Re: AG: Monst Batt vs. Batt Grps

From: dag@chem.ucla.edu (Great Cthulhu)

Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Garrett R Le-Page) writes:

>Now that Hugh has offered us a choice between facing our comrades in
>battle groups or facing a 7 different monsters, I am interested in
>polling which way people will go.

He has?  I haven't seen any indication of this.  I take it it must have come
out in the latest Antar turn?

>If you are interested, please email me with:

>a)  I will most likely go Monster Battles 100%.

I'm in this category, for a number of reasons.  I won't go completely 100%,
probably, but on the rare occasions I'm in the guild I'd like to fight
monsters more than other characters.  The primary reason is that that's just
what my character is into... kicking MONSTER butt.  The next most important
reason is that the power differential in PC-vs-PC battles is, IMO, just too
high in my neighborhood (~1500) for the results to be meaningful.  If I'm
lucky enough to be near the top of my battle group in PL, maybe I'll win it,
but if not I'm just out of luck (1 of 7 last time, and I was lowest by a good
bit; most of them were 200-300 points higher than I was).  That makes the turn
rather boring (even more so than a guild turn normally was at lower PL).

On the other hand, against monsters I get to see how I really stack up
one-on-one with monsters (which is something I'm often quite in the dark
about, this being my first and only character; I have a decent idea of what I
can take on solo, but I don't have ANY idea of what PL it actually is.  How
good ARE Swordmasters, anyway?  With my shield, I can finally take one on
solo without much trouble).  Not to mention that I *always* do much better on
adventures than my guild performance would lead one to believe... probably
partly because I always seem to draw the short end of the stick in PL in my
battle groups, but more likely because there seems to be some fundamental
difference that I can't quite put my finger on between how a 1500 PL monster
and a 1500 PL character turn out.  It will DEFINITELY be interesting to see
how this new option works.

At any rate, I'm REALLY looking forward to this option.  Unfortunately, I
don't see getting the chance to use it any time soon... maybe I'm going to
have to finally start a second character!

>I will post the results in a few days.

Well, I'm posting this because my comments are a tad more involved than a
simple multiple choice response.  I'm NOT mailing you a copy (because I figure
you'll probably read this anyway... no need to waste extra disk space), so
please add it in to your tally.

>One effect will be to broaden the range of powers seen in current Battle
>Groups if NPC's don't increase in number and a lot of characters go over
>to Monster groups.

Yup.  And that's bad enough already, IMO.

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References

AG: Monst Batt vs. Batt Grps
lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Garrett R Le-Page)
Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000