New Fight Scoring

[DigiTan]

Here's a new idea for scoring. Before today, calculating damage involved subtracting the victim's DEF (defense) from the attackers ATK (attack) and a few other factors. This had a lot of problems because extremely strong and weak enemies were using the same set of rules. And no one wants for fight enemies that inflict 0 damage.

So this is the new plan...

Health Bars

Squidge enemy shown with 4, 3, 2, and 1 Health Points

It fits the game a lot better since you can tell at a glance how much HP is left. Most enemies have 1 or 2 HP to start with. Large ones like tanks may have 3 or 4. And bosses always have 5. Edgar himself can have up to 255 depending on his level.

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HOW THEY WORK...

No matter who's hitting whom, when an attack lands, there is a certain percentage chance the victim will lose 1 HP from its bar. This chance is shown below as P[hit] (probability of hit).

The Battle Equation...
[font="Courier"]P[hit] = 1 - k(1/2)^{attacker's ATK ÷ victim's DEF}

[Liazon]

I like the equations, but is that how the sprites will always appear? with the health next to it? or will it only show up when you actually deal damage to it? Is it going to have a major impact on speed to show the health bar (it looks like a separate sprite afaik)?

[DigiTan]

That's a good point. I might have the game limit him to fighting maybe 3 or 4 enemies at once so thing don't get bogged down. And probably only enemies with normal HP will have bars (exploding enemies or indestructible ones would have none). The good thing is it uses CrASH_MAN's sprite drawer which is amazingly fast.

[DigiTan]

I'll probably be re-visiting this idea over the Christmas break. Currently, the physics uses the ATK vs. DEF differnce to decide how far to throw the victim. It's okay, but it doesn't quite make stat gains rewarding enough.

[Art_of_camelot]

I just re-read this (the first and subsequent posts) and realized an odd(maybe) similarity to another game. In Pokemon Red and Blue on gameboy the highest accuracy any attack could have was also 99.6 percent. In the case of Pokemon though it was a programming oversight (IE if an attack had it's accuracy listed at 100% it was in fact only 99.6 percent accurate. I just found it to be an interesting coincidence.