[Solved] OXCE polynomial explanation `s: x`, `s: [x]`, `s: [x, y]` etc.

[KingMob4313]

This is a monstrously stupid question.

but what does this mean exactly:

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      #each bonus can be written as: `s: x`, `s: [x]`, `s: [x, y]` or `s: [x, y, z]`.
      #where each value represents coefficient of polynomial `x * s + y * s^2 + z * s^3`.

What does s, x, y, z all mean and how would you write in in the rul file?

[ohartenstein23]

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items:
  - type: STR_WEAPON_OR_AMMO_WITH_DAMAGE_BONUS
    damageBonus:
      firing: [1.0, 0.01, 0.0001]

This damage bonus will add 100% of the user's firing accuracy to the base power, along with 1% of firing accuracy squared and 0.01% of firing accuracy cubed. According to the variables, s here is firing accuracy, x, y, and z are 1.0, 0.01, and 0.0001, respectively. In other words, s is the unit stat you want the bonus to be based on, and x, y, and z are the polynomial coefficients.

[Stoddard]

eh, well, I guess if the variable (firing accuracy) was x and coeffiecients (0.1, etc) were a, b, c
and default values of 0 for the coefficients were mentioned,
and also insist on always using full list with explicit zeroes mentioning the old form being deprecated and for backwards-compatability only

it would be more clear