Luck Stat, dafuk? Options

[userjosh704]

I was hoping for some new stats in the next RPGmakers - M.Def and Luck specifically. THIS luck stat is useless. I was hoping for a miscellaneous stat which I could use to influence different things like critical hit rate/evasion/second wind/counterattack rate/monster item drop rate/etc. Can someone give me some ideas and tips for this stat?

Also, what's the deal with the counterattack ability? How come it's actually phys.evade and counterattack simultaneously?


edit: in the scripting section Game_Battler, line 486-490 it says

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Calculate Critical Rate of Skill/Item
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def item_cri(user, item)
item.damage.critical ? user.cri * (1 - cev) : 0

can I edit this to
item.damage.critical ? user.luk * (1 - luk) : to make critical hits influenced by luck?

This post has been edited by userjosh704: Oct 15 2012, 08:55 AM

[Night_Runner]

CODE

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Calculate Critical Rate of Skill/Item
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def item_cri(user, item)
    item.damage.critical ? user.luk.to_f / (self.luk+ user.luk).to_f : 0
  end

The code will generate a random number between 0 - 1, and if the number returned by item_cri is greater than that random number, then the item will be a critical.
What I've done is taken the percentage of the item user's luck compared to the defender's luck.
So if the user's luck is double the defender's luck, you have double the chance of getting a critical (compared to the chance of not getting a critical)

Keep in mind the item has to be able to do critical damage, otherwise it's kinda pointless...

Technically you're supposed to use the luk_effect_rate function when using the luck variable, but it didn't seem appropriate for this... I'll let you play around with it