Re: DS2 Balance and stuff.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
To: <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: DS2 Balance and stuff.

> >From: "Anthony Leibrick" <a.leibrick@virgin.net>
> >Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> >To: <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
> >Subject: Re: DS2 Balance and stuff.
> >Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:52:25 +0100
> >Let me get this right
> >If you compare a MDC/5 with superior FC with a HVC/5 with basic FC
> >In the old way it would be:
> >MDC 5 x 10 = 50 + 5 x 6 =30	total cost 80
> >HVC 5 x 8 = 40 + 5 x 2 = 10	 total cost 50
> >The MDC costs 1.6 times more than the HVC
> >
> >In your way it would be
> >MDC 5 x 3 x 10 = 150
> >HVC 5 x 1 x 8 = 40
> >the MDC now costs 3.75 times as much.
>
> Yup, you're right so far.
>
> >The only problem is;
> >  at long range a superior FC will hit 2.3 times as often as basic
> >at medium 1.76 times and at close 1.43 times averaging out at 1. 83
over
> >the
> >3 range bands. There looks like an unbalance here
> >
> >Tony L
>
> Until you take into consideration the fact that the MDC's range bands
are
> greater than the HVC's, and it's validities are also greater. An MDC
is
> firing at long range at distances the HVC can't even touch, and
drawing
red
> only.  When you DO get into the HVC's long range, it's validity is
GREEN
> only.  At this range, or at least part of it, you're already into the
MDC''s
> medium range, where it draws red AND yellow.	The HVC, in the
meantime,
only
> draws red at medium range. and finally, when they're both in short
range
> (And the MDC will get there faster), the HVC is finally drawing red
and
> yellow, but the MDC gets ALL colors valid.  your figures don't account
for
> ANY of that.
>
Just after I sent my orginal message I realised that my comparisons were
slightly questionable, so I checked it against an HVC with superior FC
and
one with basic. In the old way the HVC with superior costs 70 points,
with
basic 50 points. 1.4 times as much.
In your way they would be;
HVC 5 x 8 x 3 = 120 points
HVC 5 x 8 x 1 =  40  points
the weapon with the superior FC cost 3 times as much so it still looks
like
it's unbalanced compared to it's chances of hitting.

Tony L

Oi ! You could take someone's eye out with one of those things.
Harold Godwinson (Harold II) Hastings

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