Not a Bug Player character not getting the usual 10 hp bonus after a level up

[Edvinas681]

I do not know if its a bug or not but in previous releases that I have played the player always got 10 hp after each level up. not having the toughness perk. But now after each level up the player character gets 1 point less, which makes it 9, 8, 7, 6 and so on after each level. I am no modder but I suspect this has to do with player starting with 50 hp at 1st lvl rather than 40 hp as it used to be, but I have no idea.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Please post your compile.log file as well as a savegame that is affected by this.
Also, did you change any of the game/mod settings?

As far as I know, that shouldn't be happening. But maybe some "player officer type" code is throwing the normal system off.

 

[Edvinas681]

I did change a few ingame settings which are no auto looting, a brothel access, Pickpocketing set to 15 and chestlocks to 8 and changed a few files particulary InitItems.c Ships_Init.c to add a few ships and weapons to Period 1 of Spanish Main and permanent_crewmember_dialog.c and LAi_init.c to add the ability to manage crew inventories as per my previous request. I am also playing in arcade mode. I hope this helps.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Thanks for the files.

@ANSEL, @Jason, @Hylie Pistof or @Grey Roger:
Would you be able to confirm this issue either from your own game experiences or from testing the above savegame?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I just got my new hard drive installed yesterday and just started a new game. This does sound like a bug in his game as when my old hard drive died I was at level 38 or so and had well over 400 HP.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

This does sound like a bug in his game as when my old hard drive died I was at level 38 or so and had well over 400 HP.

I was indeed also pretty sure this should work quite fine.
That is why I'd like to hear some confirmation that this problem can be replicated by other people as well.

 

[ANSEL]

This is how it looks for me:

 

[Pieter Boelen]

This is how it looks for me

A level 20 player character should by default have 230 HP.
You have slightly more. Did you use the Apothecary and/or the Bridgetown Maltese Knight Abbey (specifically that white mist)?

In any case: You don't have decidedly less HP than what you're supposed to have, so no problem there.
So your report suggests this problem cannot be confirmed.

 

[Grey Roger]

I installed the new, official version last night, then played through "Ardent" to confirm that it works properly. When I level up, I get 9 HP added to the maximum.

If a level 1 character starts with 50 and you are supposed to get 10 per level then at level 20 you should presumably have 50 + 10x19 = 240 HP maximum. The apothecary, the abbey mist and the "Toughness" perk will all add to that.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I installed the new, official version last night, then played through "Ardent" to confirm that it works properly. When I level up, I get 9 HP added to the maximum.

Do you get 9 HP for each level? Or does it end up reducing further as you gain higher levels?

I wonder if the "player captain type" (normally shown as header in the F2>Character interface if you have no Rank) may affect this in some way.
It potentially could....

 

[Grey Roger]

I haven't reached all that high a level, but the first couple of level-ups both resulted in gains of 9 HP maximum.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I haven't reached all that high a level, but the first couple of level-ups both resulted in gains of 9 HP maximum.

You can use the Cheatmode to force some level-ups.

Actually, using that is probably the best way of testing this quickly under different conditions.

This issue should be related to the ResetMaxHP function that I think is in PROGRAM\Characters\Levelling.c

 

[Pieter Boelen]

@Edvinas681: I found the opportunity to look at the code related to this and found:

     int PlayerHPperLevel = CHAR_HITPOINTS_PER_LEVEL;
     [...]
     if(CharacterIsFriend(chr))
     {
       //Friendly
       PlayerHPperLevel = (PlayerHPperLevel+1)-GetDifficulty()+GetHPLevelBonusOT(chr);
     }
     else
     {
       //Not Friendly
       PlayerHPperLevel = (PlayerHPperLevel)-(4-GetDifficulty())+GetHPLevelBonusOT(chr);
     }
     HP += (level-1) * PlayerHPperLevel;

This means the "HP per level" changes depending on the difficulty level.

There is also an effect of "officer type". This may affect the player character as well:

OFFIC_TYPE_CAPNAVY
OfficerTypes.(type).hpbasebonus = 40;
OfficerTypes.(type).hplevelbonus = 2;

OFFIC_TYPE_CAPPRIVATEER
OfficerTypes.(type).hpbasebonus = 20;
OfficerTypes.(type).hplevelbonus = 4;

OFFIC_TYPE_CAPPIRATE
OfficerTypes.(type).hpbasebonus = 10;
OfficerTypes.(type).hplevelbonus = 5;

So it looks like this is, quite literally, "Not a Bug", but a Feature.

 

[Edvinas681]

Thats good news! It is a good thing and idea to make the game more challenging depending on difficulty! Thanks Pieter, for looking into it.