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

[Erhard Sanio]

Mark Wedel wrote:
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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.
     
     
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     That message isn't really good.  I'll fix that up.  Basically, it means
     
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     you've reached the maximum duration.
     
     
This phenomenon occurred first time to me when I reported it, thus
my assumption that it has to do with some newer cvs. Before, I hadr 
to cast improved invis 2-4 times on average spending 45-110 sp for 
each spellcasting, then got the message "you are already as invisible
as you can get". And I was invisible from the first spellcasting.
Now, the character is still blinking, but even wyverns do recognize
and attack me. 

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     Took a look at the code - don't see any obvious bugs, but did make some
     
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     cleanup in some areas.
     
     
I tried again today at mids server, and the problem is still there.

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     would basically dump the message 'the %s notices you attempt at stealing'.
     
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      I've changed it so that you now get a better message if there is nothing
     
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      to steal from the opponent.
     
     
That seems to work, thanks. And stealing from goblins in general seems to
work, too. I did not yet try stealing from stronger monsters like vampires
or dragons, but I hope it will work, too.   

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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.
     
     
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     Problem is probably globel.  My understanding is that real-time is blocking
     
      
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     traffic from german telekom because of DDOS attacks that german telekom
     
     isn't
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     borthering to do anything about.
     
     
That is really bad news. German Telekom is network provider for about 95% 
of all broadband customers in Germany, and a big share of dialin customers,
probably more than 75% . T-Online alone is about 7 million users, AOL other 
2 or 3 million. 

That means that most of Germany is cut off from crossfire.real-time.com
due to the incompetence of telekom abuse management. It means no
metaserver, no online help, no mailing list archives. Personally,
I have a narrow bandwidth dialin to a university network which
enables me to have a short look at least. It is a pain anyway.

regards, e. sanio

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