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04/15/18, 10:10 AM   #1
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GetLevelOrChampionPointsString() API call

I needed a means to obtain the character level and CPs, and I rummaged about in the esoui.com wiki and found this:
GetLevelOrChampionPointsString(level, championPoints, iconSize)
That is the limit of the documentation about it. When I tried to use it, however, the result wasn't what I'd hoped.

Does anyone have more complete documentation about that API function, or know that it doesn't do what I hoped and there is a different one(s) that I should be using? Could it be a data typing issue? I know nothing of how data is typed in LUA or whether it's auto-type-converted as needed.
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04/15/18, 10:48 AM   #2
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On a player with 850 CP:
GetUnitChampionPoints("player") = 850
GetUnitEffectiveChampionPoints("player") = 720
GetUnitLevel("player") = 50
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04/15/18, 10:51 AM   #3
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ESOUIDocumentationP17.txt found in:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.co...omment/4765833
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04/15/18, 01:02 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Rhyono View Post
On a player with 850 CP:
GetUnitChampionPoints("player") = 850
GetUnitEffectiveChampionPoints("player") = 720
GetUnitLevel("player") = 50
Those look like precisely the returned data that I want. Thank you. What is the difference between actual and "effective" champion points?
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04/15/18, 01:51 PM   #5
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Actual = What you really got
Effective = What ZOs is using as current "effective" maximum CPs (used for dmg calculation etc.)
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04/15/18, 03:18 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Baertram View Post
Actual = What you really got
Effective = What ZOs is using as current "effective" maximum CPs (used for dmg calculation etc.)
So all these players whose nameplates report their level as 1000+ are actually being capped at 720? That must suck, to have put in the extra effort and get no reward from it....
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04/15/18, 03:56 PM   #7
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Other games you just stop gaining XP/levels once you hit cap. So when the cap increases every 3 months, we just get to utilize more of our earned level without additional effort. The downsides being that every update they reduce the XP curve making it easier and easier to level AND when you're above cap, they tack on an additional increase to the curve, which means anything earned past cap prior to an update is vastly slower than post-update.
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