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Now that are displayed, a natural question comes in mind:

These percentages are meant to be directly applied to the damage? so, for example, 100% fire damage means that no harm can be done to this character from fire, while 50% means that the damage is halved?

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Actually, I haven't decided yet.

It's gonna be one of three things.

1) like you suggest (perhaps with a cap short of 100%)
2) the "element" part will only be some fraction of the damage. Perhaps 50%. So 100% fire resistance really means you take 50% of the damage--the physical half. Or the scale could be 75/25 elemental/physical.
3) It could vary with the foe. Some foes would be 100% elemental and 100% resistance would block all damage, while other foes could be 25% elemental, so full resistance still leaves 75% damage.

Since 1 is potentially really powerful for the player and 3 is potentially complicated to track/code, I'm leaning towards 2, but it's not set in stone.

Hmm.. the 3rd option seems to be the more interesting, or actually, the most logical. So, for example, a foe that deals something like "34+20" will have the fire damage part modified directly from the resistances, so, 100% res would mean a character would only get 34 physical damage. On the either hand, for example, a fire elemental, would do purely fire damage, as in "72", that would be completely modified. In case that the percentage directly modifies the damage, it would be a nice idea to cap at 75%.

Relative to the implementation, put a field of each damage type to the encounter table, inestead of doing complex manouvers to a single field..

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I'm not sure I follow this bit, or you may be making assumptions about how damage works that aren't true. Currently foes have attack and defense power, just like heroes. So I don't set a damage range per foe, the calculations just work out based on relative power, plus some RNG. So while I guess I could split the attack powers between physical and elemental, I don't know that the numbers I'd have to work with would be very intuitive. (In other words, halving the power doesn't necessarily halve the damage.) I'd be far more likely to just add a percentage for how much is elemental, but then I've gotta adjust for resistance, damage reduction, and all kinds of stuff, all in fractional amounts.

Actually, option 3 looks a lot like how KoL does it. You have purely elemental foes (Snow Queen) and you have foes that dish out elemental and are weak to it (Hippies), straight up physically resistant (Protector Spirits), and foes with elemental attacks but no elemental weaknesses (um... Furry Giants?).

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That was the case...



...and now I understand how the table is set .



I suppose an important bit is what the player sees. So, for example, if a player sees a creature doing 50 + 30 damage, he expects to see the elemental damage be removed, if he has 100% protection. The worst case would be having the damage as a single value, with an obscure percentage into play, resulting in the player not being able to 'feel' the elemental resistances.

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