[CF-Devel] A brief introduction, and some thoughts

[Tim Rightnour]

On 28-Sep-01 Mark Wedel wrote:
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       I thought I saw code someplace such that if you worshipped a god that was
     
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      your
     
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      enemy (or you were an enemy of the god), bad things would happen.  But maybe
     
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      that is just for equipping god named items.
     
     
It turns out that you are correct.  I happened to see this while hacking on
something else a few days afer I wrote this email.  so.. oops. ;)

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       These are hard coded, which is the real problem.  Plus, the code has no idea
     
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      if
     
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      a weapon is a pointing tape or a bludgeon type, or whatever.
     
     
Right.. and thats next on my list.  I've been looking at your old email about
object classification, and I think I want to implement that.  I've been
thinking along the lines of every object having a Class, Subclass, and
SubSubClass.. like:

Class: non-consumable
Subclass: sword
SubSubclass: slash

I know you had some ideas on this.. I'd really like to hear those.

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       Wouldn't be really hard to do - just set up a table someplace in the
     
     
<talking about acid/fire/cold>

Actually.. I've allready implemented this, and am testing for commit.

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       the nice thing about getting information on the attacktype that did the most
     
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      damage is that the messages now provide a little more information.  If you
     
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      have
     
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      a weapon that is say physical | fire, and the damage messages say you are
     
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      doing
     
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      physical, you can pretty much know that the monster has high fire resistance,
     
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      so
     
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      maybe switch to that phys | cold weapon, and certainly don't cast fire spells
     
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      at
     
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      it.
     
     
I haven't really considered this.  From looking at the code.. it wasn't obvious
that that was actually happening.  Is it?

I'll reply to the rest later.. when I get home from work..  ;)

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