What are stats for?

Post by **Lunever** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:48 pm

So far I only knew the hidden luck stat among all these other hidden stats ( http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/vie ... hp?t=25499 ). Have the others been in FTL-DM too all the time?
With all these independent recovery and resistance stats, what exactly is vitality doing?

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:50 pm

Lunever wrote:So far I only knew the hidden luck stat among all these other hidden stats. Have the others been in FTL-DM too all the time?

I don't know...

Remember this is RTC not DM - I'm making it up as I go along

Post by **Lunever** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:58 pm

That's what I wanted to know: Luck is known from FTL, but the others have been made up by you for RTC, right?

Aside from that: What DOES vitality do?

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:09 pm

Lunever wrote:That's what I wanted to know: Luck is known from FTL, but the others have been made up by you for RTC, right?

I made all of them up (luck was in RTC before it was discovered in DM!).

Lunever wrote:Aside from that: What DOES vitality do?

In RTC it effects the rate of recovery of health and stamina - again, I've no idea what it does in DM.

Post by **Lunever** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:17 pm

I always assumed that poison-resistance and water&food-decrement would depend on vitality, seems that I'd been wrong, at least in regard to RTC. Does anyone know how FTL-DM is handling this?

So while the idea of having a separate anti-poison-stat is obvious if you already have anti-fire and anti-magic, why should the former be hidden and the latter 2 visible? Maybe from all these hidden stats anti-poison should be visible alongside the other 2 antis too.

I do not remember exactly, but I think I had the impression that in FTL-DM water/food-decrement has been dependent on how strenous activity a character had been performing (that is how much stamina he had to regenerate). No matter whether I'm correct with this assumption in regard to FTL-DM, I would like to suggest this for RTC.

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:33 pm

Lunever wrote:I do not remember exactly, but I think I had the impression that in FTL-DM water/food-decrement has been dependent on how strenous activity a character had been performing (that is how much stamina he had to regenerate). No matter whether I'm correct with this assumption in regard to FTL-DM, I would like to suggest this for RTC.

RTC has done this since V0.0 (and it's configurable for each attack method too)...

Post by **Lunever** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:37 pm

Very well. But I my recent games most of the times all the characters of my party had exactly or nearly exactly the same water/food-decrement. How can that be if it's activity-dependent and the characters have been engaged in pretty different kinds of activity and have different hidden stats?

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:54 pm

Well, it could be one of two things

1) The way you play DM (at such a high difficulty level) is bound to be different from everyone else. Have a go at ordinary difficulty and see what happens.

2) The drain isn't high enough - have a fiddle with the "energy used" parameter for attack methods in the editor. If you find better values to use for anything let me know and I'll adjust them.

Post by **Lunever** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:02 pm

I think the general average drain is quite ok. Not to much and not to less. Maybe the diffierences between individual activities' energy used parameter should be increased a bit without changing the average total drain (so increasing the decrement for a couple of activities and decrease it for another couple of activities). I will start a new low-level game some time soon to get an idea what activities might be modified in what matter.

Post by **Lunever** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:38 pm

I have the impression, that different kinds of activities do not count because if you really effieciently use all of your characters no matter a what level, they will be regenerating stamina all the time, and thus will use up the same amount of water/food all the time . The question remaining is, if there actually is a secret water/food-decrement stat, how is that counted in and why doesn't it make a stronger individual difference?