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Originally Posted by Sombre
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Originally Posted by MaxWilson
Formulas in the manual are invaluable IMHO. A new player has no idea what "Attack 15" or "Defense 12" means, or how that applies to what makes a unit good or bad. He can probably figure out Protection, at least in a gross sense (Prot 10 vs. 20 points of damage will usually take 10 points of damage) but doesn't understand how the variance works--how much damage will a Prot 20 guy take damage from a 10 point attack? He will have no clue at all how morale works, or fatigue.
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I struggle to accept that anyone can have 'no idea' what att 12 and def 10 mean after looking at a handful of units.
Militia has 8 attack, a soldier has 10, an elite has 13. Durr, what could they possibly mean?
I agree they wouldn't know exactly how they worked *snip* |
I meant that in a quantitative sense. In Diablo II, it was pretty clear to me that higher Attack meant you hit more often, and higher Defense meant you got hit less often. It NOT clear, without recourse to the LCS or the smart people on the web, to figure out whether a +200 boost to defense was worth losing +1000 to attack versus monsters in Act II. In Dominions, what I meant is that without knowing the formulas in the manual it would be extremely hard to make quantitative decisions, e.g. to evaluate whether Helheim is better off with an E9S9 bless or an F9W9 bless vs. EA Ermor. Or to use your example, how many militia does it take to beat an elite soldier? How many regular soldiers does it take? Which is more cost-effective?
While there is some fun in discovery, and there is even fun in discovering mistakes in the manual, if we didn't at least know that the basic Dom3 mechanic is almost ALWAYS an opposed roll with DRN added to both sides--which we do, thanks to the manual--we wouldn't even know the correct form of questions to ask.
-Max