GM command .level up going above and beyond

That should be normal. After all, we only have stats data for 1-60 in Zero, and 1-70 in TBC, etc etc. I played as a lv255 paladin for a while messing with friends (Horde) while killing Cairne. He still kicked my bottom because I had level 60 stats, just a bunch of extra talents!

The normal cap is 60 for players. GM's can go above and beyond, up to 255 which is the max for an unsigned char. Seems fine to me. Also, it does not crash anything.

It's SUPPOSE to be capped at 60 and not allowed to go above under any circumstance for stability purposes. When people want a 255 server they can change that them self.

Agree, hard cap should be 60 for classic, 70 for TBC and so on.

It has been this way since before the split. In fact I remember doing this in 2008. How is setting a number to 255 going to cause a stability issue? The only thing I can see even remotely possible is that one aura from a talent tree may adversely affect an aura from another tree, but during the beta there was a week or two where they did just that: Grant everybody all talents.

Also, this is something to be used by GM's. I had spoken with Luda or Salja about keeping the level data from WoTLK in Zero and One so the GM would be mega-buff when going above 60 and was told that it was a simple matter of bringing the level data from WoTLK into the databases for One and Zero. Never was it mentioned that this would be an issue. If it is an issue, you can tell it to my pally who has been 255 for eons and never brought down a server.

If this is such an issue, I vote we put a setting in the configuration file that defaults to 60 but allows a GM to raise his/her level up to whatever the value is set to, or a max of 255. This way the server admin is in charge of how buff the GM's can be.

I believe this command should use the value from
MaxPlayerLevel in mangos.conf

But should gm's be allowed to skip past this check ?

[quote=antz]I believe this command should use the value from
MaxPlayerLevel in mangos.conf

But should gm's be allowed to skip past this check ?[/quote]

Maybe have an additional setting in the conf to allow GMs to bypass max level check?

If they try adding levels above the max level and the check says they have to abide by it then only level to the max allowed. If on the other hand they can bypass it then allow it to level up to 255? (Which i think is a client limit?)

The client level is "unsigned char", which ranges from 0 to 255, so yes 255 is the max. I would like for GM's to be able to do what they want. I would prefer the cap to stop normal players at the specified level, but if a GM does ".levelup ", whether on himself or a player, the server should abide by that decision. Along with that, it would require level stats up to 100 to be in the database even for Zero. I believe the cap in Draenor is 100, right? Either way we'd need to put in the data for all of the KNOWN levels.