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<blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5020760" data-attributes="member: 51942">How 'bout doing a mix of opponent levels?&nbsp; Say, a level +3, then a level+0,level+2,level+0,level+1 schedule or something.&nbsp; If you've gotta make various opponents anyhow this shouldn't be a huge problem (right?).The advantages are twofold: firstly, this better matches actuality, where various encounters are varyingly difficult.&nbsp; Secondly, if plays to the strengths of a sim; namely to be more robust by using a broader distribution of possibilites.&nbsp; After all, it's a reasonable result to determine that even levels represent a significant (if small) power boost, but it's not reasonable to have similarly hard edges for the opponents: real PC's encounter various levels too.&nbsp; This way you get some differing damage expressions and have fewer artificial discontinuities as levels rise.I suggested the order level+3,level+0,level+2,level+0,leve+1 to account for a peculiarity of sims (which presumably uses dailies and action points early or at least predictably).&nbsp; A real player would after all use dailies and action points with a greater frequency vs. stronger opponents; so it makes sense to confront the sim with stronger opponents in those combats when he has those available (course, you could do various schedules and compare how much it matters...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eamon, post: 5020760, member: 51942"] How 'bout doing a mix of opponent levels? Say, a level +3, then a level+0,level+2,level+0,level+1 schedule or something. If you've gotta make various opponents [I]anyhow[/I] this shouldn't be a huge problem (right?). The advantages are twofold: firstly, this better matches actuality, where various encounters are varyingly difficult. Secondly, if plays to the strengths of a sim; namely to be more robust by using a broader distribution of possibilites. After all, it's a reasonable result to determine that even levels represent a significant (if small) power boost, but it's not reasonable to have similarly hard edges for the opponents: real PC's encounter various levels too. This way you get some differing damage expressions and have fewer artificial discontinuities as levels rise. I suggested the order level+3,level+0,level+2,level+0,leve+1 to account for a peculiarity of sims (which presumably uses dailies and action points early or at least predictably). A real player would after all use dailies and action points with a greater frequency vs. stronger opponents; so it makes sense to confront the sim with stronger opponents in those combats when he has those available (course, you could do various schedules and compare how much it matters...). [/QUOTE]

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