Re: [Wesnoth-dev] balancing the ulf

[John McNabb]

me four.

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Richard Kettering wrote:

> I don't mind seeing him toned down, but as Nils said, I think the 
> current state of berzerk (no berzerk on defense) is very important to 
> have.
> 
> It's not terribly consequential for multiplayer, but it is extremely 
> important for campaigns where the player owns the units, and is even 
> more so when it is a berzerker the player owns, rather than an 
> ulfzerker.  Wesnoth is unforgiving enough about units dying in 
> campaigns, becoming more so would be a Bad Thing™.
> 
> In regard to options 2 & 3 - yes, it is perfectly reasonable to have 
> berserkers cost as much as, if not more than mages.
> 
> On Apr 14, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Nils Kneuper wrote:
> 
> >> The forums are filling up with complaints about the current Ulf stats
> >> in multiplayer making them too powerful.  The general consensus seems
> >> to be that they need to be toned down.  I suggest their cost should be
> >> raised by 2gp and the hitpoints reduced by 2.
> >>
> >>    hitpoints 40 -> 38
> >>    cost 18 -> 20
> >>
> >> -- address@hidden
> >
> > I do agree that the Ulfserker should be changed. I see some different
> > ways:
> > 1) revert berserk abality to the one from 0.8.11 (do not really like
> > that idea) or
> > 2) increase its cost and decrease its hitpoints or
> > 3) increase its cost and decrease other stats (e.g. resitance)
> > I think we should do the 2nd thing for the next release and have a look
> > how it is about it than. Though I would prefer option 3). But this one
> > would need lots of testing, and we do not really have the time for it.
> > So I would speack infavour of incrasing the ulfs cost to 20 (maybe
> > even 21?) and decreasing its hitpoints.
> > CU
> > Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic
> >
> >
> >
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