Castle Paradox

[Bobert-Rob]

Okay, so I'm using the Counter stat for a targeting system (the only stat I could think of that'd actually be worth using in a battle). Basically, every hero starts with 0 Target, but if they use a Lure type of spell or equipment or something, the enemy will attack that player only till they die.

The problem is that if everyone's target stat is 0, it will ALWAYS target the first living hero. So they basically gang up on the first living hero always unless I give the enemy a target spell that raises a random hero's target stat, causing them to gang up on that hero instead. I'd rather not have to do this for every enemy, though, so is there a way I should be doing this instead? Could there be a feature to make the enemy choose a target randomly if all possible heroes have the same stats?

The current targetting stats for most attacks are:
Target Class: Enemy
Target Setting: Focused
Prefer Target: strongest
Weak/Strong Stat: Targetable (the target stat I keep mentioning)

Is there anything I can do to make them not gang up on hero 1 if everyone's target stat is 0?

[Moogle1]

This is probably a bug (or oversight, depending on how nice you're feeling).

Relatedly, it'd be nice to have a targeting setting that gave a bias towards the highest/lowest whatever without making it a 100% guarantee that you'd always choose the highest/lowest whatever target.
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[Bob the Hamster]

Hmmm. I never thought about this. I can see how randomly picking between ties wouldnake sense.

I also like the bias idea, but I don't know what formula to use

[Moogle1]

Give each possible target a ticket, then give each target additional tickets based on the target stat. Draw a ticket out of a hat.

This is pretty intuitive for strongest, weakest%, and strongest%, but what about weakest? One way of approaching this is to set your baseline to the minimum value. So if I have four enemies with 10 HP and one with 15 HP, then the baseline is 10, the four enemies get one ticket each, and the one enemy gets six (one plus one for each extra HP). Work it in reverse for targeting the weakest.

Optionally, don't give out the "free" ticket. I don't know which way makes more sense, but intuitively I want to say that every target should have a *chance* of being targeted.
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[Bob the Hamster]

But how many extra "tickets" should a target get for a given difference in preferred stat?

[msw188]

This sounds like a deceptively complicated feature. My first instinct would be to base everything on %-differences from the "baseline", as Moogle puts it. So first find the baseline, then convert all the numbers in the set to %-differences from that baseline, and then have these numbers define the number of "tickets". If you want the baseline to have a chance, give everyone one extra ticket.

Ideally this would be a bitset on an attack-by-attack basis as well.
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