On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Sammy wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, John Evans wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a command that will give the player some temorary benefits
> > (to-hit, to-dam, haste, etc..) but it will age them 5 years.
>
> There's already an APPLY_AGE that can be used as object and spell affects.
> All you need to do is add an affect to the player as if it were a spell
> (don't know the details on that).
There is that! My grep for 'age' didn't find that because I didn't do
'-i' (case insensitive). That's pointed to exactly what I needed. :)
>
> > I found the following in structs.h:
> > struct char_player_data {
> > /* SNIP */
> > struct time_data time; /* PC's AGE in days */
> > /* SNIP */
> > }
>
> The comment is misleading. It's a structure, not a time variable.
> It's also not days, but seconds. The real PC age in *mud years* is
> ch->player.time.birth.
If I would have read the code, and not the comment, then I would have
noticed that, and probably would have saved a couple handfuls of hair.
> So the best way to add a temporary age change would be to use a spell-like
> affect, or you can change it directly with:
>
> ch->player.time.birth += 5 * SECS_PER_MUD_YEAR;
Thanks! That did the trick perfectly.... Now to figure out how to make
characters suffer 'real death' (ie.: Dead and deleted with no corpse)
when they die of old age.
Oh... And before anyone hops on my case for being evil and cruel and unjust:
There are ways to reduce one's age.
There will be warning signs of getting old.
- Messages about arthritis, wrinkles, gray hair, etc.
- Reduction in Move, Con, Str.
- Boost in Int, and Wis.
Thanks for the help Sammy! :)
John Evans
mailto: evansj@hi-line.net http://www.hi-line.net/~evansj
I don't suffer from Insanity! I enjoy every minute of it!
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