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read stuff in from files

instead of hard coding regen rates and stuff there should be a table of stuff thats read in from a file. like for each class and each race, it would make it easier for servers to give certain classes/races enhanced regeneration to to change the enhanced regeneration of trolls and iksars. and im not really sure how you do the damage tables, armor tables and hit points but i think they should all be read in from a file on the server too. if someone wants.... i dont know... rangers to tank better they could change their armor table in the file. and also porbably do the same thing with racial experience penalties/bonuses.

there could be a file that says something like

Quote:

#race experience bonus
1^0
2^0
3^0
4^0
5^0
6^0
7^5
8^0
9^-5
10^0
11^0
12^0
26^0
128^-5
130^0
#class experience bonus
1^0
2^0
3^0
4^0
5^0
6^0
7^0
8^0
9^0
10^0
11^0
12^0
13^0
14^0
15^-5
16^0

that would mean race 7 (half elf) gets 5% experience bonus (because they suck)
race 9 and 128 (trolls and iksars) would have 5% experience penalty (because of their regen)
and class 15 (beastlords) would get 5% experience penalty because they're so imba

so a troll or iksar beastlord would get -10% experiece. could do the same thing for hp regeneration so you wouldnt have to recompile every time you want to make a change, just change a little text file or fields in a database

Grundy, this would be very easy to implement via the database. If you want to implement it, let me know and I'll help.

If you would please post this information! I would like to know your methods for using the database to can alter regen, mana regen, exp. Sounds like a tutorial =) Thanks!

its really easy, theoretically, just reading in values from a file instead of hard coding. i cant do it though, im having trouble getting the source. i have no program that can open .tar files and when i try to find a way to open them i just get sites telling me what linux commands extract the files. i found 1 program that can open and extract a tar file but it only got like 15 files out of it, for a total of about 700kb when the tar is somewhere around 1700kb and im pretty sure archiving stuff into a tar file doesnt increase file size 240% so i think its just not giving me all of the files.

and i dont think it should necessarily be a tutorial, i think it should just be part of eqemu, i mean you dont hardcode spells items and npcs so why not do the same for regen rates and experience bonuses and armor/damage tables and shit

I use WinRAR to open the compressed source available here.