Problem with linguist

[Erich]

I am playing around with the linguist edge for the Space 1889 data set and have run into a small problem.
The first thing I did was make a new mechanic with an eval script of

perform hero.assign[Hero.SmartsLang]

to get all characters a number of languages equal to half their smarts die, as per the setting rules.

I then added the linguist edge which has the following code in its eval script

#resmax[resLang] += #trait[attrSma]
      #resleft[resLang] += #trait[attrSma]
      if (hero.tagis[source.Language] = 0) then
        #resmax[resLang] += #trait[attrSma]
        #resleft[resLang] += #trait[attrSma]
        endif

which is supposed to give a character a number of languages equal to their smarts die.
i.e smarts die 8 and no linguist = 4 languages (plus native)
smarts die 8 and linguist = 8 languages (plus native)
at least this is the ruling by Clint at Pinnacle as of 7/10/12.

When I tested the edge with a smart die of 6 I got 9 languages, which would be 3 for the half the smart die and 6 for the Linguist edge.

But, when I take away the mechanic and just check off multiple languages in the character setup dialog I get the correct number of languages.
Am I missing a parameter somewhere in the mechanic?

Thanks
-Erich

 

[zarlor]

Well, I think the if part could be problematic. If I'm reading that right the edge would first add 1/2 the Smarts die to your existing 1/2 Smarts die, which is what you want, but then it looks like the if statment is trying to check if the Source: Languages is checked. If it is not (which I wouldn't expect it to be) then it add another 1/2 Smarts die into the mix, but if it IS checked then it won't do that.

So I recommend getting rid of the if-endif stuff.

 

[Erich]

Removing the if statement worked.

Thanks
-Erich