Thread: damage dealt algorithm

The only thing I am working with is the combat system. Thanks for the tip sigfriedmcwild

Cerin, first of all you'd better learn to indent your code properly. Ouch! I can barely tell what's part of which if and whatnot!

That aside, I can't figure out what you mean:

This works fine if I take out the cout at the end, but while its in it has an error. Should I put a for loop in the while loop so when the monsters hp goes down it stays down?

What error? In what? Huuuh?

Anyway, you have a problem, because you're not storing the result of finalcom in mHp1. That means the monster's HP will never change unless you hit it with enough damage to kill with 1 hit.

Awsome it worked thanks for the help I know I had that error I just hadn't got around to fixing it yet, but I just did. The other error I was talking was the cout at the end of that case statement when the monster did actually die. Instead of displaying he is dead windows would tell me the program mud.exe had an error, but it seemed to have fixed itself so no worries.



Edit: But alas another problem has arisen. I need make the mhp1 variable go back to its original value so that next time you got to fight it won't he already dead. I tried putting this in in a few places, but it won't work.

Code:

	case 'f':
	cout<<"You encounter one dumb sunava..........\n";
	while(finalcom>0){              //fight
	fight=rand()%6;
	cin>>combat;
	if(combat=='a'){                //attack
	     fcom=(((strength*3)+agility)/fight);
	     finalcom=mhp1-fcom;                   //calculations
	     mhp1=finalcom;
	}
	if(finalcom>0){
	     cout<<finalcom<<"\n";
	}
	}
	cout<<"\nHe is dead\n";

Where to put it?

After he is dead, of course.

Except that won't work since I have this menu. So I change just a few variables depending on what they pick.

Code:

	case 'f':
	cout<<"1-man\n";
	cout<<"2-goblin\n";
	cin>>monster;
	if(monster=1){
	mhp1=20;          <---------------------can't get Vb code to work
	cout<<"You encounter a man.\n";
	}
	while(finalcom>0){              //fight
	fight=rand()%6;
	cin>>combat;
	if(combat=='a'){                //attack
	fcom=(((strength*3)+agility)/fight);
	finalcom=mhp1-fcom;
	mhp1=finalcom;
	}
	if(finalcom>0){
	cout<<finalcom<<"\n";
	}
	}
	cout<<"\nHe is dead\n";                     //death

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