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EricL:

--- Quote from: Numsgil ---Those shot routines always have been a huge mess.  The problem is that it's so gnarly I was always afraid to seriously revamp it in case I screwed something up subtley.
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This is exactly why I haven't opened them up.  I'd end up re-writing them and don't have the time presently.   I know I'm going to have to do it at some point, but there's other stuff higher on the list.

abyaly:
I was playing around with robots with varying amount ofr body to see how much damage -6 shots do and something interesting happened.

If I make one of the bots with 1000 body fire a shot, it will reliably do 40.8 damage to the opponent's body (point blank).

I wanted to get several more values and try to find a formula, so I got a bot with 32000 body and manually reproduced it to create bots with 16000, 8000, 4000 body and down. Here's where it got interesting. When I got down to testing the one with 1000 body, it did 102 damage (point blank). Every time I've done this, a bot with 1000 body from this method did 102 damage. A bot with 1000 body that started with it did 40.8 damage.

So if you're worried about breaking things on accident, rest assured that it's already broken.

Numsgil:
I think it's a piecewise function.  0-1000 is linear, or something like it.  1000-32000 is logarithmic.  If the 1000-32000 code got out of sync with 0-1000, that would explain what you saw.

abyaly:
No. 1k to 32k is linear.
0 to 1k is also linear.


*linear being aphine

Numsgil:
That might be the problem then.  I'm pretty sure I designed it to be logarithmic after 1000 body.

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