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01-20-2016, 01:36 PM | #1 |
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[Pyramid 3/77] CER Calculations
So I'm looking through the article in Pyramid 3/77 about how to calculate the Combat Effectiveness Rating (actually I'm trying to make a calculator in Excel to simplify the process) and I have some questions about how the calculations are intended to work.
1. The Offensive Rating/Affliction section says that for afflictions that cause irritating or incapacitating conditions, you should add a value equal to 1/5 of its worth as an enhancement to Affliction. The Boneflower example at the end doesn't help because it just shows the value is 12, but gives no indication as to how the Spines ability was built (and the math on building this both as an Affliction or an Innate Attack based on the stats it does show doesn't fit, unless I am missing something or going about this the wrong way). Based on the wording, I would think the way this works is like this. I take Affliction 1 [10] and add Terrible Pain [+60%], then the value as an enhancement on Affliction would be 6, 1/5 of which is 1.2 which rounds down to 1. Is that right? 2. The Protective Rating/Damage Resistance section says that DR that protects against a specific threat and DR with the Hardened modifier add to the score for DR; however, it doesn't specify whether or not these additions should be added to the DR number that is divided by 4 for head/arm/leg/torso DR. Should the modifier be added before or after summing up the armor on major locations and dividing by 4? If before, should the modifier for Hardened be added individually to every major location's DR to which it applies? Any insight anyone could provide into how these calculations work would be very helpful. |
01-20-2016, 02:14 PM | #2 | |
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Not sure on the second. I would think that applying the enhancements/limitations to the specific areas prior to averaging would be the most accurate.
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01-20-2016, 02:18 PM | #3 |
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Re: [Pyramid 3/77] CER Calculations
Casts *summon Ghostdancer*.
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01-20-2016, 03:09 PM | #4 | ||
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01-20-2016, 04:39 PM | #5 | ||
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(6 + 2 + 2 + 6) / 4 = 4 + 5 = 9 I feel much better about this now. Thank you everyone, especially Ghostdancer, for the quick replies! |
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Sure. Sorry there was confusion.
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01-20-2016, 02:18 PM | #7 |
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Re: [Pyramid 3/77] CER Calculations
I considered that, but in the example Boneflower at the end of the article, it shows the value of its Affliction as 3, and shows the math as 12 x 1/5, but it doesn't explain where the 12 comes from. Terrible Pain is worth 60% as an enhancement to Affliction, but you'd have to divide that by 5 twice (60 / 5 = 12 / 5 = 2.4, rounding up to 3) for that to work, but the text just says to divide the enhancement value by 5, hence my confusion.
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01-20-2016, 02:54 PM | #8 | |
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If for giggles, affliction was 39, and damage was still 29, would we divide damage by 5, and say it is 6 instead, and leave affliction at 39?
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01-20-2016, 03:04 PM | #9 |
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Re: [Pyramid 3/77] CER Calculations
PM Ghostdancer. He wrote the article.
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