Game Development: Artifacts & Artifice

[jorb]

@ Jorb - Why on earth would you make it so complicated?

It isn't complicated. All you need to think about is matching proficiencies between the two items, preferring low difficulty numbers allround, and having high values in the proficiencies that do match.

[FutureForJames]

Jorb: have you considered changing brazier mechanics so that the damage is only dependent on the braziers shooting the target and not on inactive braziers as well?

What is the reasoning for not doing that change? I can only see advantages with a such change.

[Potjeh]

The problem is that we have no clue what is high and what is low. Are we supposed to burn through hundreds of pants till we get it through trial and error?

[jorb]

Yes, as with most things in life you learn through experience. The idea certainly isn't to have you do the actual math.

I agree that it'd be neat to have final, calculated success rates presented in some way, but fundamentally you don't really need it. My approach while playing has basically been spray'n'pray, and I'm doing fine.

[Potjeh]

If by fine you mean wasting mountains of materials in a total crapshoot, then yes, we're all doing fine.

[jorb]

Creating powerful equipment isn't free, no, and nor should it be.

[Potjeh]

But you don't see how frustrating it is to not have the faintest idea of how expensive it is? To the point where pretty much everybody is holding off slotting items until somebody figures it out and puts it on the wiki, which isn't happening because the interface is too horrendous for anyone to figure out?

[Gacrux]

Creating powerful equipment isn't free, no, and nor should it be.

If we understood the way artificing worked, perhaps having a less ambiguous explanation, you wouldn't have had 20 pages of people trying to figure it out the arithmetic behind it..

[alloin]

@ Jorb - Why on earth would you make it so complicated?

It isn't complicated. All you need to think about is matching proficiencies between the two items, preferring low difficulty numbers allround, and having high values in the proficiencies that do match.

Noo ! Not complicated at all !

Think something like this would be even more complicated for the people !

[jorb]

But there is absolutely no interface involved, nor need there be, as the execution of the operation is trivial. Whatever your problem is it certainly isn't about the interface.

If the final, calculated success rate were presented to you then whatever case you may have presently melts away completely, and I wouldn't actually mind presenting that if there were some good way of doing it without unnecessarily duplicating the math in the client.