Further noodling around with ad hoc models suggests that
in at least some cases, some of the students’ attributes are best thought of as having limits such that increases above the limits make no difference. Specifically, I played around a little with Serpentyne and it seems that we probably want to look at min(40,Intellect) and min(65,Reflexes) rather than using those values unaltered. The limits might well be different for different houses (analogy: intelligence is probably an advantage both for theoretical physicists and for taxi drivers, but most likely being 1-in-a-million smart rather than “just” 1-in-a-thousand is more beneficial for the theoretical physicists); so far this is just the result of idly looking at one particular house.
Further noodling around with ad hoc models suggests that
in at least some cases, some of the students’ attributes are best thought of as having limits such that increases above the limits make no difference. Specifically, I played around a little with Serpentyne and it seems that we probably want to look at min(40,Intellect) and min(65,Reflexes) rather than using those values unaltered. The limits might well be different for different houses (analogy: intelligence is probably an advantage both for theoretical physicists and for taxi drivers, but most likely being 1-in-a-million smart rather than “just” 1-in-a-thousand is more beneficial for the theoretical physicists); so far this is just the result of idly looking at one particular house.