Re: AG stuff

From: "T. Woods" <twoods@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>

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

On 27 Jun 1995, David G. Saville wrote:

>
>      Sounds like a definition for fair.  What is wrong with with
> this.  Should equal performance result in a greater power gain
> for low/mid characters?

Again, no.  And I'm not arguing that equal performance should
result in greater gain.  This all goes back to the tournament.  If 2
characters put in equal performance (i.e. win their tournaments or
whatever) then why is it fair that the top power level character should
always get the pick of UNIQUE items?  If you want to base things on
performance then fine, base it on performance, but not on performance AND
power level. If the characters are showing equal performance then the
lower power level character will always get shafted.  :(

>
>      The same or similar ep will hurt high power characters due to
> their drastically higher stat raises (Paz is paying 104 for a stat

Again I'm not arguing that higher power level characters
shouldn't get more ep.  I was just pointing out WHY high power level
characters are not losing ground to the low power level characters.  Also
it goes back to the question of why the players of high power level
characters don't reveal their information.  One reason I heard mentioned
was that the player didn't want a repeat of what happened in DM, that
the wealth of information made the new characters shot up above the
older characters.  I was explaining why this couldn't happen in AG and
trying to show people that this ISN'T happening.  Maybe then players will be
willing to share their information.

> this turn).  Lower power characters can raise 2-4 stats with this.
> Kill pts are scaled to power.  The monster that gives Paz 1 kill
> pt will give a 1000 power character 4.  So, for higher guys to be
> getting more kill points, they must be killing more multiples of
> power in monsters.  If Paz gets 8 kill pts for killing 32000 in
> monsters, it seems fair that a 1000 power guy should have to kill
> at least 8000.
>

But (normally) the higher the power level of the character the
better they are.  This is translated into the ability to go out at higher
difficulty levels and survive.  If this weren't true then you would see
low power level characters going on as many high difficulty adventures as
the older characters.  How many 300 power level characters routinely go
on level 15+ adventures, even to training sites, let alone someplace like
the UnderCity.  Thus the higher power level characters are earning their
kill points, but because they're going on higher difficulty adventures
they're getting more kill points, meaning higher power levels, meaning
the younger generation isn't going to catch up with them.  This isn't
necessarily bad, as long as that doesn't mean that the younger generation
will be permanently barred from attaining a certain item/knowledge.
Harkens back to sharing information/getting unique items for tourney
prizes.

Later,
	  Todd

References

RE: AG stuff
ryu70@aol.com (Ryu70)
Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000
RE: AG stuff
"T. Woods" <twoods@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: AG stuff
dsaville@unm.edu (David G. Saville)
Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000