Wealth error

[Thrydmon]

Hey, guys,

I'm not sure if anyone noticed this or not, but with the "Use Wealth" optional rule turned on, it miscalculates Wealth when someone has ranks in the Profession skill. The book says that a player gets a +2 (first mistake) for having 5 or more ranks (second mistake) in the Profession skill. Right now, it is only giving +1 to Wealth, and it is giving that bonus every time the total skill is divisible by 5. The way it was supposed to be is a one time bonus to Wealth, and I think it should be based on ranks bought according to the rulebook wording, not ranks bought plus attribute bonus. In otherwords, my character who has a +1 Intelligence bonus to Profession is getting the bonus to Wealth one skill rank too soon (4 ranks +1 Intelligence bonus = +5 skill).

[FifthWanderer]

Found and debugged. Here's a fix for the eval script:

      ~ Add to our wealth if we have 5+ ranks
      if (tagis[Helper.NotUsable] = 0) then
        if (field[Total].value >=5) then
          herofield[TotWealth].value += 2
        endif
      endif

-FifthWanderer, wielder of the Magical Bug-Smashing Hammer...OF DOOM!!!

[Thrydmon]

But won't that still evaluate based on the TOTAL skill? The rules say that it should be based on RANKS of skill not TOTAL skill. I've pretty much done what you said, FifthWanderer, but I haven't had any time to look at the scripting stuff in depth to see if there was a different field to base the second if statement on, or if you would have to subtract the Intelligence bonus from
field[Total].value before comparing to 5.

Edit: Sorry, I meant Wisdom bonus, not Intelligence bonus.

[Colen]

Thrydmon wrote:
>
>
> Hey, guys,
>
> I'm not sure if anyone noticed this or not, but with the "Use Wealth"
> optional rule turned on, it miscalculates Wealth when someone has ranks
> in the Profession skill. The book says that a player gets a +2 (first
> mistake) for having 5 or more ranks (second mistake) in the Profession
> skill. Right now, it is only giving +1 to Wealth, and it is giving that
> bonus every time the total skill is divisible by 5. The way it was
> supposed to be is a one time bonus to Wealth, and I think it should be
> based on ranks bought according to the rulebook wording, not ranks
> bought plus attribute bonus. In otherwords, my character who has a +1
> Intelligence bonus to Profession is getting the bonus to Wealth one
> skill rank too soon (4 ranks +1 Intelligence bonus = +5 skill).


According to the Profession skill on p53:

"Special: Every 5 full points of bonus in Profession give you a +1 bonus
to Wealth (see page 132)." Of course page 132 contradicts that. Has this
been errata'd one way or another?


Your point about not adding the attribute bonus is good - I'll fix that.


Thanks!

--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com

[FifthWanderer]

I checked the errata and you're right, Colen. It's a +1 bonus for every 5 ranks in the skill.

[Thrydmon]

Originally Posted by FifthWanderer

I checked the errata and you're right, Colen. It's a +1 bonus for every 5 ranks in the skill.

Ok, cool, that explains that for me. I had the original print of the book, and didn't have the errata. Sorry about the misunderstanding. Also, Steve had been asked that question about whether it is the skill ranks or ranks plus attribute bonus, and he said that it is skill + bonus. That being said, Colen, everything is right with the Wealth math. No need to change it. Again, sorry for the false flag on this. ops:

[Duggan]

Sorry to necro-post, but this is not working again as of 3.6. A character (The Assassin of Iron Age) with Profession 8 and an attribute bonus of +2 is only getting 1 pt of Wealth for a total of +9. Oddly enough, the Crime Boss, with 3 ranks of wealth and two skills with a skill value of 8 and a stat bonus of +5 each, comes out correctly at 22.

[Colen]

I don't think the attribute bonus matters, does it? You get +1 to Wealth for each full 5 ranks of the Profession skill that you have, so 8 skill ranks is only a +1 (as described earlier in this thread, in fact). You don't add your Intelligence bonus to that.

The Crime Boss would start at 8, +12 for 3 ranks in Benefit: Wealth (to make 20), then two profession skills at +8 would give another +1 each. So a total of 22.

[Duggan]

Ah, I see. The books got it wrong all throughout Iron Age. Although bringing the base value up to 10 still only grants a +1 Wealth bonus whereas the descriptor in the skill indicates that it's +1 per 5 ranks.

What was partly confusing me is that in Chapter 5, when they discuss Wealth, 5 or more ranks gives you +2, but I see now that Steve Kenson has indicated that the Skill descriptor should win out.

[Duggan]

*blink* And apparently SK has said that it's bonus, not ranks (also here, contradicting the book.