Can we fix "Restore Spell Uses On Login"?

[Jambo]

Restore Spell Uses On Login:

[ShaDoOoW]

Im able to fix it in nwscript without hak packs.

I working on "No ability stacking" and to get it work I made new itemproperty FakeAbilityBonus with same text so player don't recognize it. When PC acquire item with true AbilityBonus, i swap it for the fake one. Now when PC equip item with fake ability bonus, I add true ability bonus to player skin and when PC unequip I remove ability bonus.

And this idea is usable in this case too.

Multiple ability bonuses on 1 item don't stack (and thats what I wanted) so you should in both evets recalculate all bonuses on equipped items.

I know its complicated, but player don't recognize anything and for you its a hour of scripting.
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[Jambo]

Nice, I can see what you're going with that.

Out of interest, does the ability bonus issue noted in my first post affect any other aspects of NWN which I may not have noticed?

[ShaDoOoW]

Bad news. I tried to fix that and I got results.

It works correctly, but only if you don' t using ELC. If you do, then skin is unequipped when PC logs in and even copy ips to another item didn't helped.

If anyone interested in the non-ELC fix, I put it on vault, it can spare you few hours of scripting.

EDIT: I did that copy ips before item was equipped, see this:

[Jambo]

What if you make it a temporary bonus with a really really long duration and refresh it after a server/module reset?

[ShaDoOoW]

Thats no matter. To get it work under ELC = on you need to store true ability bonuses somewhere else than skin.

And thats even more complicated (pc can unequip that item) and mainly visible.

Second solution would be switch the ab bonuses in onexit, but as you know you can't get pc items there at least if you not using nwnx_leto.

and third solution is to use Makazasky's ELC plugin and turn off ELC.
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[Jambo]

For anyone interested in looking at this from a NWNX plugin perspective (perhaps for NWNX Fixes), it would seem the issue I reported in my first post is down to how NWN is saving the data from what I've heard/can tell, rather than how it's loading it back up.

It also only affects Bards/Sorcs, which are notably the only two classes with X spells per day vs pre-prepared.

[Zebranky]

Other way around -- the issue is in loading. It loads the right data, which then gets overwritten in memory by some other code.
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[ShaDoOoW]

Its weird - it looks that it dont work as you posted Jambo. I tried few things:
1) Special item with onactivate to log off. This item loop over all items, counting for ability increase andd then give them to one single item. Then BootPC. T tried to give them to last item in slot and first item in slot, neither one solution worked. I always logged back with lesser spell uses than before and that one item really had +8charisma. Once i rested with this single item an relog it worked...

2) Temporary effect ability increase with +12ability boost. That workd but only so long the effect was there. When effect goes off, spell uses dropped althoug, that skin that was unequipped was already equipped again.

Increase spell uses function would help it
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[Clisair]

It is highly possible that the spells are figured before all of the equips. I do know that when a person logs in, everything is equipped and then they get access. With that in mind, it seems that what happens is that the program reads the file and figures the spells and then goes on to start the log in, hence none of the equips getting counted.

Just a thought, no hard evidence on it.
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[Zebranky]

I have a fix for this (Windows only), though it's a relatively ugly bit of code. I'll commit it to fixes soon.
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<Fluffy-Kooshy> NWNx plugin is to this as nuclear warheads are to getting rid of fire ants.

<ThriWork> whenever I hear nwn extender, I think what does NWN need a penis extender for?

[Zebranky]

Significantly cleaner version committed.
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[ShaDoOoW]

There is one more bug in restoring spells - extra spells from caster ability from feats

more info: http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?forum=47&topic=721001

I have tested it on server I know have new nwnx_fixes, but not sure which version though.
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