Castle Paradox

[Kizul Emeraldfire]

  I made some healing items a while back, but for some reason they don't work quite right. I'm trying to get it to where Heals heal ¼ of the target hero's Maximum HP, ½ Heals heal — well, ½ of the target hero's Maximum HP. The only heals that work are the Max Heals, and I believe you correctly guess what they do. ;)

  Anyway, here's what happens every time I try to use them (using ½ Heals as an example):

In Battle:

I go to the Items menu, hit the Use key on the item (in this case, ½ Heal), select the hero to use it on, and if that hero has 9999 as a Maximum HP, and is down to, say somewhere between 1000 and 5000 HP when he decides to heal, he should regenerate 4999 HP.

What happens:

The target hero's HP gets regenerated to 4999 HP. If the target hero's current HP is > 4999, it goes DOWN to 4999. The Heals are like this as well, only for them it's 2499.

I've made an example RPG file for this:
http://www.geocities.com/kizulslair/HEALS.zip

If anyone can help me out, the Red NPC tells you where to send any e-mails and stuff. Thank you for taking the time to read this. :3

[Moogle1]

Unfortunately, there's no way to do what you want right now. You're not doing anything wrong, but the feature you want is unsupported.
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[Kizul Emeraldfire]

Hmm, I see. Okay then. :3 Thanks for the info.

[Battleblaze]

Why in th owrld would you be using super huge numbers like that?Those make tsse seem almost normal.

O and since this is the first post I've seen you do.Welcome to CP.


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[Mike Caron]

[Moogle1]

...for that matter, is it possible to put the heroes' HP above 9999 (i.e. via plotscripting or equips)? It'd be pretty cool to do tens of thousands of damage per attack and call it normal.

That said, maybe HP should be a long int.
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[Mike Caron]

Eh... I'm not entirely sure. But, we can't change it to a 32-bit int, since it's stored as a 16-bit int in the data files, in the save files, etc.
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[Fenrir-Lunaris]

[Moogle1]

Drat. Well, you could make it unsigned if you wanted to rework some of the damage calculations. I wouldn't complain about only being able to go to 65535 HP.
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[Mike Caron]

Hmm... But, then you would become nigh invincible. 'Cuz, the code doesn't check beforehand what your HP is. It just subtracts, and checks if you're less than or equal to 0.

But, if it's unsigned, then negatives would wrap around back to 65535! The only attack that could actually kill you would be one the brings you down to exactly 0.

However. 32000 HP is a lot of health anyway. I can't forsee any real need for more than that.
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[Kizul Emeraldfire]

[Mike Caron]

Well, I'll find a way to support that. Maybe a bitset that says something like "Percentage based attacks damage instead of set", which would cause it to do what you want.

EXAMPLE:

Say you have an attack that you want to do 50% of the target's HP as damage. So, a target with 1000 health would take 500 damage, and then 500 damage the next time, killing it. You would say "50% of Maximum", and then set the bitset, so instead of setting the health to that, it will do that much damage.

Edit: And, actually, I did just that.
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[Moogle1]

Actually, it's simple to do, it just requires a rework. Obviously, you can't go negative, so all you have to know beforehand is whether the attack is a healing spell or a damage spell. If it's a damage spell and the resultant HP is higher than the initial HP, the target is dead. Opposite for a healing spell.

This assumes it won't kick you out for overflow, of course.
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[NeoTA]

Mike: It can be made to use a larger data type later,
when the save format is updated (it really really needs to be. FB will help making backwards-compatibility easier then). Some other things about save format:
*remove wasted space
*gold should be a long int, not a super insane number-represented-textually-as-16bit-string
*"Item numbers are currently indexed with a single byte, so it is not possible to have more than 255 distinct items. I'd like to change this, to allow up to 32767 items, but if/when I would also have to update the savegame format accordingly." from the wiki
* don't do a complete dump of gen(), just dump the few runtime-important fields.

Strangely, the SAV lump docs aren't on the wiki. Probably because it would make it too easy to cheat. I have them here anyway.

[PlayerOne]