possible bug

I have noticed that strike action might be linked to the defense action on a kuwal farming mission.
I have farmed twice with a strike smaller than the defense of the target and both times the strike
action was significantly lower that usual ( around -10% than the lowest value recorded on the previous
attacks ).

the modifier that says how much stronger/weaker your strike will be during any mission gets calculated randomly through a gaussian function only specifying the mean and the standard deviation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function

tldr: natural strike and defense of both players gets ignored when calculating the actual battle damage

I recommend decreasing the spread to what it was before the spread has been increased.

I would also welcome getting rid of the spread altogether.

There is no reason to have such an insanely huge spread.

Currently the spread is between 75% and 120%
If strike and defense are of equal size, in the extreme case, strike will deal 75% damage and defense 120%

120/75=1.6

This means that to guarantee that strike will successfully steal all 100% of kuwal, the strike must be at least 60% stronger than defense. This isn't acceptable.

A modifier between 95% and 105% only for strike would be more reasonable. Then only 5% more are required to beat the defender every time.

not everything in life is completely predictable

Admin wrote:the modifier that says how much stronger/weaker your strike will be during any mission gets calculated randomly through a gaussian function only specifying the mean and the standard deviation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function

tldr: natural strike and defense of both players gets ignored when calculating the actual battle damage

Then it must have been a coincidence(I never excluded this option), thanks for checking.

It has been reduced at least 1 time, if not twice already. I am fairly comfortable with it personally. I mean if you are OCD enough to insist on every single one of your attacks being successful, then you need to pay the high cost. being repelled 2 maybe 3 times out of 10 attacks is not that bad because over the 10 hits your still coming out ahead.

actually the last change made to it made the system different from what it was before and actually precisely what i wanted it to do.

used to be 90-105%, even spread (chance of getting 90% 1 out of 15 attacks)
then 75-120%, even spread (chance of getting 75-80% 1 out of 9 attacks)

now it's still 75-120% but it's on a normal distribution which means the following:
68% of your attacks will give you a power between 92% and 103%
95% of your attacks will give you a power between 86% and 109%
99.7% of your attacks will give you a power between 80% and 114%

This means only 1 in 666 (0.3% is 1 in 333, since we're only worried about being weak not about being strong, the chance goes down to 0.15% or 1 in 666) attacks will result in you getting extremely low power (below 80%).

Nomad wrote:It has been reduced at least 1 time, if not twice already. I am fairly comfortable with it personally. I mean if you are OCD enough to insist on every single one of your attacks being successful, then you need to pay the high cost. being repelled 2 maybe 3 times out of 10 attacks is not that bad because over the 10 hits your still coming out ahead.

You are wrong, the opposite is true.

It was 90-105% since the beggining of the game
and at some point the spread has been increased to 75-120%