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Feb 25 2008, 8:24 pm
is there a way to make a skill raise only if you kill someone with that skill? like say you use an axe for most of the attack but your final attack is with a throwing star is there a way to make throwing star skill raise ?
Feb 25 2008, 8:35 pm
Depends how you handle things. The most elegant option would be to have deathcheck() return a value (1 if the mob dies, 0 if it does not). This, specifically, probably won't work, because you probably delete the mob when it dies, which prevents deathcheck() from returning anything. However, you could go with something logically backwards: if it returns 1 then the mob is still alive, and if it returns null, then the mob has been killed. So, like so:

mob/verb/kill(var/mob/M)
  M.hp = 0
  //if we killed M
  if(!M.deathcheck(src))
    exp += 100


Now, you just have to put a similar line for each attack:

mob/verb/axeaquestion(var/mob/M)
  M.hp -= 10
  if(!M.deathcheck(src))
    axe += 1

mob/verb/spearsomechange(var/mob/M)
  M.hp -= 10
  if(!M.deathcheck(src))
    spear += 1


Just remember to put "return 1" at the end of the deathcheck() proc.
Feb 25 2008, 9:13 pm
In response to Garthor
this should work correct?
                if(damage >= 1)
                    M.health -= damage
                    view(M) << "[M] was hit by [O]'s Axe for [damage] damage!!"
                    M.Death(O)
                    O.axekill+=1
Feb 25 2008, 9:58 pm
In response to Bluntmonkey
Only if you want to give skill on every attack, not just kills.