A forage skill snippet

[Malevolent]

client_process.cpp

					case OP_Forage:
					{
						
						
						
						/******************************************************
						An interesting problem is determining in advance what the qualifications
						are for a given piece of food for even if you were to 
						select from the database items table for edible food (if there is a flag)
						you would need to still sort the item by skill and the like. Thus, 
						I would argue a food table is necessary. Until one is constructed
						or a better method built, this will work.
						
						  --MV

						*******************************************************/
						
#define MAX_POSSIBLE_FOOD_IDS 5
						uint32 possible_food_ids[MAX_POSSIBLE_FOOD_IDS];

						possible_food_ids[0] = 13977; /* Carrot */
						possible_food_ids[1] = 14912; /* Mill Carrot */
						possible_food_ids[2] = 14920; /* Wild Raddish */
						possible_food_ids[3] = 12845; /* Creeper Cabbage */
						possible_food_ids[4] = 14913; /* Wild Cabbage */
						possible_food_ids[5] = 1429;  /* Snow Griffin Egg */

						/******************************************************
						My rational: The higher your skill in forage, the more 
						likely you are to forage something. With a slight chance that 
						even at 255 you will fail
						/*****************************************************/
						if (rand()%265<GetSkill(FORAGE)){						
							uint32 food_id=possible_food_ids[rand()%MAX_POSSIBLE_FOOD_IDS];
							Item_Struct* food_item = database.GetItem(food_id);
							if (food_item->name!=0) {
								this->Message(MT_Emote, "You forage a %s",food_item->name);												
								this->PutItemInInventory(0,food_item);
							}
						} else {
							if (rand()%4==1){
								this->Message(MT_Emote, "You failed to find anything worthwhile.");
							} else {
								this->Message(MT_Emote, "You fail to find anything to forage.");
							}
						}
						
						break;
					}

"Better than nothing" (TM)


--MV