Improved duration stacking (code included)

[Umbrall]

In short:
replace all instances of:

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local dur = math.ceil((old_eff.dur + new_eff.dur) / 2)

in timed effects with

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local dur = math.floor((old_dam + new_dam) / (old_eff.power + new_effect.power))

What this does is weight the duration such that the dps of any given effect will never decrease from the sum of the two parts (alternatively you can do it as the max of their dps's instead of the sum, but this has the weird situation where without capping it would just stack duration instead of damage, and is therefore wrong)

[darkgod]

>Hum you second formula doesnt use duration at all I'm not sure I understand

[Umbrall]

It does actually, the old_dam and new_dam values have the durations multiplied into them already (as they're already used by other stuff)

So in short where T is duration and D is damage per turn it's
(D1T1 + D2T2) / (D1 + D2)