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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6958592" data-attributes="member: 4937">Small illustration of why linear perception penalties are bad:Suppose that there is something very far away, but which has such a tremendous penalty to stealth that no one could possibly avoid missing seeing it.&nbsp; Consider for example your world's Sun.&nbsp;&nbsp; In our game, let's suppose that the Sun has a stealth penalty such that at even at the vast distance it is from your fantasy world, the difficulty of perceiving the sun is 0.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyone that isn't completely blind notices the sun anytime it's present, even without really thinking about it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, let's apply a simple linear penalty to perception.&nbsp;&nbsp; For every 10' further away the object is, the difficulty of perceiving the option increases by 1.&nbsp;&nbsp; Move the sun 210' feet further out, and now suddenly only the keen eyed will notice the sun (and presumably, the Earth gets plunged into darkness.).&nbsp;&nbsp; If we on the other hand adopt a table, and an exponential scale, how much further out must the Sun be to become noticeable only to the keen eyed observer?&nbsp; Roughly 5000 times its original distance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6958592, member: 4937"] Small illustration of why linear perception penalties are bad: Suppose that there is something very far away, but which has such a tremendous penalty to stealth that no one could possibly avoid missing seeing it. Consider for example your world's Sun. In our game, let's suppose that the Sun has a stealth penalty such that at even at the vast distance it is from your fantasy world, the difficulty of perceiving the sun is 0. Anyone that isn't completely blind notices the sun anytime it's present, even without really thinking about it. Now, let's apply a simple linear penalty to perception. For every 10' further away the object is, the difficulty of perceiving the option increases by 1. Move the sun 210' feet further out, and now suddenly only the keen eyed will notice the sun (and presumably, the Earth gets plunged into darkness.). If we on the other hand adopt a table, and an exponential scale, how much further out must the Sun be to become noticeable only to the keen eyed observer? Roughly 5000 times its original distance. [/QUOTE]

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