[CF-Devel] death attack, AT_DEATH

[Peter Mardahl]

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      In reply to Henric Karlsson:
     
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      > Now why can't I use the attack type death on a weapon with slay set?
     
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      > This sounds like a bug to me, but maybe I missed something in 
     
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      > the code.
     
     
Well, 

  I originally coded a lot of this stuff, and what I had in mind was this:

1)  If a weapon had a "slaying" and AT_DEATH, it used AT_DEATH on the
monsters listed in "slaying" and the other attacktypes on anything else.

2)  If it didn't have a slaying field, it used AT_DEATH on everything.

PM


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      It's not really a bug.
     
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      As far as I know, death attack was originally designed to
     
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      increase the effect of slaying-weapons (weapons with a slaying set).
     
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      So, if you have a weapon with death attack and a slaying,
     
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      all monsters of the slayed race are killed with death-attacks.
     
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      Now for some reason, it slipped into the code that if there
     
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      is no slaying on your weapon, death-attack works on everything.
     
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      Ever since, people's opinions differ about what to do:
     
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      1. Make death attack always work, despite of slayings?
     
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      2. Or make it work only with slayings?
     
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      Andreas V.
     
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