Evenly Incremented Rank

Gisteron

is it possible, instead of a rank number to show a string like “recruit”, “pilot”, “ace”, “veteran” and such? therefore ofc making less ranks possible?

adoxa

@Sethernis: I believe so. Here’s one that ignores the test altogether, theoretically allowing any number of levels: 0A9D93, 7F->EB.

@Gisteron: Why not use a range, thus having both? For example, if recruit is 1…5 and pilot is 6…10, it could show as “Recruit (2)” or “9 - Pilot”. If you want fewer ranks, use the patch above (assuming you want more than 40) and make the last rank at 999 999 999 (or whatever limit you set).

Gisteron

so, the number in ptough.ini is not a numeric value but a string you can define directly?

Sethernis

Thanks adoxa. Now it is finally possible to define ranks for players using ptough.

DwnUndr

Thanks adoxa, I will play with that this week.

adoxa

@Gisteron: No, I meant rather than having one rank as one name, have a range of ranks associated to a single name and display both. It’ll take a plugin to actually display the name.

Gisteron

ah, thanks. hope youre not too busy cuz you sound as if you had the code in your genius mind already…

adoxa

Here it is. Read ranks.cpp for the instructions - hope you can follow them. Oh, forgot to say how to install it: copy ranks.dll to EXE and add it to [Libraries] in EXE\dacom.ini.

So, after one year at T SP, that makes 25 plugins (more or less).

DwnUndr

Heh, finished it before you posted. Here is what we did. We went straight to the 0a9d8e and changed the 28 to 64 (assuming this meant rank 40 to 100). Then I built a custom ptough.ini with my desired ranges of money to rank 100 and tested it. Worked like a charm! Thanks adoxa!

UnderVerse 2.25 release, Rank vs Net Worth

Thanks to Adoxa for the hex edit and to [RIP]d3jake for helping me insert it.

New player = Rank 1 (formerly Rank 24)
Sell the manual ($5 million) = Rank 5 (formerly Rank 44)
Gain $5 million more = Rank 10 (then you are fair game) (formerly Rank 50)
$1 billion net worth = Rank 50 (formerly Rank 89)
$2 billion net worth = Rank 100 (formerly Rank 90)

Gold_Sear

Hi, sorry for bumping old topic.

So I’ve been doing some research on this and ptough.ini, and found some things:
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As adoxa said, [c]ptough.ini[/c] is restricted to level 40, providing the format [c]ptough_graph_pt = <worth>,<level>[/c].</level></worth>
This limit is hardcoded at [c]content.dll A9D8E[/c] as a byte, only allowing 127 as maximum.

adoxa wrote:
@Sethernis: I believe so. Here’s one that ignores the test altogether, theoretically allowing any number of levels: 0A9D93, 7F->EB.

Adoxa is right about that the test can be ignored, but provides the wrong patch; this is the correct one:
```
content.dll A9D93 7F 0F -> 90 90 = ignore rank level limit test, theoretically allowing any number of levels ~adoxa, Gold_Sear
```
There’s theoretically no limitations about what you can enter for <worth>and <level>, levels need not be consecutive and neither do worths. Worth noting is that when leveling up, the reached level is shown correctly in the rep screen up to 1410065408, but in the announcement at top center of screen, only the last two bytes are shown, e.g 50000 and 65535 are shown correctly, but 100000 will become 34464.</level></worth>
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Hope this clears things up a bit.