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I have added the possiblity for user editable post craft formulas to the current beta of kipee craft and made a switch from the ancient Delphi 7 to a more recent version, but still no cross platform support because Lazarus lacks 3rd party components needed by KipeeCraft. This beta might break something existing or crash, please report back with any problems you might have.

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Is there still a public interest to these formulas and the tinkering / testing involved with it?

Changes

I had to solve two problems to get it working:

1) I combined multiple plans into a single recipe e.g. Long Axe and Sword have exactly the same parts. This looked like a clever idea back in the day, but with postcraft stats it is a problem because sword and axe differ in some stats like attack speed even with the same mats used.
I solved this by adding an option to these combined plans to select the actual item like a sword. This way all recipes stay backwards compatible and can be read by older versions of KC aswell.

2) I wrote program code to calculate postcraft values for the individual attributes like:

case attridx of
    {magic values}
    CElementalCastSpeed, CElementalPower,
    COffensiveAfflictionCastSpeed, COffensiveAfflictionPower,
    CDefensiveAfflictionCastSpeed, CDefensiveAfflictionPower,
    CHealCastSpeed, CHealPower:
    begin
      poststat := 20 + prestat * 0.8;
    end;
end;

But this could only end up in a chaotic mess if done for all plans. Damage for example differs for each weapon and even depends on the item quality!
I solved this by adding a "config" file for each existing crafting plan in KipeeCraft. This file contains all formulas to calculate the postcraft values from the precraft values. It is a simple text file and will be automatically generated the first time it is accessed.
Storing these formulas in files similar to recipes has many advantages like opening several in an editor and copy & pasting formulas, one can also post them on the forum or send them via mail, back them up etc.

Support

And this is where I need your help. I don't have the time to add all these formulas myself, nor do I personally need them. Most seasoned crafters know how much precraft % is needed to get the result, I thought of these values just as a little "gimmick" when adding them ages ago...
I can include formula files with a future release of kipeecraft, you can add your name as comment inside the file or tell me how you want to be credited, if you decide to contribute to these formulas!

I will post a how-to next, aswell as access to the beta of KipeeCraft.

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