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malloyd · 07-02-2015, 04:27 PM

My logic has always been a target number of 15 is equivalent to the maximum allowed limitation -80%, so 20% of the original value, so the base cost (for 12) must be 40% of the original value.

Essentially the same thing. Divide the cost of the always on disadvantage by your favorite number on the interval [2,3] and apply the self control cost modifier to that.

I'm at 2.5 rather than 3 in some of the proposals at least in part because a self imposed disadvantage that is on "all the time" is not quite the same thing as a Self Control number of impossible, because you retain the option of resisting if you are willing to suffer sufficiently serious consequences (e.g. you can break the law if you have Honest, but then must turn yourself in and freely confess....) If you had a Self Control number of 0, you couldn't consider that option.

07-02-2015, 04:27 PM	#13
malloyd Join Date: Jun 2006	Re: Mitigating Disadvantages w/o Self Control Number My logic has always been a target number of 15 is equivalent to the maximum allowed limitation -80%, so 20% of the original value, so the base cost (for 12) must be 40% of the original value. Essentially the same thing. Divide the cost of the always on disadvantage by your favorite number on the interval [2,3] and apply the self control cost modifier to that. I'm at 2.5 rather than 3 in some of the proposals at least in part because a self imposed disadvantage that is on "all the time" is not quite the same thing as a Self Control number of impossible, because you retain the option of resisting if you are willing to suffer sufficiently serious consequences (e.g. you can break the law if you have Honest, but then must turn yourself in and freely confess....) If you had a Self Control number of 0, you couldn't consider that option. __________________ -- MA Lloyd Last edited by malloyd; 07-02-2015 at 06:10 PM.