[CF-Devel] Data to enlighten the armour maximum argument

[Mark Wedel]

Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      > I wasn't aware that Str adjusted the wc of monsters.
     
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      > As for ac, I took it from the client, which said the
     
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      > target dummy player had an ac of 2.
     
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      That's a good point. I suspect STR for monsters does
     
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      nothing. Likewise WIS, CON and POW do completely
     
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      different things than all mapmakers assumed.
     
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      Stats do *not* work for monsters like they do for
     
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      players. According to "crossfire.doc":
     
     
 This is of course easily tested.  My guess would be that Str works the same for
monsters as it does for players - ie, carrying capacity as well as damage (and
to hit) bonus.

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      "Pow <number>": If the creature can cast spells, this is how many spell
     
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      points are regenerated each move.
     
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      "Con <number>": Monsters regenerate this many hit points each move.
     
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      This is each time the monster has a move (same for Pow). So two monsters
     
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      with the same Con can regenerate at different rates if their speeds
     
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      are different.
     
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      "Wis <number>": Determines how close a player needs to be before the
     
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      creature wakes up.
     
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      Is this really intended actually? Why are all monsters designed under
     
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      the assumption that stats work for monsters just like for players.
     
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      This is weird.
     
     
 I don't know if that is the case for sure or not.

 Monsters are fairly different compared to players (for example, they just have
a set hp/sp/grace total, and not a level array that gets summed up). 

 And this is no worse than meanings for other objects not meaning what the
variable name suggests.

 I think the above largely happens because monsters need some abilities that the
players don't directly have, and so these values were recycled for that purpose.