On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Robert Burnham <burnhamrobe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I always dread getting one of the "less desirable" lair ends since they have > less XP, less loot, etc. I literally get excited when I have the dire > elephant end (at least with certain characters), since its chalked full of > usually great items, and even if nothing is usable, I can almost always get > all the dire elephants killed for xp.
[snip] Possible solutions: 1. Standardise loot and XP across all Lair branch endings: Pros: no "argh, I got a shitty ending!", it keeps the average Lair XP the same. Cons: we'd have to dramatically increase or dramatically reduce XP per-map. 2. Standardise just the loot across Lair branch endings--large endings get more twice as much loot as smaller endings--and place either 1 large ending or 2 small endings. Pros: "yay I got two endings!", it keeps the average Lair XP the same, you will get the same amount of loot on average--but have to complete two maps. Cons: I can't really think of any. It keeps everything balanced, it provides the same amount of loot and XP per Lair ending without having to compromise by increasing the smaller maps (and thus, overburdening them; they are quite small) or decreasing the larger maps (which would make them sparse). I really like option 2. The only difficulty I can think of is ensuring that the smaller maps are placed in opposite corners. It would either be easily implemented with current code, or not require too much in the way of changes. -Jude ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
