[ACE] SO YOU PROS, HOW WOULD ONE GO ABOUT ADDING NEW VARIABLES/STATS TO A CHARACTER CLASS IN ACE?

class Game_Battler < Game_BattlerBase
  def base_constitution
    return @level * 2
  end

  def constitution
    return base_constitution
  end
end

class Game_Actor < Game_Battler

  # The bonus is just a simple int, this will make it completely public and easy to modify
  attr_accessor :constitution_bonus

  # We will want to initialize the bonus though so do so during setup.
  # We use alias so we can call the original setup method easily while still replacing the original setup with our custom method here
  alias :setup_constitution_ori :setup unless $@
  def setup(*args)
    # Setup everything else first
    setup_constitution_ori
    # Now initialize our constitution bonus to zero
    @constitution_bonus = 0
  end

  # We don't have to initialize it, we could just check if it is nil before we use it
  # but the alias here is quick and simple and good to know how it works for the future

  def base_constitution
    c = super # Get the base constitution
    # Get the constitution bonus per level from the actor object
    level_bonus = @level * $data_actors[@actorid].constitution
    # Get the equipment bonus too. This will sum up the value of all equipped item's constitution score
    equip_bonus = @equips.inject(0) { |total, item| total += item.constitution }
    # Add the level + equipment bonus and the constitution bonus to constitution and return it
    return c + level_bonus + equip_bonus + @constitution_bonus
  end
end

class RPG::BaseItem

  # We'll use a regex to find the constitution from the notebox. The slashes here denote that it is a regex object
  # ps fuck regexs too, I am awful at them. This one is simple at least (but inflexible)
  Constitution_Regex = /<constitution: (\d+)>/i
  # ps the starting capital makes this a constant

  def constitution
    # Constitution isn't set so it's nil the first time and we need to pull it from the notebox
    if @constitution.nil?
      # Try to match the notebox to our regex. The =~ operator will do that and assign matches to $1, $2, $3, etc. which is handy
      if @notebox =~ Constitution_Regex
        @constitution = $1.to_i # ($1 is a string, make it a number so we can math it)
      else
        # No regex was found so assign @constitution to 0 so we don't do this again
        @constitution = 0
      end
    end

    return @constitution
  
  end

end