Re: MEPBM Assassins...

From: Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@convex.COM>

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <33EC83BB.3A6@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
Mark G Jaede  <jaede@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:

Lots of good stuff about what it takes for an agent to be a killer.

I agree with most of Mark's estimates, but believe that stealth
is only half as valuable as agent rank.  To balance that, I believe
that agents can have good success against non-army commanders
if their agent rank (natural+artifacts) + 1/2 of their stealth rank
(natural+artifacts) is greater than 65.  The Cloud Lord of course gets a 20
point bonus in either formula.

To make a statistically significant test of who is correct for differences
of this type would require a study of very large number of agent actions
with high quality data (i.e. only use data from people you trust).

Remember than most orders are thought to have a 1/20 chance of a critical
failure, so even if it should have worked, there is a small chance that
something goes wrong.  Similarly, there is a 1/20 chance for a critical
success, so that even a low rank agent can succeed in a kill if he is lucky.
These factors make it even more difficult to deduce formulas.  Since GSI
wants to encourage a role-playing style, not a numbers crunching style of
play (at least, that is my impression), I expect that they are pleased to
have a formula that is so difficult to reverse engineer.

- Patrick McGehearty
patrick@convex.hp.com

References

MEPBM Assassins...
clscherr@aol.com (CLScherr)
Sat, 09 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM Assassins...
Mark G Jaede <jaede@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Sat, 09 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

MEPBM Assassins...
clscherr@aol.com (CLScherr)
Sat, 09 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM Assassins...
Mark G Jaede <jaede@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Sat, 09 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000