Damage Equation

From Project Nomads Unofficial Wiki

To know how much damage an attacker (guntower, aircraft, ...) will do to a victim entity, you need to know the attacker's damage and damage type, the victim's armor against this damage type and your framerate[1].

Damage Type[edit | edit source]

Project Nomads uses two damage types:

  • coll: used for collisions
  • fire: catch-all type for any attack, explosion, skrit cloud, etc...

At the current moment, this wiki only lists "fire" type armor/damage for buildings.

Equation[edit | edit source]

Let Ad be the attacker's damage of any type.
Let Va be the victim's armor against the same type of damage.
Let fps be your game's framerate. Typically it is your monitor's refresh rate.
Let Δ be your game's delta frame time, as Δ=1fps.
Unless the guntower is of a missilefire type, then Δ always has a value of 0.5

Then, let Vdr=Ad×ΔVa×Δ be the victim's dealt damage.

For example, a level 3 John Guntower shooting one "fire" bullet with a damage of 40 at a John Navigation Tower with a "fire" armor of 3, and a framerate of 60fps:
First, Δ=1600.0166
Then, Vdr=40×0.01663×0.01660.6166
Thus, 0.6166 damage will be dealt to the John Navigation Tower.

  1. TODO: Check fps' relation in multiplayer