Trying to find the hellhound's silver lining

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**Blaggard**

When did efficiency matter to you, ailaros?

**Blaggard**

Paraphrasing moi?
How very dare you!
I asked about efficiency rather that total cost.

**Blaggard**

Ailaros wrote:
The only thing that is useful is effectiveness. The only benefit to efficiency is to be able to have a few points left over to cram in more guns (read: more effectiveness). Efficiency isn't, in itself a virtue, it's merely a means to an end. The end being more overall killing power.

A dreadknight costs a lot, but gives you a lot of killing power. A hellhound costs less, but gives you even less killing power than even its reduced price allows. Meanwhile, you would get more killing power out of hellhound alternatives than you would from its points in hellhounds.

Yes, that does reference efficiency, but it's for the purpose of talking about effectiveness.

So... efficiency is good when it increase effectiveness? Just like the definition says it does!

We should really have a new topic to debate, this one's getting old.