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Curses / Perl script to help Initial character creation.
« on: August 16, 2013, 09:25:35 am »
Having just found LCS three days ago I researched the character creation process to help me optimise the answers to the initial questions and found some answers on the web that did not quite satisfy me.
So I wrote a quick Perl script to help me. It essentially simply generates all possible characters virtually, so I could start refining the massive list to find what I would prefer to start with. Having read the Beginners part of the Wiki and similar advice elsewhere i started out with finding the maximum SUM for heart, intelligence and charisma, which turns out to currently be 27.
Then I chose to maximize the total score for all the base characteristics, which is maximally 49 at the moment. Then I realised the best option was to have balanced heart, intelligence and charisma at 9 each, so that became a condition¹. The resulting list I then grep for preferred starting skills, refining to some 8 remaining choices. I think one is persuasion starting at 4, another was tailoring for easy money making, though I now realise perhaps art might be better for the Founder. Music is easy, too, but requires a guitar for optimal result, which costs money if you don't 'find' one. I've since realised minimal Security is rather helpful, too, to at least be allowed to try and pick locks.
Anyway, I thought someone here might be mildly intrigued about it, perrhaps even like to see my script to compare it with their own scrript/knowledge/what have you. lcs_calc.pl
Mazur.
¹ Actually I now have a maximum difference between any pair of the three as a condition.
So I wrote a quick Perl script to help me. It essentially simply generates all possible characters virtually, so I could start refining the massive list to find what I would prefer to start with. Having read the Beginners part of the Wiki and similar advice elsewhere i started out with finding the maximum SUM for heart, intelligence and charisma, which turns out to currently be 27.
Then I chose to maximize the total score for all the base characteristics, which is maximally 49 at the moment. Then I realised the best option was to have balanced heart, intelligence and charisma at 9 each, so that became a condition¹. The resulting list I then grep for preferred starting skills, refining to some 8 remaining choices. I think one is persuasion starting at 4, another was tailoring for easy money making, though I now realise perhaps art might be better for the Founder. Music is easy, too, but requires a guitar for optimal result, which costs money if you don't 'find' one. I've since realised minimal Security is rather helpful, too, to at least be allowed to try and pick locks.
Anyway, I thought someone here might be mildly intrigued about it, perrhaps even like to see my script to compare it with their own scrript/knowledge/what have you. lcs_calc.pl
Mazur.
¹ Actually I now have a maximum difference between any pair of the three as a condition.