Triple benefits?

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An odd thing started happening fairly recently.

Traits/abilities/etc are being "tripled". By that I mean if I create a character with, for example, Wealthy, the hero starts the game with 1500 gold. Mousing over the Wealthy icon says (I don't remember the exact text) "Hero starts with 500 gold" three times.

Happens with other things too, like Master Smith (now upgrades cost 0).

I figured it must be a mod so I unchecked "Use Mods" but it still happened. So I uninstalled (and deleted all the directories that were leftover), reinstalled from scratch, but it still happens.

Anyone else have this happen? It's a nice advantage, but a little too nice :)

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Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Primal_Savage, reply 1

Did you delete the Users folder when you re-installed?




C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes

 

Yup. Very strange. A few days ago it was doubled, then became tripled a few days ago.

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Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Primal_Savage, reply 4

I went into the coreabiltiies.xml file and I just added the previously mentioned GameModifier twice (For a total of 3x) and this is what I get. Is it what you see too?

 

Reduced 58%Original 981 x 726

 

Yes, but I see that with every ability. i.e. I see Might as "+3 to Attack" 3 times, as if the game is loading it thrice.

 

I'm taking one last crack at a clean reinstall.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Primal_Savage, reply 6

I was hoping to find out if the bug was in your core files or not...

 

Figured it out. Sort of.

Apparently, editing the CoreAbilities.xml files, even something as simple as changing a cost from "2" to "1", causes the issue with all abilities doubling (or even tripling).

 

Putting the cost back to what it was originally doesn't correct the problem.  The only way to fix it is to take a backup of the file before editing it, then copying the backup back over to the original filename.

 

Very odd behavior.