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Any way to stop server shutdown dino level cap nerf?
I know that the max levels that can go in to one stat is 255 but I find it very annoying to deal with and I also know that the code that does this is hard coded which means that it can't be changed by player settings but can you somehow dabble into the files and change this anyway?

For the people that don't know what I'm talking about, here's a quick explanation:

Every time the server shuts down and restarts it checks the level of dinos. If dinos are over the level cap (255), this is what will happen in the code (if done in standard windows 7 calculator)
My dino level is at 2147483583 btw.
2147483583 / 255 = 8421504.not over half
8421504 * 255 = 2147483520
2147483583 - 2147483520 = 63
Now your dino (level 2147483583) will have the stats of a level 63 dino since the dino stats were reset 8421504 times the stats then go to base stats again and starts from level 0, this is where the minus comes in and says: "The dino is level 63!"
It's even worse with a level 256 dino for example since the dino will then have the stats of a level 1 dino...

This might confuse most people since the dinos still have their level before the nerf. It's just the stats, the server doesn't change it's level directly since that wouldn't solve the stat issue since stats don't change with level so there's your explanation.

I just want a dino that can kill everything without getting killed as an easy solution to most dino problems since I can kill them very quickly and then won't need to delete my save file for the billionth time...
Last edited by Mysterious Tree; Jun 30, 2019 @ 1:42pm
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Vesuvius Jun 30, 2019 @ 6:01am 
Originally posted by --==The_Coded_Dr@gon==--:
I know that the max levels that can go in to one stat is 255 ...and I also know that the code that does this is hard coded which means that it can't be changed by player settings .... the end.
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Mysterious Tree Jun 30, 2019 @ 6:04am 
I thought maybe by player settings they meant like user settings or if it's possible to like create a mod to change this because I wouldn't be posting this if I knew that there wasn't and never will be
an other way...
Vesuvius Jun 30, 2019 @ 6:05am 
You dont need more points into a stat to make it more powerfull.... you only need more % points per point added... thats in the stat multipliers..... honestly... you can have a dodo one hit a giga.
Mysterious Tree Jun 30, 2019 @ 6:09am 
Great! So I can just go into the game.ini files and change the dino tamed stat multiplier. Thanks!
Hope that this works though...

Edit: it works, thank goodness it works!
Last edited by Mysterious Tree; Jun 30, 2019 @ 6:17am
Vesuvius Jun 30, 2019 @ 6:18am 
A small change does a lot.
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Date Posted: Jun 30, 2019 @ 5:52am
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