Real hitting statistics

[emdot]

IMO most moaning about hitting is because in battle dialog there is only base chance to hit without including major factor - terrain. Include this and show real chance and there will be much less complaints.

[Elvish_Pillager]

IMO most moaning about hitting is because in battle dialog there is only base chance to hit without including major factor - terrain. Include this and show real chance and there will be much less complaints.

What do you mean, 'base chance to hit'? there are no factors to hit chance *except* terrain!

[SaintDust]

well.. any magic damage is always 70% chance to hit..no matter what terrain.

[Dragonking]

and marksman ability - 60%, but I don't really understand your question emdot ...

[Circon]

emdot, it appears that you want terrain to be included in the chance to hit calculation, so that the "real" chance will show up.
It is. It does.
The displayed chance to hit in the battle screen includes all factors.

[turin]

there are only two factors - whatever CTH terrain gives you, then any special abilities involved that change CTH (of which magical and marksman are examples).

What I suspect most people would immediately consider for a chance-to-hit system would be a formula that relies on the attacker's skill with the weapon, and the defender's defensiveness, as well as the terrain the defender is in.

The way Wesnoth does it is in fact so insanely simple that I suspect many people who did not know how it is done will think 'what a naive, silly system!' when they read the following:

The chance to hit is taken entirely from the defender's defensive rating in the terrain it is in.

So, Elves are always 30% chance to hit in forest, and 60% chance to hit in grassland. The attacker's skill doesn't come into the equation.

[ott]

Please note thread New insight into statistics problems discussing some real bugs found as a result of more careful scrutiny of the code.