attack_parameters.health_penalty

[Pi-C]

According to the wiki,

a higher penalty will discourage turrets from targeting units with higher health. A negative penalty will encourage turrets to target units with higher health.

Does the actual value have any significance at all? Would "health_penalty = -1" and "health_penalty = -100" have the same effect, or would a turret with "health_penalty = -100" be so much more likely to target units with more HP?

[posila]

When searching for new target, turret will calculate penalty for each target and chose the one with the minimal penalty.

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penalty = sqr(distance_of_enemy_from_turret)
          + signed_sqr(health_penalty * enemy.health) 
          + signed_sqr(rotate_penalty * turn_distance_to_enemy)

sqr(x) = x * x
signed_sqr(x) = x * abs(x)

[Pi-C]

When searching for new target, turret will calculate penalty for each target and chose the one with the minimal penalty.

Thanks! So, with health_penalty being a constant, and rotate_penalty = 0, the numeric value of health_penalty really doesn't matter and I could just set it to "-1" if I want my long-range sniper turret to prefer distant behemoth biters with 100% health over small biters close to the turret. That's all I needed to know.