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Combat system? #50

Open TheGrandmother opened 8 years ago

TheGrandmother commented 8 years ago

How should the combat system work?

How should the damage dealt be computed?

How should the level difference between the players affect the outcome?

How should the difference between the users level and the weapons level affect the outcome.

What should happen when one player kills the other player?

Chilinot commented 8 years ago

I suggest we add an ELO-system for ranking stuff.

TheGrandmother commented 8 years ago

You mean for level diffs ?

Chilinot commented 8 years ago

Yes

TheGrandmother commented 8 years ago

Even though I hate ELO in general in this case it makes sense.

Chilinot commented 8 years ago

What's wrong with ELO?

TheGrandmother commented 8 years ago

In this case it works.

But when it is used to determine the strength of a player (as in Go or Chess) it is really useless. It takes forever for the ELO rating to converge to the true strength if the initial value is to far off. It misses the fact that if a really high ranking player beats a really low ranking player that says very little about the players actual strength. IT can only give information of that the stronger player is at least as strong as the weaker and that the weaker is at most as weak as the stronger player.