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Old 09-30-2019, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by kaev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Numeric skill display in the client was added some time after release, might have been post-Kunark release, all you got were the "Awful/Below Average/.../Master" strings at first. I hand-parsed logs to work out what my characters' skills were at and what the level caps were from the numeric skill-up messages. My inner Nilbog wants to see this true on green.
The strings were generated from actual numerical values. Evidence of this exists as early as the client shipped in 1999 on the disks.
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