Alex Ferguson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:40:56AM +0100, Mark Galeotti wrote:
> > I am going to have to give serious thought, from fairy tale roleplaying
> > options for the very young novitiate gamer through to flipping round the
> > notation so that 1w2 is rendered as a rather more intuitive 2m1 (m?
> > masterstvo).
>
> While it is objectively more intuitive (or if not truly 'objectively',
> then at least "in the context of the arabic numeral system"), trouble is
> it's going to be disasterously confusing to anyone who's trained their
> brain to HQ's "backwards" notation. I'd suggest that if you do reverse
> the positions of the TN and the masteries, you do it with as much
> notational difference as possible, rather than simply making it look
> like what'd be a quite different rating in HQ. (The different 'rune' is
> something of a clue, but I'm not at all sure it's sufficient.)
>
> If masterstva (?) are relatively uncommon, one might go with the old
> idea of listing out all of them as suffixes (i.e., instead of 1w2, 1mm).
> Obviously not an attractive plan if you have rating likes 10w15 dotting
> about, of course. Alternatively, one might indicate the duplication of
> masteries (in general, or beyond say the first 3) by some notation such
> as 1mx4, or indeed a superscript "power" notation (1m^4, in LaTeX-speak).
> Or indeed with the masteries written first in such a style (mmmm1, or
> {m^4}1). In either case, I think there's sufficient visual clue that
> what's meant definitely is _not_ HQ-style 4W1, so there's little danger
> of confusion (or general melting down of brains of people playing both
> games).
Why not just 2m04 or 2m*4 or 2m>04 or other such symbol between the mand the target number?
Cheers,
DARRAN SIMS
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