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Necrocat219 · 11-20-2012, 09:48 PM

(10-06-2012 05:07 AM)Necrocat219 Wrote: Okay so that this isn't too long to read and as straight to the point as possible, turn based games have two types of FTA: Positional first turn advantage and materialistic first turn advantage. I think you understand the first from the extensive explanations that Harti gave a while back, but mainly as them being able to target the medic or the sniper for their attacks. That seems to be why you think that 5+3 wits as player 2 is a good solution.

Now to explain why I love a 7 or 8 wit start for player 2: Materialistic first turn advantage. This is as I classify it, how many wits you have to spend on units and move in comparison to your opponent. This is a 1 vs 1 or a 2 vs 2 game, so for that you can directly see if you're winning or losing a game by comparing how well you are doing.

In 1.1 right now, both Player 1 and 2 have 5 wits to start. Seems fair enough? over the turns all the variables may point to player 1 or 2 having an advantage or not. Lets pretend neither player makes any moves and see who has how many wits more than the other on each turn and put it on a nice neat little graph. If the results are above 0, player 1 has the advantage. If the results are below 0, player 2 has the advantage...

Now hang on a minute, the results all seem to be above 0, implying that P1 has the advantage in wits on his turns but it's equal on P2's turns! Lets add a line of average in to see if that sorts things out...

Hmm... It seems that P1 over the course of both players turns can be said to have an avarage of 2.5 wits over the course of both players turns.

This was why the number 7 or 8 wits for player 2 was suggested; to counter this 2.5 wit advantage; 2.5 wits is ideal, but you can't have half wits in this game so 2 or 3 extra are the best improvise

I hope you understood my explanation