What is supposed to happen when I set the Age on the Description tab to

"Venerable", or any other value besides "Adulthood"?  As far as I can

tell, nothing does happen.  In fact, the option isn't even sticky.  When

I switch away from the Description tab, it's set back to blank when I go

back.  Even if I save the character with "Venerable" set, it gets set to

blank.



The "Other Adj" column of the Abilities table seems to take it's values

from whatever AGESET is first in the biosettings.lst file provided with

that gamemode/source.  In another set of data I have, Child was listed

first, and those penalties were applied to all of the abilities, and I

couldn't get rid of them no-how, except by reordering the data in the

LST file.



Brad

If the race has a properly setup bio setting then changing those will affect the

abilities and should also change the age; for races without  bio setting nothing

will happen. The same is true if you set the age to something other than normal

adult, it will change it. AND it should stick... the non-stick behavior is what

you get when no bio has been set.

 

That is IF it actually is working. I can't test till I get home and do a

rebuild.



--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Brad Stiles <bradley.stiles@...> wrote:



From: Brad Stiles <bradley.stiles@...>

Subject: [pcgen] Age brackers

To: pcgen@yahoogroups.com

Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 4:07 PM



What is supposed to happen when I set the Age on the Description tab to

"Venerable", or any other value besides "Adulthood"?  As

far as I can

tell, nothing does happen.  In fact, the option isn't even sticky.  When

I switch away from the Description tab, it's set back to blank when I go

back.  Even if I save the character with "Venerable" set, it gets set

to

blank.



The "Other Adj" column of the Abilities table seems to take it's

values

from whatever AGESET is first in the biosettings.lst file provided with

that gamemode/source.  In another set of data I have, Child was listed

first, and those penalties were applied to all of the abilities, and I

couldn't get rid of them no-how, except by reordering the data in the

LST file.



Brad





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> If the race has a properly setup bio setting then changing those will

> affect the abilities and should also change the age; for races

> without  bio setting nothing will happen. The same is true if you set

> the age to something other than normal adult, it will change it. AND

> it should stick... the non-stick behavior is what you get when no bio

> has been set.



Well, the names of the AGESET look like they are coming from the

biosettings file that are in the data directory, as opposed to the

system directory, as the entries in the dropdown box match the ones in

data, but *not* the ones in system.  I have no idea if that means they

are set up correctly, of course, but I will note that when "Child" was

first AGESET:0, the penalties on the Summary tab were the same as the

ones in the AGESET entry.  When I made Adult the AGESET:0 entry (it was

2), the penalties went away.



Brad

> > What is supposed to happen when I set the Age on the Description tab

> > to "Venerable", or any other value besides "Adulthood"?  As far as I



> > can tell, nothing does happen.  In fact, the option isn't even

sticky.

> > When I switch away from the Description tab, it's set back to blank

> > when I go back.  Even if I save the character with "Venerable" set,

> > it gets set to blank.



> If the race has a properly setup bio setting then changing those will

> affect the abilities and should also change the age; for races

> without  bio setting nothing will happen. The same is true if you set

> the age to something other than normal adult, it will change it. AND

> it should stick... the non-stick behavior is what you get when no bio

> has been set.

>

> That is IF it actually is working. I can't test till I get home and

> do a rebuild.



Did you get a chance to look at this?



Brad

Using the latest build.



Create a Human, adept lv 1,



Description, change the default tab of Adulthood to Old - age is

automatically added, change to vulnerable... age is recalculated.



I go back to summary tab - All physical stats are -6, and mental stats

are +3.



Seems to be working fine.



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Brad Stiles wrote:

>>> What is supposed to happen when I set the Age on the Description tab

>>> to "Venerable", or any other value besides "Adulthood"?  As far as I

>>>

>

>

>>> can tell, nothing does happen.  In fact, the option isn't even

>>>

> sticky.

>

>>> When I switch away from the Description tab, it's set back to blank

>>> when I go back.  Even if I save the character with "Venerable" set,

>>> it gets set to blank.

>>>

>

>

>> If the race has a properly setup bio setting then changing those will

>> affect the abilities and should also change the age; for races

>> without  bio setting nothing will happen. The same is true if you set

>> the age to something other than normal adult, it will change it. AND

>> it should stick... the non-stick behavior is what you get when no bio

>> has been set.

>>

>> That is IF it actually is working. I can't test till I get home and

>> do a rebuild.

>>

>

> Did you get a chance to look at this?

>

> Brad

>

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> -----Original Message-----

> Create a Human, adept lv 1,

>

> Description, change the default tab of Adulthood to Old - age is

> automatically added, change to vulnerable... age is recalculated.

>

> I go back to summary tab - All physical stats are -6, and mental stats

> are +3.

>

> Seems to be working fine.



Try changing the age before adding a level.  (Which you need to do if you

want skills to end up correct).



(I reported this several months ago IIRC... or at least I meant to if I

didn't... :p)



Barak