[CF-Devel] patch for generators to create special ability monsters

[Norbert Irmer]

Hi,

Putting a monster in the inventory of the generator and copying it, is
a nice idea, since it is more flexible and faster. Perhaps one could even
use the 'copy_object()' function for it.
The 'move_creator()' function has a big contra, it currently just handles
single square things (that was the reason, i used the 'generate_monster()'
function, which works fine).

I wanted some powerful disease rods as a reward for my quest (and i had
in mind to make them god-given, just forgot it). But i had to realize, that
diseases are quite weak , and its quite difficult to kill anything with 
them.
But after some experimenting i found out, that flu level 107 is quite
useful, even for a high level character (the leprosy level 107 horn is 
just fun
stuff, since it takes much to long to kill st with it and isn't very 
infectious; but
at least it is possible to kill dragons with it (though this takes a few 
minutes,
but its fun seeing them crumble to pieces:)))

Yes, you are right, the storyline is missing. I need some good ideas. I 
think
i have to read my two Lovecraft books from Akham House again :)



Andreas Vogl wrote:

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     I think the map is quite okay. But it is a rather small map
     
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     with tought monsters and artifacts on it - It is definitly a
     
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     "final map", as you said. It should not be directly linked
     
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     to a city or worldmap.
     
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     The question is: Where is the quest to attach the map to? :-)
     
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     Why is there a darkness field with these artifacts there?
     
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     What are the dragons about? And why is a sacrifice of a
     
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     giant worm's eye needed? And how is the player supposed to know?
     
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     If there were some maps with a quest, containing storyline-elements
     
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     to explain these things, that would be great.
     
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     IMO, the maps should not be linked into CVS before they contain a
     
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     complete quest.
     
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     I'm also in doubt if these level 107 rods with flu/leprosy
     
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     are a good idea. The balance of diseases have changed several
     
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     times in the past. It becomes very difficult to balance these
     
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     diseases when every newby has the chance of applying a level 107-
     
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     version.
     
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     About the patch to monster generators:
     
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     When I understand it right, this code reads comma-seperated
     
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     attributes from the generator's slaying string.
     
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     It is a nice idea, but the implementation isn't good.
     
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     The CF map format really shouldn't get more complicated than
     
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     it already is.
     
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     A better approach would be to put a monster in the inventory
     
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     of the generator, and let it produce dublications of
     
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     the "inventory monster".
     
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     Besides, it would be great if this code could be reused
     
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     for creators and summoning runes.
     
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