HASE numerical bonuses.

[Bluhman]

Description

Makes it possible to use {hull}, {agi}, {sys}, and {eng} stat entries to Bonuses; similar to {ll} and {grit}.

Issue Number

n/a

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

[msprijatelj]

Oh nice! This seems convenient. I’m curious about what use case this is for?

[Bluhman]

Oh nice! This seems convenient. I’m curious about what use case this is for?

Potential core bonuses or effects that scale off of specific stats.

More to the point, I'm seeing if I can work on a rebalance of Lancer that transfers more scaling of Repair Cap from the Hull stat to Grit (achieved by making a 'base' reserve that applies the different scalings), and while I can get the points to scale up pretty well for Grit with something like:

{
        "id": "repcap",
        "val": "({grit}-1)/2",
        "overwrite": false,
        "replace": false
}

(Gain 1 RepCap every 2 points of Grit you have)
I want to be able to counteract/reduce the existing scaling by doing:

{
"id": "repcap",
"val": "(({hull}-2)/3)-(({hull}-1)/2)"
}

(Gain +1 RepCap every 3 points of Hull you have instead of 2. The math above might be wrong)

The applications beyond that could be interesting; I'm also aware of at least one homebrew that utilizes a mech that can swap out bonuses to Speed/Evasion between AGI and SYSTEMS that could also use this.

Tested this locally and affirmed that even the most broken use case I could think of (a HASE point bonus that scaled off of hull) was robust, didn't generate errors, even dynamically updated the number of points I had available to spend as I changed things, etc.

(checked documentation update, since it can be added to the Readme on https://github.com/massif-press/lancer-data)

[jarena3]

closed via #2911