Why are the stats so high?

[econ21]

CA said the formulae used for combat have changed beyond almost all recognition,. Hence a high RTW stat does not necessarily mean high compared to MTW. Kind of comparing 3cm to 1inch. However, I wonder if this is not wholly true and some of the "fast combat" people have complained off may be due to a higher variance in attack and defence stats?

Having more variance in stats might seem to be a good thing, in allowing more variety but personally I thought the gradations seen in MTW were historically reasonable - trying to cut things finer starts to stretch creduility.

[Mus]

CA said the formulae used for combat have changed beyond almost all recognition.

No wonder RTW is broken so badly. What was the reason for changing the formula on top of dumbing down the terrain and heigh effects and other things they did to simplify RTW?

[Puzz3D]

What was the reason for changing the formula on top of dumbing down the terrain and heigh effects and other things they did to simplify RTW?

I think it was done to attract a more mainstream and therefore larger market.

[Duke John]

The brother of my girlfriend went to China to research what could be done to lessen the amount of failures caused by a certain machine. Besides mechanical problems there was also the human factor.
There was a person who assigned to control the settings of the machine and it was noticed that the amount of failures increased each time there was a shift. Apparently the person "banged" a few times on the machine just to make sure that he was needed. After all if he didn't adjust settings then why was he employed? The fact that the machine ran fine before banging on it didn't matter. After a few hours the person had found more optimal settings (probably the original) and then the new shift began.



One advantage I can come up with is the smaller impact of weapon/armour upgrades. Or did they multiply that by 2 too?

[CBR]

One advantage I can come up with is the smaller impact of weapon/armour upgrades. Or did they multiply that by 2 too?

Actually they did. Although weapon and armour upgrades only show a +1 increase in attack and defense values on unit info, tests show its actually 2 points. But missile attack seems to be only increased by +1 for each weapon upgrade.


CBR