@Seamus said in Alternate Forms and Stat Stacking?:

&RP`0`attr`001 db=Appearance &rp`0`attr`001`rank db=3 &rp`1`attr`002 db=Appearance &rp`1`attr`002`rank db=2

Let me make the suggestion again based on this.

&form: 001 002

To display a specific attribute:

&display.attribute.one-line: \\ %0: sheet dbref \\ %1: attribute number cat( get( %0/rp`%1`attr`001 ):, ladd( iter( get( %0/form ), get( %0/rp`%1`attr`%i0`rank ))) )

That should do it. Pardon typos as I'm doing this in the board editing window.

Hope that helps.

@Volund Ahh, I thought someone had told me you'd worked on it. My mistake!

@Bobotron Thank you, but I think this idea is going to get tabled for now.

@Ashen-Shugar

One of the million things I have on the back burner is "SGP replacement".

My back burner is about the size of a house.

If you use @parent, you need to lock it against people overwriting it. It's unlikely in games where people can't create their own objects, but a crap shoot otherwise.

For those unfamiliar what I mean by 'block comments', there are typically two types of comments. One line comments:

// This is a quick note

And larger blocks of text meant to be only read by you for important information:

/* Hello. This is a bit of dodgy code and here's how it works: Blah blah blah Blee blee blee foo -> bar foof -> yay */

The latter is the challenge. If I come up with a better solution than making the game-builder do some manual work, I'll do my best to implement it across my entire code package line, but there's enough chaff that I can't guarantee it.

@Cobaltasaurus
YAY my bug report helped! 😄 Glad you got it!

@Alzie said in Is there a basics of CG out there somewhere?:

@ixokai ...Do whut? 2E removed merits that represented in game items but left the items in game leaving GM's and Wizard's having to find a way to represent said items mechanically knowing that these items don't compare to the merits in 2E because Onyx Path has explicitly said that they do not cost scale against the merits in 2E. The example given was fetishes. These are werewolf spirit relics which used to be represented by a merit in 1E. The merit is gone but they still exist in game. Onyx Path has explicitly stated they do not compare to the cost or breadth of merits in 2E and that there never will be a 'fetish' merit. So now you have to find a way to mechanically represent these things and 'price' them.

So...None of what you just said has any bearing on that. Especially not the part here since these things are most definitely still there.

I don't have to worry about merits that aren't there because they simply aren't there.

That's what notes are for. I don't see why a fetish has a cost at all: its like asking for a cost for a chair for someone who has crafting.

YES! Thank you! ❤

I knew it'd be something simple that I was just completely and totally missing. Thank you many times over.

@Tinuviel said in PennMUSH & DBREFs:

@Ashen-Shugar Would this depend primarily on the type of compression they use? Or is it simply a side effect of a large database?

I honestly wish I could answer this, but I really don't have one.

I've not tore apart PennMUSH at that level and ran it through any sort of performance analysis.

I'd first really want to run it through something like valgrind just to see where all the allocations and deallocations were occuring.

This could be nothing more than poorly managed memory, but again, without really digging into the code and tagging it with a performance engine debugger all I can do is speculate.

Thanks! I ended up going with Anomaly Descer, I always liked that one very much.

I would like too plz.

A friend of mine is a major Ocaml/F# addict (well, did it for a living, too) and has been adapting Unity to work with F# (or vice versa, I suppose), with some promising success so far.

...aaand it's mailing fine so long as the person who opened the job isn't my cobalt bit. I wonder if the code won't let you @mail yourself on a job, or if its something to do with cobalt owning the code...

Honestly if your wanting to do a fallout or apocalyptic themed game you may want to look into the DSS system. It would allow for what your wanting and have a nice clean look to it with little actual code-fu knowledge to make work. It might be your best option rather than trying to modify a D20 style code base.

@Thenomain said in textfile not found...:

Use full path. That is, where you have the file installed, type pwd, and use that (plus weather.txt) for the help file definition.

Remember to @restart.

When I'm done fixing fallcoast with textsupport (e.g. @Chime), I'll see if that works.

@Tat has done this on XF (feeding into @faraday's +cookie system) because she fell in love with the +comp system on the now-defunct Second Pass. Where it was, indeed, just a way to leave nice notes for other players and let them see them after the fact.

Tat can talk more specifically about it if she ever wanders back, but basically every character gets a Comp object and all the comps for a player are stored there. Of course, I know there are limits for how many attributes a single object can hold, so I guess some day we may run into that.

This also isn't for customization. It's a report on numerical rank descending. So there's that.

@HorrorHound said in WTF And?:

...You are all Heretics, and meddle with The Warp! BURN!

Hail Tzeentch!

Excellent!