From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Sun Dec  2 22:48:04 2018
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:18:04 +1030
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Base AMP
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ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com> writes:
> But what if 2 of those paths fail?
> It would be better to merge them into a single payment along the expensive 4th path.
> However, the remaining succeeding path has already given `numpaths`=3.
>
> Using `numpaths` overcommits to what you will do in the future, and is unnecessary anyway.
> The payee is interested in the total value, not the details of the split.

Excellent point.

Thanks,
Rusty.