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“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
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Yes, that's right.
The choice of '+' was made a while ago, but then also remade when I moved this stuff to data files. It is in some respects a bad choice, because of exactly the confusion you've highlighted. The alternative would have been to add an extra parameter into the dice expression code just to deal with the percentage case which only turns up in healing potions. I was very unwilling to do that - the dice and expression code was written (in much better C than I write) entirely by Molybdenum just after I took over as maintainer; it's incredibly useful; and frankly I struggle to understand it enough to make the odd tweak.
In summary: yes, my fault, I regret nothing
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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The trick is that the B line is used to calculate a number of HP, and the M line is used to calculate a percentage, and then the spell restores whichever of those is greater. So for a CL20 character with 200 HP, it would restore 30HP (as 5% of 200 is 10, which is less); for a CL40 character with 600HP it would restore 60 as 10% of 600, because 40+10 is less.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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But both expressions are in terms of PLAYER_LEVEL, not PLAYER_MHP (or whatever.) So i am still confusedComment
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That's because the amounts restored (whether flat or percentage) increase as the player levels up. So, for example, a CL20 character gets 5% of their max HP restored - the player level tells you it's 5%, and then you go away, find their max HP, and restore 5% of that. When they get to CL40, it's 10% and you do the same thing.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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Ok, I think I get this now.
The dice expression sets the base to PLAYER_LEVEL + 10 and the m_bonus to PLAYER_LEVEL / 4. (z-dice.c)
HEAL_HP interprets the base as a number of hit points and the m_bonus as a percentage of missing HP, and chooses the greater of those as the healing power. (effects.c)
The challenge in interpreting these dice expressions is that the code for different effects can interpret the meaning of the 4 parts of the dice struct in different ways, or ignore them entirely. HEAL_HP appears to ignore the number and sides of dice, for example.Comment
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Wow, I guess I must have known that at some point. That makes the percentage less useful unless you really need it, I guess.
I'd just like to say, too, I really like the way this thread is getting more airtime for the details of game mechanics. There's been a lot of work gone into this over a long time (some of it mine, but mostly other people's), and it's good to see that get recognition - as well as healthy for the codebase to be exposed to the light.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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One thing is very confusing: m$M can be read in two ways: as concatenation and as multiplication. I recommend requiring '*' here so it is easuer to read--'m' really needs to stand out in that expression.Comment
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From what I understand, the dice expression "m$M" sets the m_bonus to the M expression, and doesn't have to do with concatenation or multiplication.Comment
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