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SpiritWarrior · 02-13-2004, 08:48 PM

No, level 1 would be fine ideally but for 2 reasons:

1) We have many uber wannabe kids playing this game who would abuse such a rule and hike the level up. The theoretical solution is to script Onhitcastspell to be legal only at say, levels 1-5 but this is nulled by my next reason for practical purposes.

2) Onhitcastspell anything can cause severe lag. Make a weapon with 'Onhitcastspell Weird' on it and you'll see what I mean. Weird firing on every hit. For a higher level character who has multiple attacks per round this can crash a server and/or anyone else witnessing it due to severe video lag as the vfx duplicates itself successively.

The Onhitcastspell feature was made really for offline use, in modules created by the community and not to be attached to every item and dragged into every online server out there. George Zoeller himself concedes this, and tells us this feature was included mainly for the OC which can only be played offline and then just released to the public later.

02-13-2004, 08:48 PM	#17
SpiritWarrior Jack Burton Join Date: May 31, 2002 Location: Ireland Posts: 5,854	No, level 1 would be fine ideally but for 2 reasons: 1) We have many uber wannabe kids playing this game who would abuse such a rule and hike the level up. The theoretical solution is to script Onhitcastspell to be legal only at say, levels 1-5 but this is nulled by my next reason for practical purposes. 2) Onhitcastspell anything can cause severe lag. Make a weapon with 'Onhitcastspell Weird' on it and you'll see what I mean. Weird firing on every hit. For a higher level character who has multiple attacks per round this can crash a server and/or anyone else witnessing it due to severe video lag as the vfx duplicates itself successively. The Onhitcastspell feature was made really for offline use, in modules created by the community and not to be attached to every item and dragged into every online server out there. George Zoeller himself concedes this, and tells us this feature was included mainly for the OC which can only be played offline and then just released to the public later. __________________ Still I feel like a child when I look at the moon, maybe I grew up a little too soon...