[CF-Devel] problem with crossedit make and fire spells

[Mark Wedel]

Karl Geppert wrote:

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      crossedit: $(OBJS) ../common/libcross.a Cnv/libCnv.a
     
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          $(RM) -f $@
     
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          $(CC) -o $@ $(OBJS) ../common/libcross.a $(LIBS) Cnv/libCnv.a
     
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      LibCnv.a requires the libXt symbols, so the actual compile line needs to
     
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      have the $(LIBS) last
     
     
 I've fixed that up.


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      The second problem is an annoyance within the game.  This problem has been
     
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      apparent for the last three versions of crossfire.  Every other time my
     
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      character is loaded, it cannot use fire spells.  Every second time it is
     
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      loaded, it can.  (eg start the game, no fire spells, use a bed-to-reality
     
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      and start again and fire spells are available).  The character is a
     
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      legacy character from sometime in the 0.7 range (I've been playing this for a
     
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      long time - good job on making a good game).
     
     
 You have a talisman of frost that will prevent you from using fire spells. 

 There is an old bug which equips the first skill item of relevance it finds
when attempting to cast a spell.

 The pecularity you see is because the each time a character is saved, the
inventory is reversed.

 I've made a change that should fix this - I need to test it a little bit more
before I commit it.

 Basically, it will look for a native skill first when attempting to use a
skill, and then should fall back to a skill item.

 This may not be ideal - if you have lockpicks, they may give you a straight
advantage and no penalty, so you would always want to use them.  But if the
server is going to choose a skill for you, I would think it should choose a
native skill first.