Re: FW: Cold?

From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 04 Oct 2000 - 03:31:43 EEST


Tim Ellis:
> Doesn't seem the HW way, instead it will probably be Hot 17, or Cold
> 3W2. Pretty useless for comparisons with the real world, but much
> easier to use to oppose an ability in Games speak.

That's the theory. In practice, such scales are pretty meaningless,
unless you pre-establish and fix _how_ they're to be used to compare
against abilities. Do these measure the chances of killing you
if you streak through that weather bollock-naked, the marginal
propensity to cook (or refridgerate) an egg, or what? This is the
dreaded HW 'generic resistance' problem, all over again.

Cheers,
Alex.

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