[CF-Devel] Various proposed changes

[Yann Chachkoff]

>
     
       All of these are very easy to do, but may have consequences that I don't
     
     >
     
      fully see.
     
     >
     
     
     >
     
      Eating flesh when starving:  Currently, when food gets to zero, your
     
     >
     
      character blindly grabs for a bite to eat.  This only looks for
     
     >
     
      food/drink/poison items. It does not look for flesh items.  If you have a
     
     >
     
      big pile of wyvern stakes or other body parts and no other food, you will
     
     >
     
      die of starvation.  I suggest that this grabbing for a bite to eat also
     
     >
     
      work on flesh items.  It could very easily be coded that eating a flesh
     
     >
     
      item happens after we don't find any better suitable items.
     
     >
     
     
     That is a good idea, and I do not know any possible bad side effect.

>
     
      detect magic/detect curse detecting non equipment items:  If you case
     
     >
     
      either of these spells, things like gates, buttons, and various other non
     
     >
     
      pickable objects will flash magical - often times something buried beneath
     
     >
     
      a floor may flash (or maybe its the floor).  IMO, this is just a little odd
     
     >
     
      - things like the gates aren't really magical, they are just keyed such to
     
     >
     
      denote that magic can not pass if I recall.  My suggestion is that we only
     
     >
     
      flash the magical effect (and so mark the objects) that can actually get
     
     >
     
      picked up.  My only thought on this is that monsters won't get flashed
     
     >
     
      (don't know if they do right now, but shouldn't detect monster get used for
     
     >
     
      that anyways?  But my thought is that some maps in pupland (or elsewhere)
     
     >
     
      may require players being able to see the no magic areas to successfully do
     
     >
     
      the map?
     
     
I want to put some nuance on that point.
You can easily imagine objects that can't be picked up to be magical (not as a 
side effect; for example, a cursed statue that transforms into a monster when 
you touch it may be detected as "magical"). It is indeed true that the current 
detection system sometimes gives strange results - but I also think that 
detecting only equipment items is not sufficient.

>
     
      detect monster improvement (just thought of this one): I've never found
     
     >
     
      much use for this spell, but have an idea that may make it more useful,
     
     >
     
      especially combined with fog of war code - instead of just doing the little
     
     >
     
      magical flash showing where monsters are, show the actual face of the
     
     >
     
      monster?  I think this can be done pretty easily just by copying the
     
     >
     
      monster face over to the magical effect.
     
     >
     
       This can be done for other spells also - think of things like 'detect
     
     >
     
      walls' that let you know the layout of the walls in the area?  detect
     
     >
     
      treasure, etc.
     
     
Yes, that may be quite a good idea.

Chachkoff Y.

------------------------------------------------------------
 Get your FREE web-based e-mail and newsgroup access at:
                
     
     http://MailAndNews.com
     
     

 Create a new mailbox, or access your existing IMAP4 or
 POP3 mailbox from anywhere with just a web browser.
------------------------------------------------------------