Talk:Detective skull
The page says 5%, but I find that the Portly Abomination (appx 60 HP) the detective skull varies between 55 and 66 HP's. Is the number closer to within 10% or is it a fixed number, like within 6 points? --Criswell
After 60 combat rounds, I've narrowed it down to approx +/-5 HP accuracy level for the Detective Skull. These combat rounds were done in three different areas, with monster HP between 50 and 170. Monster levels of up to +20 were used. The HP reported by the Skull was exact approx 20% of the time. At 170HP, the accuracy level never exceeded +/-4 HP over the span 20 attacks. I would assume that any variances of reported HP that are higher than that would be extreme flukes of the RNG.
Langsuir
Sorry, I just discovered this 'talk' page (I am rather new to this). The information here partly contradicts my own observations. Maybe I have updated the page prematurely. Anyway, until now I have not seen one single case of an excess of +/-4 HP. 'Extreme flukes' of the RNG would make sense if the numbers had a normal distribution. Although I did not make any frequency tables until now, I had the feeling that the distribution was flat. Anyway, I'll keep checking the coming days and will update the page with new observations (if necessary).
Eliza Dane
Eek, I have to eat my words. The distribution is not flat. It peaks at the actual HP. But I still did not see any case where the difference with the actual HP was more than 4. Eliza Dane.
On the tower monsters, it varies at a percentage of 100000, and is often off by hundreds of HP points.... I think it's a small percentage with 4 being the minimum amount to vary from the actual--Vimes177 14:21, 7 November 2006 (CST)
- I can confirm that going 30 rounds with a dictionary against an ABC giant, the hp estimate ranged from 143 to 154. Yet with a fluffy bunny, I saw a range of 1 to 5. I'd guess that a variation of 4 is as low as it goes, but if the monster has a lot of HP, it can get higher.--Starwed 03:47, 31 May 2007 (CDT)
Dont battles only last 30 rounds, not 50?--Antoids
| HP | Low | HP | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 12 | 19 | |
| 18 | 14 | 22 | |
| 19 | 15 | 23 | |
| 23 | 19 | 27 | |
| 29 | 25 | 33 | |
| 39 | 33 | 43 | |
| 50 | 46 | 54 | |
| 2500 | 2392 | 2610 | 95.68%-104.4% |
| 10000 | 9562 | 10462 | 95.62%-104.62% |
Seems to be a range of 95%-105%. --TechSmurf 06:13, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it only me or does the abuse method no longer work? --OldJanitor (talk) 06:54, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
