yeah, why are we naming skills 'accuracy' and 'explosives' (as if the grenades would explode better) instead of basing them on the types of actions you make, which would give us 'snipe', 'burst', 'recoil', and 'throw' skills.
any means any, right?
Woooooo..... I guess the terminologies are military in nature and i thnk most are good.
Generally, there are 2 types of stats i believe - Attributes and Skills.
If u r a RPG player (Role Playing Gamer), you will pick this up immediately.
Attributes are like - Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma.
(Which i thnk maybe we should model after....)
As for skills - these refer to the things they are good (or bad) at....
Eg, Magic, Swordsmanship, Blunt weapons, etc.....
For UFOAI context, these are under the skills category including - Sniper, Assault, Explosives, etc.
These are simply proficiencies of weaponary which can be and definately will be affected by the soldier's intelligence (Think complex weaponary), dexterity (think nimbleness in assaulting in FIBUA), and even strength (think of it this way, a poor 45kg skinny dude trying to manage a complex Rocket launcher which easily weigh 20kg.).
Maybe this could clear up something as to why the stats are as such?
FYI, the stats for ATTRIBUTES do not increase as quickly as would skills.....
Since ATTRIBUTES are quite there already and only increases over a VERY long time.
Whilst SKILLS, well, dont we all get real proficient in firing an M16 after just 1 week of constant practise.
i wonder how many contributors are at least somewhat dedicated and how many are like me.
you know, maybe play ufo:ai when bored of some other game, then maybe read this forum if bored of playing, and when bored of the forum, then maybe make some minor contribution.
maybe a poll would be nice.
might give a pretty good idea about how far the next release might be.
Haha, that i dunnoe.
I cant even say i am uber dedicated (as i do get sidetracked by real work in life and occasional interesting programs like open sourced stuff).
But u do see many folks like myself ard. Haha. So I guess everyone here are generally pilgrims of UFOAI?