Are there any old Tele-Arena players lurking here? I need to settle a
bet with a friend of mine who's being an idiot!
reddit / bbs

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tele-arena · 2014-12-31 15:15

What's the bet?

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Mikes_friend_Tyler · 2014-12-31 15:34

I played the hell out of TA for years. From 1992 right up until my
favorite BBS shutdown with most the rest of them sometime around 1998
or 99. My memory is a bit fuzzy BUT i knew thr game like the back of
my hand.

My friend swears up and down that he had an Elvish beastmaster with 6
attacks unedited. I called bullshit immediately and thats when the
longest most ridiculous argument ive ever had about TA almost 20 years
after the fact enaued.

He ended up betting me 50 bucks that hes right and im wrong.

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tele-arena · 2015-01-01 14:57

That's definitely not possible in the later versions (5+); max Elven
Hunter Agility roll is 22, and even if he got lucky and it went up
three times when leveling to the cap of 25, the Hunter only gets +3
Agility for promotion to Beast Master. So no sixth attack since their
Agility isn't 30+. The only race that can potentially get a sixth
attack is Goblin.

I loaded Tele-Arena 4.0 and tested some things. The gold donation stat
cap is still 20, the cap for stat gain when leveling is 25, and there
aren't any promotions. I had a theory that maybe older versions would
let stats go higher, but the lack of promotions makes me want to call
BS on your friend.

However, there were a lot of different versions, and it's possible
that your friend was playing on a BBS that had some kind of
modification that he didn't know about. If a Sysop had the source code
and changed the stat caps or racial bonuses, then it's possible that
he actually did have an Elven Beast Master with six attacks. Example,
the 2003 Tele-Arena BBS (the tabbs.kicks-ass.net one) removed stat
caps.

So I'm leaning toward calling BS, but it's probably impossible to
prove either way.