Why do we have 1000 TP? Would it be better if we had 100?

[Lollie]

Asside from bloating numbers to make the look bigger, it also leaves the door open to skills to be added later that might use say 45 tp instead of 50 rather than 4.5, I would rather have the extra 0 then the decimal. Also as far as number bloat this has been quite a controlled minimal use comparatively speaking, and in the past they removed after making sure they would not need it going forward. A good example of the forethought, in 1.0 everything was valued 10x more gil due to consumable arrows, once those were gone and the "bloat" was not needed they removed it.

[LegendWait]

... people really have too much time on their hands to come up with weird questions like these.

[Catwho]

They bizarrely switched it over to 3000 in XI a while ago. I guess to make it match XIV?

(Apparently the game always tracked it like that, but kept it in terms of % and not hard numbers.)

[Rayinfluense]

I agree with you. I don't think that they would ever need to scale the numbers up like WoW did for example. It doesn't make sense, and to me it looks ugly. I usually think of it like this: If you're level 1 and have 100 HP, you fall of a cliff and you take 80 damage. If you're level 100 and have 1 000 000 hp, you would take 800 000 damage. What if the level 100 with the 1 000 000 hp would take 80 damage as well? He would have to fall very far in order to die.

[Tiggy]

It's all arbitrary anyway

[LineageRazor]

They bizarrely switched it over to 3000 in XI a while ago. I guess to make it match XIV?

(Apparently the game always tracked it like that, but kept it in terms of % and not hard numbers.)

Actually, the switchover in FFXI wasn't bizarre. Rather, it was LONG overdue.

For ages, methods for building up TP have depended heavily on fractional amounts of TP. With the three-digit TP bar, these values were always rounded down visually and it made it a chore to work out just how effective things that boosted your TP gain were. Multiplying everything by ten, the value of equipment and abilities that fractionally boosted TP became much more apparent.

In FFXIV, I'm guessing that they made it a four-digit number anticipating that sometime in the future there might be need for finer granularity in TP gain/usage.

A potential example: A job ability for a future job that halves TP consumption for all party members for fifteen seconds. Now, what are you going to do about abilities that cost 7 TP in a three-digit model...

[OMEGA_HACK]

No it wouldn't, because...well...wibbly wobbly timey wimey...stuff.

[Risvertasashi]

Honestly it's just as arbitrary as any other number. Why specifically X MP or HP? As with TP, the importance isn't its absolute value but its relation to other values (cost of a spell vs total mp pool vs regen ticks... % of HP a big attack removes, a heal spell restores, etc).

Ultimately, 1000 is a nice round decimal number. 100 is very intuitively 10% of 1000, which then gives people an intuitive feel for how much of their resource pool they're using.

Cost of spells increases with levels too, so honestly I'm not sure why they don't just make MP a fixed number that only gear can affect...

Actually, the switchover in FFXI wasn't bizarre. Rather, it was LONG overdue.

For ages, methods for building up TP have depended heavily on fractional amounts of TP. With the three-digit TP bar, these values were always rounded down visually and it made it a chore to work out just how effective things that boosted your TP gain were. Multiplying everything by ten, the value of equipment and abilities that fractionally boosted TP became much more apparent.

In FFXIV, I'm guessing that they made it a four-digit number anticipating that sometime in the future there might be need for finer granularity in TP gain/usage.

A potential example: A job ability for a future job that halves TP consumption for all party members for fifteen seconds. Now, what are you going to do about abilities that cost 7 TP in a three-digit model...

Also, this. ^

[Aerowaffle]

Honestly it's just as arbitrary as any other number. Why specifically X MP or HP? As with TP, the importance isn't its absolute value but its relation to other values (cost of a spell vs total mp pool vs regen ticks... % of HP a big attack removes, a heal spell restores, etc).

Ultimately, 1000 is a nice round decimal number. 100 is very intuitively 10% of 1000, which then gives people an intuitive feel for how much of their resource pool they're using.

If your argument is that 1000 is a good number because it makes it easier to judge how much of the resource you're using, wouldn't 100 be as good if not better?

If everything TP related was cut down by a factor of 10, then you can easily tell how much of your TP pool something cost, since it would be by percent by design. 10TP cost? 10%. 28 TP cost? 28%.

I do agree with LineageRazor though, that 1000 allows more flexibility to assign effects and abilities for weird numbers that would resort to decimals if assigned to a system that was based on a maximum of 100.

[OMEGA_HACK]

If your argument is that 1000 is a good number because it makes it easier to judge how much of the resource you're using, wouldn't 100 be as good if not better?

If everything TP related was cut down by a factor of 10, then you can easily tell how much of your TP pool something cost, since it would be by percent by design. 10TP cost? 10%. 28 TP cost? 28%.

I do agree with LineageRazor though, that 1000 allows more flexibility to assign effects and abilities for weird numbers that would resort to decimals if assigned to a system that was based on a maximum of 100.

It's a decimal thing, a higher value means less likely for decimals to become a problem later on down the road.