Where is the K coefficient please?

[shinyhalo]

The manuals describes the formula for calculating damage as:

M(damage) = (Attack Skill / Defense Skill) * (Current hitpoints / Initial hitpoints) * K

I have looked but I can't find K.

Is K always the same?

For that matter, I can only seem to find half of the above formula in battle.script Is there a cleanly written version of the whole formula anywhere in the data files?

Thanks

[bman654]

Well, the damage is some-what random so I would say that K is not always the same but is some random distribution.

[shinyhalo]

Originally Posted by bman654

Well, the damage is some-what random so I would say that K is not always the same but is some random distribution.

So I can't find K because it's not written as a single, fixed constant, but instead as another formula(random distribution). Interesting possibility. I have seen some "random damage" type formulas.

[shinyhalo]

Well, I've been changing a bunch of numbers in battle.script and testing after each one, but I can't seem to figure it out.

I'm trying to multiply the damage units do to each other by 5 without altering the Attack/Defense ratio.

Obviously, if I just multiplied their Attack by 5 in UnitTypes.csv, I'd get more damage but that would throw the Attack/Defense values out of balance.

Any ideas on how to multiply the final casualty numbers by 5?

[bman654]

Look in ApplyAttackToDetachment() at the variable randomisedCasualties. This appears to be the damage done to the unit. Note: damage is health and each unit has 15 little guys and each of those little guys has health. So "15" damage may only mean 1 little guy dies.

But anyway, there is a for() loop near the end of the function that goes from 0 to randomisedCasualties and applies the damage to the unit. Just before this for() loop, try multiplying randomisedCasualties by 5 and it should have the effect you want.

[shinyhalo]

Heh, sweet. Thanks!
I changed:

averageCasualties = AttackAverageOfDistribution(targetDetachment, role, attackAction, currentAttackCount);

to

averageCasualties = 5 * AttackAverageOfDistribution(targetDetachment, role, attackAction, currentAttackCount);

and changed
--local maximumDeviation = 2;
to
--local maximumDeviation = 10;

Tests show the damage is both increased and the Attack/Ratio is preserved, but I'm not sure if the random deviation +/- also got a 5x bump. It's not critical anyway.

[bman654]

lines that have '--' in them are just comments and do not do anything.