[0.981] Minimum hit chance

Dodge is getting rebalanced in 0.982. You are right that this is a problem, although I don't agree that min and max levels are needed if the game is properly balanced.

I like min/max hit chances in Age of Wonders, because it makes game more unpredictable - more fun for me.

I wouldn't mind an implemented feature to always have 5% chance to hit something... - as a minimum, incase I stack dodge and throw blindness

Sincerely
~ K

It's been months since I have been saying it.  Dodge should stack multiplicatively, not additively.

I.e. right now 10% + 10% + 5% + 5% + 7% + 30% gives you 67% chance to dodge, or 33% chance to be hit by a 100 accuracy enemy.

Each dodge should give you a percentage to dodge a strike that you otherwise hit you.

In the above example, each blow should roll 10/100 against the first dodge, 10/100 against the second, 5/100 against the third, etc...

And no, this does not make it the computation loop from Hell.  It's just  (0.9 x 0.9 x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.93% x 0.6) or about 41% to hit.  So what the big difference you ask? 33% vs 41%?

The big difference is that it will be impossible to EVER reach 0% chance to hit. For example, right now we have :

Blind slag - accuracy 48.7%

Donya - dodge 53% (1 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 21)

Chance that the blind slag hits Donya, fortified or not, 0%. None, Zilch, Nada, Zip, Nichevo.

With my suggestion it would be.

Blind slag - chance to hit at all - 48.7%

Unfortified Donya - chance to be hit by any 100 accuracy attack 56.7%  (0.99 x 0.95  x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.93 x 0.91 x 0.79)

Fortified Donya - chance to be hit by 100 accuracy attack 39.7% (0.99 x 0.95  x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.93 x 0.91 x 0.79 x 0.70)

Chance for the blind slag to hit Donya? Fortified 19%, Unfortified 27.6%.   If you ask me, MUCH better.

It seems there is minimum hit chance. I tested champion with 65 dodge vs blind Slag. I skipped about 100-200 rounds in tactical combat and finally blind Slag defeated the champion. Maybe minimum hit chance should be increased.

There is a minimum hit chance.  I believe it is 5%.  So you should always hit 1 out of 20 times.  Assuming those algoriyhms are working correctly that is the design intent.

Are you guys sure about the 5%?  I've used Donya against two forest drakes, one slag and a bunch of trolls, and not one has landed a blow.  She'd have died, I'd have noticed

...

Of course, now that you've scared me, she is getting Adventurer's Boon next time it shows up.

Haha I never noticed it either, always dodged when the dodge stat told me I would never get hit... Hmmm hidden mechanics

Sincerely
~ K

Blind Slag with accuracy 48 vs champion with dodge 65. I tested it 3 times. Results: 136, 550 and 202 misses. Maybe minimum hit chance is 0.5% rather than 5%.

Silly decimal points!

  Hmpf, checking the code shows no such limitors in place.  Inserting them now.

tbh it seems a  terribad idea

if i blind someone and have 60 % dodge i WANT to be immune to his attacks at least untile blind wears off

i dont see a logical reason to use limits

I think that if you are fast and I am blind, and you are attacking me, there is the tiniest chance that my wild swings make contact.  As a D&D nerd, I want my chance to roll a natural 20.  

not only it deprives numbers of their significance but its also bad in a gameplay way

if you blind an enemy and have high dodge your strategy IS not taking any phys hit

leaving a chance just make RNG prevail on common sense and strategy

if devs dont want a 100% dodge to happen im fine with it (in fact i told many times dodge was op and had to be nerfed) but that is to be done via balancing stats and buff/debuff

Does the GUI in tactical battles reflect the 5% minimum chance to hit, too? For instance, when you highlight a unit that could have lower than 5% chance to hit would you see 5% shown?