Talk:TODO/2.2/Armour

• "Damage reduction values and scripts" -> dmgweight xxxxx
  • Very nice concept - a lot better than the "every single ammo has a defined reduction value" and very easy to look at and tweak. :) --Hoehrer 16:00, 7 August 2007 (CEST)
• I also have no objections to this proposal and I also like it very much. So, if there is nothing more to discuss or no further objections, I would propose to consider it final and prepare TODO section for it (2.2, I believe we should have working armours in 2.2 this way or another, and while this proposal is nice...)--Zenerka 20:20, 7 August 2007 (CEST)

Armour, cont'd

I'd like to propose some armour-related functionality in addition to the behavior described in the main article. Aside from a damage modifier, I propose armour to also have a TU modifier. This modifier is subtracted from a soldier's TUs at the beginning of his/her turn, meaning wearing the armour effectively results in a reduction of max TUs for that soldier. Light armours will have a TU penalty of zero, while heavier armours will encumber the soldiers that wear them. One way to go about it is by making the TU penalty a fixed value, defined in the script files. However, it may be a good idea to scale the encumbrance based on a soldier's strength stat. This could be a formula, but I believe it would be better to define three or five penalty values that apply to a certain range of the strength stat. For example:

item medium
{
    ...
    encumbrance
    {
        worst   20
        bad     17
        average 14
        good    11
        best    8
    }
}

This would mean that a soldier with a strength rating below 20% will be slowed down by the medium arour for 20 TUs while a soldier with a strengh rating of 80% or higher will only be slowed down for 8 TUs.*

The net effect of such a system will be that the player will have to make a tradeoff between 1) effectiveness versus one damage type as opposed to effectiveness against another and 2) overall effectiveness, TU penalty and soldier strength. I believe that this adds depth to the game while still being sufficiently simple for the player to grasp.

* This touches the subject of supposedly-elite soldiers being "awful" at any given attribute. This is a separate discussion, but I for one consider it valid.
--BTAxis 18:32, 8 August 2007 (CEST)

• while this new proposition (about TU reducing effect) is very nice and I am all for it, the proposed algorithm would require large amount of new code (at the first look); wouldn't be enough (read: enough, does not mean: better) to just add one static value to (almost) every armour (for example: reduce 15) and prepare the code, where we can use character strenght to determine how many of such (reduce 15) value should be removed at the beginning of character turn? (so, if strenght is worst, take 100%, if strenght is best, take 20%, and so on)--Zenerka 20:55, 10 August 2007 (CEST)

what is wrong about the code we are using right now in G_Damage?

	/* Apply armor effects. */
	if (damage > 0 && ent->i.c[gi.csi->idArmor]) {
		objDef_t *ad;
		int totalDamage;

		ad = &gi.csi->ods[ent->i.c[gi.csi->idArmor]->item.t];

		totalDamage = damage;

		if (ad->protection[fd->dmgtype] > 0)
			damage *= 1.0 - ad->protection[fd->dmgtype] * ent->AP * 0.0001;
		else
			damage *= 1.0 - ad->protection[fd->dmgtype] * 0.01;

		if (!mock) {
			if (ad->hardness[fd->dmgtype]) {
				int armorDamage;

				armorDamage = (totalDamage - damage) / ad->hardness[fd->dmgtype];
				ent->AP = max(0, ent->AP - armorDamage);
			}
		}
	}

our damage types are the following:

damagetypes standard
{
	"_normal"
	"_steelblade"
	"_monomolecularblade"
	"_blast"
	"_fire"
	"_shock"
	"_laser"
	"_plasma"
	"_particlebeam"
	"_stun"
}

Mattn 19:34, 4 October 2007 (CEST)

• Firstly, we're going to have more "damage types" than these, as stated in the article. Secondly, hardness shouldn't be used anymore. Thisrdly, the current code modifies damage by a multiplier while it should be a subtraction.

In addition, we need functionality for the new script entries as well as a display somewhere in the equip menu for the judged armour values. --BTAxis 01:28, 5 October 2007 (CEST)