Category: Suggestions and Improvements
Topic: Talk to Simutronics
Author: Zoha (DRAGONREALMS)
Posted: Mar 11, 1998 13:57:47

When I upgraded appraisal of armor last week so that it would message
evasion penalties I ran into a problem. That problem had to be fixed
before I could make the new messaging live. I fixed the problem using a
minimalist approach that worked for the most part but introduced some small
problems (the barbarian dances). So, i went and re-wrote the whole danged
thing.


I don't want to go into the details of why this re-write was necessary
because it'd take too long and require me to reveal too much about the
inner workings of the combat system. Suffice it to say that the way
evasion penalties were originally being calculated, some true oddities
were possible which also made player understandable messaging for
appraising armor hinderance impossible.

The new system made some additional options available to the guilds which
we also took advantage of. So, what's been changed?

1. The Barbarian hinderance problem is now fixed. 2. Thieves and Rangers
now can train leather down much further. 3. Barbarians can now train chain
and plate down further 4. Paladins are not able to train Leather down
completely 5. Rangers can train chain down further than before. 6. Thieves
have a higher minimum penalty for chain.

Here are the specifics:

L=Leather C=Chain P=Plate Numbers are minimum penalties in Percent

Paladins L-20% C/P-0% Barbarians L-0% C-20% P-33% Rangers L-5% C-20% P-50%
Thieves L-5% C-50% P-50% All other Guilds L-20% C-20% P-50%

The skill used in reducing evasion penalties is based on your main armor
(the one you wear like a shirt).

If you wear leather armor, a plate helm, a chain greave, each of the armor
types will be figured separately for minimum penalties. IE, if you are a
barbarian who is wearing leather armor, a great helm and a chain aventail,
You will be able to reduce the leather armor down to 0% but the great helm
will only be reduceable to 50% and the chain to 20%.

Shields are counted in evasion penalties. All professions are able to
reduce shields to 33% of their evasion penalties (based on their armor
skill).

APPRAISAL has been updated, including the low end messaging.

Zoha