Again, it’s been ages since I’ve updated folks on my progress. I’m just not a big blogger I guess!

After the auction I spent time with family for a couple of weeks and began preparing for the upcoming winter. I went a little hog-wild on cutting firewood to keep fuel costs down this year.

In-game, I made time to add bulk gem selling to jewelry shops and wrote some involved scripts to support the current Karina/Tryphon RP plot. Most importantly, I got back to looking at the Character Manager scripts. Here’s what’s holding me up…

I have to use the following facts to determine a player’s weight:
1. Player weight is based on their age, physique, race and height.
2. Since age determines the possible range of heights available to players, this won’t be a direct factor in determining weight. Yet it does help determine the end result.
3. Physique only alters the final weight by adjusting a base median weight (which is set by a given base weight for adults of each race times their age if they are younger than an adult).
4. Height only alters the final weight by adjusting the same base median weight by a certain factor that I need to determine by experimenting with what value would be appropriate. This factor also will differ based on the player’s race and possibly their age.
5. I then have to review potential results to see if they yield semi-realistic and appropriate weight values for each race with each physique with each height at each age. Ugh! And what if one player chooses to be a very tall, emaciated player and another is an tiny, obese player of the same age? Should it be possible for the emaciated player to be equal to or even greater than the weight of the tiny obese player? Do the resulting ranges allow a 4 year old very tall, obese human be able to weight more than a tiny, emaciated adult? And if so then should they and if they shouldn’t then what adjustments do I have to make and where? To the weight-to-height ratio? To the weight-to-physique ratio? How will these changes affect all the possible results and how will I maintain my sanity trying to evaluate them all again!?!

So now you see why this has been hampering me for so long.

I ended up making a spreadsheet (which I had to struggle to learn the details of formula coding in order to accomplish) and now have a somewhat easier method of testing results. I’m hoping to have everything worked out soonish and to start coding the final pieces of the Character Manager from the results.

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