ViewtifulJoe
Aug 1, 2009, 06:19 AM
This very well be something everyone already knows, and it also might be totally untrue, and in either case I expect to be informed of such.
I'm pretty sure that you can actually gain half an ATA point. This doesn't make sense of course, because there are only whole numbers in stats, but my confusion about whether you're granted an ATA point at each odd mag dex level or each even level seems to have led to a discovery. For the longest time, I was sure that every time your mag gains a level in dex that makes it odd, the ATA goes up, so with 1 dex your mag gives you 1 ATA, with 2 dex you get 1 ATA, with 3 you get 2 ATA, etc. Someone here said it's the even number that gives you ATA, and they seemed to be right, because my Hunewearl with 37 dex on her mag gets 18 ATA from it.
However, I noticed something very odd with this character. She gets 1 ATA every other level up according to the stats that are listed at the instant the level increases, but on her stat list, her ATA only increases on the level ups where it says she doesn't get any ATA. This is obviously weird, her last level up was something like 3 atp, 2 def, 4 mst, 1 ata and 3 evp, but her ata was listed at 166 both before and after that level up, and based on the level before that, next she'll probably get no ata but have 167 after she levels up.
Now, I need to level her up one more time to prove or disprove my hypothesis, but as it stands, my idea is that her 37 dex mag gives her not 18 nor 19 but 18.5 ATA, and she doesn't get 1 ATA every 2 levels but rather .5 ATA every level. That would explain why she gets ATA on the levels where it says she doesn't get ata, and vice versa, and why I thought that mags give you ata on the odd level. The game either rounds up or down when the ata is some value ending in .5. When I level up, she'll have 167 ata, and if it says that her mag give her 19 ata, then I'll be right, if it still says the mag gives 18, then I have no idea what's going on and her levels are just weird.
I'm pretty sure that you can actually gain half an ATA point. This doesn't make sense of course, because there are only whole numbers in stats, but my confusion about whether you're granted an ATA point at each odd mag dex level or each even level seems to have led to a discovery. For the longest time, I was sure that every time your mag gains a level in dex that makes it odd, the ATA goes up, so with 1 dex your mag gives you 1 ATA, with 2 dex you get 1 ATA, with 3 you get 2 ATA, etc. Someone here said it's the even number that gives you ATA, and they seemed to be right, because my Hunewearl with 37 dex on her mag gets 18 ATA from it.
However, I noticed something very odd with this character. She gets 1 ATA every other level up according to the stats that are listed at the instant the level increases, but on her stat list, her ATA only increases on the level ups where it says she doesn't get any ATA. This is obviously weird, her last level up was something like 3 atp, 2 def, 4 mst, 1 ata and 3 evp, but her ata was listed at 166 both before and after that level up, and based on the level before that, next she'll probably get no ata but have 167 after she levels up.
Now, I need to level her up one more time to prove or disprove my hypothesis, but as it stands, my idea is that her 37 dex mag gives her not 18 nor 19 but 18.5 ATA, and she doesn't get 1 ATA every 2 levels but rather .5 ATA every level. That would explain why she gets ATA on the levels where it says she doesn't get ata, and vice versa, and why I thought that mags give you ata on the odd level. The game either rounds up or down when the ata is some value ending in .5. When I level up, she'll have 167 ata, and if it says that her mag give her 19 ata, then I'll be right, if it still says the mag gives 18, then I have no idea what's going on and her levels are just weird.