How can I learn to write good forumulas

[limber thunder]

Ive been asking ai for forever on making formulas for progression since that shits hard and I wanna practice brainstorming them on my own. Idk where to start tho icl.

[tacit bloom]

take inspiration from other games

[limber thunder]

No like formulas in scripting

For progression

[tacit bloom]

? dont understand

[teal stag]

Ive been asking ai for forever
well that's probably your first problem

[lime shuttle]

e = mc^2

[limber thunder]

True

[lime shuttle]

Like scaling expirence needed to level up?

[limber thunder]

Kinda like that. Im doing a speed system where it visually every step adds 10 speed but behind the scenes it’s different

It has a curve slowly doing less and less using exponents

It’s just I can’t write them on my own. Im struggling now because I need a way for speed to be claimed by rewards (+100 speed) but then have that scaled to the amount of actual speed you would get if you walked until 100 speed

Yk

[lime shuttle]

I'm not really sure what you're on about

I'll say what i'm understanding and you tell me if i'm correct

You don't check the amount of steps the player does, So instead, while they are moving you have a value that increases slowly and exponentially increases (as they will be walking faster)

[limber thunder]

Yea the more they walk the less speed they gain. It’s a +1 speed per second escape game if you’ve seen those

The thing is I have 2 separate values. The visual speed and the actual speed. The visual speed goes up by a base of 10 while the actual speed slows down the more speed you have.

So idk how I could write a formula where if I claimed 100 visual speed it would add speed based on how much speed you already have

[lime shuttle]

Plot a graph bro

🤣

[teal stag]

math

[rugged verge]

local coins = 100
local Multiplier = coins / 20 -- change it if u want
local CoinsAdded = 5 * Multiplier

while task.wait(1) do
   coins += CoinsAdded
   Multiplier = coins / 20
end

oh wait i forgot something

ok now fixed

i hope

[unreal sand]

got me stressing

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local coins = 100
local lastUpdate = os.clock() -- or tick()

local conn
conn = RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
    local now = os.clock()  -- or tick()
    if now - lastUpdate >= 1 then
        coins += coins * 0.25
        lastUpdate = now
    end
end)```

[rugged verge]

?

[rugged verge]

why are using os.clock()