2013-07-06, 09:50 PM
I expected the actual damage formula would look different than what I used in the excel, but it worked, and no one ever used the Excel anyways so it didn't really matter. Still, comparing the two, I can't easily see how they came to the same conclusion. Not worth the brain power to figure out.
I believe the KF damage formula was designed to be a limiter to exploration. If an enemies stats are significantly unbalanced from the player's, it results in giving/receiving massive damage. In an open world game, that works to keep the player out of advanced areas until they're at the proper level. The down side to the KF formula is: it's not user friendly when making up a game, and it completely takes the challenge out of defeating enemies who are at a lower level.
People should be able to customize their damage formula with your plugin, but I like "damage=atk-def" for the default setting because it's simple for new developers to understand and use. As long as they have the option to change it, starting with the simplest formula makes sense to me.
I believe the KF damage formula was designed to be a limiter to exploration. If an enemies stats are significantly unbalanced from the player's, it results in giving/receiving massive damage. In an open world game, that works to keep the player out of advanced areas until they're at the proper level. The down side to the KF formula is: it's not user friendly when making up a game, and it completely takes the challenge out of defeating enemies who are at a lower level.
People should be able to customize their damage formula with your plugin, but I like "damage=atk-def" for the default setting because it's simple for new developers to understand and use. As long as they have the option to change it, starting with the simplest formula makes sense to me.