[UA] obsession mathematics.

[Cassady Toles]

On Thu, 24 May 2001 12:08:29 -0400, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  For the real minmax afficionado, you can put your Avatar skill at 51% so
that it's vaguely reliable, and leave your Adept skill at 19%.  That's
pretty sad, but since it's your obsession skill it's effectively much
higher.  (I think there's some kind of mathematical law of diminishing
returns on obsession as the skill rises... I knew this once... It works out
that the obsession bonus is zero at 99% skill, but it's effectively
something like +20% at 19% skill.  Any smart math types wanna correct me?)
  
the actual % increase increases up to a point, and only increases after
you've added another match and stops after the next ten is hit, i.e. going
from 19 to 20 increases the improvement, going from 20 to 21 doesn't.  The
former changes increase the real statistical percentage by two, whereas the
former don't change statistical percentages at all.  Addition of a new match
increases the statistical percentage by one

The actual increase (earmarked by tens is)
10% obsession = 8% improvement = 18% statistically
20% obsession = 15% improvement = 35% statistically
30% obsession = 20% improvement = 50% statistically
40% obsession = 23% improvement = 63% statistically
50% obsession = 24% improvement = 74% statistically
60% obsession = 23% improvement = 83% statistically
70% obsession = 20% improvement = 90% statistically
80% obsession = 15% improvement = 95% statistically
90% obsession = 8% improvement = 98% statistically

I don't know if anyone really cares, but there's the math...

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