[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/9694 Update the F1 help for attack chaining to mention "Scaled stat chance" c

[James Paige]

I dunno. For me personally this seems a little confusing no matter how you
slice it.

The description I went with was an attempt to concisely describe the actual
implementation.

I am totally open to changing it. I don't know what is best here.

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>> james
>> 2017-11-13 14:02:29 -0800 (Mon, 13 Nov 2017)
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>> Update the F1 help for attack chaining to mention "Scaled stat chance"
>> conditions
>> (but if anybody can explain this better than I did, please do!)
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>> U   wip/ohrhelp/attack_chaining.txt
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> A random number between 0 and 1 < max any stat X divided by Y? Don't
> "normal" (non-mathematically inclined) people always describe chances using
> percentages or ratios? I don't think it's obvious that generating a number
> between 0 and 1 and comparing to a fraction Z has chance to succeed Z*100%,
> except that if the stat is larger than Y, it has 100% chance. In fact, when
> I looked at the code for it, I got confused for a minute as to whether that
> was the effect.
> Instead of:
>   Condition: scaled stat chance (max any target)
>   if random 0 to 1 < max any target X
>   divided by Y
> Maybe something like
>   Condition: with chance (100 * max any target X / Y)%
>   stat: max any target's X
>   divided by: Y
> I suppose, since we already have the Rate option above which is a second
> probability (and the Rate is limited from 0-100%), it would be possible to
> combine the two, as:
>   Rate: (Z * max any target X / Y)%    (edits the value of Z)
>   Condition: stat-based chance (max of any target)
>   stat: max any target's X
>   divided by: Y
> But this seems to make things much more difficult to understand.
>
> But wait, why don't we just use plain english?
>   Condition:  chance increasing with X (max any target)
>   stat: max any target's X
>   increases from 0% for X=0 to 100% for X>=Y      (edits the value of Y)
> It doesn't fit in 40 characters, but I'd sure like to stop hobbling
> ourselves with that limit (speaking of which, didn't we intend to increase
> the default?)
>
> In fact, why don't we make the 0% an extra parameter? You can get the same
> effect by also having an Else chain with a base chance, but that's not
> simple.
>
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