Except for the part where I didn't ignore that? And the part where others said firebombs and guns are OP, because those definitely are racial traits right? Thing is we can address different parts individually to an extent, and having a solid foundation reduces future work in rebalancing everything again and again.
Probably no, but which one? The combat/sex action log? Dialogue? That bottom-right "activity log" thing which mostly lists saving and item use?
There is, if you go into a save file with any text editor (I prefer notepad++), you can edit values. Although be aware that these saves record literally everything, including NPCs you've met, their likes, their gender, etc...
Aside from editing the save file yourself or using 'buggy' (debug menu), I have been working on a
How early races like dogs or domestic cats were balanced is unknown to me. They were implemented before my time. And yes, they all suffered from power creep. The new races that I added were scaled initially more conservatively, dragons had 80 or something like that, small mammals had 30 or 40, large predators matched hyenas, which served as the framework template, at ~50. There was some further discussion about lore congruence and whether or not races should be cosmetic only, and then I re-scaled everyone of my non-mythicals to ~50, and that has been the total ever since.
Same as with other special attacks the main issue is the lack of scaling rather than the target power level. Some attacks deal flat damage, most use Unarmed damage which has solid progression, status effects are completely and utterly useless with their non-scaling -2 physical shielding and similar crap. As far as I can tell everything except status effects could easily use more advanced logic via pure XML as it has access to the caster NPC scope (to read out the level I hope).
Well Action Points and Energy Shielding are grossly underused attributes for "agile" species. Small prey could also gain Critical Power via "keen senses"/"precise movement"/"sucker punch". Can status effects at least scale off host NPC properties without Java edits?
Originally Breath Weapon scaled with the player's elemental proficiencies without limit, but this was immediately exploited. I then wanted it to follow a roughly natural log curve, but this is not so easy to do with basic arithmetic and there was an object context bug, so now there are placeholder values.
The designer of the combat rework told me in no uncertain terms that additional AP should be given out basically never, and I would like to respect their wishes. I have proposed adding a substantial cost multiplier for AP on the calculation table, but thus far no number has been decided on.
You will need to perform edits somewhere if you want to do this. Easiest way I can see is to change the file extension for the file in the /res/ directory. You will need to do this with every update.
As I've said elsewhere, how the early races were balanced is not known to me. Point totals were a relatively recent, and admittedly arbitrary, way to try and create some kind of standard.
Your save is an .xml, so you can use an ordinary text like Notepad++, or Sublime if you wish. You can edit anything you want then because the game stores just about everything in the save file, including your party size limit and even what specific NPCs are wearing.
To be identified as a ryu-morph, a character must be a dragon-morph with a ryu face, a mane, external ears, a tufted tail, and no wings.
If the problem is that character's gender attraction is incompatible with your gender, you can get the Hypno-Watch (through either playing the story-line, or buggy) and charge it with a gender preference, then you can beat them in combat and use the watch. I'm not certain how easily it can outside a combat win though.
What do you mean "unlimited"? The damage stat is capped to 100 so something like "level * AP cost * bonus modifier" would naturally yield values similar to weapons and spells assuming the breath is also affected by 2 damage stats (if not just multiply them into the formula).
Aquatic races have one, and Shadow/Silence gets it as a buff which is how I found out it's possible. I am well aware that messing with AP can break a lot of things but it's already being done so there needs to be a more detailed response than "please don't". (Not saying that's your responsibility mind you!)
Oh great, that means overwriting Java content is impossible I guess? So much for taking my own shot at rebalancing after complaining so much
Everything that affected elemental damage affected Breath Weapon, including bonuses. So loading up on enchantments and potions got the damage output to new heights because the multipliers stacked.
Yes, I have tweaked AP as part of set bonuses in clothing mods. It is just an attribute like any other. Based on that experience, I am hesitant to do anything of the sort to the base game.
