[CF List] Gnarg

[Kimmo Hoikka]

Andreas Vogl wrote:

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     Big size monsters have some weaknesses with spells currently, the
     
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     best example beeing the notorious lorkas the fallen who kills himself
     
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     all the time with his powerfull spells, perhaps thats not the intent,
     
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     rather makes the map a bit too easy sometimes...
     
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     You didn't mention the best point: Lorkas is killing himself
     
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     with attacktypes that he's completely immune to.
     
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     Assuming he's not attacking himself with melee,
     
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     His spells only do fire, cold, poison, magic - to all of which
     
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     Lorkas is 100% resistant.
     
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     This bug has been known for a good while, but nobody could come
     
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     up with a fix yet. I suspect it might be related to this old
     
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     stats-glich in the monster code: When a monster applies any piece
     
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     of equipment, it's stats get replaced by those from the default arch
     
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     or sth. (See below)
     
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     The fact that Lorkas has suicide-tendecies doesn't pose a
     
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     direct leak to balance, as his guardians (Rancid, Vultoor)
     
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     are mean enough. However, I do agree the bug is annoying.
     
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     So one solution for the mapmaker would be to give the resistances not to 
the monster but to give it an armour with resistances and then perhaps 
make that armour godgift status so that player would not get it if it 
gets dropped. Do monsters have any intelligence when applying things, I 
mean do they know which armour is better or when they have one and apply 
it, do theuy keep it on or randomly apply / unapply it?. If lorkas would 
be made can_use_armour 0, would that special value override the original 
value? the easiest, but not complete solution was to change lorkas to 
1x1 monster, quite nasty son of a bitch in that size :).

One other thing I was interested, is it possible to move playerfiles 
from one server to another?

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Kimmo Hoikka
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