Status of fire effect calculation changes?

[NikolaiB]

Has this issue been raised before?

You are talking about multiplying bonuses and penalties instead of adding them? So for example a -20% and two -40% penalties would currently add to -100% but would multiply out to a -71% penalty.

My assumption has always been that this was a design choice as it could just as easily been done either way. I have never seen it discussed but, like you, it is something that has always struck me as odd. Of course, generally it makes little difference but it does once you get to extreme values. Presumably it is Scheldt '44 has brought this issue to the fore?

Wow, I always assumed that it was multiplicative instead of additive! Huh, I guess this make the calculations easier to do in your head.