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From: newman@utcsrgv.UUCP (Ken Newman)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: More on warp 6.0 unfairness
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Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 22:27:58 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 21 22:27:58 1983
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Ok, the following is the offending code fragment in warp 6.0
that I consider to be grossly unfair. As you can see, the
strength of enemies' shields increases by huge amounts at
very high difficulty waves (say over 70). (smarts==diff of
current wave I think). The result of this sneakiness is that
trying to kill anything becomes VERY frustrating at high
difficulties (even with your base, point blank range).



    super = (smarts>50?smarts-50:0);
    enemshields = 1 + super/5;



I propose that (Larry, you out there?) either the enemy shields
increase at least 2 or 3 times slower, or not at all but maybe
enemy energies increase a little. Comments?

K. Newman
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