hellwalker

Hello,
I'll try to provide simple example of what I'm trying to accomplish.

Imagine a combatant is not a single unit, but represents an a fighting squad in a strategy game, (like a stack of units in games like Heroes of Might and Magic). So one combatant could represent a squad of 100 archers.
That's relatively easy to make, I will just have status value Quantity and that would do it, but I have something a bit complicated.

Now what I want to accomplish is to have differently leveled units in a single stack.
Let's say we have archer unit that can have five levels. and we have
Archer Squad with:
{
level 1 archers quantity: 15
level 2 archers quantity: 5
level 3 archers quantity: 10
level 4 archers quantity: 0
level 5 archers quantity: 3
}
So there are a total of 43 archers in a squad, but they all have different levels and this plays a role in formulas.
For example lets say combatant has status value called Attack. it starts with 2 and is increased by 2 on each level. So level 1 archer has 2 attack, level 3 has 6, level 4 has 8 etc.

Damage would be calculated like this: (Attack value at level 1 * quantity of level 1 archers) + (Attack value at level 2 * quantity of level 2 archers) + (Attack value at level 3 * quantity of level 3 archers) + (Attack value at level 4 * quantity of level 4 archers) + (Attack value at level 5 * quantity of level 5 archers)

So in our case Damage would be (2*15)+(5*4)+(10*6)+(0*8)+(3*10) = 140

Can you suggest what is the most optimal way to approach this? I don't have a level cap yet, so it could be 10 levels or 100 levels so preferably I don't want to create status values like Level 1 quantity, Level 2 quantity etc

Any suggestions would be very welcome, thanks.

gamingislove

Hm, probably best to have a quantity status value for each level.

Set up a formula for each quantity level, e.g. multiplying the initial value with the quantity level status value. That way you could use the initial value setting when using a formula to define the attack strength.
Your damage formula would just add the results of the different formulas.

hellwalker

Thanks for quick response!
Is there a way to get status value for certain level?
Like what is combatants strength for level 5 or level 3? (so it works for any combatant and draws the number from the combatants status development curve etc.)

gamingislove

No, that's not possible - but you probably could set up a formula that has a similar effect, e.g. using the initial value as level and either using some kind of level factor or just checking the value and setting the value for that level.