non-monotonic time attacks

[PowerDiver]

I lost a recent char to stat drains from a time attack. Is it really right to set things up so that if your base is 17 or 18 you lose 5 points, but if it is 8 or 18/89 you lose 2 points?

Step around a corner, get hit by an unresistable breath from an undetectable vortex [playing non-mage-caster] that can reduce all important stats by 4 or 5 in these days of few stat potions. Should this really be the intended situation?

[edit] and 18/10 only drops 1, to 18/03.

[d_m]

Is this just done arbitrarily via a table currently? The behavior you describe is... non-obvious.

[Magnate]

Is this just done arbitrarily via a table currently? The behavior you describe is... non-obvious.

I thought it was random ... but there is already a ticket for making time attacks less evil http://trac.rephial.org/ticket/598, so we should add to that.

[PowerDiver]

Is this just done arbitrarily via a table currently? The behavior you describe is... non-obvious.

It is quite straightforward. Add base plus percentile, integer arithmetic * 3 / 4 and convert back if the result is over 18.

So 18 * 3 / 4 = 13, and (18 + 10) * 3 / 4 = (18 + 3)