Alchemy

[sirherrbatka]

Duration and magnitude are somehow based on alchemy level...

[Zini]

That does not bode well. Okay, researchers have a look at it please.

[Lazaroth]

I'll look at it right now.

[sirherrbatka]

I'm quite sure that eating effects follow the potion creating manner to calculate power (duration/some constant value, for potions 3) so all we need is to measure duration of effect.

[Lazaroth]

Duration seems to be:
(magnitude x 2) + 1

However, magnitude varies with the same alch/int/luck. Alchemy matters most definatly and int and/or luck might to some small degree.

With alch/int/luck set to 100/100/100, it seems to vary between 1-20 and with alch set to 50 1-12.

The chance of successfully getting the first effect also seems to vary depending on alch/int/luck. My hunch is that this chance is related to the chance of creating a potion.

I'm still investigating magnitude.

[Lazaroth]

I don't have time to check more today. I've added datapoints to Eureqa Formulize to try to find out the formula for magnitude. It has however not found a good one as of yet. I'm going to add more datapoints to it tomorrow, and see if it spits out something useful.

[Myckel]

I don't know if Luck and Intelligence are involved, but I do know that the Alchemy level itself has an influence. Also the effect that is generated has an influence on the duration (e.g. damage fatigue can have a longer duration then restore health, depending on equipment used). I don't know if the ingredients itself also have an influence on the duration of the created potion.

(One of) the first file(s) I posted in this thread might give some insight in this.

I will be away from home this weekend, so I won't be able to do that much on this.

[Lazaroth]

I don't know if Luck and Intelligence are involved

They are, although not much. Int seems to be ~2x as influential as luck.

[Lazaroth]

Ok, I've got both magnitude and duration now. It seems to fit the data I have quite well.

Duration = (magnitude * 2) + 1

Magnitude is a random value (I've checked, and it is evenly distributed) between 1 and a what I call Max_magnitude.

Max_magnitude = floor(0.152 * Alch + 0.0158 * Luck + 0.0324 * Int)

If max_magnitude < 1, it fails every time.

[sirherrbatka]

bravo!