Re: AG: More Power Ramblings

From: aly@bdt.com (Alan Yip)

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article
<Pine.A32.3.91.950628170441.88335F-100000@black.weeg.uiowa.edu>, "T.
Woods" <twoods@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:

>
>         First the older characters ARE benefiting from the changes in the
> game, and usually the changes are modified by power level so they
> actually benefit MORE for the SAME number of turns as the newer
> characters.  Does this strike you as fair?  That older characters are
> getting more e.p. per battle fight then younger characters, even for the
> same # of actions?  How about the fact that the older characters will
> benefit from the higher ep for a longer period of time?  The newer
> characters have to work their way up the ep brackets, while higher power
> level characters already get the higher ep.  So when you say it's
> unfair that the higher power level characters didn't get the same
> advantages as the younger power level characters are getting NOW, I say
> that the younger power level characters aren't getting the same
> advantages as the older characters are NOW.  And as long as they
> both continue running the older character will have benefited from higher
> ep for a greater number of turns, whereas the younger character will have
> benefited from higher ep at a power level that higher character didn't.
> One is a set mark, there were so many turns that the higher power level
> character was around that the changes weren't evident.  The other is also
> a pretty set mark, how long will the character have to be run before he
> attains an equal benefit from ep,ect as the older character gets. The
character
> may in time earn the higher ep, but the older character will have earned
> it for more turns, thus negating the fact that the younger power level
> characters got more e.p. at the same power level as the higher power
> level characters.  Stalemate.  The older character is earning more ep NOW
> then the newer character, but the newer character is earning more ep at
> the same power level then the older character.  You could argue which one
> benefited longer, but it doesn't seem worth it.

I think you are making a bad assumption here... It sounds like your
argument is based on the idea that 50 EPs for a younger character means
just as much as 50 EPs to an older character. This is not the case.
Now, if the higher power level characters could raise stats as fast as the
lower power level characters.... :)

>    Second the same argument could be said for some of the other changes Hugh
> has done, like making scrolls less plentiful, the initial fine-tuning
> of the game ep and gold wise, and the recent change (1-2 years ago) that
> made adventures more difficult again.  These all benefited the older
> characters but are gone now.  These are changes that Hugh has made that
> HAVE helped the game play and balance.  I think they were necessary.  But
> using the same argument they shouldn't have been changed because they
> can't benefit the new characters..

Well, I could argue that not all the older characters benefitted at all
from the time the scrolls were more plentiful. It was still just luck
as to who got em and you had to be really lucky to get a useful one.
Of course, having more scrolls around meant there were more cursed
ones out there as well for the unaware player.

References

AG: More Power Ramblings
dsaville@unm.edu (David G. Saville)
Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

AG: More Power Ramblings
dsaville@unm.edu (David G. Saville)
Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000