Talk:SetNthActiveEffectMagnitude

I'm probably just being a bit thick, but the way I read this syntax:

(magnitude:long) reference.SetNthActiveEffectMagnitude whichEffect:long (magnitude:long) reference.SetNthAEMagnitude whichEffect:long

makes it sound like (magnitude:long) is a returned value, or at best that my use of the function should look like:

  10 myRef.SetNthActiveEffectMagnitude 3

whereas, if typical function syntax is followed, I'd assume the correct usage would be:

  myRef.SetNthActiveEffectMagnitude 3, 10

in which case I'd suggest modifying the article to read:

reference.SetNthActiveEffectMagnitude whichEffect:long, (magnitude:long) reference.SetNthAEMagnitude whichEffect:long, (magnitude:long)

FritZ

It's... a... umm... returned value?!? I'll ask behippo about that one, as I'm not sure what he's returning there. I might have just copied over a typo from the OBSE documentation.

On every other function of the wiki, yes the first () value is always a return value. Sorry, the wiki is a bit scattered for information.

--Haama 00:55, 17 December 2007 (EST)

This function is almost useless and very dangerous. It changes the active effect magnitude, but does not apply the changed value to the actor, at least not for effects added by token items. When these changed effects are removed (because the token item is unequiped), the actor's attribute is "un-updated" with the new value, leaving it with a corrupt total. I think it works for some things like fatigue because they are continuously re-calculated as fatigue recovers, but certainly for drain speed effects it does not work. DO NOT USE! ABO 06:48, 9 January 2011 (EST)