Re: [Circle] [Newbie] Levels

From: Necromonitor (necromonitor@praxis.annex.net)
Date: 11/22/96


On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Daniel Koepke wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Chris Grantham wrote:
> 
> > Hello, I just tried to add levels according to the levels.doc at
> > circlemud.org and I encountered a few errors.. around 500.. (Literally) Now
> > I'm sure it's just one little thing, but I did everything that the doc said
> > to do, including adding names and thaco.. I'm stuck.. if you want the spam
> > of the compiler errors, or the new code I'll email 'em to ya, Thanks for
> > any help you can give.
> 
> Most likely 'level' is a byte, not an int.  A byte has a range
> of 0-127.  Watch your variable's types, people! :\

Level is actually an "int" which has a value -32k..32k.  Unless you're 
under linux, where "int" is the same as -2.something billion .. 
2.something billion.

And you're wrong about byte, byte is 0..255.  Short is -127..128.

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