How can I track fairmath stats without railroading the player?

Hi, My approach to this is shown in this post using a tool one of the forum members made.

This tool:

Basically you add all the variables you want to track to your startup file

like this:
*comment savestatsetup str agi int char cons gold_coins

Then at the point you want to know the values you do a
*comment savestats

Then you run the tool as many times as you want (the longer and more branched the game the more iterations you should do to have a better distribution and endpoints.)

After that you’ll have a file with all the output, and from there you can do simple excel functions to get the endpoints or averages:
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Or you can use more complex tools to graph probability distribution or all sorts of things.

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