Talk:Proposals/Obsolete Proposals/Improved Autoresolve

Some points of note:

• In theory, missions can be lost even though all aliens died, and conversely missions can be won even though all PHALANX soldiers died.
• The balance of power calculation might be biased in favor of the aliens too much.
• Possibly only the equipment scores for equipment in the hands should be counted to prevent abuse by overloading soldiers with useless equipment.

--BTAxis 10:58, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

int i;
float soldierSum = 0.0f;
float numbers, balanceOfPowerIndex;

/* wounded soldiers only count like healed ones - so teamSize 
 * will maybe differ some soldierSum */
for (i = 0; i < aircraft->teamSize) {
  const character_t *chr = &aircraft->acTeam[p]->chr;
  const float factor = (float)chr.HP / (float)chr.maxHP;
  if (chr.emplType == EMPL_ROBOT)
    soldierSum += (0.5f + factor);
  else
    soldierSum += factor;
}

/* first factor is the amount of actors on each side */
numbers = soldierSum / (float)ccs.battleParameters.aliens;
/** @todo second factor is equipment */
balanceOfPowerIndex = min(1.0, numbers * difficulty->value);

for (i = 0; i < aircraft->teamSize) {
  const character_t *chr = &aircraft->acTeam[p]->chr;
  const float injuryChance = (1.0f - balanceOfPowerIndex);
  const float deathChance = 0.5 * (1.0f - balanceOfPowerIndex);
  const float healthLost = max(0.25f, frand() - 0.25f);
  const float liveCaptureChance = 0.1f;
  /** @todo MAX_SKILL is not correct here */
  const float increase = min(1.0, 1.0f / numbers) * MAX_SKILL;
  /** @todo */
}

My Comments

Proposal looks excellent to me, but please add a bonus for the number of troops as well as the weight of HP. This will more accurately reflect the advantage of numbers, i.e. 2 soldiers at 50% HP are more dangerous than 1 at 100%. --Winter 21:51, 20 September 2008 (UTC)