Re: ARENA: max of 30 stats!?

From: TN.DE7@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 21:45:16 +0000

In article <1993Sep24.142346.26751@infodev.cam.ac.uk>,
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan) writes:
>In article <27uslf$f7@DIALix.oz.au>, keith@DIALix.oz.au (Keith Johnson) writes:
>|> G'day,
>|>
>|> I know this should be posted to the ARENA mailing list but I have lost
>|> the address for it....
>|>
>|> My Gladiator, Tayne,  will have reached his 180'th win next turn, and
>|> will have a total of 30 stats....
>|> There is no more incentive to fight??
>|> I have more money than hairs on my head, and now I will not be getting
>|> any more stats!
>|>
>|> We have to either have:
>|>
>|> - A tournament, as suggested before or
>|> - More than 30 stats, maybe after 30 stats, it takes 20 wins to gain
>|>   another stat, or
>|> - Be able to do something with lots of money, either more stats, magical
>|>   weapons, armour, although that would only be making the big, bigger.
>|>
>|>
>|> Whaddya reckon?
>|>
>|> Keith.
>
>I reckon that the game would be a lot better without Challenge +.  The ability to
>fight an average of 3 fights an hour merely means you reach the point you are at
>faster, and with less attention to the details of weapon/armour/strategy
>combinations of your opponents.
>
>One thing I did think of to do with money - medical costs.  If you get badly
>wounded, then it costs money to get yourself patched up again.  If you don't have
>enough money you die.  Nice and simple, no?
>
>Finally, I want to enter a plea for the case of the defensive warrior.  I can
>consistently do 2-1 or better with my offensive warriors, but the best defensive
>style I have seen barely manages to break 1-1 by much.  Certainly my defensive
>warrior seems to get taken out in the first round often enough despite having a
>defensive strategy and defensive vigour of 9.
>
>Maybe it is just too easy to go flat out for the 2 or 3 rounds that most
>fights seem to last.
>
>John
>
>Rabbit/Yosemite Sam/Roadrunner

Good Points but I thought it was 30 additional points. Not
including the original 12. I am not sure about this, but I thought
that that was the case. If this is the case you would have to win
300 fights before you have used up the 30 points.
 Also I agree we must do something else with money. What good is
1500gold? That would buy a lot of BEER!

One other point I do not think the Mace is the best weapon. It does
seem that when you change weapons it takes some time to adjust to
it. I lost 6fights in a row when I switched from a mace to the
awl-pike but since I have been doing quite well.

Zangora the Amazon/Ace Ballcrusher/Zark Vo Dulcan
 Bill tn.de7@isumvs.iastate.edu

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Re: ARENA: max of 30 stats!?
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan)
Fri, 24 Sep 1993 14:23:46 +0000