Cover from terrain mechanic

There is something that I didn't check on anymore. And it is a much better thing to do than just observing the most optimal situation in all possible ways.

Observing....the worst situation.

It has come to my attention today. That a seeker L1 always has 42 or 30 efficiency at any attack range, when facing 1 obstruction region.

It has also come to my attention today. That the opponent might choose for you. So, we are facing a region with obstruction.

If your opponent faces arc, it will go inside that obstruction.
If your opponent faces spread, it will go behind that obstruction.
If your opponent faces flow, it has to accept. And it is better to be inside the cover in case of wanting to return fire.
If your opponent faces a normal weapon, it can choose to be insider or behind it. Probably inside again.
Then we got the seekers. If your opponent goes behind it or inside it. It will always be hit. Just like how flow will always hit it.

And a seeker L1 is better than flow.
Even a seeker L2 is better than flow. And we have all seen how seeker L2 has optimal situations already.

So, what matters for the worst situation then? Assuming we face only 1 obstruction.

We have 3 weapons that cannot go around the worst situation. And we have 3 weapons that can. The latter, including the Seeker weapons

+50% R=3
Obs1: 67, 56, 46, 39, 32, 27, 22 Normal
Obs1: 44, 37, 31, 26, 21, 18, 15 Spread
Obs1: 48, 40, 34, 28, 23, 19, 16 Arc
Obs0: 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36, 36 Flow
Obs0: 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42 Seeker L1
Obs0: 37, 37, 37, 37, 37, 37, 37 Seeker L2

+100% R=3
Obs1: 67, 56, 46, 39, 32, 27, 22 Normal
Obs1: 33, 28, 23, 19, 16, 13, 11 Spread
Obs1: 38, 32, 26, 22, 18, 15, 13 Arc
Obs0: 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24 Flow
Obs0: 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 Seeker L1
Obs0: 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25 Seeker L2

And now. I am satisfied again. I don't have to do all that other work.

I did plan on working with that other file I made, this evening. But it is not nessesary any more.

All that remains now is determining a proper weight. Because I was looking at +50% and +100%.
The latter is still "balanced". But high.

I want the game to maintain speed.

I can observe any ammount of cover and pit any weapon against another weapon. Where 1 approaches and the other is around such cover.

Then both player will play as optimal as possible. And we get this RPS of the attributes as well.

I guess what is left is calculating W.

When the region is present. It could be 0 to 6.
With 6, we got a +67%.

The yes/no here is the average obstruction. Not half of 67%=33%.

I could observe at 3 on average.
I could observe the average of 0 to 6 in exponential effect.
We have +42% for the 3 obstruction.
We have +38% for the average of the 7 options.
But....we should consider that +67% because players will seek out the best cover. Urban has maximum space with a maximum cover.

In short, I decided that 50% of the map will be "cover". But since this is a practical choice. I shall not include it.

Then, will the player make use of the cover? There is a yes/no effect here as well?

Now it gets more interesting? Or should I say, more complicated?

Vs Normal, you can go inside or behind cover.
Vs Spread, you better go behind cover.
Vs Arc, you better go inside cover.
Vs Flow, don't bother.
Vs Seeker, don't bother either. But don't be so sure yet?

So, we have cover being usefull in 2 ways vs normal. 1 way vs spread and 1 way vs arc. As for flow and seeker, you don't bother. That is 4 vs "6" options? Or just a 50-50 situation.
60% would be the yes/no factor here.

We have now the options:
50% of 67%=33%
50% of 42%=21%
50% of 38%=19%
55% of 67%=37%
55% of 42%=23%
55% of 38%=21%
60% of 67%=40%
60% of 42%=25%
60% of 38%=23%

Absolute averages?
50% of 40%=20%
55% of 40%=22%
60% of 40%=24%

If I mix up the big 3. Then, the average of 67%, 42% and 38% is 49%.
50% of 49%=25%
55% of 49%=27%
60% of 49%=29%

Ok, I gathered a lot of data. The highest would be 40%.
The lowest is 20%.
The average of highest and lowest is 30%.

40% is close to multiplying with the square root of 2. This is a silent hint of the data. A sign....if you will.

I am going to consider 40% next time. But 50% is so close, might as well use that one. Still, I don't like all the rounding. And perhaps I can spot a "simpler" formula.

Especially with the seekers.

What happens now?

I am going to see the attack range 3 weapons once more to see if they are still "balanced". If not, I now will slowly increase the weight. Because I know 50% had good balance.
And 50 is a good average of 33 and 67. And this might be the yes/no in looking for the cover. Instead of just having the option.

Makes sense, nôh?
Then again, might as well apply 67% since the players look for it if needed.

It is like: "Do I need cover?"=yes
"Where do I find cover?"=there!

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Is 33% so goody goody anyways?

The costs of the attack range=3 weapons with 33% weight are:
150.00 Normal
200.00 Spread
187.50 Arc
237.50 Flow
210.42 Seeker L1
231.25 Seeker L2

As for 67% weight:
150.00 Normal
250.00 Spread
225.00 Arc
325.00 Flow
270.83 Seeker L1
312.50 Seeker L2

As for the optimal profiles. Seems that both also fit with all options open.
The 67% weight shows more round numbers. I think this is a good sign.

And I use something similar for the Artillery. Where a big brother of the Arc takes place. But then, the factor is not +67%, but +100% instead.
The cost would be 262.50 for that one. But it would only be for a level 1 artillery. Well, more of that later. The thing is that it would ignore R=1 and R=2 at range 3. And it will ignore not only obstruction. But a 1 level higher terrain as well.
Since it still has an inaccuracy at the target. We have it being cheaper than Flow and even cheaper than Seeker L1.
After all, it has no use being an artillery with close combat. Yet the Seeker L1 has use there.

As for having a Spread on an Artillery. I think I need to add the factor in a cumulative way. Thus, if the Arc adds +0.5 and Artillery +0.75. When looking at Flow, it adds +1.17, which is +0.67 from spread + that 0.5 of the arc.
Ok, with that logic, the Artillery with Spread is +0.67 +0.75= +1.42
The total weight factor then would be 2.42.
And at that attack range, we get a total of 362.5.

This exceeds Flow.

I still need to think about the levels though.

But, while I said I wanted to settle for +33%. I rather use +67%.

The +33% made sense, the +50% made sense, the +100% did NOT make sense but was still balanced. But the +67% also makes sense and shows good numbers too.