Re: ARENA Impact armor sux!

From: ut@informatik.uni-kiel.de (Ulrich Teichert)

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 13:53:03 +0000

In <srt.748117110@aerospace.aero.org> srt@aero.org (Scott 'Dr. Pain' Turner) writes:

>pierre@stolaf.edu (Feldspar) writes:
>>i think the heavier armor, metal and crap, should have an impact
>>protection of at least 5.  I think that stinks that all players wield
>>maces to get at that armor thing.  it sux! i want better impact
>>protection!
>>
>>p.s. i'm not reall pissed off... i just wanted to get the point accross.

>It's an interesting problem.

>The fact is that armor is generally less effective against impact
>weapons.  Historically, the mace became more important as heavier
>armor became more common.
Well, you're correct, but protection 1 against impact by a plate mail
made from steel? I think plate is stable enough to give a better
protection then brigandine (2).

>Should ARENA (or games in general) model reality or try to be
>perfectly balanced?  Hard for me to say.
I prefere reality. But it's not very common to change weapons like
your underwear.
I think, once a character did a fight with a weapon, he should gain
ability WITH that weapon, or with that weapon type. If he was the
looser or the winner, only the action counts (a per hit ratio or
something like that...).

>I will say, however, that ARENA does have some features to balance the
>preponderance of impact weapons.

I didn't find one. Just got a Morningstar.

BTW, some weapons are easy to use, some don't, perhaps you should try
to balance it that way??
Any comments ?

Uli (Krypton, record 11-11, still pro ranking-per-win)
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ARENA Impact armor sux!
pierre@stolaf.edu (Feldspar)
Wed, 15 Sep 1993 17:44:40 +0000
Re: ARENA Impact armor sux!
srt@aero.org (Scott 'Dr. Pain' Turner)
Wed, 15 Sep 1993 18:18:30 +0000

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ARENA Impact armor sux!
pierre@stolaf.edu (Feldspar)
Wed, 15 Sep 1993 17:44:40 +0000
Re: ARENA Impact armor sux!
srt@aero.org (Scott 'Dr. Pain' Turner)
Wed, 15 Sep 1993 18:18:30 +0000