Re: call for duelmasters help

From: 900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (GERALD RICHARD CAMERON)

Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 22:51:31 +0000

In article <18537@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> itlm013@fella.ucdavis.edu (Captain Caveman) writes:
>In article <00962831.716BD800@abby.chem.ucla.edu> ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu
writes:

>>IMHO, there are two main pieces of evidence AGAINST the luck stat:
>
>Sorry Ben, but here you're dead wrong.  RSI has admitted the existence of
>a luck factor
rating.  Of course, we know skills exist,>> and I beleive in them...>>I
think the fact that it was a partial dump may tell you something.  Also,>I'm
sure that data inputters wouldn't have access to every single piece of>
sensitive information in the code.  Why should skill/luck/learning come up>
on a common screen dump?>
>>2) There's absolutly no REASON, programming-wise to include a luck stat.  In
>>real life, people are 'lucky' or 'unlucky', why not just let a string of
>>random numbers to the job?  For example, Pint, mentioned above, once broke 2
>>Scimitars each in two fights in a row at a tourney!  But given stochastics
>>statistics, I don't believe that this is impossible without a 'luck' stat.
>>Certainly, some warriors, like some people are luckier than others, but I think
>>this is just an artifact of the large number of random factors used by RSI in
>>differentt parts of the DM code.
>
>Certainly I believe that a lot of things attributed to the "luck" factor
>are really just dice-rlls that can go either way.  However, as I stated abvoe,
>there is a very good reason to include luck in the program.

Before I unpack my flamethrower ( :) ), I'd just like to say 'hi' to my old
sparring partner, Dennis.  How's it going?

Now, I know we argued about this months ago when I posted that little bit on
skills (John, do you have that anywhere's?), but I really don't think there'
s an actual luck stat per se.  This is because there's enough random factors
in the game already that can make a warrior seem lucky or unlucky.  Also, a
lot of warriors who it might seem are blessed with a high luck factor do go
into slumps eventually.  If they were truly 'lucky' this wouldn't happen.
You remember that slasher I kept talking about?  Well she went to the Isle
at 19-2, and has gone 1-3 in AD, with an 0-3 in the April tourney.  Also,
except for last summer's FtF, she never did well in tourneys period.  Now,
if dhe had been blessed with ahigh luck stat, as her regular arena
performances would indicate, she'd have gotten at least one TV along the
line, in spite of her shitty abilities.  She was just like that while in
regular DM.

Flame away Dennis :)

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References

Re: call for duelmasters help
itlm013@fella.ucdavis.edu (Captain Caveman)
Mon, 26 Oct 1992 18:57:28 +0000
Re: call for duelmasters help
ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Tue, 20 Oct 1992 14:42:13 +0000
Re: call for duelmasters help
johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John White)
Tue, 20 Oct 1992 22:36:40 +0000
Re: call for duelmasters help
ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Fri, 23 Oct 1992 11:58:52 +0000

Referenced By

Re: call for duelmasters help
itlm013@fella.ucdavis.edu (Captain Caveman)
Mon, 26 Oct 1992 18:57:28 +0000
Re: call for duelmasters help
ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Tue, 20 Oct 1992 14:42:13 +0000
Re: call for duelmasters help
johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John White)
Tue, 20 Oct 1992 22:36:40 +0000
Re: call for duelmasters help
ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Fri, 23 Oct 1992 11:58:52 +0000