Comment by well_ackshually
13 hours ago
>if skill == cleave and support == wide_sweep: make cleave radius bigger
if skill == cleave and support == focused_edge: make cleave smaller but stronger
if skill == cleave and support == twin_cleave and rule == guarded_arc: quietly move to the woods
>That can work for a demo. It gets rough once the game has lots of skills, supports, items, statuses, and encounter rules.
Laughs in path of building : https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding-Po...
Path of Exile has deeper mechanics than pretty much every other ARPGs out there, PoB covers the vast majority of them, in a beautiful mess of about 20k lines of calculations in various files.
Making it a "Compiler problem" makes it an unsolvable one in acceptable time.
Fun fact: it directly parses mods from their ingame description into a mod database that is basically a stringly typed list of whatever increases also. : https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding-Po...
Second fun fact: that's the one for Path of Exile 2, that has different mechanics. The PoE1 version is the same thing, except even larger.
So yeah, don't bother about making a compiler. Your compiler will figure out micro upgrades and die in three months when the game adds incompatible mechanics. Stay agile and on your feet.
> Making it a "Compiler problem" makes it an unsolvable one in acceptable time.
If I understand correctly, "compilation" is needed only on equipment change. I remember some FPS drop in PoE when changing the gear too.
>in a beautiful mess of about 20k lines of calculations in various files.
And is it actually suitable for realtime? PoB is not a realtime application.
Stat recalculations are pretty much immediate, yes. The only thing that takes a while is calculating the nodes with the most potential gains, since you're in effect calculating reachability, combined stat increases, etc, which is a few thousands to millions of calculations depending on how far you look.
FPS drops in PoE would not be caused by damage recalc: this is done entirely server side and on application of the damage/dot tick. That drop you're seeing is just loading the assets and recompiling some shaders, if anything.
But also: it doesn't need to be realtime. Your damage is a simple math formula, applied against another for enemy defense, for each hit instance. There are definitely some builds that stress servers due to the sheer amount of hits/tick, but that's a matter of optimisation. PoE lowers server ticks when it can't follow.
The post is talking about optimizing for build damage/resistance/etc, crafting a build. Which probably doesn't even take into account conversion shenanigans, over time things like wardloop that requires setup, cwdt and a load of other things. This is not an optimizable thing in any reasonable time, and human application of logic is pretty much faster.
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