Talk:Experience

EtherealC, thanks for pointing out that mistake in the Secondary - CMs table. I did the calculations in a spreadsheet, but then typed the table by hand, since it was such an irregular table. Clearly I copied that "6" wrong.

I did a linear equation for this CMs table, instead of using the actual stairstep function shown on my other page... the reasoning being that, because you can't say someone will always get the average as they perform combats and "advance through" a step, smoothing it seemed a better idea... it better approximates what you'd see, on average (you might take one step fast, another slow).

That said, I just tried making the linear equation again to double-check "what was I thinking" when I put that 6, and found to my dismay that I am not reproducing the same numbers with my linear equation. E.g. I get 2.5 for TUs R_min (50), not 2.2 (and 3.5 for STR R_Min, as you said). I can't remember what I was thinking but I can recall there was some reason it made sense to not be right at the average with the linear equation. But now I can't remember it. So unless/until I do, the table should be re-done using a straight-forward linear equation (or even stairsteps).

Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to reconstruct my work to the point of putting the combat mission counts on top of the linear equation again... wouldn't you know it, it looks like this is one of the few things that I didn't packrat away. So for the time being I've just made that comment there. Maybe I'll get back to it some day, or anybody else can take a shot.

You can delete this after reading, if you like.

MikeTheRed 16:30, 17 May 2006 (PDT)