Torchlight2; You cant equip an item if you have negative stat

How to Reproduce
- Start game
- Drink potion that lowers your stat
- Keep drinking till negative stat
- Ensure other stats are correct for item equip requirements
Description
You are unable to equip the item even though the other stats might match the requirements to equip said item

NOTE: I usually would have a screen shot but I think there is something wrong with torchlight+prtsrn     ED: Might have to write a bug report on that XD

Personal Notes

Ok, so maybe I was trying to power game and get my stats the way I want it. And yes this probably is a very minor bug because people shouldn't really be doing tweaking their stats like that. So I can understand why this bug was left. However on other side, maybe this is an actual feature to stop people from cheating? I can kinda guess how the conversation went with the devs

Dev: Ok so we've made it so people can drink this stuff and tweak their stats if they really want to.

Tester: Bug! I can't use this item anymore even though I met the per-reqs!?

Dev: Huh? Oh ! You have a negative stat. You were trying to cheat and it stopped you. That's not a bug, that's a feature!

Or maybe this really is a feature....

So I'm learning batch ...

So I'm starting to learn batch from scratch( yes .. even though I do have a Comp Sci degree .. terrible aren't I) Its just been so long since I've done anything like this and I thought I have to start somewhere.. I'm also going to have to have a way to get to it easily away from my home computer, then an idea struck me. Why not here.

So to my fellow readers (mainly my partner and friends) prepare to be shocked ...

Dropping attached Sql Database

Here is the first one I made this week at work, nothing fancy just drops an attached database. I got sick and tired of constantly doing it and I did it infrequently enough that I forgot the syntax, but frequently enough for it to annoy me.

First you need to have the command in an .sql file

drop table Tablename

go

Then you need the actual batch file to run it

@echo off      <--ED: Still no idea what this line actually does but all batch examples I've seen have them

sqlcmd -i Filename

Thats it. Simple right? but it saves me so much time.

Setting a local environment variable

So where I work you need to set environment variables to allow for fancy dev functions. However once they are set you never really need to bother with them again. Unless you reinstall your working environment. That is where I came up with the idea for the other one

@echo off

setx Variable value

Once again very simple, but its a start.

Torchlight 2; Able to have negative stats

How to Reproduce
- Start game
- Drink potion that allows you to lower a stat
- Drink a lot of said potion

Description
If you drink enough of said potion to lower a stat into the negative you will notice that nothing really happens, and you are able to use those points in another stat as per normal



Personal Notes

OK, so I haven't really been updating as much as I would like but I have been busy playing games, mainly Minecraft. If/when I find something good in that I'll make a post about that. In the mean time I've been playing Torchlight2.

I bought Torchlight2 quite a while ago, I think when it first came out on Steam. However like all Steam games you buy, you play for a little bit then move on (curse you Steam!). Recently I saw the sale and thought hey I want that, whoops already have that. So I played it for a bit and really enjoyed it. The action is simple and cartoony (I like that kind of style), while still actiony enough to make it look visually pleasing. The story was simple but engaging enough to not make it dull, but then again I wasn't really playing this for its story. Overall I recommend this game, it does have some re-playability, but I probably wont go back to it for a while so I can get a new sense of newness again.