Posted by Joshu on August 14, 2000 at 05:17:44:

In Reply to: uhm, that won't work posted by Animal on August 14, 2000 at 04:48:47:

> > >
> > > All the tables of "if you can carry 250 lbs worth of equipment, you have a strength of X"

> > Here you can also change the score so instead of saying you are carrying 224 lbs. with a max weight of 250 lbs., you put you are carrying 92% of your max capacity. They could still get an idea of what their strength is, but it would be a lot harder to pinpoint it. Same with dex, you are carrying 75% of your total items.

> Get an item you know it's quantity / weight from (ie, 1, 20 pound), and see how much the %%'s change.

> Two. Strip naked and carry as much of
> something as you can, then figure out how
> many you're carrying. That's your dex. Carry
> a few heavy things you know the weight from,
> till you cannot lift more, then add a few
> light ones, and count how much you're
> carrying.

Make it so until lvl 20 you only see str: Herculean, etc..

And for weight and such you see "You're somewhat encumbered" "heavily encumbered" "you almost can't carry anything else" (or something similar).

Where there is will, there is a way.

And to answer the question "Why change something that's perfect?"

I don't think the present system is perfect. 95% of the people on CF roll
for (near-)perfect stats every time, so pretty much everybody
has the same (visible) stats

With the new system it's my hope that people wouldn't delete
at lvl 20 when they see their stats, and if that did
happen I'd suggest handing out a few more training
sessions to begin with.

I believe it could work.

-Joshu

Follow Ups:

• an easy way you could figure it out. Magtograme 13:51:34 8/14/2000 (0)
• Joshu you delete conjies if they don't get the right pet, why would anyone else be different with stats? (text purely cause scarab stole my line :-> ) Graham 08:02:30 8/14/2000 (4)
  • Then I would put my caristma as low as it can go, no real loss there nt, and thats what everyone would do Sladin 23:50:37 8/14/2000 (0)
  • actually a lot of muds do that or something similar Magtograme 15:36:03 8/14/2000 (2)
    • If that were applied to CF dan 04:28:33 8/15/2000 (1)
      • I referred to stat points not skills/spells/communes Graham 07:56:21 8/15/2000 (0)
• Don't think we haven't thought about several variations on this theme. (n/f/graatch) SphereMaker(IMM) 06:23:06 8/14/2000 (6)
  • Would that be "no fucking graatch" andy? Aw, how sweet, Scarabaeus likes typing my name. Thank you. n/t Graatch(VIP) 12:58:15 8/14/2000 (5)
    • You'd have to ask Graham, TP-boy SphereMaker(IMM) 15:11:03 8/14/2000 (4)
      • TP? (n/g) Proud Blade(VIP) 16:50:39 8/14/2000 (3)
        • http://cf-pics.qhcf.net/alpha/m/mhorham.htm (TP included) SphereMaker(IMM) 17:09:52 8/14/2000 (2)
          • *rofl* I didn't know you could be insultingly humorous :P n/t Jackie O 14:29:53 8/16/2000 (0)
          • Quit ragging on Graatch, we might start enjoying having you around. Newsboy 18:18:26 8/14/2000 (0)

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