IdentifyTime and OpenTime

[desophos]

I'd like to speed up opening and identifying, as I feel that the high maximum time blocks up the game. I found these parms in GameSystem in systems.gdb:

// Item identify stuff

MinIdentifyTime		1.0
BaseIdentifyTime		4.0
IdentifyTimeIncreasePerLevel	1.0
IdentifyTimeDecreasePerLevel	0.25

// Chest open stuff

MinChestOpenTime		1.0
BaseChestOpenTime		2.5
ChestOpenTimeIncreasePerLevel	1.0
ChestOpenTimeDecreasePerLevel	0.25

How exactly do these work? How are the times scaled? There is clearly some level-scaling system at work here, but I don't know how it works.

[Shadow]

Here's basically how it works:

if ( itemLevel > userLevel )
{
	identifyTime = baseIdentifyTime + ( itemLevel - userLevel ) * identifyTimeIncreasePerLevel
}
else
{
	identifyTime = baseIdentifyTime - ( userLevel - itemLevel ) * identifyTimeDecreasePerLevel
}

if ( identifyTime < minIdentifyTime )
	identifyTime = minIdentifyTime

[desophos]

Thank you! That clears it up and I have it working now. I really appreciate that you take time to read the forums and respond to posts even during heavy development on Drox Operative (which looks awesome!).

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by desophos

Thank you! That clears it up and I have it working now. I really appreciate that you take time to read the forums and respond to posts even during heavy development on Drox Operative (which looks awesome!).

It's easy to fall behind, but I try to be helpful.