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Weird - based on the spreadsheet, I just noticed that if you meet the required strength threshold, an ordinary axe can do more damage than a Delta sword. That's something I wouldn't have guessed on my own! --Jay Yes, if a weapon passes test 1 and is heavy, it's going to do the biz due to part of th...

jayrshaw wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 2:00 am Any idea of how much of an impact the defense modifier actually has on how much damage a character takes when attacked by an enemy?

I have this planned to do!

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Hi Paul, Can you help? Character.cpp, line 2327 D6W = 0; D5W = weaponDescA2->uByte1; if (AttackTraceActive) { fprintf(GETFILE(TraceFile),"> Weapon class = %d so using skill ",D5W); }; if ( (D5W == 0) || (D5W == 2) ) { D6W = (i16)DetermineMastery(chIdx, 4); if (AttackTraceActive) { fprintf(...

It's funny to see that the Stab technique I have been using with a dagger to kill screamers actually isn't that terrible compared to various other weapons; Hey Jay, See my post in "best way to level"to know why attacking screamers is a bad idea ;-) I'm pretty sure the devs knew they were ...

I am still going through the CSBwin source code but what I can say as fact is that; When attacking monsters, dungeon level is not relevant at all. You get xp for the action you use, see DME And you get experience based on the Experience class of the monster D0W = sw((D7W * pmtDesc->word16_8_11() / 1...

What does the function trace do I don't really know. I turned it on and ran around the Hall of Champions a bit. Appears pretty useless. Here is what I found in the "trace.log": .... .... UIM_TIMER Returned msg=WM_PAINT msg=WM_TIMER UIM_TIMER Returned msg=WM_PAINT msg=WM_TIMER UIM_TIMER Re...

Part 2 - What the actual F do the weapons actually do in DM? My ongoing dive into the CSBwin source code continues. Ever wondered what the weapons and their actions actually do? Wonder no further. Notes: 1. This is assuming you have hit a monster 2. You can see the variables used, str=50, maxload=5...

2.06 am tired, going to bed I'm tired just reading what you wrote. Wow! What an amazing piece of research. I might as well try to understand the proof of the four color theorem. Thank you Paul. I just upped the ante - I finally got CSB to compile today after many hours of faffing about. I tried to ...

Part 1a - To hit and AC coefficient tables for all the monsters on the levels they are found Notes. Wasps are clearly not meant to be hit physically (if you do you are relying on luck to hit them), hence the 0 poison and magic resist that they have Your to_hit roll can never be greater than 100 htt...

Hi Jay, It took me a couple of hours to do this, but it was worth it A) to help you out and B) prove what my first post was on about. I few pre notes; 1. If you didn't get it from my initial wall, it's built into the code that if your to_hit roll passes, but at the end of the damage calculations it ...

A bit of a story to start.. DM has always been magical for me. I come back to it every 5 years or so to see what's new. I looked at Legend or Grimrock, but it didn't feel the same, you know.. ..that feeling when you've driven the best and nothing else will just quite do. I am open to new ideas, but ...

Thanks Paul, I am currently pottering around your source code and I did see the text you posted - If I take it from the current live code, you have taken this bug out (the /256 is omitted)? Judging by the swap you had with Christophe, it looks like a compiler error to me. DM is already shady with al...

Indeed. I like to think, that it's some kind of sign that my brain and what I find interesting has remained congruent over the years. When you posted about having read it somewhere, I was interested, "I'll find that post and see what was said!" I told myself. Then you find the link to the ...

I hadn't realised until recently that anti-fire and anti-magic stats never worked on any ST version :( Automaton - Do you know whether or not anti-fire and anti-magic work on the SNES version of the game? From the DM encyclopedia: Anti-Magic This value determines a champion's resistance to magic at...

Here's another question - does the shield spell only work against enemies with normal attacks, or is it effective against "sharp" attacks, as well? --Jay Good question. I don't know. I've asked Paul (on the CSBwin board) for some clarification here, and I've also starting logging my CSBwi...

Hey Paul, Thanks for the PM - nice to know you are still around. As well as the question I asked you by PM; I've been looking through the logs to see how damage is done both from your party members to mobs and mobs to your party members. Did I catch it correctly, that the attack log is just characte...

Interesting. I guess having played it through so many times, my ideas differ from the norm. I quite enjoyed the prospect of a 0 mana bod. Take wuuf as well, focus low level EE potions, get huge priest levels doing so and pump the EE pot(s) into the mana-less dude until they got levels. I believe I'v...

Interesting topic. I understand the confusion with armour (and only recently worked it out for myself with the help of the DM encyclopedia). What I describe below is about dmg mitigation once you are hit. Someone more knowledgeable can maybe chip in on how it decides if it hits or not and whether ar...

If you have something on your mind, now's pretty much the last chance to affect things. I hope you have implemented encumbrance and puzzles that involve weights and the weight of the party - this was great in DM. Hidden skills like luck - are they in there ? In fact one of the main things that made...

Greetings! First up congratulations! Really. No. Really. What you guys have achieved for a self funded company is simply outstanding. If I read between the lines, I can feel some real passion in there for what you are doing, it would never have come this far without it. I've read this whole thread -...

Cheers Paul! I ran some attack trace in CSBWin and it looked pretty clear. I've tryed to split it into the exact functions which must be:- Have I or haven't I hit ? What dmg have I done? Dec STA for trying anyhow. Redu Monster HP by dmg done if it is done. The interesting thing looks to be that XP i...

Cool Post A3000. I knew most of it, but that trolin thing I didn't. Another thing I noticed and is probably particular to RTC:- In the early levels I used to punch all the rock monsters to death, we called them ninja fodder for the levels we gained off them and we were always trying to get the best ...

Sort of linked to my last post.

A question about STA.

Why is it that certain characters suffer STA drops whilst sleeping? whats DM doing here ?

Anyone know?

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I looked through Paul's diagrams of how damage is calulated and I feel a "7 on the richter scale" headache coming on :wink: Could Paul enlighten us a little better as to what the algorythm is doing and what values certain parameters can have and why? e.g. What is "Quickness (hero)&quo...

Hmmm odd.

255 in RTC is fine and I most definately remember having 255 stats in the Atari ST version.

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I read through a post recently that tryed to take a vote on the best spell system. It was interesting reading and since I've given a lot of thought to what would have been the perfect DM CSB spell system for me, I thought I'd ramble a bit. First off, I think as far as spell systems go DM and CSB got...

The other thing I used to do for training priest levels was cyclic dain potions. It's another common sense thing - having 255 wisdom is uber mana regen. even with level 1 dain pots, after sleeping the effects will still not have worn off so it just keeps getting higher and higher, and sleep periods ...

My first post on these forums. Just a geneeral trip down memory lane with some musings on play style... I was and am hyper passionate about Dungeon Master, and finding this site after all the years made for some fantastic reading! I was there at the kick off of DM and bought it in the UK (although I...