Noob in need.

[Monk3h]

I am currently working on a text based rpg and I need some help with the battle system.

 

Each unit has dmg points and health points. Each player can have many different units. The part im stuck with is how would I create a script that does damage across a range of units.

 

Eg, say I send 10 Ninjas to attack 10 rifleman, the ninjas would attack first and do there dmg, how would I create a script to calculate how many rifleman have been killed?

 

Any ideas?

 

[Mchl]

Usually it works in a simplified manner. All units in a stack have their HPs added to get 'stack HP'.

 

10 soldiers * 10HP = 100HP

 

Then all damage dealt to a stack is substracted from this sum.

 

10 ninjas deal 45 damage to a stack

100HP - 45HP = 55HP

 

55HP is enough for five full HP soldiers and one wounded. 4 soldiers have been killed.

 

As I said, this is the simplest way, and not overly realistic.

 

[Monk3h]

the problem is, there will be multiple units. So how would i work out how many of each units die?

 

also how mould i ensure the weaker ones die more than the stronger ones? o.O

[Monk3h]

By multiple i mean loats of different types. each doing different amounts of damage and with different ammounts of health.

[bobbinsbro]

if you use levels for the units (example: peasants = lvl 0, footmen = lvl1, ninjas = lvl5...):

expansion of Mchl's suggestion - calculate total dmg dealt by attacking army (ninja dmg + ultimate avengers dmg + dinosaur dmg ). the defending army's HP will be contained in an array ordered by lvl. so using my exmaple, your array would be:

$defense[0] = 100; //50 peasants * 2HP

$defense[1] = 75; //25 footmen * 5HP

$defense[5] = 200//20 ninjas * 10HP

 

decide what percentage of the dmg you want each lvl to receive. i will decide that i want:

-lvl 0 take minimum 40% dmg + 6 points for leftover dmg (i will explain this later).

-lvl 1 take minimum 25% dmg + 5 points for leftover dmg

-lvl 2 take minimum 15% dmg + 4 points for leftover dmg

-lvl 3 take minimum 10% dmg + 3 points for leftover dmg

-lvl 4 take minimum 7% dmg + 2 points for leftover dmg

-lvl 5 take minimum 3% dmg + 1 points for leftover dmg

 

the attackers do 350 dmg (ultimate avengers felt gay in their spandex suits, and ran home to mommy  otherwise it would be 5000 dmg).

 

since we only have lvl's 0,1,5, we only adress 68% of total dmg. here's what we do with the extra 32% = 112 dmg:

we take a weighted average of the dmg, by using the points:

there are a total of 12 points - 6 for lvl 0, 5 for lvl 1, 1 for lvl 5.

so lvl 0 get 6/12 = 50% of leftover dmg = 56 dmg.

lvl 1 get 5/12 =~ 42% of leftover dmg = (use round function) 47 dmg.

lvl 5 get 1/12 =~ 8% of leftover dmg = (use round function) 9 dmg.

 

so the attack works like this:

 

-peasants take 350*40/100 + 56 = 196 dmg. but, whoops, they only have 100HP. so the extra dmg (96 dmg) overflows to the next lvl up.

-footmen take 350/4 + 47 + 96 = (use round function) 231 dmg. but they only have 75HP. so 156 dmg overflows to next lvl.

-lvl 2 through 4 are empty, the the 156 keep overflowing upwards.

-ninjas take 350*3/100 + 9 + 156 = (use round function) 176 dmg. they have 200HP, so defense is left with 2.5 ninjas.

 

i know this is kinda clumsy and rough around the edges (and somewhat in the middle), but i think it's not bad for something i made up as i went along

 

hope this helps. you have my full permission to steal this idea. in about 1.5-2 years, when business is booming, i will sue you for copyright infringement and make a hefty sum