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Re: Better default NCTH settings contest[message #354953 is a reply to message #354941]

Tue, 18 September 2018 11:48

silversurfer

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So I had an idea to compensate the disadvantage of poor weaponry and mercs at game start for novice players. We already have <CthConstantsBaseDifficulty> and <CthConstantsAimDifficulty> in DifficultySettings.xml.
Why don't we implement the same for militia and mercs? These new parameters however, will be dependent on game progress (maybe not for milita...). So you get the full bonus at game start and none at higher game progress because at that time you should have good gear and trained mercs anyway.

The formula would look like this:

MAX( 0; (30 - Current Progress) ) * bonus / 30

You see that the bonus will only have an effect up to progress 30, a point where the player should already have a nice assortment of weapons and attachments and at least a few well trained mercs in addition to his IMP. From that point on he shouldn't need this bonus anymore.

Why put this into DifficultySettings.xml? Because we want different values for different difficulties! Let's say we use these values for the start (for both parameters):

Novice = 10
Experienced = 5
Expert = 2 (could set 0 here because Experts shouldn't need a bonus)
Insane = -50 (just kidding ;) they get 0)

What do you think?

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		Better default NCTH settings contest By: The_Bob on Fri, 14 September 2018 21:18
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: Marcell on Fri, 14 September 2018 21:58
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: townltu on Fri, 14 September 2018 22:43
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: LatZee on Sun, 16 September 2018 00:17
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: gougluinn on Sun, 16 September 2018 00:37
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: LatZee on Sun, 16 September 2018 01:40
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Sun, 16 September 2018 12:18
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: pheloncab on Sun, 16 September 2018 12:49
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: townltu on Sun, 16 September 2018 14:33
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Sun, 16 September 2018 18:30
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: crackwise on Mon, 17 September 2018 00:30
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Mon, 17 September 2018 10:53
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: gougluinn on Mon, 17 September 2018 12:25
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: Morbo513 on Wed, 19 September 2018 00:09
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: gougluinn on Wed, 19 September 2018 13:31
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Wed, 19 September 2018 20:22
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: ZedJA2 on Wed, 19 September 2018 22:07
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Wed, 19 September 2018 23:07
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: crackwise on Thu, 20 September 2018 01:14
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: LatZee on Thu, 20 September 2018 06:27
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Thu, 20 September 2018 10:29
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: gougluinn on Thu, 20 September 2018 14:56
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Thu, 20 September 2018 16:22
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: Slax on Thu, 20 September 2018 16:41
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: LatZee on Thu, 20 September 2018 17:46
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Thu, 20 September 2018 20:43
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		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: townltu on Mon, 17 September 2018 12:31
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: The_Bob on Mon, 17 September 2018 13:02
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: LatZee on Mon, 17 September 2018 14:28
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Mon, 17 September 2018 15:30
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: Slax on Mon, 17 September 2018 15:52
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Tue, 18 September 2018 11:48
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: LatZee on Tue, 18 September 2018 17:02
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Tue, 18 September 2018 19:16
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: LatZee on Tue, 18 September 2018 20:16
		Re: Better default NCTH settings contest By: silversurfer on Tue, 18 September 2018 22:43
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