Effect of Faculty on Damage

[SteveForge]

(10-17-2011, 03:55 PM)Orochi Wrote: when faculty goes down by X%, damage will drop by (X/2)%, lowest being 50% damage dealt.

Sounds right. Mages seem to have the same impact, though my curves keep coming up a bit higher than 50% for 0 troops. Probably just random chance... but each dot on this chart is a average of 10 to 15 passes with the same faculty (averaged them to 1 point to make linear regression simple).

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(10-15-2011, 08:31 PM)Pluton Wrote: Test was on Triton:
At 100% faculty, you do 100% damage.
At ~0-1% faculty, you do ~40-60% damage.

Numbers could be wrong.

Titron's strength at low faculty seems high here. Those posted numbers about C&B and SS changing Coefficient;s of damage vs faculty are suspect now.

The previously posted forum info was:
C&B: 2.5 (100%), 2.0 (75%), 1.6 (50%), 1.2 (20%)

I was under the assumption these changing DAMAGE COEFFICIENTS were independent of the faculty effects on hit strength.
i.e. adjusting for the 50%=0 faculty effect... and normalizing 100% to 1.0 (instead of 2.5) I get:
100% faculty @ 2.5cd = 2.5/2.5*(1.00/2+.5) = 1.00
75% faculty @ 2.0cd = 2.0/2.5*(.75/2+.50) = 0.70
50% faculty @ 1.6cd = 1.6/2.5*(.50/2+.50) = 0.48
20% faculty @ 1.2cd = 1.2/2.5*(.20/2+.50) = 0.28

So 20% faculty C&B attack should have the decreasing damage coefficient AND the decreasing faculty effects and only be 28% as strong as a full strength hit. Clearly that's not the case if Pluton is getting near 0 numbers north of 40%.

My guess? the damage coefficient for Crash and burn is actually fixed at 2.5. The strength drop is due solely to faculty losses... like any other BM?
with a fixed 2.5 CD...
100% @ 2.5 = 1.00 (or 2.5)
75% @ 2.5 = 0.875 (or 2.2)
50% @ 2.5 = 0.75 (or 1.9)
20% @ 2.5 = 0.60 (or 1.5)
0% @ 2.5 = 0.50 (or 1.25)

Is it possible C&B is actually a fixed cD? and that sliding scale we've seen publish is just adjusted for faculty losses? That'd be my guess. C&B is just a fixed 2.5.