Re: ARENA skills

From: bonder@netcom.com (Bruce W. Onder)

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1993 15:45:39 +0000

David R. Jaracz (d_jaracz@oz.plymouth.edu) wrote:
: One idea for skills would be having each of the battle styles have a
: skill rating, say from 0 - 9.  The better you are in whatever, be it
: elephant, barbarian, etc., the more effective you'd be.

This would be a Good Thing.  Then, when you go up against Joe Fighter, who is
known to use the barbarian style to great effect in the past, you can expect
him to use it at some time during your match.

Of course, if he doesn't, then you're screwed...

I think this would require default values for the styles instead of
round-by-round adjustment.

: A drawback
: would be intrinsic penalties of one style vs. another.  By this I mean
: aside from the fact that some styles automatically suffer against
: others purely by the contrast in styles, a fighter could be penalized
: bwith a coincrete minus to hit/damage/whatever when style X was used
: against style Y.  Am I blathering?  :)  Hope not.

Or you could employ a high defensive strategy against style X.  This causes
you to wear yourself down a lot (and your skill isn't as high as his, so you
turn fewer blows).

I could see this getting complicated...

: Dave
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References

ARENA skills
d_jaracz@oz.plymouth.edu (David R. Jaracz)
Wed, 08 Sep 1993 03:24:44 +0000