Why won't the DB change reflect in the game?

[Damar Stiehl]

Need some help here, because I'm tearing my hair out a bit from frustration.

I am trying to make some changes to spell "Ignifaxius Burst of Flame". Sounds simple, right? An update to _Template_Zauber should do it. Well, oddly enough it does not. When this spell is concerned, the game seems to utterly ignore the changes I am making.

First, fiddling with ZaVal1, ZaVal2 and ZaVal3 does absolutely bubkis. I tried setting them all to 100 and... nothing. Fine, I said, I'll just reduce the spell cost and leave other effects alone - let it be a cheap DoT opener and to hell with everything else.

Simple again, right?

UPDATE _Template_Zauber SET zaMinAE=3 WHERE id='IgnifaxiusFlammenstrahl';

Surprise, not so simple. Because the game went on merrily ignoring that change as well. As soon as I load, even with 0 modifier, Ignifaxius still costs 8 points and not 3.

Now I figured I fat-fingered the DB change, so I went back and checked it. zaMinAe for Ignifaxius is now DEFINITELY 3, not 8 in static.db4.

I don't understand why the change wouldn't "take". Is the spell hardcoded somehow? I'm almost inclined to believe that, except I was able to change the cast time from 3 to 2 with no problems by updating _Template_Zauber.

Please help - this is annoying to the infinite.

[Amosh]

The spell descriptions are hard coded in locale.db4:

A stream of elemental force shoots from the spell-caster's hands. A lance of fire and light hits the targeted opponent.

Effect: Opponent catches fire (1 DP/secs for SP* secs), as long as the target burns, the target's AR is reduced by 1 AR for every 10 HP of damage
Damage: 1D6 DP
Spell Duration: Immediate
Cost: 8 + modifier times 2
Modifier: +1 modifier for every 3 levels, the modifier may be only as high as the SP value
Modification: +1D6 HP per modifier

[Damar Stiehl]

Right, I'm not talking about the description though - I'm talking about the real cost of the spell.

When you put a spell on the hotkey bar and hover your mouse over it, a tooltip shows the real spell cost. For example, for Thunderbolt it will show "5-XX", where 5 is zaMinAE, and XX is the maximum possible spell cost. The tooltip value is dynamically calculated. By the way, reducing zaMinAE for Thunderbolt was correctly reflected in-game.

For Ignifaxius, the tooltip always shows 8 when modifier is 0, and 8+2 times the modifier if the modifier is increased. Even after I reduced zaMinAE to 0. I double-checked it by casting Ignifaxius on someone, and the amount subtracted from my character's AE is 8+2xModifier. So, changing zaMinAE didn't do anything.

Thanks for the input, hoping for more ideas though