Re: A couple of crazy ideas...

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

By the by, rate is _ONLY_ taken into account, when it is, when combat
is involved.


Wright

> I agree that an item on a person does make them potentially more 
> powerful but there are some items not easily "ratable". An item of 
> Fluency is either very usefull or of no consequence. Your item of Fireball 
> has no rate value if the mission has no combat ( but then again most of 
> your rating is worthless too). Its not that they aren't worth something 
> its that their value is mission dependent. 
> 
> Similarly my rate 20 warrior is actually less then rate 20 since I decided 
> to spend 3 times as many rates to get Witchsmeller then a mage. As a warrior 
> I spent 7.56 rates where a mage spent 2.52 rates. Do I say I am a 
> rate 15 ( 14.96 ) since that is the effective use of my spending?  No I say 
> I'm rate 20 and get to face things meant for people 5 rates above me.  In 
> addition that whole spell group probably gives me no "useable rate" since 
> none of those spells are really combat related. Sure I can use witchsmeller 
> to notice that invisible mage and counter the -8 to hit so it does have some 
> combat value ).  At low levels my example isn't much but when you get 
> up there your rate relates less and less to your effectiveness. Just some 
> spew since people were talking ratings.
> 							Greg
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