Scoring Help

[ShoutingDog]

I just don't get how strength scoring works so I'm just gonna ask how to set this up.

If less than 35% of total friendly forces are destroyed I want to give the player 50 points.

For every point over 35% I want to take away 1 point to a max of 50. Friendly forces are mostly tanks, a couple of scout hummers and a couple of trucks.

I set baseline at 35% and max points to 50

Set to friendly forces destroyed

Set penalty to 1 %

I've played the scenario multiple times. In a number the friendly forces are completely wiped out well before the mission time limit. With all forces destroyed I still get 22 points. WTF!!!!

It seems to me once 85% of forces are destroyed that ZERO points should be earned. Start with 50 and lose 1 for (85-35=50) ends up with ZERO. Not so it seems.

So what's the deal?

How do I set this up so that if the player loses all but 15% of his force he gets jack?

[DarkAngel]

baseline 85% destroyed 0 points

1 point per % bonus max 50 points

[ShoutingDog]

I'll give that a try...

Thanks

[Ssnake]

DA's advice is going in the right direction.

The baseline should be Survivors 65% = 0 points, and give 2 points for each additional percent with a cap at 50 (which means that up to 25% more survivors will be rewarded while anything between 90% and 100% survivors makes no difference; if you want to reward the full range you need to award 1.428 points per additional survivor percent).

[DarkAngel]

Sorry Nils but your version isn't what SD was asking for. 65% survived should = 50 points

so to do it your way round:-

Baseline 15% survived 0points

bonus 1 point per % max 50 points.

[Ssnake]

Argh.

Must. Sleep. More.

[ShoutingDog]

Where is Survivors on the strength scoring screen. Everything says destroyed if I'm recalling correctly.

So when I see % friendly destroyed I originally thought anything over 35% I would penalize for.

Doesn't work that way.

I tried it DA's way and it seems to work.

Still confusing and even more so when I read the SB Pro Manual.

[DarkAngel]

Yeah just checked and you're right its only destroyed. I could have sworn there was a survived option... maybe I'm just doing the wishful thinking. So with no option for survived my first response should be the correct one.

[Ssnake]

Well, you give the full points for your intended maximum survival rate (e.g. 100% or 90% or what you consider appropriate ... =0% or 10% destroyed) and then penalize for all killed units up to the penalty cap. Just apply reverse logic, so to speak.

[ShoutingDog]

Well, you give the full points for your intended maximum survival rate (e.g. 100% or 90% or what you consider appropriate ... =0% or 10% destroyed) and then penalize for all killed units up to the penalty cap. Just apply reverse logic, so to speak.

That's the way I saw it and did exactly that the 1st time. Doesn't work. See 1st post.

[Ssnake]

Oh, wait...

You want to do two things.

a) penalize losses above 65% with 1 point per percent

b) give one bonus of 50 points if the survival rate is anywhere above 35%

I this correct?

If so, you'll need two subscores - one for the penalty and one for the bonus combined with Apply, if... condition.

[ShotMagnet]

SD, shoot me either an e-mail or a PM. I'll have a look and see what the problem is.

Do you have TS? We might want to meet on TS to help this one out.

Shot

[ShoutingDog]

Oh, wait...

You want to do two things.

a) penalize losses above 65% with 1 point per percent

b) give one bonus of 50 points if the survival rate is anywhere above 35%

I this correct?

Yep - that's it.

If so, you'll need two subscores - one for the penalty and one for the bonus combined with Apply, if... condition.

Two seperate subscores. Hadn't thought of that.