20FEB18 - Defy Death Update

This thread is about defy death! 
It is bad taste and mostly unwelcome to usurp it for accusations which have been posted before and repeated too often already.

On the Defy Death subject:
This has been a bug and has been fixed and that is good.

Why should we make another change now to get the previous erroneous result by a new mechanism.

Also for those who argue high level commanders should get additional benefits beyond those which are bestowed on them already by having features added to them with the points available, I'd say:
IMHO the ability to put 10 levels on Defy Death is good enough, it will be used on high level commanders where the benefit of having an up to 10% average saving of time. being able to give to allocate points to defy death already is one of the advantages of having high level commanders. Everyone can choose if this average reduction of 10% ressurection time is useful or not.  I would assume that's going to give an advantage for commanders of level 100 and above.



Edited by Ammianus - 23 Feb 2018 at 18:12

Imagine that, battlefield conditions have changed, that would never happen in actual combat would it...

I really like Ten Kulch's idea of 5 percent per level. I have no opinion on war-effects, but having commanders almost always die would restrict some variety of tactics and also reduce the amusingly large numbers of attacks during tournaments. 50 percent has a big enough affect to easily notice while avoiding the near-immortal problem.

Or, for those like Wartow who want more math, how about this percentage chance of survival:


10/Pi*skill_level*ArcTan[1/(Pi*(1-commander_level/MAX_COMMANDER_LEVEL)^4)]




p.s. I want an equipped pony-of-immortality




Edited by Alcie - 24 Feb 2018 at 03:06

Max commander level is 205

Edited by eowan the short - 24 Feb 2018 at 08:36

Morose wrote: OssianII wrote: This thread is turning into another bash Hucbold fest from the alliances who deliberately go out of their way to personally harass, humiliate and deride other players at every opportunity. There is no need for us tolerate this anymore. We should keep a record and report it. Where there is long delay in GM's  taking action on these reports then we should band together and force their hand! Some of these practises must stop before this game gets a reputation.  Ossian, this thread was a discussion of the fixed exploit regarding Defy Death.  Hucbold then derided SIN, blaming them for influencing the GM to fix a known exploit in the game that he admitted to using as part of their strategy.  The simple fact of the matter is that Defy Death was not working properly.  The period of time it was not working properly does not matter, and using the fact that it was not working as intended is an exploit plain as day.   I do not see how that wouldn't be construed as his fault, and while he may have a point in the length of time in which this went unfixed, he is absolutely wrong in his assertion that it had some malicious intent to punish him behind it.   TLDR - Defy Death was broken, now it's fixed, some people are mad that they can no longer exploit the fact that it's broken but it was never labeled to do anything more than it does now so the burden of the consequences are on them.