C:B:num:wgt:mul?

[Lord Estraven]

The major classes in p_info.txt all have lines that look like this:

C:B:num:wgt:mul

e.g. for Mages

C:B:4:40:2

What is this? Some source code diving indicates it has to do with the number of blows a character gets with weapons of a certain weight, but I'm not sure exactly what the effect is (or if the code isn't dead). Anyone know more about this?

[AnonymousHero]

AFICT the values end up being used here:

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/* Returns the blow information based on class */
void analyze_blow(int *num, int *wgt, int *mul)
{
        *num = cp_ptr->blow_num;
        *wgt = cp_ptr->blow_wgt;
        *mul = cp_ptr->blow_mul;

        /* Count bonus abilities */
        (*num) += get_extra_blows_ability();
}

If I understand the code in xtra1.c correctly,

• "num" is the maximum number of (base) blows. (Before bonuses.)
• "wgt" is used as a limiting factor for STR requirements per weight.
• "mul" is used for scaling.

and these are used (indirectly, scaled) for indexing into the blows_table to calculate determine the final number of blows.

[Lord Estraven]

Thanks! And ick, I thought T2 was mostly free of such things. No wonder Mages are incurably bad at melee.