> Is this "maximum bonus" a bonus to picking or to the accuracy of seeing the lock?

The calipers are a tool used to measure lock sizes.

>> Also - thanks for this change! I have several characters with customized calipers and am glad to hear that they won't one day need to be replaced with a new set due to bonus degradation.

:)

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> Meraki – Greek Word of the day – Doing something with love, passion, and a lot of soul. It is what happens when you leave a piece of yourself (your soul, creativity, or love) in your work.

>> ..but what's the bonus aspect that (used to) degrade? The accuracy in getting a correct lock size?

The accuracy of your caliper readings are based on multiple things. How calibrated they are matters. Prior to the update, the maximum calibration bonus they could be calibrated up to was able to degrade. The caliper's current calibration bonus can still lower and raise through the same means it always has.

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> Meraki – Greek Word of the day – Doing something with love, passion, and a lot of soul. It is what happens when you leave a piece of yourself (your soul, creativity, or love) in your work.

>We reviewed calipers due to a bug

The accuracy being much worse at -300 than it was at -1300? This looks to have been fixed but I've only seen locks near the edge of the region where measurement was wonky so far. Measurement seems fine at -395 and it was somewhat degraded before though not as bad as -300 locks were.
I suspect my calipers got a small improvement, but they didn't trigger the badly out of tune message.