mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (12/15/84)
> I have also fought wraiths after just advancing to a new level and the > number of hit points I was awarded was very low (1-2). This way I can > 're-advance' to that level and possibly get more hit points. > > One of the problems with this is that the wraith can hit you enough times > to knock you down 2 levels. The problem with this is that (at least in versions 5.2 and 5.3, and probably all others) when you go down a level, you do not automatically get the hit pounts you had at that level before, you get knocked down by a random number between 1 and 10. It is just as likely that you will lose hit points in the exchange as it is you will gain, regardless of how many hits you gained at making the last level. By the way, has anyone noticed that a wraith seems much more likely to zap you if you are almost to the next level? I've seen this many times, where I'll kill literally dozens of wraiths with no problems, and then get zapped (sometimes twice!) when I'm 100 points from the next level. I see this so consistantly (even when the wraith doesn't zap me, it is a LOT harder to kill) that I'm sure it's not just coincidence (where have I heard that before?) Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan Just because something is obvious doesn't mean that it's true.
miller@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Nancy Miller) (12/24/84)
> The problem with this is that (at least in versions 5.2 and 5.3, and probably > all others) when you go down a level, you do not automatically get the > hit pounts you had at that level before, you get knocked down by a random > number between 1 and 10. It is just as likely that you will lose hit points > in the exchange as it is you will gain, regardless of how many hits you > gained at making the last level. > > Scott McEwan > {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan > > Just because something is obvious doesn't mean that it's true. If you have gained less than six points when you advanced to the current level, the you are likely to end up gaining in the exchange. However, if you have more than five points, you are likely to end up losing in the exchange. This is because the expected gain and loss are each 5.5 points. -- ________________________________________________________________________________ __ __ <> <> | `-' Nancy Miller (miller@nlm-mcs.arpa)
srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) (01/10/85)
In article <7631@nlm-mcs.ARPA> miller@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Nancy Miller) writes: > >If you have gained less than six points when you advanced to the current level, >then you are likely to end up gaining in the exchange. However, if you have >more than five points, you are likely to end up losing in the exchange, >because the expected gain and loss are each 5.5 points. If I understand what you're saying, it's wrong! What happens in the "exchange" is that you have one or more losses with expectation of 5.5 each, followed by one gain of expectation 5.5. This is a net expectation of less than zero gain, REGARDLESS of what happened to you when you first attained your current level. -- Richard Mateosian {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA