[CF-Devel] rodlike and wandlike items

[Todd Mitchell]

The horn is just an item copy of a rod is it not?  By making the messages
for rods and wands more generic you have solved the issue. No need to
vanilla the horn message now, just use the rod item if you want a more
generic message. Since adding in more items is backwards thinking (I didn't
think of the other code for identify or creature use, although isn't that
what happened with the horn being made a seperate item in the first place?)
it makes sense to have the messages more generic, but not to make a generic
message for horns since they are ok now and it is nice to have some
different messages for a bit of colour.  I thought that by making generic
types for recharging and rechargable items you could have your generic
messages and keep the special messages for wands, rods, and horns - but the
better way is to keep te items and make the messages more generic for wider
application.

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Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] rodlike and wandlike items


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      Mark Wedel wrote:
     
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      >  I'd prefer not to have another item type just to print some slightly
     
     different
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      >messages.  Such a change may not be quite as simple as you may thing -
     
     all code
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      >instances that use type of ROD or WAND also need to get updated, not just
     
     that
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      >small snippet (this is for things like apply, monsters, identify, etc).
     
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      >  I'd much rather just change that small area of code to do some more
     
     generic
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      >message.  At least for wands, it now goes 'the <name> goes poof', so that
     
     should
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      >be generic enough.  Likewise, for rods, it says 'the <name> whines for a
     
     while'.
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      >  Perhaps for horns, maybe something like 'no matter how hard you try,
     
     you can't
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      >blow through the <name>?'  presumably, anything of type horn is something
     
     you
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      >blow in, so should be generic enough?
     
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      I'm not familiar with the server code, but maybe something like:
     
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      "The %s whines for a while, but nothing happens", sItem
     
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      Or even more generic:
     
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      "You try to use the %s, but nothing happens.", sItem
     
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      -Philip
     
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      (Work has gotten in the way of things, but, yes, I still plan to finish
     
     the
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      SDL client.)
     
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