Re: DM: Skills vs. Stats

From: jas@rdii.com (Jim Smith)

Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 05:09:14 +0000

In article <1u22haINNfrr@gap.caltech.edu> johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John Carlos White) writes:
>jas@rdii.com (Jim Smith) writes:
>>Now, you have to be cautious here, because timing is everything.  If you
>>wait too long to train stats, you might get transfered to ADM sooner and
>>miss out on training your stats.  The reason THAT is bad, is that when you
>>go to ADM, the stat raise percentage chance is RESET so that you are back
>>to having a WL * 5 / 1 percent chance of raising a stat on your first turn
>>of ADM.  (Isn't this a lovely system!)  This makes it very feasible to raise
>>high WL characters 6 or 8 times without huge effort.  By the way, there is
>>a limit of 21 on stats in regular DM, but there is NO limit in ADM.
>
>No, this is completely wrong.  You want to wait until you have learned all
>120 skills before you start training stats (this will most probably happen
>sometime in ADM).  The reason is that training in ADM is nothing like what
>you described. Here's how it works:  Normally, you have about a WL*5 percent
>chance for your train to happen.  Your chance is cut in half every time you
>train successfully.  This second part is not true in ADM.  There, your first
>three trains ever occur at WL*5%.  The halving occurs after that.  So, if I
>don't train my strength at all in DM, then get the invite, I'll get 3 trains
>at WL*5% in AD.  If I train strength once in DM, then never touch it again in
>DM, then in AD, I'll get _two_ trains at WL*5%.  If I train strength twice
>in DM, then I'll get _one_ train in strength at WL*5%.
>
>Make sense?
>
>Oh, and there's a maximum of 25 on stats in AD.

Aha!  Thanks for clearing this up, John.  I wasn't exectly sure about this
part since I haven't gotten there yet and all I had to go on was heresay.

>John White

Jim
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References

Re: DM: Skills vs. Stats
johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John Carlos White)
Thu, 27 May 1993 09:44:10 +0000
DM: Skills vs. Stats
jas@rdii.com (Jim Smith)
Thu, 27 May 1993 05:52:01 +0000