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Combat styles not gaining experience?

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Posted by Kamen   (5 posts)  Bio
Date Sat 24 Dec 2005 10:52 PM (UTC)
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I am sitll pretty new to smaug in general, but none of my fighting characters are gaining skill in any of the styles (normal, evasive, aggressive, etc) either by switching between them or by fighting with them set. How are these supposed to be raised?
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #1 on Sun 25 Dec 2005 01:27 AM (UTC)
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Switch while fighting; I'm pretty sure.
Zeno McDohl,
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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Sun 25 Dec 2005 07:00 AM (UTC)
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Zeno is right on. The styles can only be improved by switching between them during combat.
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Posted by Conner   USA  (381 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Wed 28 Dec 2005 05:50 PM (UTC)
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How hard is that to change so that you can gain experience in a combat style from using it rather than from switching to it?
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #4 on Wed 28 Dec 2005 09:34 PM (UTC)
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That's what I did, but it's hard to make it balanced. If it gains each round, it'll be maxed in a minute. So I set the difficulty high, and now it fails to max.
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Posted by Metsuro   USA  (389 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #5 on Wed 28 Dec 2005 09:59 PM (UTC)
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is it possible to have it gain a fraction of a precent, every few battles? so say... maybe at like... 1000 battles you'll have maxed it or something?
Everything turns around in the end
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #6 on Wed 28 Dec 2005 10:03 PM (UTC)
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Not unless you change percents into a float.
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
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Posted by Conner   USA  (381 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #7 on Thu 29 Dec 2005 03:28 AM (UTC)
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What if you made it only gain on something like the fourth successful hit while in that style? Would that be enough of a compromise or does it really just need to be set via sset to a high difficulty so that it gains each round but only on a high percentage? Or is that not what you were talking about?
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Posted by Dralnu   USA  (277 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #8 on Wed 04 Jan 2006 04:13 PM (UTC)
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You can always try setting them to floats and using a fraction of a percent, or if you feel froggy, use a damage-based or avoidance-based system (based on which style) to level it. i.e. every 500 damage, let aggressive style increase 1 point, and add 5 or 50 damage each percent point, but that may be a bit complex to do. Anyways, good luck to you
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Posted by Conner   USA  (381 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #9 on Wed 04 Jan 2006 08:25 PM (UTC)
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Wouldn't that mean trying to set up a new pfile value to log each player's damages ansd avoidances so you could track them over multiple battles that might well take place over multiple logons if not extending beyond multiple reboots?
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Posted by Robert Powell   Australia  (367 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #10 on Thu 05 Jan 2006 09:19 AM (UTC)
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This is what i did to make my styles gain by using and also to make all my skills and spells learn at a much slower rate.



/* Auto increase styles and modify damage based on character's fighting style, code cut from smaugfuss boards. By Remcom*/
   switch( ch->style )
   {
      default:
      case STYLE_FIGHTING:
         if( !IS_NPC( ch ) && ch->pcdata->learned[gsn_style_standard] > -1 )
            learn_from_success( ch, gsn_style_standard );
         break;
      case STYLE_DEFENSIVE:
         if( !IS_NPC( ch ) && ch->pcdata->learned[gsn_style_defensive] > -1 )
            learn_from_success( ch, gsn_style_defensive );
         dam = ( int )( .85 * dam );
         break;
      case STYLE_EVASIVE:
         if( !IS_NPC( ch ) && ch->pcdata->learned[gsn_style_evasive] > -1 )
            learn_from_success( ch, gsn_style_evasive );
         dam = ( int )( .8 * dam );
         break;
      case STYLE_AGGRESSIVE:
         if( !IS_NPC( ch ) && ch->pcdata->learned[gsn_style_aggressive] > -1 )
            learn_from_success( ch, gsn_style_aggressive );
         dam = ( int )( 1.1 * dam );
         break;
      case STYLE_BERSERK:
         if( !IS_NPC( ch ) && ch->pcdata->learned[gsn_style_berserk] > -1 )
            learn_from_success( ch, gsn_style_berserk );
         dam = ( int )( 1.2 * dam );
         break;
   }



Then this was added to learn_from_success


/* the following added by tommi Jan 2006, Code cut from AFKmud written by Tarl. 
  */
  if( skill_table[sn]->type == SKILL_WEAPON )
  {
    lchance = number_range( 1, 10 );
    if( lchance != 5 )
    {
      return;
    }

  }

  if( skill_table[sn]->type == SKILL_SKILL )
  {
    lchance = number_range( 1, 5 );
    if( lchance != 3 )
    {
      return;
    }

  }

  if( skill_table[sn]->type == SKILL_SPELL )
  {
    lchance = number_range( 1, 3 );
    if( lchance != 2 )
    {
      return;
    }


This was a simple hackish option that i chose, now since adding this in, i have thought about it a lot more and come up with a better solution to doing this.
Just a guy having a bit of fun. Nothing more, nothing less, I do not need I WIN to feel validated.
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Posted by Conner   USA  (381 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #11 on Fri 06 Jan 2006 04:04 AM (UTC)
Message
So, what's the better solution? :)
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