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22474: Re: [MUD-Dev] No bots allowed

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From: shren <shren@io.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:13:17 -0600 (CST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, shren wrote:

> Has anyone tried rescaling player power against monsters?  It
> takes a phenomenal swordsman (hypothetically in real life) to
> fight two or three competant fighters.  Something like:
 
>   phenomenal swordsman    8
>   competant fighter       3
>   orc                     9
>   dragon                  50

> except the player skill is squared against monsters.  So the three
> fighters (total : 9) are better than the phenomenal swordsman
> (total : 3), yet against monsters, the three fighters only score a
> collective 27 (3 orcs or so), while the phenomenal swordsman has a
> 64 (7 orcs) - letting the phenomenal swordsman be a whirling
> dervish against legions of orcs while still being brought somewhat
> back down to earth when dealing with other players.

Correcting my own math mistake:

  warrior vs players:     3
  warrior vs monsters:    9
  master vs players:      8
  master vs monsters:     64

Making the master fighter around a match for the three warriors,
while the master fighter can take on at least twice as many
monsters.

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