LA Pythium affliction healing

Tuidjy · #1 March 26th, 2008, 02:55 AM

Bad luck will explain it. I have found them in a EA game (why they would
be there is beyond me, but yeah, there is a random site) I used them as
healers, and they worked as well 20% would make you expect it. They healed
two afflictions off my pretender. They were 1, 2, 3, and finally four of
them, and it took six turns.

I just tried them with LA Pythium. With three of them healing, and three
hurt troopers, they healed one on turn 1, 2, and 5.

Edi · #2 March 26th, 2008, 04:01 AM

They'll heal units, but it takes time. Healing mechanics probably work so that it checks whether the commander manages to use the healing ability (20% of the time), after which it checks against the difficulty of healing a specific affliction (e.g. Never healing wound is much more difficult to heal than a simple weakened or chest wound)

Lingchih · #3 March 26th, 2008, 02:22 PM

Ahh, thanks very much. I had not realized healing worked that way. And thanks for testing Tuidjy. I guess I was just very unlucky with mine.

Kristoffer O · #4 March 26th, 2008, 02:39 PM

Edi is correct.

Agrajag · #5 March 26th, 2008, 06:09 PM

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I guess I was just very unlucky with mine.

Not really, you had five attempts with a success chance of one fifth just to use the ability.
Remember that for n attempts each with a chance of 1/n, the chance of not failing rapidly approaches* (1-e^(-1)) as n grows, which is just a ~63% chance.

*-Very rapidly. At n=5 it is already a mere ~67%