Bug Report: Construct 7 mechanic is wrong

[Ilenya]

I know necro and all, but the game literally tells you what counts in the instance if you take the time to read it.

[Bright-Flower]

I know this is a necro troll thread, but two things stick out to me:

One, they keep referring to Indivisible only. It's like they don't realize that the bar is only the warning sign to pay attention to what the robot says next.

Two, I learned primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and itself. Just because "itself" is also 1 doesn't change matters. It's divisible by 1 and 1, hence, prime.

Your teacher may not have understood it properly or maybe it was just a simplified version of the subject, but regardless of what you learned in school, 1 is not considered a prime number.

For the first item it's been too long since I ran that raid and paid attention to the text so I don't recall exactly what's said.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Your teacher may not have understood it properly or maybe it was just a simplified version of the subject, but regardless of what you learned in school, 1 is not considered a prime number.

For the first item it's been too long since I ran that raid and paid attention to the text so I don't recall exactly what's said.

The ability is called indivisible, just like how the ability when he reduces your HP is subtract and when he wants you to be a multiple of a number (or a factor) is multiply.

The actual text tells you "calculate values to primes"

[Vahlnir]

The dictionary definition of a Prime Number per Merriam Webster: any integer other than 0 or ± 1 that is not divisible without remainder by any other integers except ± 1 and ± the integer itself

Also,
A prime number is an integer greater than 1 and whose only positive divisors are 1 and itself.

You can argue with the game's implementation all you want. Perhaps they could be more clear in the description or name it something different, but 1 is still not a prime number by definition.

Yeah. Personally, I still don't get it and I've been around awhile and ran that raid a bunch of times. But I'm also terrible at math. All my life after high school I have only need the 4 basics. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It took me years to gain even a basic understanding of regular high school algebra. Don't think I was ever taught primes. If I was it didn't stick and/or I don't remember, which is the most likely scenario. Again, I'm terrible at math. lol When I run that raid I try to be a tank so I can just invuln my way through that boss. I take my 1 in 4 chance every time the addition/subtraction phase comes up. Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes I don't. My brain just refuses to learn for whatever reason.

[icesti]

Imagine looking up dictionaries for a definition instead of a number theory textbook. SAD!

[SnowVix]

Two, I learned primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and itself. Just because "itself" is also 1 doesn't change matters. It's divisible by 1 and 1, hence, prime.

1 is not prime because it would literally break all math involving prime numbers (which includes cryptography) if it were considered prime. Simplest example: Prime Factorization. Every integer n > 1 has a single unique prime factorization. If 1 is prime, then that falls apart because instead of 4 having a single prime factorization 2 * 2, it now has infinite prime factorizations 2 * 2 * 1^n for all n members of the counting numbers.