New Modifier Request: "Imaginary Weapons"

[ghost]

Issue type: feature request

Preface:

Today there was a small discussion about the direction of FEMP, namely the pace of the battles, overall game duration, and balancing involving the proposal of making all units more durable by reducing damage potential across the board for all units, which occurred here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FEMP/comments/4fyxz0/suggestion_longer_battles/

The participants of this discussion seem to be in favor of introducing optional modifiers to FEServer that'll lend to extended play with less severe consequences to combat, primarily for the sake of balancing gameplay for use in more tactics-oriented "friendlies" - that is non-tournament battles. Below is one such modifier, proposed by me. The other is #59 proposed by @JustaLevelZero . I say we create them both so crazy souls like myself can truly "tip the scales" by enabling them both!

Description:

The "Imaginary Weapons" modifier allows for extended, more tactics oriented, play by treating ALL weapon Mt as 0 (because as the name implies, all weapons are now make believe and just a figment of the unit's imagination! Had to give it a cute backstory. :-D ). The goal of this modifier is to use some really funky math to ensure most, but not all, hits deal between 8 - 15 damage on average; lending to longer and more tactical battles. To prevent Generals, Paladins (in their current GK-ish state), Lords, etc. from being invincible as a result of this, and so Swordmasters and Assassins can still deal an acceptable amount of damage, the following measures should be taken:

• Weapons retain all other stats such as effectiveness bonuses (but due to weapons having 0 Mt, the bonus would be double Str and applied last, after all other rule based calculation instead of tripling Mt), Hit and Crit rates.
• Elixirs are reduced to 1 quantity (instead of 3) to prevent matches from lasting forever either, but are sold at 2100G instead
  • Recover stave's weapon durability will be reduced to 3. Mend's durability will be halved. Heal and Physic remain unchanged.
  • Until balanced, Rise tome's weapon durability will be halved.
• All non-magic class units with a Str of 12 or less will have their target's Def treated as 2.
  • Except when fighting a General, whose Def will be treated as 8 to encourage buying an armorslaying weapon but yet leave room for trivial damage as-is
• Target enemies with a Def of 10 or more will have their Def halved only during combat with a non-magic class unit whose Str is between 13 to 20.
• Units with over 20 Str will have damage output calculation performed on their target normally, if the result of that calculation would be less than 14 damage, it becomes 14 instead (before other modifiers like #59 are applied)
  • Except when fighting a General, as to not make armorslaying weapons obsolete, their Def will simply be halved.
  • Because Crossbow's ignore Str, and would have 0 Mt in this mode, they'll acknowledge Str (or be the only weapon to retain their MT) in this mode to prevent always doing 0.
• Target enemies with a Res of 14 or more Res will have their Res halved only during combat with a Tome wielding classes fights them to ensure Sages can still damage each other.
• It is vital that the battle forecast window reflects these changes when the conditions for triggering them are met in order to prevent a repeat of #60

I avoid the use of the word Luna because I'm not sure if using Luna to do the halving will make work easier or harder for the Battle Forecast window, as I'd like it to display the final outcome of these changes.

[HamaIndustries]

I can see providing info on activation rates assuming the result is always 100, but I'm doubtful as to whether it should be seen as anything other than an activated skill when it only affects certain units. regardless. I'll probably be working on this next.

[ghost]

Alright, I need to retool it a bit still to address some flaws I'm working on with it, so don't cut loose on it just yet. I really do deeply appreciate the work you've been doing though. It makes me so happy.

[ghost]

Good to go, I'm going to have to playtest it extensively with Sarah when it's ready. This turned out more complex than I originally thought it'd be. A lot of funky math I did to try and achieve the effect I wanted.