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Medical Centers Functionality
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trupheus Right now they work like this:
Each side gets a healing % based on how many MCs they have per acre, up to a maximum of 20%.
That % is calculated after the battle is over, and it applies to all unit losses across all combat phases (ranged, short, and melee).
So if a player lost 1,000 troops and had 20% healing from MCs, they’d actually only lose 800, since 200 are “revived” after the fight.
What it does not do:
MCs currently don’t reduce damage taken during the battle itself.
They also don’t specifically apply only to melee phase casualties, even though the game guide may suggest that.
Interpreting game guide
It might have meant that Medical Centers weaken the opponent’s melee attacks or strengthen your own melee defense, during the melee phase. Like a passive combat buff.
Or “melee casualties” was just being used loosely to refer to casualties from the close-range combat, i.e. the attack (melee) phase. The intention might have been: “Medical Centers heal a portion of the units lost in that phase.” But then it got misinterpreted or exaggerated to sound like MCs affect melee combat itself.
We could code it to affect the melee combat phase, but idk logically how that makes sense, fighters fight harder knowing there's medical help available? Lol. Or we could nerf the MC to only heal melee units, if that's how we're interpreting the guide. Or we can update the guide to reflect the new simple mechanic of a blanket heal %. OR we further buff the MC by giving a % heal for total casualties AND additional % for melee on top of it.
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Lord Thane I vote: Update the guide, Back in the old days I remember nobody built MC also, is a good way to not being zeroed
Something that would be nice, having a line in the BR that says how much the MCs revived at the end of the battle.
For the attacker with MCs, I assume the revived troops are with the army?
What might also be a neat feature is to have the 'saved units' march home in like 6 hours and the rest of the army and general do the regular amount.
Is "revived" units part of the battle reports? If it is, is it separated by what it was that revived them? I'm thinking it would be nice to assess functionality of clerical magic and medical centers. Both of which I intend on assessing in the near future.
MithicYort Or at least can @TheKeeper or @Lord Thane See the specifics from their side of things to assess if they work as described?
MithicYort Is just as Thane described it
MithicYort yeah they show up in the reports in the form of lower casualty numbers. It doesn't currently give you specifics in the reports though, about how many were saved due to MC, but they do work as described - as far as my testing went the other day at least.
Lord Thane Excellent, thank you!
I just remembered something.
When did half effectiveness for MC's on offense get added? Was it early or later?
Maybe people will consider MCs in their build decisions, seeing that they are so much more valuable now
I can't see nerfing them, does anyone even have any? I just checked, there are 3 players that have 9 MC between them lol