I see a lot of people asking for help with status attributes, and for any use but the most basic the answer is to use a changescript. And I had a thought; that if a whole bunch of new users expect a system to work a certain way, we could make it work that way.

Now, this is pretty inefficient. But here's something that I thought about off the top of my head:

  <function name="AddStatusAttributesForElement" parameters="status, element, statusAttributes" type="string">
    if (not statusAttributes = null) {
      params = NewDictionary()
      foreach (attr, GetAttributeNames (element, true)) {
        dictionary add (params, attr, GetAttribute (element, attr))
      }
      foreach (attr, statusAttributes) {
        list add (status, FormatStatusAttribute(attr, eval (attr, params), StringDictionaryItem(statusAttributes, attr)))
      }
    }
  </function>

Now, for the key of the statusattributes dictionary, it doesn't have to be just an attribute name. You could have something like currenthp + "/" + maxhp as the variable name for a status attribute, or even have status attributes tied to function calls rather than attributes.