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I was trying to add the trust fund quality, but it is a little difficult.
I can remove the cost of all lifestyles with Code:
herofield[acLifeMult].value = 0 So, is there a way to find out the sum of the character's lifestyle costs? If so then something like (in psudo-code) Code:
var costOffset as number costOffset = selectedLevel * 5000 herofield[acLifeMult] -= (costOffset / currentLifestleCost) the field acLifestyl stores the name of a (random) perchased lifestyle, but does not list purchased lifestyles, and therefore cannot even be used for validation. Finally, the best functional alternative would simply by to offset the cost of the quality in BP by the cost of the appropriate lifestyle.... 9BP for Trust Fund (med) and 18BP for Trust Fund (high), but this messes up quality BP accounting (not significantly, since there are no 2BP qualities, but still... it seems ugly, plus it would only show the lifestyle as monthly on the char sheet, instead of permanent. And making it negative enough to purchase 100 months of anything would trigger warnings about negative qualities above 35BP. Any ideas from anyone a little more familiar with the scripting language and Hero Lab in general? Am I missing something obvious? |
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Technically Permanent Lifestyle is 100 months of a given lifestyle. So I'd consider having it as two separate qualities.
Trustfund (Medium) -- Bootstrap 100 months of Medium Lifestyle Trustfund (High) -- Bootstrap 100 months of High Lifestyle Which I tried to do by Boostrapping middle (what is middle? it should be medium) lifestyle and setting a stackQty value for a field to 100. No go, not sure now. |
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As noted in the Future Plans section of the FAQ (help menu...Shadowrun FAQ), there's a lot of lifestyle stuff still in the works, so you may want to hold off a few weeks on lifestyle-related work until they're finished.
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The 100 months does not automatically translate to permanent lifestyle in the tool.
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That's what I mean by the "Guest cost for a lifestyle, shared lifestyles, permanent lifestyles" line in the future plans section of the FAQ - I didn't have the time to properly implement that. (Actually, it'll be a checkbox on the lifestyle customization form, rather than having to enter exactly 100 of them).
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Yah I know it doesn't do it in the tool, but the tool also doesn't seem to have a useful way to subtract a month of lifestyle either.
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Option 2 - once you've switched to Advancement mode, go to the Journal tab, and use the Monthly Expenses option below the table. |
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