So do I leave it alone or do I give a +5 to defense and a +0 or -5 to offense for first blood?
 
I know, +5 means nothing... just think 'bonus'.
 
Right now, disarm is fought straight and sparring gives a bonus to hit and block.
 
So for first blood, should I:
 
A.  Leave as is
B. bonus to defense, penalty to offense
C. bonus to defense, nothing to offense
 
 
Option B would turn the fight into a lot more swishes... i.e. one person swings the other steps out the way then swishes himself.   Option C would just increase blocks... that is.. you'd get the number of hits but more would be blocked... meaning they didn't draw blood.  I don't want to bump offense and defense because that's sparring.
 
 
I guess there is another option, call it D.  I could make the winner the first one who gets a crit hit that gets through.  There is variable damage in the app right now.  Something like this:  A hit that isn't blocked does 1 pt of damage, a crit hit that is blocked does 1 pt, a crit hit that is crit blocked does 0, a crit hit not blocked does 2 pts.   I could define first blood as a hit that does 2 pts or more.  Higher skill would still come into play as it would be easier to block a weaker opponents crit hit, but matches would be much longer because you have to roll the critical and the chance of a critical is the same regardless of skill.  The main problem with this is it would not be clear to newbies that blood wasn't drawn.  I'd have to rewrite text to indicate blood was drawn.   X gets worn down vs. X takes damage.  Also, it would be possible in this case for a match to end in disarm before blood is actually drawn.
 
One merit of this is I could then have First Strike (and hit) and First Blood (actual damage) be fight types.

Actually the idea of B for a new thing called First Strike and D for the new First Blood both appeal to me.  I doubt it will be done before the betleH tourney, but we will see.
 
So question one:  A, B, or C as the best mod to the current First Blood option.
 
Question two:  D, yes or no
(under the assumption that the current First Blood code be called First Strike or First Hit, and a new First Blood option that operates like D above, be added.)
 
I assume K'rahl votes:  C and D-yes
 
K'Hare votes B and D-yes

Just thought would say..  That even with all this, can never replace an actualy writen Battle     And shouldn't.  But is is cool that you are willing to go threw all this trouble for us K'Hare.    (Thinks you need some more respect for what you do here)

you know, people could use this as the base and then insert more detail as well.  Problem is, you'd need to make it go for a lot less rounds.  It's excessive.

Quote from JakeNess on Dec 8^th, 2005, 3:22am:

 
qul'yIt

What was I going to say about Flim though?  'If Flim was'...  If he was what?
 
I got distracted when I heard how Frem lost.
 
If Flim was (blank) - answers on a postcard please.

I have done some changes to the code.  Basically, the First Strike and First Blood options are in there.
 
I put the code in to bump up everyone's offense, but then I found a bug that explained all the misses.  Basically, as you get tired your defense goes down and you get hit more.  Once you are easy to hit, your ability to attack gets worse.  There was a bug that made it only mess with your attack.  So when K'Hare fights K'rahl, they both lose their ability to hit and still can block, if the match goes long enough.  So matches either end quick or have lots of misses.  Its fixed now.
 
Some other bugs:
 
The bonus to the person with initiative (note that fighting dirty/honorably or not affects that) was not getting included.
 
If both people miss you were supposed to get tired faster.   This is to handle the case of two bad fighters.  The idea is two bad fighters can't fight as long.   But the code was making you more tired when both hit so it made fights between two skilled opponents longer.
 
 
So the program is updated.  I still haven't worked out how to refuse a fight.  K'Hare isn't going to fight Ness for first strike.  What's the point?  But First Blood has more teeth now.
 
And while you are here, everyone should be getting email when challenged.  If not, let me know.  But the problem is related to your email settings in your bio.
 
I added combat effectiveness.  All this is is the number hits and blocks divided by the hits, blocks, and misses... but over time, its a good hint as to how good people are.  The hint has always been there, just not so obvious.  Now Ing has a way to do odds.
 
The code is getting much more complex so lets test it.  Report anything weird.  I probably will rewrite it after the tourney.... sometime next year.  Basically I keep adding little tweaks and so there are some efficientcies I can get by rebuilding it with what I learned.

also slight update - chrystal fox wants to join this - create a bio for her if you could