Deleting Class Skills

[AndrewD2]

I've got an oracle curse that gives a -5 penalty to some skills and removes it as a class skill.

so I started with

Post-Levels 10000

     ~if we're not shown, just get out now
      doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)

      doneif (hero.tagis[Hero.NoNegCurse] <> 0)

      foreach pick in hero from BaseSkill where "thingid.skBluff|thingid.skDiplo|thingid.skIntim|thingid.skSenseMot"
          eachpick.field[Penalty].value -= 5
          perform eachpick.delete[Helper.ClassSkill]
       nexteach

And it worked, until I added a mystery that granted any of those skills and it overrode it, so I adjusted timiing up and down, all the way up to final 10000 as I knew the class skill bonus is asigned at final 20000 and so it would need to be deleted before that.

Didn't work, so then I tried deleting the ClassSkill.<insert skills> on every pick on the hero to try and remove it adjusting timing from Post Levels 10000 to Final 100000

      foreach pick in hero
          perform eachpick.delete[ClassSkill.skBluff]
          perform eachpick.delete[ClassSkill.skDiplo]
          perform eachpick.delete[ClassSkill.skIntim]
          perform eachpick.delete[ClassSkill.skSenseMot]
      nexteach

That was added to the previous script. Still no luck, so I'm looking for help, any ideas?

Andrew

 

[SteelRat451]

I'm no expert (more like naive novice), but best guess for me is to either:

A) run your script at final 15000 (Something else happens at final 10000 (Eval Rule 1, whatever that is) and see if that intercedes; or

B) somewhere after final phase 20000, change the field skClsKsBon to a value of 0, then strip the ClassSkill tags

Not sure if either would work, but that is my 2 cents....

 

[Mathias]

Right-click any skill on the character, and choose "Show Debug Tasks for XXXXX".

Now, look at the list of scripts running on that skill - you'll see that one of them is named "Field Calculate - Field "Modified Level" (skTotal)". So, you know that being a class skill adds +3 to skTotal, so therefore, you'll need to control whether it's a class skill before that script runs, because that's probably the script that's testing for that tag.

 

[AndrewD2]

So this was one of those idiot moments where you're testing one thing and looking at another. I was testing using the Bluff skill but my mind was set on it being Perception, so I was confused why Perception wasn't going away as a class skill ... I go hang my head in shame now.