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Thread: About the doctor FAQ
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FishPaste
Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:19 am
#1
I was skimming through it (don't know why), and I found this line in the part that explains to the reader about medical experimentation.
"And, finally, how you spend your points will make a difference. If you try to spend all of your points at once, there is a higher risk of failure. However, if you spend just one point at a time, you reduce that level of risk."
With all of my experience as a Doctor I find this, to be incorrect. I skim down a little further,
"So, experimenting a point at a time can be a "regulating" approach. You're going to have less severe failures, but, as you're experimenting more times, you're more likely to get some failures. However, when you have a failure with just 1 point, the item is probably still salvageable. When you have a failure spending a lot of points, you've probably pretty well destroyed the item."
When you experiment, the higher you go down the line, the greater the risk. Likewise, when you do it all at once, the risk is the culmination of all the baby steps you could have taken. I know it sounds weird, but you can't assume that when you experiment all at once and fail completely that if you had done it in baby steps it would have still been salavgable, there is no forumlae to tell you what you could have gotten. Plus, through exeperience, I find that if I go all at once (+105 experimentation doctor) in the effectiveness line, if the experiment was a success it goes all the way and I lose two boxes through failure, but I still have two points remaining to recover. If I take baby steps the same thing happens on a smaller scale, making everything proportional. I may be dillusional, or crazy, or bored, or all three. If you have something to say, please do.
Marrow1
Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:19 am
#2
I have found the Doc FAQ to be true.
I have fewer fails if I limit the number of experiments I run at one time.
If I have a fail when doing a large experiment it is more costly than when I have a fail with a small experiment.
I have no idea what a 105% doc is. I assume your a 10 point doc with a +5 med exp clothing item(s) which as you know is useless until you get the next +5.
Cadeyrn
Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:49 am
#3
I think the FAQ is correct there, but it doesn't really apply to a master doc. I remember when I made medicine as a medic and put all my points into one line (i.e. effectiveness) the red bar to the right which displays the risk of failure would rise considerablyand I would get a lot of bad results. I seldom see the red bar rise at all as master doc even when putting as much points into the line as possibel. It still happens from time to time and when it does I just take out one or two points and it's all good again.
It probably has to do with the high medicineassembly skill a master doc has.
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