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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: Circus Animals fork
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Decouple piety gain from XP #512

Open G0rg0 opened 8 years ago

G0rg0 commented 8 years ago

Given that the different races have big differences in XP gain, it would be nice if piety gain was completely separate.

Sandman25DCSS commented 8 years ago

I am not sure, XP and thus piety aptitude is a way to balance species.

jeremygurr commented 8 years ago

why does piety gain have to match xp aptitude? Seems like low xp apt species (like mummy) ought to be able to gain piety just as fast as a human (with +2 exp apt). If we needed to be able to control that stat better, we could create a species specific aptitude for it. Up until now I didn't even know that a mummy gained piety much more slowly than a human. That's some serious spoilery.

Sandman25DCSS commented 8 years ago

XP aptitude controls how hard species is. If piety gain is not tired to the same thing, then we change difficulty species by taking a god (some gods are really strong and allow you just spectate monsters dying).

G0rg0 commented 8 years ago

I can see it both ways, but it is very spoilery. I think there was a thread awhile ago about streamlining the piety-gain mechanism across all gods, but I can't remember the outcome of that.