anyways ima get to work, glhf and congrats to whoever snags it
Mollyās going to appear out of thin air for this one.
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My flight leaves in, like, ten minutes, so Iām on a timer.
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I guess some miscellaneous thoughts surrounding FoLermon, then.
I kinda want to have the new version fit a normal curve with a standard deviation of 3% in win rate.
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the fucking QTE cookie
In practice, this means the max win rate I want to allow is a 58%, and the minimum is a 42%.
The Mod Traits have been written up. Only stretch is that Nbowie becomes a Mod type, but I donāt imagine that calls too much to the imagination.
The hard part is when I want to balance non-quantitative info.
Arete, for example, gets the Trait Historian. If theyāre in your party, your opponentās bench is revealed at the start of battle.
On one hand, this cuts the element of surprise and limits the options you need to consider when planning your actions.
On the other hand, how do you value it? How do you crate a mechanism by which you can evaluate how good a given Trait is if itās so situation-dependent?
This is a bit of an extreme example - few of the other Traits are like this - but the answer simply comes down to, āCode smarter agents,ā which is hard.
Thereās also the problem of making sure that characters arenāt boring without inciting powercreep.
You can definitely make characters balanced but boring; and you can absolutely make characters exciting but broken.
Additionally, itās dangerous to give characters a STAB attack that deals more than 33 damage because it means youāre able to 2HKO neutral opponents, which kinda nukes the system.
These all came together when trying to create the May Trait: you can choose to use an attack as a Spread attack, dealing 70% of the damage to both opponents.
As is, the code will maximize damage if no kills are on the board, so it always uses the Spread attack, but this results in the gameās handling of Speed coming back to bite them.
The way Iām now handling it is that May will only use the attack if they can guarantee that both enemies will go off the field, but even that feels wrong.
what the fuck is folermon lol
yeah this aināt working
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Why am I gay in folermon
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I am definitely furry mod
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