Luck Stat Clarification

[darkmatter404]

Hey all. I'm trying to make luck in my game the primary way to increase status effect chance on your abilities, but I'm not sure exactly what the formula "Math.max(1.0 + (user.luk - target.luk) * 0.001, 0.0)" is doing.

I know that it means every 100 points of difference between your luck and their luck adds a 1% status effect chance, but that's where I'm confused. If I change that formula to "Math.max(1.0 + (user.luk - target.luk) * 0.1, 0.0)," does that mean every point of luck over my opponents adds a 1% chance to my base status effect chance?

One more question. If I have 10 more luck than my opponent with the above formula, would that be a flat 10% increase to all status effect chances inflicted on them or would it multiply my status effect chance by 1.10? (if its a base 50% status effect move, would it be 50% + flat 10%, or 50% x 1.10 for 55%?) Luck is extremely important in my game so I need to get it right.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Doktor_Q]

To break down the formula: 1.0 is 100%, so 0.001 is 0.1%. user.luk - target.luk gives you the advantage / disadvantage. The 0.0 is just a minimum value so things don't go negative, not very relevant to us.

So it reads something like this: "100% base + 0.1% per luck difference", or "100% + 1% per 10 luck"
So 0.01 would make it 1% per luck, 0.1 would make it 10% per luck, and 1.0 would make it 100% per luck difference and that's probably too much.
Because it starts at 100%, you can pretty much immediately assume it's multiplicative- so if I get enough luck for the formula to spit out 1.2, and the status effect has a 50% base chance, I would actually have a 60% chance to inflict, assuming the enemy wasn't resistant.

 

[darkmatter404]

Gotcha. So it's multiplicative and 0.1 = 10% bonus. Since stats in my game cap at 20 (and few characters will spec that far into one stat) I think I'll go with 0.1 per point. Thank you so much for the quick reply.

 

[mathmaster74]

@darkmatter404 Are you using this skill for both actors and enemies?

EDIT: status effect chance both ways?