View source for Change 689

Originally Posted : Sun May 06 23:39:36 2001<br>Posted by : Fingolfin<br>Title : Readjustment<br><br>A new combat equation was instituted at 16:00 machine time, the effect of <br>armour<br>is now less random and somewhat less<br>overall, this is in an effort to more precisely define<br>areas of difficulty.<br><br>Now, as to *why* the changes, essentially the<br>skill and combat system had gotten somewhat<br>overinflated by new classes/skills and<br>attempts to rebalance the system, this<br>"reset" in effect takes us back to the avg calculated<br>damage of about 4-5 years ago.  This is NOT<br>an effort to slow down exping and to that<br>effect I have also tonight increased the<br>overall value of NPC's on the MUD. This is<br>an attempt to reign in the relative sillyness<br>of 100pt combat rounds which is typically 20%<br>of a targets hps, to make PKing more of a contest<br>between willing participants and less of a <br>"ha I one-shotted you because I can", and<br>to make wars a little more about skill and less about raw<br>firepower<br><br>Fingolfin<br><br><br><br>[[Category:Changes_Board]]