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Bonus of -1

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Concise description: Instead of bonus of -1, say penalty of 1 or -1
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vodean wrote:Concise description: Instead of bonus of -1, say penalty of 1 or -1
no idea what you are talking about. can you explain this a little better?-0
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He reckons a bonus of -1 is not really a bonus.
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It is just the way the game engine is coded when dealing with negative values. The wording doesn't have that much impact on people, but might be cleaned up eventually.


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I think actually that a bonus of -1 is the most clear way to phrase it.

As you said in your first post, you could rewrite it as "a penalty of 1 or -1". Well which is it? The fact that you list both shows that this would be confusing to players. I think "a penalty of 1" would be correct, but there would undoubtedly be people who argue that it should be -1.

A bonus of -1 is clear. Just as some industries like to talk about "benefits and disbenefits" instead of "benefits and costs".
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