Look, I think there was some kind of misunderstanding at some point. We both agree on the about the results (the auto battle does not replicate manual combat and its biased). So I never cared about the outcome and I was never defending the suitability of the system. And You do not need to be an expert or a supergenius to figure that.
But I have to disagree: how the sausage is made matters. There is a huge gap between "you do not need a specialist or to be a genius to acknowledge that" and saying "the formulas and how the game works does not matter" or "it's not relevant" "I do not care" "that person has no idea of what he is talking about" just because you did not take that new info into consideration, or you do not care; even if that info agrees with the findings you get in the first place by pure intuition.
I know it rubs you the wrong way, but humans are not very good at calculating odds. in cases like that, it's better to verify. With numbers. There are plenty of threads about the game being bugged because someone got three critical misses in a row using a d20, in wasteland because he does not get bombs when tries to deactivate explosives even tho the skill says you only have 33% etc. It does not hurt to check just in case.
Maybe it's not strictly necessary, but it´s not useless as you said repeatedly.
I´ve never even said you were wrong, I only said I wanted to fact check our impressions. I like that kind of math games, so I checked. Not to disparage your opinions ( honestly, I do not care that much about you to do that) but because I like to know how the mechanics work.
