Question and Maybe a Suggestion

[Sy]

So, after looking around and getting a rough grasp on the combat system, I noticed something. Is the combat system COMPLETELY even? Like does a twelve year old girl from D10 have the same odds of getting an instant kill as an 18 year old brute from D1? Cause, if so, I don't think that's totally fair. My idea is that tributes with higher training scores get more dice rolls. Scores of 1-5 get one roll, 6-8 gets two, and 9-12 gets three. You don't keep all three rolls, but you simply get three chances to get a high damaging attack. If you roll three times and get attacks that do 3.5, 7, and 8 points of damage, you throw out the 3.5 and the 7 and just keep the 8 point attack. This way, Tributes with higher scores have a better chance of surviving/doing more damage.

Just a suggestion if the combat is as completely even as it looks after trying to learn it for two days. If there is already something that tips the odds for better trained tributes, can someone let me know?

[Lulu]

We've thought about this, but honestly that would be making it much more complicated than it needs to be. What you're saying makes sense, but there's just too much variability to ever be fair to everyone, and besides, training scores don't always totally reflect a person's ability. If you look at our victor pool you can see that it hasn't really been much of a problem at all; sure we've got one 12 year old, but the ages of the victors when they won? (Roughly, I could be wrong) 15, 12, 17, 17, 18, 18, 17, 17. It's not really necessary to control for the age matter because in reality we hardly ever reap anyone under 15ish, due to the fact that the number of entries increases by age. When a young tribute does make it far, it's usually because they've gotten themselves into a good alliance that lasts a long time.

So great ideas and they make sense, but there's really no need to complicate the system any further at this point^^

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[Sy]

Well that makes sense too, I suppose. I just got thrown off when I saw one of the banners where this big buff guy from D1 got 22nd. I just thought "what are the odds of that canonly?" Which then lead to my whole idea there. But yeah. What you say makes sense too. Thanks for reading anyway.

[Lulu]

That D1m was actually brutally murdered by the ally of his district partner for revenge, because he'd just instakilled her xD So I think that made enough sense^^

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[Sy]

ah. okay. that makes plenty of sense. lol. thanks for clearing it up.