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I want to thank SlamPow for offering a pretty insightful bit on game AI.

Now, while I can openly admit to being intellectually inferior, I do have one perspective about the game that I would share:

If we're talking about the single player, the campaign itself, then the goal of the game is not to offer the player a strong set of mechanics to toy around with. The game has to deliver on several aspects, mostly focused on the story it presents via the medium it uses.
So, I would argue that the difficulty of each fight should be in fact tailored to the context of the fight.
So, for instance, we're fighting a pretty militarized organization. The context here would be that they should be good at team tactics, not necessarily great individual combatants.
Another case is the voidwoken. Unless we're talking about a rather smart void commander, they should be largely disorganized, but individually strong.

I can agree that in the arena mode, things should be balanced around a proportional result to the understanding and use of systems of each player.

My idea would be to make a good balance in arena and then translate that into single player with contextual adjustments. We already have an easy contextual adjustment via stats, but the adjustment I am most interested in is in the AI that runs for each separate encounter. But I am by no means anything close to a game designer, so I may be spouting worst practices for all I know.


Separate from that, I want to note that even if you use elevated language, calling someone stupid is still an insult, particularly when the target is not necessarily stupid, but misinformed/misguided. Insults do not make one a better person.
Yes, I do prefer it when there's less hostility in the air. Not saying that as part of the green name to the left, as I do not moderate, I clean spam.

If we're talking about the single player, the campaign itself, then the goal of the game is not to offer the player a strong set of mechanics to toy around with. The game has to deliver on several aspects, mostly focused on the story it presents via the medium it uses.
So, I would argue that the difficulty of each fight should be in fact tailored to the context of the fight.
So, for instance, we're fighting a pretty militarized organization. The context here would be that they should be good at team tactics, not necessarily great individual combatants.
Another case is the voidwoken. Unless we're talking about a rather smart void commander, they should be largely disorganized, but individually strong.

@SlamPow
Should never regret being human ;P

Embrace your inner bastard. Acknowledge it. Define it. Take leadership of it. Wear it as a badge of honor that your so up front and honest with both yourself and others.

We're human; beautifully, disgustingly, chaotically human.

Thanks man, I appreciate that. Still gonna work on being nicer, though, as it's something I aspire to.

Actually that does work exactly as intended apparently. Someone took data that showed that counter intuitively damage does go up as you level even if it looks like it goes down

The diminishing effects are apparently to maintain a consistent difficulty? I think

I wasn't targeting you specifically (SlamPow) with the comment on hostility, sorry for not making it clear. I'm no saint myself, I just keep things to myself.

But that is utterly besides the point of the topic, so I shall let you people get back to interesting discussion. I might drop in if I find something else to share an opinion about.

At level 6 I need 23 Int for a magic damage bonus of 3%, at level 8 I need 28 Int for a damage bonus of 4%. So I need 5 points of Int to keep the intellectual damage bonus for 2 levels. The only stat that seems to improve while leveling up seems to be Constitution +17 per point at 6 and +22 at 8.

If you don't find good items, you damage will just stagnate or even get worse? Only regarding you stats and not bonus damage from improving mage skills.

By the way I'm not asking you, just trying to explain what I am concerned about.

At level 6 I need 23 Int for a magic damage bonus of 3%, at level 8 I need 28 Int for a damage bonus of 4%. So I need 5 points of Int to keep the intellectual damage bonus for 2 levels. The only stat that seems to improve while leveling up seems to be Constitution +17 per point at 6 and +22 at 8.

If you don't find good items, you damage will just stagnate or even get worse? Only regarding you stats and not bonus damage from improving mage skills.

By the way I'm not asking you, just trying to explain what I am concerned about.

Just checked:
At level 1 it tells you, 1 point of Int will give you 15% more damage. At level 8 the information tells you, you will get 2% per point. And you have a damage bonus of 15% with 13 Int. Down from 15% to 2% in 7 Level. So at Level 10 every point of Int will give you close to nothing additional? There are said to be 25 levels at least, but at level 10 stats just start to mater nothing? That can't be intentional, at least I hope? If I turn from +15% with 13 Int to -6% at 23 Int, players will just feel trolled?