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In Article<3242B8...@fas.harvard.edu>, <fude...@fas.harvard.edu> write:
> Path: 
> A few random questions before starting up the game tonight:
> 
> 1) it's been suggested that because the amountyou can borrow goes
> up with level, there's no need to ever pay off a loan, just borrow
> more and more. Is that true? If so, doesn't it make the whole
> financial side of the game pretty meaningless?
> 

--- Well for one thing, if you don't repay your debts, your
reputation will be lower than dogsh*t, which might make it 
harder to get people to help you out with directions, etc.

 
> 2) I undertsand and like the idea that skills go up with their
> frequency of use, as oppsoped to the number of monsters killed.
> What is the purpose of keeping "levels" in the model as well?
> why not -just- have skills, and maybe age?

--- Levels really do have limited meaning in this game.  I believe 
they were left in primarily to help determine when the character is
approximately ready for certain parts of the 'main quest'...for example,
you won't even get OFFERED part one of the quest until you are level 3, and
believe me, the dungeon you get sent to is, shall we say, a 'challenge' even
then...at a lower level, you'd be cat food in there...  Also, at higher
levels, you start finding neater 'stuff' on bodies and in shops...better
weapons and armour, and more money on bodies.  


> 
> 3) From the hint book it seems that dodging and better armor are
> equivalent in terms of defense- both reduce the probability of being
> hit. Is that right? If so,  I think it's too bad- given all the time
> that's going to be spent on combat, and the overall complexity of the
> game, I would have liekd a more complex damage model.

--- Can't comment on that except to say, trust me, you'll be glad of
all the help you can get when you meet your first lich.  <grin>

> 
> 4) Has anyone tried the game with archery as the primary weapons skill?
> 

--- Archery is, IMHO, of somewhat limited use in this game.  It takes a
bit of time to equip a bow, and the monster is hitting you while you do it.
I personally found a bow to be too slow a weapon to use effectively, and I
switched over to a sword.

> -- 
> Drew Fudenberg
> email: fude...@fas.harvard.edu
> http://fudenberg.fas.harvard.edu


		MJ (Bethesda beta tester)