[ScryMUD]pfiles

[Edward Roper]

Well as stated, I can preserve existing Pfiles but in order to achieve
balance everyone would pretty much need a complete stat flush. Too much
nerfing, etc. Bare handed damage for example is berserko nutts on most
people that have remorted several times. I'm open to alternatives but
they have to achieve the balance goal.

Another thing is that the skill/spell tree is being completely reworked.
It will be much more class-exclusive. i.e. Mages won't have things like
heal and sanctuary anymore. I'm not sure how I could work this in with
existing Pfiles without skill wiping everyone. Remorts that go through
mage, cleric, warrior of course will maintain their skills as usual.
It's just the path to learning things is going to be dramatically
different.

Along with this, all those "useless" skills, i.e. martial arts. Which
was useful 1 time ever in a characters existance (to up bhd) will now
vary in effect based on %lrnd. This means there will be a "good reason"
for remorts to go repractice things like that.

I'm very aware that there are severe complications and pains to both
myself and players with an "absolute wipe." I'd have to manually give
everyone their houses/shops back. Players use old eq that no longer
exists in the db, etc.

If you think people would prefer having their characters semi-preserved
with stats, level, skills reset to zero then I think that might work as
an alternative.

The issue isn't with people flaunting uberness, it's just that the
accidentally aquired uberness and unbalance just made the game
plain-ol-not-fun anymore. Bugs like the flame-blade dagger given to
Maedon via. a charmie and casting flameproof on oneself make it a
brain-dead riskfree kill 100% of the time. Now obviously that sort of
thing alone doesn't justify resetting everyone. It's the bugs that
affected players longterm stats, etc.

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 16:52, MiniSHamu at wanfear.com wrote:
> Gee, how very nice to just up and decide to wipe every single pfile. :P  THanks 
> to Grock for at least suggesting that didn't have to happen. While I'd much 
> rather some balancing going on than an entire pfile wipe, I'd still like to 
> point out not many older characters are uberfied, and those that are really 
> don't have much effect on Scry. They don't get in the way of hunting (if even 
> any is going on nowadays), they don't leave uber weapons (realtive to new(er) 
> players) lying around the ground or gold, and basically they don't leave a 
> trace that says "AN UBER PLAYER WAS HERE." The only balance issue I see would 
> be if newbies were powerleveled. Now I know that has happened, I probably did a 
> fair share of it myself way back when, but I certainly know better now, and I 
> think the others do too. And I don't think anyone goes around saying "hey, 
> check out my stats! hey, check out <insert sign of uberage>" or whatever. 
> Naturally I had to at least suggest this.  :P  As for all the other players who 
> without a doubt to anyone have no balance issues, you just want to screw them 
> over too? Of course one could say they may never even notice, but that's 
> besides the point. So before just utterly and completely destroying the 
> countless hours some of us have have spent with Scry, could we please at least 
> consider some alternate possibilities? 
> 
> 
> 
> Ok that was my main thing, but I suppose some actual suggestions might help. 
> The only things that might need to be changed are eq, skills, gold, and stats 
> (I think that's it.. all I can recall anyway). Gold shouldn't matter too much 
> I'd think, because it's not being used to change the balance on anything. 
> Skills could maybe be removed if that'd help, reduce them to just a single 
> class list, and make one have to get the rest all over again. To go along with 
> this, I suppose pracs could be reduced as well. For stats, I personally don't 
> want to even go there for now, for what should be obvious reasons. Eq I guess 
> I'm more along the lines of not wanting to touch, but that could stand some 
> reductions (emphasis on some), which could be worked out later. How do any of 
> those sound?
> 
> ~Brian (MS)
> 
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