There are a ton of these questions, some can get really mathy - which is fine, but I am looking for a simple way based on a few stats, I thought I came up with one, so I will share it in hopes that someone can tell me where I might be going wrong.
The goal is that the monster should, depending on how powerful you are, be able to have a chance to hit. Weaker monsters instant death to them, harder monsters possible instant death to you.
I also realize these are hard questions to answer because it is game dependant. I hope I have provided enough info for you to give some guidance.
Lets get the stats out the way:
- To Hit Stat (Character): base stat / modded stat (ie: 12/100)
- Accuracy / Dodge (Character): between 0.0001 - 1.0 (0.01% - 100% (can be higher))
- Enemy Dodge / Enemy Accuracy: Between 0.0001 - 0.85 (0.01% - 85%)
- To Hit (Monster): Dex / 10,000 - where 10k is 1k higher then max stats (9k) for monsters
- Monsters do have a max level (if that will help)
When a character levels they get 1 point into their base stat - which is then used in conjunction with all equipment and so on to increase the modded stat additively (base stat + base stat * bonuses = modded stat)
Characters can cap out (Modded stat) Higher then 10K which might pose issues for a to hit formula. How ever at that point I would assume your skills are 100% as max level is 1000 - thus you should always be hitting
The idea I had was (based off another question asked):
(stat / modded stat) + (((accuracy - dodge) / accuracy) * 100)
Some assumptions I made based on how I built the system:
- Accuracy at 100%+ means you always hit
- Dodge at 100%+ Means you always dodge.
- Enemies dodge and accuracy do not go above 85% (they can start at 0.01% for both)
- Monsters always use their dex (ie 12/max cap), monsters do not have modded stats
- All Monster stats are the same, IE: if Dex is 9k all other stats, such as str, int, chr ... are also 9k
There are some issues with this formula though:
- If stat and stat mod are the same (no equipment or bonus for character only) I chose to use the stat (as opposed to stat / modded stat) so, if 11 === 11 - well, use 11. For the character (see below for example)
- Because a character might never train (I don't know why) Accuracy or Dodge their bonus might be 0.01% (there are equipment bonuses that can increase this to a max of 30% across all equipment with another 5% for boons (135% max) how ever in the following example we will assume you have nothing)
So:
Level 1 (Character) = (11) + ((0.0001 - 0.0001) / 0.001) * 100) = 11 // Nothing equipped no bonuses
vs.
Rat (Enemy) = (8/10000) + ((0.0001 - 0.0001) / 0.001) * 100) = 0.0008
This doesn't seem right, so the player has a 11% to hit and the rat has a 0.0008% chance to hit?
Character : 100 - 11 = 82% chance to hit Rate : 100 - 0.0008 = 99.9992% chance to hit?
This doesn't make sense to me. For context here's a high level monster with a character that has a 95% dodge chance:
(9000/10000) + ((0.75 - 0.95) / 0.75) * 100) = -25.7666666667
That does not look right.
base stat / modded stat
. What's the design intention behind that? \$\endgroup\$