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Radek · 12-23-2004, 05:08 AM

Oin has finally found a limit on your character level. More precisely, a limit, behind which the game becomes a pain without any gain or forming a challenge.

During his acting in Gael Serran, Oin has detected the logic used by the game for your total mana points. There seems to exist something like "reasonable number of mana points" in the game, which equals:

10*(SPI + character_level)

If you have less mana points then you will get SPI mana points when you gain a level. If you have more mana points then you get nothing. The whole concept isn't so trivial: Sometimes you won't get your mana points even if you should get them (and you get them next level up), sometimes only some of your magic schools get the mana points (and the rest of them gets them later) and so on. But the concept works as described above in principle.

The concept has an interesting consequence: it doesn't matter how much is your SPI. If it is low, then you get mana points in smaller quantums but you get them more often. If it is high, then you get mana points in bigger quantums but you get them less often. The only thing that matters is having SPI at least 10. If your SPI is lower, then you get less than 10 mana points when you level up and your total mana points cannot keep in step with the "reasonable value".

Now, Oin has foud out that your total mana points value is stored in a signed short integer. Therefore, you cannot have more than 32 767 mana points. The "reasonable value" reaches this value somewhere at level 3260.
If your level is higher then your mana points overflow, the game will think that you have negative number of mana points and it forbids you casting spells. You can continue the game but only as a pure warrior. That's exactly what happens to Oin yesterday.

Final stats (after killing Oakenmir):

level: 3282
HP: ca 27500 (sorry, I forgot to make a note [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] )
SP: overflow, the spellbook isn't reachable
Hit: 3288
Parry: 824
Speed: 12
Kills: 57352
AC: 63
Assists: 16
Resistances: 80 90 90 65 - 100 100 100 90

Skills: 9 at 14, 1 at 13, 2 at 12, 4 at 11, 2 at 10, other skills at 3 or not gained so far.

12-23-2004, 05:08 AM	#1
Radek Red Dragon Join Date: April 3, 2001 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posts: 1,586	Oin has finally found a limit on your character level. More precisely, a limit, behind which the game becomes a pain without any gain or forming a challenge. During his acting in Gael Serran, Oin has detected the logic used by the game for your total mana points. There seems to exist something like "reasonable number of mana points" in the game, which equals: 10*(SPI + character_level) If you have less mana points then you will get SPI mana points when you gain a level. If you have more mana points then you get nothing. The whole concept isn't so trivial: Sometimes you won't get your mana points even if you should get them (and you get them next level up), sometimes only some of your magic schools get the mana points (and the rest of them gets them later) and so on. But the concept works as described above in principle. The concept has an interesting consequence: it doesn't matter how much is your SPI. If it is low, then you get mana points in smaller quantums but you get them more often. If it is high, then you get mana points in bigger quantums but you get them less often. The only thing that matters is having SPI at least 10. If your SPI is lower, then you get less than 10 mana points when you level up and your total mana points cannot keep in step with the "reasonable value". Now, Oin has foud out that your total mana points value is stored in a signed short integer. Therefore, you cannot have more than 32 767 mana points. The "reasonable value" reaches this value somewhere at level 3260. If your level is higher then your mana points overflow, the game will think that you have negative number of mana points and it forbids you casting spells. You can continue the game but only as a pure warrior. That's exactly what happens to Oin yesterday. Final stats (after killing Oakenmir): level: 3282 HP: ca 27500 (sorry, I forgot to make a note [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] ) SP: overflow, the spellbook isn't reachable Hit: 3288 Parry: 824 Speed: 12 Kills: 57352 AC: 63 Assists: 16 Resistances: 80 90 90 65 - 100 100 100 90 Skills: 9 at 14, 1 at 13, 2 at 12, 4 at 11, 2 at 10, other skills at 3 or not gained so far. __________________ My name is Demon\'s Last Day. Yes, the last one.