a question about precision

[Pocus]

Could Illwinter give us how precision works exactly? That is what is the percentage that I hit my target for a given precision? Does it depends on distance (I suppose).

Thats the kind of thing impossible to test...

[PDF]

Originally posted by Pocus:
Could Illwinter give us how precision works exactly? That is what is the percentage that I hit my target for a given precision? Does it depends on distance (I suppose).

Thats the kind of thing impossible to test...

What's sure is that all "Flying stuff" spells don't seem to hit anything more... I've seen Shards scatter all over the battlefield for no effect .
Arrows/bolts also seem somewhat more erratic than in Dom1, but that's totally subjective (and way less obvious than with spells).

[Sammual]

Originally posted by PDF:

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Originally posted by Pocus:
Could Illwinter give us how precision works exactly? That is what is the percentage that I hit my target for a given precision? Does it depends on distance (I suppose).

Thats the kind of thing impossible to test...

What's sure is that all "Flying stuff" spells don't seem to hit anything more... I've seen Shards scatter all over the battlefield for no effect .
Arrows/bolts also seem somewhat more erratic than in Dom1, but that's totally subjective (and way less obvious than with spells).

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Point blank Massed Crossbows have a nice effect but at range any unit with less than a 12 precision can't hit crap, a 15 precision hits a lot.

Sammual

[Pocus]

I would like the formula used. Abysian mages with 8 prec firing a fireball would not hit a cow 2 meters away. Thats would help me decide if I knew that at range 20 I have only 10% chances of hitting my target square.

[Arralen]

.. would really be great if we could get some numbers. It's good to know the numbers when playing such a complicated strategy game.
Yeap, I'm a Stars!-player

Some observations from my Last game:

Niefelson (prec16;Air4) casting Cold Bolt (prec 3) does hit almost every time at normal range combat starting range and 25-30% at 1/2 battlefield range

Skratti (prec 10) casting Cold Bolt from the same distance gets 30% and 0% hits

Jotun Javelinist (prec 10) with Javelin (prec -2) gets less than 30% hits at normal "fire" distance.


I've seen those multiple-effect-spells scatter all over the battle field, but I have seen them working correctly (at range ~10) as well. As the spread gets bigger as the range to the target increases, it looks to me that sometimes the spells go off with spread for max range while they're in fact aimed at targets nearby. Or, as I never was able to point out that target, as the distribution seemed fairly random, maybe the target gets "lost" somehow when spell effects are calculated.

All in all I must say, low precision fire (<14 total) isn't worth the cost unless applied at extremly close range ..

yours,
A.

edited: spelling

[ November 12, 2003, 14:04: Message edited by: Arralen ]

[Sammual]

Originally posted by Pocus:
I would like the formula used. Abysian mages with 8 prec firing a fireball would not hit a cow 2 meters away. Thats would help me decide if I knew that at range 20 I have only 10% chances of hitting my target square.

Anything below a 10 Precision seems to have a better chance to hit your troops than the enemy.

Sammual

P.S. If you get a commander with the Heroic Bonus of percision give him a magic bow and have him target enemy Archers. He almost never misses once his per gets above 15 (+ the per of the bow).