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Negative stats

February 29th 2004, 11:29 AM
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I'm too lazy to test, so I'll ask here: is it possible to have negative stats, like strength, defense, magic and gold?
February 29th 2004, 11:41 AM
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Kory
Peasant He/Him Croatia
 
No.
February 29th 2004, 12:02 PM
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magicman
Peasant They/Them Netherlands duck
Mmmm, pizza. 
Negative gold is possible. It occured to me several times that when I bought something and I hadn't got the money, I still got the item. Everytime I picked up gold, the amount of coins displayed decreased, which means I've got a negative amount of gold.

Strength, defense and magic... dunno... to lazy to test either
February 29th 2004, 12:06 PM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
I think it crashes the game when you have negative stats. Could be wrong though...
February 29th 2004, 01:01 PM
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I tested it. negative strength, defense and magic works until it goes over 10. Then the game crashes. o_O
March 1st 2004, 04:56 PM
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Drake
Peasant He/Him
 
Can you heal creatures by attacking them? Does your mana drain or something? oooo... negetive draining could have some cool effects! Like a guy who curses you, or a spell that isn't cast, but slowly drains as you use it. That might be the shiznit!
March 3rd 2004, 12:27 AM
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Paul
Peasant He/Him United States
 
The asnwers:
Negative (or zero) strength just mean you do no damage. Slightly interesting because at even one strength you have a 50% chance of doing a single point of damage even if your enemy is insanly tough.

Netative magic does drain or mana, but unfortunatly the display doesn't show this correctly.

And, bonus, negative defense increases damage taken.