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Originally Posted by Bristlebaner
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I agree that the overall feel is pretty darn realistic. My curiosity is more centered on things like:
1.) Resists on P99 vs. back in 1999
2.) How many HP a character would have at a given level vs. P99
3.) Do pets hit as hard, or as often as they would on P99 as they did in classic? HP values? Mitigation?
These are things that are much harder to quantify as they involve math and calculations behind the scenes.
Did the staff reverse engineer some of this data or did they do a best guess?
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Some of these data points are from player data (like old log files). Some of it is anecdotal. Some things have been explained by devs, like certain formulae about AC.
The system is not perfect, nor is it ever likely to be so. It can't be reverse engineered from the client or from the current iteration of live. People's memory's aren't perfect. People's log files are incomplete. I'd be surprised if the devs who worked on it can even accurately describe its inner-workings at this point, much less at every single update made along the classic timeline.
I wouldn't reduce their efforts down to "the best guess"; they have put a lot of effort into trying to recreate the systems as authentically as possible.