High Interest Loan does not work in Wizardlands but still procs bankster debuffs.

The Bankster ability "High Interest Loan" does not work properly inside of Wizardlands. When activated it produces stacks of zero Zorkmids, which wouldn't be such a problem and could even be mistaken for some kind of weird but intentional feature* or a benign side effect of level numbering in the code, if not for the fact that it still procs bankster debuffs which remove Zorkmids at the normal rate for the level that the Wizardland is scaled to.


*(akin to the weird no XP spillover thing or the double monster zoo thing)

 

The flip response to that is "Serves Banksters right for trying risky financial instruments while in extradimensional space..."

I'd be tempted to come up with a thematically appropriate debuff that only triggers in PD/WL and is _even worse_...

 

And that is pretty much what is happening.

 

The note here is that the debuffs are not scaled to floor level. Their effect isn't even an effect, it's an upkeep, so it's static everywhere you go.

 

Then there's something else seriously wrong with my game because the Bad Credit debuff has definitely been charging me zorkmid upkeeps equal to the floor number of whatever floor I'm on (or that a wizardland is scaled to) when I obtain it.

 

That's because the debuff has a starting value to which scaling is added, while the zorkmid-granting ability is scaled up to floor level in its entirety. I see no bug here, really.

 

I don't either, but Essence said its not supposed to do that.

 

To do what?

 

To scale to floor level.

 

And as far as I know the debuffs either don't scale to floor level at all or only scale slightly (haven't bothered to make sure). So no problem there.

 

Code:

<spell name="Bad Credit" type="self" > 
<buff useTimer="0" stackable="1" stacksize="3" bad="1"
icon="skills/bad_credit64.png"
smallicon="skills/bad_credit32.png"
zorkmidUpkeep="1" 
tag="bankster">
<!--<secondaryBuff id="13" amount="1" />--> <!-- hp regen -->
<!--<primaryBuff id="5" amount="-1" />--> <!-- SAV -->
<!--<primaryBuff id="2" amount="-1" />--> <!-- NIM -->
</buff>
<description text="'Brax, buddy, I'll have your money next week - I promise!'" />
</spell>

There's no scaling there. It's just zorkmidUpkeep="1". Are you sure you're not just coincidentally getting more stacks at the rate of about one per floor?

 

I'm sure; This is extremely consistent. Besides it can't stack more than three times anyway and I'm getting upkeeps of seven zorkmids on floor seven.

 

WHITMAAAAAAAN!!!!!?!

 

Seven from just this debuff, or from all debuffs?

Because there's more than just one bankster debuff that takes zorkmids away.

 

From just the one

 

Faaaaaax! Something's broken again.