10-05-2003, 11:10 AM
Their stats will be the same. Only a very few points of data are saved for the mercs (a flag for if the merc is alive, a couple of random seeds for things like their name, an index of the difficulty and an type of mercanary you have hired, experience points that the merc has). The mercs are 'recreated' on entering a game from the index and experience by looking up and calculating from a table what their stats are going to be. If that table is edited in between games then the mercs will use the new table to set their stats off of. Once the merc is in an LoD game it will also have a linked list for the items that it carries attached to it also.