Aren't you talking about Zot Defense rather than DDs?
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:55:40PM +0100, Raphael Langella wrote:
> First change I suggest would be to change the cost of defense from XP to
> gold. The reason is simple: we have plans to get rid of the XP pool, so
> better not to rely on it.
Uhm, you repeat that over and over... but I know of no such plans. The only
such attempt so far has been a resounding failure.
Of course, this scheme is indeed artificial, but to speak about plans, we
would first need one that has a chance of working.
And with skills as diverse as weapon, dodging, T&D, tmut which not only have
different rates of exercise but also different timings for various uses,
it's certainly not an easy task.
For example, both spamming Evaporate and using a transformation before a
fight works just as well -- even though the first means multiple casts
which will quickly drain the pool and so subsequent casts won't train as
much -- and the second means rare exercises but all with a full pool.
You can't replace this with a simple exercise counter, and trying to assign
various actions different "exercise counts" is not really going to work
either -- plus, being a nightmare to maintain.
In other words: the XP pool is not likely to be removed anytime soon.
> --
> You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs
> beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that
> laid them as a warning to the others.
> General Tarquin - OOTS
Hell yeah!
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