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CarbonNitride

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Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« on: June 13, 2011, 09:41:08 pm »

Looking at the wiki and Lord Snows thread from last year about removing attribute decay and skill loss and I'm kind of confused. do I simply drop in the raws from the wiki into my "creatures_standard.txt" file or is there something I need to replace?
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NecroRebel

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Re: Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2011, 09:53:56 pm »

Just drop them in. Dwarves in vanilla use the default attribute and skill rates, meaning that they need no tags as there ARE default attribute and skill rates. Altering their skill and attribute rates is thus as simple as telling the game, "Hey, use these numbers instead of the default."
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Re: Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2011, 10:21:39 pm »

So I would just drop in
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Phys/Ment rate default: 500

  [PHYS_ATT_RATES:STRENGTH:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [PHYS_ATT_RATES:AGILITY:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [PHYS_ATT_RATES:TOUGHNESS:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [PHYS_ATT_RATES:ENDURANCE:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [PHYS_ATT_RATES:DISEASE_RESISTANCE:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [PHYS_ATT_RATES:RECUPERATION:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]

  [MENT_ATT_RATES:ANALYTICAL_ABILITY:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:CREATIVITY:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:EMPATHY:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:FOCUS:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:INTUITION:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:KINESTHETIC_SENSE:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:LINGUISTIC_ABILITY:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:MUSICALITY:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:PATIENCE:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:SOCIAL_AWARENESS:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:MEMORY:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:SPATIAL_SENSE:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]
  [MENT_ATT_RATES:WILLPOWER:50:NONE:NONE:NONE]


and I'll no longer get skill or attribute loss?
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Re: Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2011, 10:30:32 pm »

With just those you won't get attribute loss, but you will still get skill loss. Also, your dwarves' attributes will increase at 10x the normal rate. To stop skill loss, you'll need [SKILL_RATES:100:NONE:NONE:NONE] in addition to those lines. To turn down attribute gain rates, increase those 50s; default is 500.
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Re: Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2011, 10:35:04 pm »

Just in case: The lines go under CREATURE:DWARF, not at the top of the file.
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Quadricwan

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Re: Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2011, 11:21:52 pm »

I assume a regen is required for these to work?
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Re: Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2011, 06:11:59 am »

I assume a regen is required for these to work?

Since regen is only required for adding new entities usually, not changing existing ones, I do not believe this requires world regen.
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Re: Stopping Skill and Attribute Decay
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2011, 07:46:08 am »

It may require new generated dwarves though.
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