[CF List] Improved invis spell and stealing skill broken in newest cvs?

[Mark Wedel]

Erhard Sanio wrote:
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      I tried to day the improved invisibility spell on mids.utwente.nl and 
     
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      recognized that it requires invinite amount of sp without ever 
     
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      reaching satiation (i.e. the message "you are as invisible as you
     
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      can get"). I spent up to 1500 sp at a time to the spell and it 
     
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      did not stop to consume sp.  Additionally, it had no effect anymore.
     
     
  That message isn't really good.  I'll fix that up.  Basically, it means that 
you've reached the maximum duration.


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      Usually, enemies which aren't capable of see invisible cannot recognize 
     
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      you in a dark room under the effect of improved  invis even if you
     
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      attack them. Now, the spell don't seem to have an effect at all
     
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      anymore other than consuming sp.
     
     
  Took a look at the code - don't see any obvious bugs, but did make some 
cleanup in some areas.


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      Further on, the stealing skill seems to be broken. Whatever I try,
     
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      I get the message "your attempt is prevented", even when I try to
     
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      steal from a goblin with agility level 103.
     
     
  With the cleanup changes I made, I don't see that message, so probably 
something wasn't write in the code.  I also noticed the stealing code didn't 
give very message if the monster in question has nothing you can steal - it 
would basically dump the message 'the %s notices you attempt at stealing'.  I've 
changed it so that you now get a better message if there is nothing to steal 
from the opponent.


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      I don't know whether the problem exists on crossfire.real-time.com,
     
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      too, because users of the German Telekom Network are blocked 
     
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      by  sl-rtent-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.52.126) when trying to
     
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      access crossfire.real-time.com since two weeks.
     
     
  Problem is probably globel.  My understanding is that real-time is blocking 
traffic from german telekom because of DDOS attacks that german telekom isn't 
borthering to do anything about.