I was trying to understand the purpose behind the attribute system.

If someone can help me understand it, as in a way if someone was to complete the system and what it's full potential would be, please do explain.

Does that mean, they are the next Release of War3 BUff, and we would be getting rid of War3 Buff stuff and using the Attributes instead?


what would Attributes be able to do that War3_Buff can not?

Well then, Glider must get pumping

The attribute system was to simplify buffs/debuffs and unify them. Instead of setting the fSlow buff, creating a timer, storing the slowed player, resetting the slow when the timer ran out or he respawned or or or the system would do this, so all you would have to do is call a simple one liner.

It was supposed to connect to the new display engine, showing players their buffs and debuffs in the right side of the screen. So you would visually see

Buffs:
AURA OF SPEED: You run 10% faster
...

Debuffs:
AURA OF DECAY: You lose 1 hp/s
...

So players would know what the fuck is going on and why they are moving faster/slower/whatever. This would have also come with a new command like war3_stats that would show you all your stats and how they affect you. For example this could have opened up a menu where you can browse all your stats, how they affect you and what modifies them.

Gravity:
   * You have 10% less gravity

Buffs:
   * Some gravity skill: 10% (permanent)

Speed:
   * You move 10% faster

Buffs:
   * Some allys speed boost skill: 10% (5s left)

and so on, so players could look up all their stats. This would have also removed the need to keep buffs in multiple enums, which makes it a hassle to add new buffs. With the new system developers could have written new buffs as simple addon plugins.

I just want to know.

And yes, we definitely need keep it backwards compatible.  So if it does come to pass, we should still keep a way people can still use the old commands.

which display? top left? or HUT hint text? or....

Oh yeah, dispel was another one of the reason. Instead of that weird deny system you could actually dispel buffs/debuffs on players since you can properly track them.