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Description Template (Game Messages) Related Tags 25% This document has been partially completed. Mechanics This document is about game mechanics. Combat Flag Stages of Combat Combat Flag Stats Targeting Attack Speed Weapon Certifications Accuracy Secondary Defenses Hit Locations Combat Difficulty Rating Damage Calculations Posture, States & Negative Effects HAM Bars Players, Npcs and Creatures have three bars representing their Health, Action, and Mind pool. When you target something, its name and HAM bar will appear in your heads up display, as well as over the target's head. Red represents the Health pool, green represents the Action pool, and blue represents the Mind pool. When you deal damage to a target through combat, you will notice that its Health, Action, and Mind pools deplete, based upon the amount and type of damage dealt. This can be seen in the HAM bar by a shortening of the colored bar that represents the pool that was depleted. When any one of the three pools is completely depleted, the remainder of the colored bar will disappear and the target will die if it as npc or creature or become incapacitated if is a player. Damage received by and done to targets is displayed in flytext over the character/npc's head. The damage hit location is also displayed. Both the hit location and damage amount done are color coded to display the ham bar(s) that were affected by the attacks. Special Attack Costs Default or auto attacks require no HAM to use. Almost every special attack or ability in the game has a base value associated with it. This base value represents the HAM that will be deducted from the player whenever they use that ability. Weapons are also given base values which are found under the Special Attack Cost category on the item. When a special is used with a weapon, a multiplier for that particular special comes into play. The multiplier for that particular special is multiplied against the current Special Attack Cost values on the weapon, then the values are added to the base special HAM costs. The value that comes from this process is then passed on to be affected by the player's secondary stats for each HAM attribute. The final HAM cost to the player is the remainder from this process. If a player does not have sufficient HAM to cover the costs of using the special either by itself or with the equipped weapon, then the player is simply denied the ability to use the special. Note: Base cost in the following example is the summation of the actual base ham cost of the special plus the calculated multiplier against the weapon special attack costs. For example if the base costs on a special were 50, the multiplier on the special was 1.5 and the special attack cost value on the weapon was 50 then the base cost of the special prior to going through secondary stats would be 125. Final Ham Cost Formula: Cost = Base * ( 1 - ( Stat / 1400 ) ) For example: 1. Unarmed Hit 2 has a base cost of 12/18/12. 2. Given an Strength/Quickness/Focus of 400/350/450, the HAM cost is reduced by 28.6% / 25% / 32%. 3. HAM cost for these stats is 9/14/8. That's 8.75 / 13.5 / 8.14 rounded. I'll stress again that the formula isn't accounting for some fractional amounts, but will usually get within 1 point of actual ingame costs. HAM cost formula where Base is the Health, Aaction or Mind base cost for the skill and Stat is the relevant Strength, Quickness and Focus value: Weapon Certifications Weapon certifications are granted at certain skill boxes in the profession trees. Weapon certifications grant a player the ability to use the full damage potential of a weapon without penalty as well as the ability to use special attacks from the profession line that the weapon is certified to. Ordinarily a weapon suffers a massive damage penalty (probably 99%) if a player attempts to use it without having trained the proper skill sets. Weapons with dots will not have their dot effect go off if the player is not certified to use that particular weapon. Lastly, players who have not trained in a profession skill box that the weapon uses cannot use specials associated with that weapon. Not all weapon certifications are listed with the corresponding skill box in which the weapon can be used effectively by. These 'unlisted' certifications include a number of special looted and quest related items. Some weapons actually use cross profession skill modifiers and abilities. A list of these items along with what skill set they they become certified with is provided below: Innate Certifications Innate Certs : There a number of innate certifications that races get automatically upon character creation. There 10 for Wookiees and 9 for all other races. They are: CDEF Pistol CDEF Carbine CDEF Rifle Stone Knife Survival Knife C12 Grenade Zixc Bug Bomb (Quest Reward) Heavy Axe Wooden Staff Bowcaster (wookiee only) Other Weapons Beam Rifle (No Certification. Probably should make this Novice Commando certification with the Launcher Pistol and have it use Rifle speed/accuracy modifiers and specials like the launcher pistol uses pistol modifiers. Launcher Pistol (Novice Command) - The launcher pistol is of special note in that it uses pistol accuracy and speed modifiers even though its certification is in novice commando. Launcher pistols are also allowed to use pistol, smuggler and marksman specials. Heavy Acid Rifle, Heavy Particle Beam Cannon, Heavy Acid Beam, Flame Thrower, Lightning Beam Cannon, Light Lightning Cannon, Rocket Launcher weapons are all allowed to use general marksman specials such as overcharge shot, point blank area, point blank single, suppression fire, and threaten shot. Looted Weapons Corsec CDEF Carbine (CDEF Carbine) Corsec CDEF Pistol (CDEF Pistol) Corsec Scout Blaster (Unknown, probably Pistols II) Curved Nyax Sword (Unknown, probably Brawler One-Handed I) Donkuwah Knife (Unknown, probably Stone Knife) Janta Knife (Unknown, probably Stone Knife) Janta Staff (Unknown, probably Wood Staff) Nightsister Lance (Unknown, probably Polearms II) Nyax Sword (Unknown, probably Brawler One-Handed I) Quest Item Rantok - (Brawler One Handed IV) Tusken King's Rifle (None. Probably should make this Marksman Rifles I) Quest Rewards Modified Republic Blaster (Novice Pistoleer) Featherweight FWG5 (Marksman Pistols IV) Nym's Slug-thrower Carbine (Novice Carbineer) Lithitanium Carbine (Unknown, probably Marksman Carbines II) Black Metal Gaderiffi Baton (Unknown, probably Brawler One-Handed I) Lithitanium Rifle (Unknown, probably Marksman Rifles I) Source References Source Source in Context