[Wesnoth-patches] [patch #3671] additive bonus, multiplicative penalty damage calculations

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                 Summary: additive bonus, multiplicative penalty damage
calculations
                 Project: Battle for Wesnoth
            Submitted by: ott
            Submitted on: Fri 01/21/2005 at 16:00
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open

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This changes damage calculations to use additive bonuses and multiplicative
penalties, as discussed in forum thread
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4240



See the comprehensive damage reports posted to that thread for details of how
this would change the damage tables.



Note that with this patch:



- a unit subject to a 25% leadership bonus and a 25% time of day penalty will
do 125% * 75% = 93.75% damage instead of 100% as is currently the case,



- charge and backstab increase damage by 100% regardless of modifiers or
resistances, so damage doubling is no longer so extremely powerful for led
units during their favourable time of day (but on the other hand it is also
improved during the wrong time of day), and



- the damage dealt by unled aligned units against high resistance defenders
varies less wildly between night and day than with the existing calculations,
typically at most a factor of 2 instead of the current day-night swings of up
to a factor of 11.





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Date: Fri 01/21/2005 at 16:00  Name: actions.patch  Size: 5.77KB   By: ott
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