Help needed: Skill and other character poins in Fallout

[sztupy]

Does anyone know how the skills are converted into "real-life stats"
I'll explain: for example... if you've got a small guns skill of 25% how does FO calculate the hitting cahnce, critical chance, etc... IO currently uses a skill-independent (and very lame) conversion, and those things are really need a cleanup... And not only the guns... consider the Lockpick, or Steal skill, or how does the Stength affect your HtH dammage, etc...

Hope you can help me out with this...

 

[KurganFr]

How stats work

Imagine a 100-sided dice; the game rolls such a dice, and if the result is less than or equal to the skill (e.g. 25% in small guns) then a hit is scored. I guess it's the same system to calculate if a critical wound is achieved once a hit has been scored. In real life, 100-sided dice are usually emulated by throwing a 10-sided dice twice.

I don't know if this helps, but it's the best I can do.

 

[KurganFr]

As for how strength affects hand-to-hand damage, if you look at the character screen you'll see Hand-to-hand Damage. This is apparently added to the base damage of close combat attacks to calculate total damage before armour saves are taken into account.