Excess design points

[archaeolept]

i don't see the dreadful imbalance for ermor, frankly.

its especially irksome when, due to the numbers involved, sometimes an attempted design will end up w/ 37 unusable points left, or somesuch. It would be nice if there were some minor reward for leftover points.

[daesthai]

agreed!

[Huzurdaddi]

i don't see the dreadful imbalance for ermor, frankly.

Really? A couple of thousand gold with ermor goes a long way.

[guybrush threepwood]

Huzurdaddi said:

Really? A couple of thousand gold with ermor goes a long way.

I havent really played Ermor yet, but if it would really be a problem, then one could cap the gold gained this way at maybe 1000gold.

That way one would still get something for those annoying 37 leftover points which is the main point of the proposal. Of course the alternative 0 scales, 0 point pretender would go the way of the dodo.

EDIT: Or, for the truly conservative approach, cap it at a conVersion of 39 leftover points (since with more one could always take another scale).

[johan osterman]

Eh. You do no think 5000 starting gold would be bit unbalanced? This suggestion, or rather a very similar one, has been considered and rejected before. If anything like this were to pass the gold per design point would have to be much lower than 10:1, more like 1:1 or 2:1. Also in keeping with the proud paternalistc traditions of illwinter we believe that forcing you to 'waste' 10-20 dp on occasion will foster in you a healthy pragmatism.

Edit: capping at 39 obviously removes some of the balance concerns.

[guybrush threepwood]

johan osterman said:
Eh. You do no think 5000 starting gold would be bit unbalanced? This suggestion, or rather a very similar one, has been considered and rejected before. If anything like this were to pass the gold per design point would have to be much lower than 10:1, more like 1:1 or 2:1. Also in keeping with the proud paternalistc traditions of illwinter we believe that forcing you to 'waste' 10-20 dp on occasion will foster in you a healthy pragmatism.

Edit: capping at 39 obviously removes some of the balance concerns.

OK, what about 7 gold per design point for the first 39 excess design points.

This would mean that in the most extreme case with 39 excess points one would gain 273gp which is comparable to the income of turn 1 (with heavy taxing).

If I could choose between 273 extra gp and one extra scale (which 39 points is almost) I would certainly always choose the scale.

Or make it 5gp/dp for 195...

Of course the next generation of dom2 players would grow up without spine and pragmatism, but hey, screw those little brats...