Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27886747-20160611191524/@comment-27886747-20160612064613

Fluid-decanter wrote: Obviously, there are many things that will or will not happen in the battle depending on various factors.

My plan was to split the battle section into more subsections (or use hidden anchors), and then use internal links to turn it into something of a CYOA.

First, I don't think all these collapsed sections are a good idea. There's no point trying to avoid spoiling the reader, the article will be long no matter what, and most importantly I think many readers will either want to scan the whole article trying to see where they can improve or follow it step by step. It's a lot of clicking for no apparent benefit.

My idea was to allow people some leeway how much they want to be spoiled - just looking over at the structure of the battle would give them some idea what to expect without spoiling too much, with all the detailed consequences of the choices described in the collapsed sections or burried in the footnotes. That's why I also haven't revealed the identity of "the mastermind".

Second, I don't feel the E G D B W thing in the RP table is very intuitive. It may be better to actually list and number the possible results, and replace the letters with the corresponding numeric rankings.

The letters are shorthand for the labels I was going to use in the section above to describe the battle results per category: Excellent, Good, Decent, Bad, Worst, since I know the number of outcomes from your guide, but not the details of the underlying mechanic. The meanings would be more obvious when I fill that in, but they can be changed to something else - grade letters A, B, C... or the actual secret variable values.

Third, I don't understand the logic behind how you've ordered the girls in the RP table.

Artefact from the way I was looking them up in the Characters article - combat party members first, non-combat later. I've fixed that now.

Finally, I feel we shouldn't omit the most important piece of Simon's business. You know, the one after Yarra and Qum/Carina report back.

As I said, I was trying not to spoil plot-relevant details. :) BTW, any idea if the Hilstara scene depends on something?

Fluid-decanter wrote: If I may quote myself (...) The main effect of the spell component is to allow you to pick a research option for Robin before Ardford; otherwise she hast to keep figuring out Aka's treatment.

I probably should have expanded the Aka part, because I'm aware of it - I used your guide for the RP table. Is it possible to get Aka to 100 affection before the battle? She's locked to 99 before transforming, and the transformation ends just before the battle.

Now to the others...


 * Orcs lurking in Yhilin not yours, counter-raiding parties (use humans or Orcs) I used Orcs

Any idea what the petitioner looked like and where were they standing relative to the others?