Increase carrying capacity with a racial ability?

[EightBitz]

I was reading through this older thread:

http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=53758&highlight=encumbrance

Which ultimately answered the question offered a solution of adding the following script to the Post-attribute phase with a timing of 1950.

herofield[tEncumLgt].value *= 1.5
herofield[tEncumMed].value *= 1.5
herofield[tEncumHvy].value *= 1.5

And if I do that on the race itself, that works fine, but I would like to add this to a racial ability. So in the editor, on the top row of tabs, I select Race, and in the second row of tabs, I select "Race Special".

I add the same eval script with the same phase and the same timing, but it has no effect.

Is there a way I can make this work through a Race Special ability, or do I have to settle for doing this directly on the race?

 

[Mathias]

There's no reason that should work differently on a racial special than on a script running on a race.

There's something else going wrong - I'd use debugs to trace various values, and make sure everything's happening as you expect.

 

[EightBitz]

OK, never mind. I'm an idiot. I neglected to associate the ability with the race. I guess that's a rather important step, eh? :-/