Well Gnillbert changed stats in his mod:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/395664

I cant tell you if it  actually did something though :-/

That might not necessarily mean it's broken, just that we don't understand the mechanic. i'd put it even higher, above 9999999999999. If you're still getting hit most of the time on a unit with 0 defense... well... that's that.

Well a default of 9999999 makes noting hit at all which is a relief. Going to set it back to 100 to see if I get the same result then increase it by orders of 10 to see what happens. If anyone was wondering a battle that is auto resolved where no one can hit anyone ends in a defeat where all units survive on both sides.

Seems like 1000 is 100% miss 500 kinda felt like 50% but would need allot more tests to verify that. Have better things to be doing on my birthday    . I'll have more of a poke around at it tomorrow maybe some sort of multiplier has got set for it by accident. Hmmn should remove all mod files bar the dodge just in case.

Happy birthday, Nimbyjester

Thanks guys  

I've done a bit more testing on this today and mostly found it needs more testing and that trawling through the auto result stats quite boring. Anyway here are some stats for 500 dodge which I am guessing is 50% dodge.

All tests were against the same group of spiders against one peasant with no armour,a club and a massive amount of HP. I only counted the attacks made by the spiders against the peasant as some of them had defense.

Test Run 1:

Hits: 39

Misses: 37

Test Run 2:

Hits: 46

Misses: 50

Test Run 3:

Hits: 45

Misses: 66

Test Run 4:

Hits: 55

Misses: 55

As you can see three of the results show that the outcome is about 50/50 however test 3 is totally out of whack with this. Which just goes to show that a small selection of results isn't enough to get a proper representation. However I am willing to bet that test 3 is an aberration and that the 500 dodge is actually 50% dodge. The next step I guess is checking to make sure that the dodge chance increases in a linear fashion, which it more than likely will.

Saved.

Well, it's issue for shields too, since they give dodge from 2-15, depending of shield type. Which is pitiful if that's just 1/10 of % value.

I am thinking of doing away with bows in my next game. I don't use them. The AI randomly uses them and depending on the patch will be unstoppable or permanently gimped.

If it ain't modable don't use it.

I read somewere in the modding forums that 100% is represented by 1000 not 100 so i do belive he is correct on the 500 thing, 50% chance is not a always to the point systems it is still sligtly radomized to an extent ur not gonna get 50hits 50misses every time, id post the link but i really cant remember were this was stated but im pretty sure it was posted by a dev.

Based on what I've seen in the XML files, I had already come to the conclusion that 1000 = 100% before I read this thread.  Most notably, in the CoreNPC.xml file in referencing the Chance to Spawn.