[UA] Adeptvatars

Nick Wedig mrteapot at disinfo.net
Thu May 24 12:32:49 PDT 2001


>A 19% obsession skill succeeds on numbers 01-19, 20, 21, 30, 31, 40, 41,
>50, 51, 60, 61, 70, 71, 80, 81, 90, and 91.  That's a total of a 35%
>chance of success, or a +16% chance from what it would be if you were not
>obsessed.

Ignore my last post, because I forgot about flipping multiples of ten.  And he explains ti better'n me anyway.

>The obsession bonus actually increases your chances of success most at the
>middle of the range (the 50% range), and is less at both ends (frex, if
>you have a 01 obsession skill, you only get a 1% bonus (a 10 can be
>flipped).  However, if the degree of success matters, then it's not
>accurate to say that there's less of a bonus at high skill levels for
>obsessives -- as skill increases, your ability to flip to a higher, but
>still succesful, number also increases.

I hadn't really thought about that, but flipping a 09 to a still successful 90 would be terribly effective at times.

Mr. Teapot
wishes he had skills that high

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