Resident Evil: Discussion Thread [Concluded]

[naut]

I knew Wishazu would take top spot. But, I was not expecting to finish as high as 2nd... especially because half my game was searching. That said, I am very happy to have even participated, finishing second is just the cherry on top.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I knew Wishazu would take top spot. But, I was not expecting to finish as high as 2nd... especially because half my game was searching.

And the other half was wiping the floor with the baddest creatures I could throw at you, and accomplishing all your objectives.

You had a technically flawless kind of game. Even Wishazu fragged his own teammate. Well done.

[Jolt]

ATPG, who was the character whose stats most evolved during the game?

[Askthepizzaguy]

ATPG, who was the character whose stats most evolved during the game?

That depends. Diana's stats got boosted when she had sex with (and then ate) Generalhankerchief.
Basically, Generalhankerchief does a body good.

Diana's conversion of Greyblades, Stildawn, and Stuck in Pi greatly boosted their stats, obviously. Anyone who transformed into an Omega transformation gained 1 point in every stat. Anyone who died enough times to become a Gamma zombie (third iteration) had the following stats:

Strength 9
Combat 7
Vitality 5
Speed 7
Stealth 7
Awareness 8
Luck 3


Which is more than most townies. They also got a chainsaw. However, if you're talking about adding to stats via consumption of herbs, then:

JOLT

Strength: 4 (+2 due to Blue/Brown/Black Megalixir)
Combat: 3
Vitality: 3/6 (+1 due to Yellow Herb, fully restored due to Megalixir)
Speed: 5 (+2 due to Blue/Brown/Black Megalixir)
Stealth: 7 (+2 due to Blue/Brown/Black Megalixir)
Awareness: 8 (+1 due to glock with flashlight)
Luck: 3

Psychonaut

Strength: 2
Combat: 8
Vitality: 5/5 (used first aid spray, golden herb, green herb)
REGENERATION
Speed: 3 (-2 with Gatling gun) (+2 with blue and black herb mix)
Stealth: 7 (+1 with silenced Beretta) (+2 with blue and black herb mix)
Awareness: 7
Luck: 6

White_Eyes

Strength: 2
Combat: 2
Vitality: 3/5
Speed: 13 (increased due to blue herb x2)
Stealth: 2
Awareness: 8
Luck: 9 (increased due to orange herb)

TAKA

Strength: 1
Combat: 10 (+2 permanent due to Platinum Elixir)
Vitality: 3/3
REGENERATION (permanent due to Platinum Elixir)
Speed: 6
Stealth: 1
Awareness: 8
Luck: 1

[naut]

Psychonaut

Strength: 2
Combat: 8
Vitality: 5/5 (used first aid spray, golden herb, green herb)
REGENERATION
Speed: 3 (-2 with Gatling gun) (+2 with blue and black herb mix)
Stealth: 7 (+1 with silenced Beretta) (+2 with blue and black herb mix)
Awareness: 7
Luck: 6

Technically speaking I ended with 6 vitality, as the last round I traded with Jolt:

Trade with Jolt as planned Yellow Herb for Metal Detector and Med Kit. Consume the yellow herb.

And consumed the yellow herb.

[Askthepizzaguy]

True, I hadn't bothered updating your card since you were gonna win anyways.

[TheFlax]

ATPG, I disagree that as the host you have 0 points. Hosting this monster of a game is worth at least 2 million points.

[Askthepizzaguy]

ATPG, I disagree that as the host you have 0 points. Hosting this monster of a game is worth at least 2 million points.

Technically El Gigante scores 51,000 points. But I had zero control over what he did.

He moved toward whoever was the largest group (within one tile of each other)
He was in permanent berserk mode
He had no items or weapons
Everything was random.org'ed.

So really, I didn't earn one single point he earned. That was all controlled by the players themselves.

[naut]

And the other half was wiping the floor with the baddest creatures I could throw at you, and accomplishing all your objectives.

You had a technically flawless kind of game. Even Wishazu fragged his own teammate. Well done.

I had excellent team-mates too. I'd say the Dream Team.

I owe a lot to both Ironside and Blackadder. They were more often than not the brains behind the operation. And Ironside's understanding of the game mechanics, without actually being privy to all the info was astounding. He could pick out the likelihoods of events and the probable way the game was being run right from the out-set. He and Blackadder both picked up on the relevance of the stats and the weightings needed for the completion of our goals.

If I could have changed anything it would have been my starting stats. I would have dropped Stealth completely, it wasn't pertinent to my playing style. Same with Strength. This would have made me much better at everything I did in game. I only fought in Melee once, and did well, but luck and a good weapon played a role there. Combat at 10 instead of 8 and Luck and Vit boosted by one each would have bettered my chances at hitting some of my missed shots and shrugging off some of the damage I took.

Strength: 1
Combat: 10
Vitality: 6
Speed: 3
Stealth: 1
Awareness: 7
Luck: 7

[Askthepizzaguy]

Interesting factoids.




Some novels-

Animal Farm 30,000 words
Heart of Darkness 37,488 words
Wide Sargasso Sea 43,111 words

Resident Evil: Dark Falls Game Thread, From "Prologue" to "Thank you for playing"-
54,103 words


exactly 1/2 of my "Character Cards" text file, or the approximate average amount of text I sent out to my players per phase during the first half of the game:

Word Count:
38168 words
227993 characters

I would estimate that tapers off dramatically at the end of the game, so.... multiply by 15 rounds instead of 20
572520 words sent out via PM
3419895 characters sent out via PM

626,623 words, approximately, typed and sent (or copy/pasted and sent) for the game. This doesn't include the following text files:

Round 1
Round 2
.......(etc)
Round 20
rolled battle files per turn
Resident Evil Role PMs
Weapons list
Behavior Modes
Final Setup and role randomization
Invite list for dark falls
Sample Combat 1
Sample Combat 2
Sample Combat 3
Sample Combat 4
Scoring

Which amounts to several hundred more pages of vital text you didn't see.


Finally:


War and Peace by Tolstoy: 590,233 words.

[Ironside]

And the other half was wiping the floor with the baddest creatures I could throw at you, and accomplishing all your objectives.

You had a technically flawless kind of game. Even Wishazu fragged his own teammate. Well done.

And got points for it if I got the score correctly...
Anyway, I'm going to kick myself down to a fourth place since Blackadder scored higher then me by killing more stuff and my score is correct. Got his to 122400, when not counting the slaying plague demons reward that's noted twice. Might be a mistake from my side if it differs on tyrants and demons.

[Askthepizzaguy]

And got points for it if I got the score correctly...
Anyway, I'm going to kick myself down to a fourth place since Blackadder scored higher then me by killing more stuff and my score is correct. Got his to 122400, when not counting the slaying plague demons reward that's noted twice. Might be a mistake from my side if it differs on tyrants and demons.

For scoring, Tyrants and Demons are worth the same.

I may have made mistakes on many people's scores. I will audit every score that needs to be audited, and if you bump up or down one, then you will.

[naut]

Anyway, I'm going to kick myself down to a fourth place

In my mind you take first place. Your understanding of the game and the mechanics behind it was simply astounding.

[Ironside]

In my mind you take first place. Your understanding of the game and the mechanics behind it was simply astounding.

Thank you. It was fun running as the squad leader. I still would've made several mistakes if it weren't for your and Blackadder's input, so it was a good team run. Like Wiz I tormented ATPG with quite a bit of questions during the game.

Btw, just for fun ATPG what would've been my and Wiz stats if we would've been turned into plague tyrants?

Not entirely impossible scenarios, since Wiz best shot at killing us would've probably put him in our position for the subway battle. That or one hell of an ambush at turn 14 or 15. Possible if you knew the coordinates for the chopper and that we had 3 speed, since then there was only one route that was shortest. Had our movement planned and kept the same from turn 10 due to this.

[Diana Abnoba]

You two would have been my SPECIAL babies!! I would have loved that!!

[Askthepizzaguy]

Thank you. It was fun running as the squad leader. I still would've made several mistakes if it weren't for your and Blackadder's input, so it was a good team run. Like Wiz I tormented ATPG with quite a bit of questions during the game.

Yes, and I was unfortunately so swamped with hundreds of PMs in my inbox that I often couldn't respond quickly to each of them. Sometimes I felt like one man in a sea of telephones, all ringing.... ringing.... ringing......

Btw, just for fun ATPG what would've been my and Wiz stats if we would've been turned into plague tyrants?

Oh jeez, uh....

the general rule is whatever your maximum stat was, gets bumped up to 13, and then your other stats increase by one until you get to 49 total points. For you it wouldn't have been so impressive. If you had two stats that were the highest, or three, then whichever one would get bumped up would depend on if any other person got transformed and had 13 points in that category. You would become a different kind of Tyrant, unless there was no way to avoid it.

I forget if I intended Wishazu to be able to turn or not, but I believe he was able to. If so, his stats would already have been at 49, and I probably would have made him have 9 in all categories, for 63 total points, but no super stat.

If Diana's team survived that big battle and kept on hunting, eventually she would have had half a dozen tyrants, and her team would have been able to wipe out the entire zombie horde and most of the town as well. They were well on their way to a total victory, only to be cut short right at the start of their meteoric rise to power.

[Double A]

What would have happened if that REALLY ugly tyrant got away?

[Ironside]

the general rule is whatever your maximum stat was, gets bumped up to 13, and then your other stats increase by one until you get to 49 total points. For you it wouldn't have been so impressive. If you had two stats that were the highest, or three, then whichever one would get bumped up would depend on if any other person got transformed and had 13 points in that category. You would become a different kind of Tyrant, unless there was no way to avoid it.

I see what you mean, I would be almost unkillable but very weak in melee. It would be something like this.

Strength: 3
Combat: 13
Vitality: 9 (+1 due to yellow herb)
Speed: 5
Stealth: 2
Awareness: 9
Luck: 9

Wizhasu's average non-reduced damage of 13.85/round would be reduced to 1.02/round (high luck and only 20% chance of hitting does that).
But he would still kill me on average since I'm doing such low damage (it should be 1 damage/attack correct?). +1 in strength and I would easily win.