Still struggling with else/elseif and goto commands

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@wurziii

I just decided to write a book in the least efficient and most confusing possible way.

Woohoo and welcome to the club! Glad the issue resolved itself.

One piece of unsolicited advice about fairmath: %+1 or %-1 will do nothing, because fairmath rounds all fractions down to zero.

Fairmath stats tend toward 50, and can never reach 0 or 100 – but you would have to e.g. have a stat of 0 before %+1 would move you up by a non-fractional amount. I just tried raising a stat of 50 by %+1 a hundred-odd times, to confirm that this hasn’t changed; the stat was still 50 at the end.

Here’s some advice I gave a few years back in how to think about fairmath:

@Havenstone

a player who makes consistent stat choices will cross 75 at some point, a reasonably consistent player around 60-65, a “leaning” player 55, and vice versa on the other side of the scale.

%+/-10 is pretty reasonable for a standard bump. Maybe %+5 if you have a lot of choices and want every single one of them to matter (because it pretty quickly turns into +1/+2 to a strong stat, which is a pretty slow accrual rate).

Worth noting that %+5 will stop having any impact once a score reaches 80, and %+10 once it reaches 90. But a fairmath stat that gets to 80 is really high. If you get to 90, it’s probably because you’ve been working with regular %+20 and %+30 bumps in your game.