Attributes not being given by ability

Here is the story.
I have two attributes on my ability (piercing damage and tinkering), but when I take it upon leveling up, they are not given to me.

Here is the related entry in my SkillDB.xml

Code:

 <ability name="7200 RPM" icon="skills/crippled64.png" skillname="drills" level="1">
<description text="Spinning faster makes digging faster. Who would have thought of that? Makes you more effective at screwing too."/>
<secondarybuff id="20" amount="1"/>
<damagebuff piercing="3"/>
</ability>

The icons appear ingame, just like on any other actually working ability. But when I take the ability, it's not added to my stats.
Does it for all the abilities of my skill.

 

This may be related to using skillname instead of skillID.

 

This is true, it is. Its been reported somewhere - it was on that buglist Daynabt made a while ago, I'm sure.

 

Okay. So how does one use the skillID? I read on the wiki that it would cause incompatibilities/crashes if multiple mods had the same. And by being numbers I fear it's quite easy to achieve.

 

Choose a random 10~15-digit number and use that instead of skillname.
Only, instead of using [skillname="something"] you use [id="something"].


It's sad that it doesn't want to work properly, but I can't exactly go and pester Nicholas about that, seeing as I'm the one who repeatedly told him to get more sleep.

 

Smart. Will do as soon as I can.
WIll skillname ever be fixed by the way?

 

Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes, but we don't know when and we don't want to abuse sleep-deprived Nicholas.

 

Okay. Something weird happened.
I tried using the id tag. But then the skill just stopped working inside the game (could be selected but empty row where it should be located once in game)
Back to using skillname without changing anything else. It now works.

What sorcery is this?

 

You probably didn't change all instances (or change them all correctly).

<skill /> should have id="somenumber"

<ability /> should have skill="thatsamenumber"

 

Skill is a valid tag? Or did you mean skillname.
Anyway, what I posted on OP now works while the id thing didn't, so I'll stick to it until it stop working again.

 

Your first entry in skilldb should look sort of like this:

Code:

 <skill name="Clutch of Midas" id="200" type="warrior" description="Midas may or may not have been one of your ancestors. Who knows? Dude got around.">
  <art icon="sprites/skills/midas/regal64.png"/>
  <loadout type="reagent" subtype="Gold Ingot" always="1" amount="2"/>
  </skill>

 

Yes, that's what I based myself on. Just replaced id by skillname as suggested.

 

Don't. Use id=.

 

But when I did it just stopped working stopped working. I mean, worse than before.

 

id= has to be numerical and unique (so it doesn't conflict with another skill). id="123456" or whatever.

And the skill levels use skill="123456". Only the first entry that defines the skill uses id=

 

Oh, okay. Everything is clear (and working) now.
Thank you all. Gonna stick to Id until skillname works properly then.