Question Reducing an item level?

Right guys,

Im working on a project, but a little in the dark on this one.

What i am wanting to do is lower the level of an item depending on the item being used.

For example:

If i am using a level 1 pickaxe on a level 5 rock - it will take say 5 minutes to destroy
If i am using a level 5 pickaxe on a level 1 rock - It will take 1 minute to destroy

Along with minutes/seconds counting time to destruction

 

What does this have to do with Physics?

 

Im not sure where it should be located, but im asking for HELP, not attitude

 

maybe you can use a public variable in the script attached to to the item, so you can change the variable (that for example could represent the level or the time needed to break the rock) either from script or from the editor, or you can use different tags for different levels and change the time needed in the script according to the tag.

 

Then get a better one and people might be inclined to help you for free.

 

Give each level of pickaxe a "mining strength".

Whenever you mine, take away HP from the rock equal to the mining strength of the pickaxe. Stronger rocks have more HP. Stronger pickaxes do more damage.

 

All of this levels and times and rates and feeds and speeds and powers and stuff is "all just numbers."

To get a feel for how it is done, I suggest a few possible paths, and there are many more:

1. do some tutorials on RPG / gathering / survival games that have stats systems

2. find your favorite game that has the mechanic you want, and go looking for people who have written wiki pages detailing all the stats and levels and times and whatnot (they definitely exist for ALL popular games)

3. pick up a paper-and-pencil gaming book and look how they do things like combat. Combat is exactly the same as mining; you do something with an item that has stats, and that something is then destroyed. It's identical in process.

 

Thank you PraetorBlue,

"Whenever you mine, take away HP from the rock equal to the mining strength of the pickaxe. Stronger rocks have more HP. Stronger pickaxes do more damage"

Thats put me more in the picture and has given me ideas