Re: CF: Re: AC and armour

[Anthony Thyssen <>]

Christian Stieber on  wrote...
| Anthony Thyssen () wrote:
| 
| > Ok lets clear up one confusion I have.  What is the difference between
| > AC and armour?
| 
| In simple words: AC is a number that tells how likely it is that an
| enemy hits you. Armor is a number that tells how much damage a
| successful hit does.
|
| The lower the AC, the better (that's why it is usually negative).
| Armor is a percentage --- armor 99 means that 99 percent of the
| damage is absorbed by your armor (i.e. the hit only does 1% of the
| damage).
| 
This explains the effects of a Bracer and shields.

| > Another confusion I have is that of speed and weight.  Even with a ring
| > of speed +2 my speed is terriable!
| 
| Might be your dexterity and armor. Some armor has a enormous speed
| penalty (like plate mail). Just to give you some ideas: I usually have
| speed +23 (Idaten boots (speed +20) and Dragonbane (speed +3)), which
| gives me a running speed of just 2.27 (interesting enough, you get the
| same speed with mithril chainmail of winter and speed boots). If I
| take off my body armor (White Dragon Scale Mail) my running speed gets
| up to 5.73. Without the dragonbase, the values are 2.07 and 5.43.
| That's probably the fastest you can get with optimal equipment (and no
| cheating, of course).
| 
| As a newbie you should probably be happy about a speed of 1.0-1.5. Try
| to get speed boots.
| 
Sounds like speed is a very wild thing. It still seems confusing.

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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