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

[Mark Wedel]

Erhard Sanio wrote:
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      This phenomenon occurred first time to me when I reported it, thus
     
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      my assumption that it has to do with some newer cvs. Before, I hadr 
     
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      to cast improved invis 2-4 times on average spending 45-110 sp for 
     
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      each spellcasting, then got the message "you are already as invisible
     
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      as you can get". And I was invisible from the first spellcasting.
     
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      Now, the character is still blinking, but even wyverns do recognize
     
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      and attack me. 
     
     
  Some of that code was redone.  I'd have to look at see what the old code was 
doing - it is possible that the spell wasn't having any effect, and it just 
wasn't reporting anything.

  The blinking was one of the changes - it was considered more proper for the 
player to blink on all occasions - otherwise it was considered difficult for the 
player to know where he was on the map.

  Wyverns have 'see invisible', so its not too surprising invisibility doesn't 
work on them.


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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.
     
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      That seems to work, thanks. And stealing from goblins in general seems to
     
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      work, too. I did not yet try stealing from stronger monsters like vampires
     
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      or dragons, but I hope it will work, too.  
     
     
  Note that many tougher monsters have see invisible.  Also, improved invisible 
doesn't protect you from undead - they can still 'see' you - you need invisible 
to undead.  There is no 'improved invisible to undead' however.


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      That means that most of Germany is cut off from crossfire.real-time.com
     
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      due to the incompetence of telekom abuse management. It means no
     
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      metaserver, no online help, no mailing list archives. Personally,
     
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      I have a narrow bandwidth dialin to a university network which
     
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      enables me to have a short look at least. It is a pain anyway.
     
     
  Well, maybe if enough users/customers of german telekom actually complained to 
them (eg, I can't reach some sights because the remote sight has blocked access 
from german telekom due to DDOS attacks and the fact that you don't do anything 
to correct/prevent/solve the problem), maybe GT management may actually do 
something.  Probably the player base of crossfire isn't big enough that that is 
an issue.