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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: yuha on January 02, 2005, 11:01:46 pm

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Post by: yuha on January 02, 2005, 11:01:46 pm

In the description of \"Summon missile\" we read:
\"A wooden arrow is summoned and thrown at the target dealing 6*P damages\". What is \"P\" ?

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Post by: Icefalcon on January 03, 2005, 12:47:37 am

I\'m guessing your rank.  ?(

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Post by: yuha on January 03, 2005, 01:00:16 am

I\'m not sure, I\'ve got 15th lvl in the crystal way and I haven\'t noticed much difference in the strength of the \"summon missile\" spell.

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Post by: tangerine on January 03, 2005, 01:33:16 am

its magical *P*ower - its determined by your skill and the spell power that you set in the InfoWindow

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Post by: yuha on January 03, 2005, 02:13:44 am

Well ... I\'ve checked the sources and it seems that \"P\" IS the power level (level in a certain magic way). However, spells can have limited power. If the DB record of \"summon missile\" on the fragnetics server (or wherever \"our\" mysql is located) is the same as the one that can be found in the CVS sql scripts, then the power level of the mentioned spell is limited to \"2\".

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Post by: tangerine on January 03, 2005, 06:01:25 pm

> \"P\" IS the power level (level in a certain magic way)

wrong - power level is not skill level  
there is a formula (not public) that transforms skill level and magic power into power level

> However, spells can have limited power.

right

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Post by: yuha on January 03, 2005, 07:24:52 pm

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Originally posted by tangerine
> \"P\" IS the power level (level in a certain magic way)

wrong - power level is not skill level  
there is a formula (not public) that transforms skill level and magic power into power level

Well, you\'re of course right :) It\'s determined by a math script such as those that can be found in data/rpgrules.xml. BTW - will the equations that are (going to be) used to compute various stats (such as maximum amount of mana) ever published ?

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Post by: tangerine on January 03, 2005, 11:58:05 pm

> data/rpgrules.xml

this file in public CVS is just an example, real formulas can be different.

> published ?

I think not

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Post by: Ikarsik on January 04, 2005, 12:38:06 am

ooo secret formula. Is it really hard to guess ? could it be worked out by observation?

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Post by: Icefalcon on January 04, 2005, 01:45:33 am

Since it doesn\'t tell you how much damage you did, it probably won\'t be easy.

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Post by: tangerine on January 04, 2005, 01:48:40 am

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Originally posted by Ikarsik
ooo secret formula. Is it really hard to guess ? could it be worked out by observation?

it\'s not a simple formula, although I think it would be theoretically possible to guess it with certain algorithm :)

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Post by: ramlambmoo on January 04, 2005, 03:00:58 am

Yeah, the magic arrow spell has a pretty low limit.. once you get a few points into the crystal way, the damage you do dosnt increase.  And a forumla is hard, given as it has been said, that you cant see how much damage you do...

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Post by: Exaero_Fiero on January 04, 2005, 03:22:05 am

You can assume of the damage you\'re doing.
 1.Make 10-20 attempts, counting how much damage you need to deal to kill a mob.
 2.Make an educated guess about mob\'s HP.
 3.Count how many HP% you take off with one spell.
 4.Knowing mob\'s HP and your dmg in %, you can now calculate about how much damage do you do.