On 01/ 2/11 03:31 AM, Nicolas Weeger wrote: > Hello. > > > A few ideas for game balance: > http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/user:ryo:balance
Looks interesting - a few questions/thoughts: Spells: ------- Am I right in understanding that the modifiers only change the weight of damage/duration/radius? This also means that the same actual effect could be achieved by different weights (eg, a long strong large fireball (presuming large is weight 9) would be the same the default or a small short weak fireball? No problem with that, just trying to make sure I understand it. It also seems that this doesn't necessarily change balance much in itself - it makes spells much more flexible, but the key for the balance on that is defining the right base values for things like damage, duration, radius and sp cost. I would guess that there would still be higher level spells out there with higher base damages, durations, etc (eg, large fireball as we have now) - am I right in that, or are you thinking of reducing number of spells and just letting players adjust the parameters to get desired results? Resistances & Attacks: ---------------------- I personally think that there are too many attack types right now (26) and that should perhaps get reduced and cleaned up (maybe around 10?) Many things that are attacktypes right now are really effects (cancellation, depletion, blind, etc) - as such, there is no corresponding resistance to it or it is not used much. For many of them, maybe collapse the attacktype (and add items that provide resistance), but spell (or item) could still impart actual effect. For example, confusion, slow, paralyze, fear could all be defined as mental attacks, so make that an attack type, and one could have items like 'Helm of mind protection (resist mental +50)'. Drain/depletion/death/life stealing could similar be put into a single category, and perhaps a few others could get combined. And some, like chaos, ghosthit, and perhaps a few others, are really effects (ghosthit means creature disappears after hitting, chaos means that the attacktype is supposed to shift around - it isn't supposed to be an attacktype actually encountered IMO) - those should be done in other ways. Monsters and players: --------------------- That looks pretty good - one thing I might add is 'should monsters use the same rules for stats as players?' Right now, the meaning of stats for monsters is completely different than it is for players. If they followed the same rules, one could look at say a level 5 ogre and its stats and look at a level 5 character and have some idea if the fight might be anything close - right now, one can not really do that. I think if one actually wants to add leveling rules to monsters, this makes it easier, as then monsters and players could basically use that same bit of code. Lots of good ideas in all of that. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire