[Discuss] Re: Duels under appreciated?

[Josiah Allen]

On 12/19/06, w drix <valdrix1975 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> *Josiah Allen <josiahallen at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> On 12/19/06, James <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
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> > Jonathon Taylor wrote:
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> > > They should indeed, they should always either end in a one noble with
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> > They do now.  Tom took out duels to first blood.
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> Along this line...
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> I know some may disagree with me, but I think there is too much difference
> between 10% skill and 80% skill.
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> A noble, I would imagine, since he starts as a knight, should have trained
> for years with a sword, and thus each noble should at the least have a 1/5
> shot against any other one given the probabilities of it.   I think it would
> make those good swordmasters confident but still not invincible, which is
> how they act now.  Just my 2 cents.
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> Well, you are entitled to your openion....but I do not agree with it.
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> Just because a noble was trained with weapons as a youth does not mean
> they were good at them.  Just as in RL, some people are more smartemish and
> udders are more physical.
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> The game already starts everyone out at the same base point.  Some people
> train with more hours then others and become better at sword or joust, and
> others learn how to control the paperwork and people.
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> It would also be a bit odd to think that a young noble would have the life
> experiance of an older one....or that a young noble has carried or used
> his/her sword in battle more then an old hand.
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> all that asside, I have seen events where the people with 80% sword skill
> are eliminated, and somone with much less skill has won.
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Yea, it's just a feeling I get.  Like, a knight could fight 100 battles but
be nothing skillwise to the buerocrat who sat in the capital training all
the time.  I just wish it were harder to train the skill maybe instead of
pushing cash. Tom isn't giving the formula, so maybe it's not so lopsided.

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