2013-04-11, 04:30 AM
EDITED: This seems like a bug to me. Because the negative number system looks much more friendly if you were to make a game where everything is tweaked by hand. But its pretty much useless because it can't represent defense. It can only represent weakness. And if you do give the monster some defense, more than likely you are just opening it up to astronomically damaging attacks (ironically) so its really baffling how this is supposed to work.
I guess you could represent defense purely by HP if you use only 0 or less defenses. The problem though is you can't do the same with armor, not using SOM_PRM anyway (if at all) so that the damage system would not be symmetrical. Looks like lose lose. If you are making a game without Ex (after I can add some extensions for damage here in a bit) just don't forget to set all defenses to at least 1
PS: The behavior at and below 0 defense is baffling to me. I don't know whether it should be removed as a bug or what. The only place I can see it being useful is in a game where there is no armor. So that you just have the starting armor to determine the player's defense ratings. Or a variation would be having the armor approximate the negative damage formula behavior as well as you could. I think it would be possible if all armor has around the same defense in every slot with slight deviations up to 189%. In fact that would probably be the best way to make your game if you can figure out how to do that.
EDITED: Actually using the negative numbers, the weaker the weapon the more damage it deals in relative terms. It doesn't seem to be using the damage formula (with negative numbers plugged in) above at all. So I am unsure if it should be discounted as a bug or what. Well actually with a 255 weapon it literally deals less damage than a 100 weapon. So yeah, seems like a bug to me.
At 50 damage you deal 169. At 100 189. At 255 you deal 139.
I guess you could represent defense purely by HP if you use only 0 or less defenses. The problem though is you can't do the same with armor, not using SOM_PRM anyway (if at all) so that the damage system would not be symmetrical. Looks like lose lose. If you are making a game without Ex (after I can add some extensions for damage here in a bit) just don't forget to set all defenses to at least 1
PS: The behavior at and below 0 defense is baffling to me. I don't know whether it should be removed as a bug or what. The only place I can see it being useful is in a game where there is no armor. So that you just have the starting armor to determine the player's defense ratings. Or a variation would be having the armor approximate the negative damage formula behavior as well as you could. I think it would be possible if all armor has around the same defense in every slot with slight deviations up to 189%. In fact that would probably be the best way to make your game if you can figure out how to do that.
EDITED: Actually using the negative numbers, the weaker the weapon the more damage it deals in relative terms. It doesn't seem to be using the damage formula (with negative numbers plugged in) above at all. So I am unsure if it should be discounted as a bug or what. Well actually with a 255 weapon it literally deals less damage than a 100 weapon. So yeah, seems like a bug to me.
At 50 damage you deal 169. At 100 189. At 255 you deal 139.