Re: saving throw formulas

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 08/26/98


On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Ronny Iversen wrote:

>hmm whats the big deal with all these formulas, its not like loking up in
>a table takes an huge amount of computer processing power. So why not just
>stick with the tables for easy reference instead of some obscure c formula
>:)
>
>Tables are easier to modify too, if you should feel one class is
>overbalanced... :)

Have you seen class.c lately? You can get lost in there.

(FWIW, the huge switch does what we wanted it to do, prevent people from
forgetting to extend the table.)

Was a convert too. ;)

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