Con bonus for classes - hardcoded (?)

The Con bonus behavior appears to be hardcoded as it relates to classes (warriors and clerics for 9 levels, mages and rogues for 10 levels).

So, if one were to say, modify clerics 10 hit dice (1d8 per level, up to level 10 instead of level 9), or fighters only up to level 8, vice level 9, it doesn't change the Con bonus - they still get the Con bonus up to level 9, regardless of what is in the HPwar.2DA, HPprs.2DA, etc.

Any idea how this is actually hardcoded in the Infinity Engine? Any fix available? (like how ToBEx externalizes the HPclass.2DA and HPbarb.2DA, for example).

(I've been searching the threads for a while, but perhaps my Google-fu isn't strong enough to find a thread on this topic)

Thanks in advance.

The Con bonus behavior appears to be hardcoded as it relates to classes (warriors and clerics for 9 levels, mages and rogues for 10 levels).

So, if one were to say, modify clerics 10 hit dice (1d8 per level, up to level 10 instead of level 9), or fighters only up to level 8, vice level 9, it doesn't change the Con bonus - they still get the Con bonus up to level 9, regardless of what is in the HPwar.2DA, HPprs.2DA, etc.

Any idea how this is actually hardcoded in the Infinity Engine? Any fix available? (like how ToBEx externalizes the HPclass.2DA and HPbarb.2DA, for example).

(I've been searching the threads for a while, but perhaps my Google-fu isn't strong enough to find a thread on this topic)

Thanks in advance.

If it's true to PnP, a Fighter's CON bonus to HP is supposed to apply for every Fighter level gained, up to whatever level cap may be imposed (and PnP had a provision for reaching 100th level, as seen in the Bloodstone series of game modules). I don't recall it having worked that way for any other class under 2nd Edition AD&D rules, which are, in some form, the rules BG2 uses.

IIRC, the Constitution-based HP bonus can be modified via HPCONBON.2DA.

IIRC, the Constitution-based HP bonus can be modified via HPCONBON.2DA .

Ah, but the point is that the base setup(level cap) is hardcoded... as in the warriors will always get the conbonus at the first 9 levels, no matter what. Well if it isn't zero, in which case it wouldn't just matter.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 13 August 2011 - 12:19 AM.