[crossfire] Re: Random ideas. (topic split to resistance caps and interaction with )

[Alex Schultz]

Mark Wedel <
     
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        I personally don't have an issue if a character can get straight 30 stats.
     
     
In my opinion, it does make it more boring if characters with straight 30 stats
become too common

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      Unless the odds are really low, I think that even a cap of 35 would be reached 
     
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      at some point.  My character probably has 100+ stat potions stashed away, but 
     
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      OTOH, I'm not actively looking for them. If I really had need/desire for them, 
     
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      I'd perhaps go to places/maps where they show up more often.  In a sense,
     
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      those 5 extra max points aren't going to change the makeup of characters, it
     
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      will just change at what level the all the characters look the same.
     
     
I'm suggesting that as you go further over the racial max, it gets exponentially
more difficult for the stat potions to work, eventually not working at all, at a
point that is before 35, so that wouldn't be a problem.

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        The fact that pretty much all stats are relatively important - if a wraith 
     
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      theif can get pretty close to that 30 dex at first level, maybe not great, 
     
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      however, it does mean that instead of that player having to equip dex 
     
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      improvement items, they can go for the con or str or other stats.  Right now, 
     
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      I'm sure there are several race/class combos that get relative close to 30.
     
     
Indeed, except "pretty close to that 30 dex at first level" isn't quite correct.
It's "at 30 at first level without even using any equipment or potions" in the
wraith case. And I fail to see a very plausible storyline reason that could
explain somethings that's already fast (i.e. wraith thief) not benifiting at all
from items that give more Dexterity (or other similar examples with race/class
combos).

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       If the stat limit were to be raised, I'd be inclined to do something a bit 
     
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      more radical that increasing the limit by 5 points.  Make the limit 50, make
     
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      the bonuses linear, etc.  Because otherwise I have a feeling that couple years
     
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      from now, we'll be having this discussion again that 35 is not high enough.
     
     
Yes, this is a very valid point, but something like 50 and making the bonuses
linear is a little too radical for my tastes. I'm thinking a great solution
would be something like Lalo Martins is suggesting (see other e-mail)

Alex Schultz