Anyway, its been a while since I've done any game programming and, returning to a basic C++ game I started about 6 months ago, I decided to make a more sophisticated leveling system besides level*150. So... here is my code for a fishing level up (notice I commented many lines out): int fishinglvlup(){ double fishexpneeded = 100; /* if (fishingexp >= 100 && fishinglvl <= 2){ // remeber it was 0 | fishingexp = fishingexp; fishinglvl++; fishexpneeded = 210; cout<<"You're fishing level is now "<< fishinglvl <<"\nYou have "<< fishingexp <<" fishing experience!"; cin.get(); }*/ /*else if */if(/*fishinglvl >= 2 && */fishingexp >= fishexpneeded){ fishinglvl++; fishexpneeded = fishexpneeded*2.1; cout<<"You're fishing level is now "<< fishinglvl <<"\nYou have "<< fishingexp <<" fishing experience!\n You need "<< fishexpneeded <<" to advance!\n"; cin.get(); } return 0; } So when i run this, I go and fish (fish are set at 50 experience each for testing purposes) until i go up a level. Obviously my idea here is to change the experience to 2.1 times the experience needed to get to the last level. So I get to level 2. You catch a fish! You're fishing level is now 2! You have 100 experience! You need 210 experience to advance! Maybe too many exclamations, but that is beside the point. So I fish another fish and lo and behold, I'm magically level 3 with 150 exp and 210 experience to advance! Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here? I left the commented stuff in case it's helpful in some odd way.... Sincerely, Annoyer

Posting code

Change
double fishexpneeded = 100;
to
static double fishexpneeded = 100;

With your current version, fishexpneeded gets reset to 100 every time you enter the function. However, quipping a static keyword on fishexpneeded, only initializes it to 100 once.

EDIT:
Fixed link.

[Edited by - _fastcall on September 15, 2008 10:07:10 PM]

Thank you so much! It shows that I'm still a beginner I guess...Oh well. At least I'm a happy beginner!

Sincerely,
Annoyer