Stat Lookups
 

For some guns, such as the Black Lotus as an example don't work when you PM the NPC Server. Do you need to do an underscore for spaces or something? Also the Neo Rifle doesn't work either.

stats "Black Lotus"
stats "New Neo Rifle"

I tried the, M1 Carbine. Worked when I used "M1 Carbine" and not only: M1 Carbine

But then, I tried FN Mark 46, also "FN Mark 46" but that didn't work either. I don't know, maybe some guns isn't added there?

The system just reads from the weapons folder, Era's item system is a mess so it's not really possible to have lookups for the item name (stats are only accessible clientside).

stats "FNMark46"

Oh, thanks :-)

If no weapons have spaces in lookups, you could perhaps have the system automatically parse out spaces to ease that sort of problem on the player's side.

Some do. Era's scripts are a mess.

would be nice to see an interface type thing instead of just pming the npc server. seems really sloppy.

^ What he said. Less hassle of explaining to players "Correct formats" for a lookup, user-friendly display.

And I don't really know if you can measure spread in terms of numbers, but it would be nice if it was somehow mentioned in the stat lookups. I also agree to what Frankie says btw. Plus players can look at ALL of the available guns. Great for noobs to learn which guns are what, etc.

Spread can easily be explained in degrees.

Well in that case first do a normal check, and if nothing is found remove spaces?

Spread is measured in radians. I'll try to add it soon.

Should be converted into degrees as it's more recognizable/easier to understand(better to see 90degrees than 1.57, for example).

Ya, Radians is not hard to convert, in fact I just learned this in class today. But Degrees be better for people who don't know radians.

It doesn't matter anyway because you dorks aren't going to look at it and go "38 degrees is HELLA MAD SPREAD". You're going to look at it and go "this one is higher than that one, it is better".

P.S. 38 degrees is too much spread imo.

Except when you're working with radians you're working on a 0-pi*2(~6.28) scale, as opposed to degrees that are on a 0-360 scale. It's much easier to take a quick glimpse and see that a 5degree spread is favorable instead of 0.001 equivalent of radians. Just larger scale = simpler digestion.

Also, 38 degrees doesn't seem like too much for a shotgun :)

You could just make it a visual display. EG: Next to the weapon image in some form of information display, the range (Spread) is shown at min-max degrees visually, like so:

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No numbers, no conversions, just a visual representation of the min-max spread within say a 20 tile radius scaled down.

You should've been a Graphic Artists, Squirt is desperately in-need of some, you're awesome.

Graphic representations of spread are pretty useless, you can't easily compare them between guns.

As Demisis said, players will just compare the spread of one gun to another, not actually think about the angle. Converting between radians and degrees is just subject to rounding errors and inaccuracy.

I think he meant for sake of displaying it publicly...you'd still use radians in the actual script. Degrees are much easier to compare than radians, and it doesn't really have to be perfect so roundoff errors are not an issue.

I understand that he was talking about public display, but like I said, I don't think it's a problem. Players are just going to compare it against other guns.

I don't think spread-display is really a necessity, I mean spread is based on preference.
While freezetime, rate of fire and such really are a one-way street for players. Less, Less, Less.

Actually you want more rate of fire,not less.

Spread can be a defining factor between two automatic(or even non-automatic) guns when all their other stats are similar. It's basically the accuracy of the gun.

Darow, you'd want less sleeptime (= Higher Rate of Fire) is what I meant.

And, Dusty... I was saying pertaining to Era. If all the stats are completely the same, its based on the preference of the user as to whether he wants less spread or more spread.
In other words, it can't be said factually, that more spread on Era is better than less or none or vice-versa. Its based on the user, which varies.

All the more reason to have it shown, no?

Also... how is spread any different on Era than any other implementation? Spread is spread... pretty sure Era implements it on a similar way -- a max value for the random angle applied to the projectiles. Why exactly someone would WANT a higher spread(besides weapons like shotguns) is a little baffling, but moot nonetheless.

I've added spread to the stats display, in both radians and degrees (note that the measure of radians is the angle at which they can go either direction, and that the actual angle it can go is twice that; I've doubled the number when converting to degrees for simplicity)

That's cool- too bad there's not enough space for it in the inventory :(