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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5813581" data-attributes="member: 54877">In this case, indirectly, yes. Negative numbers are unnecessary here, and overly fiddly for what they give you. The sneaking suspicion creeps into your mind that if zero isn't dead, then perhaps you should just give everyone some extra hit points and shift the scale up a notch. (This doesn't actually work as well as you first think, but that's why it is a suspicion and not a theory. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)&nbsp;This kind of design issue is like a bit of food stuck between your teeth, with no tooth pick in sight. Not really that important in the scheme of things, but still annoying. Picture yourself in a tuxedo at a formal dinner with a piece of green bean hung between your two front teeth. This is the very picture of &quot;not elegant&quot;. When you hear people talk about elegant game design, they mean not doing this kind of stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5813581, member: 54877"] In this case, indirectly, yes. Negative numbers are unnecessary here, and overly fiddly for what they give you. The sneaking suspicion creeps into your mind that if zero isn't dead, then perhaps you should just give everyone some extra hit points and shift the scale up a notch. (This doesn't actually work as well as you first think, but that's why it is a suspicion and not a theory. :p) This kind of design issue is like a bit of food stuck between your teeth, with no tooth pick in sight. Not really that important in the scheme of things, but still annoying. Picture yourself in a tuxedo at a formal dinner with a piece of green bean hung between your two front teeth. This is the very picture of "not elegant". When you hear people talk about elegant game design, they mean not doing this kind of stuff. [/QUOTE]

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