Re: Legends: bugs

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 23:08:57 +0000

minnotte@stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte):
>While I'm thinking about Legends, has anyone ever recieved part of
>another players turn mixed in with their own turn?

It's rare, but it happens.  I wonder whether it'll get better or
worse when they move to laser printing.  (The presumption is that
at least they won't have bottom-of-the-box syndrome.)

>Also, in the battle reports we scouted a castle whose defenders all
>had defense factors in the 110-119 region!  Is this possible? (No
>special statuses, magic armor, etc., just level 10 and below soldiers.)

The most likely thing to look at is the fortification bonus and
leadership.  A leader with tactics of 20, in a town whose fortifications
give +20 DF, now has an effective leadership of 40.  Against a zero-
leadership scout, this would have the effect of tripling the
defenders' defense factors.  (There are also a few bizarre troop
training types with exceedingly high defense factors.)  The main
question for this site is whether you can bypass the DF via magic
attacks or special attacks.

>I'm already feeling torn between Legends' fabulous potential and
>its (apparently) hideous implementation.

MG hopes that Legends II will start in September and correct many
of the implementation problems.  My guess is that it'll start a
few months late and have a rocky shakeout period, but things should
eventually get better.  How eventually and how much better remains
to be seen.

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Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

Roses red and violets blew
  and all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew -- Edmund Spenser

References

Legends: bugs
minnotte@stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte)
Thu, 15 Jul 1993 20:15:54 +0000

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Legends: bugs
minnotte@stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte)
Thu, 15 Jul 1993 20:15:54 +0000