[CF-Devel] non-suicide spellcasters

[Joris Bontje]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:45:14AM +0100, Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      I'd like to make a small change in the attack-code, to the
     
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      effect that monsters will no longer damage themselves with their
     
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      own spells. Multiple monsters will still be able to damage *each other*.
     
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      The reason is that spellcasting monsters have a strong tendency
     
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      to kill themselves with their own spells. The only way to prevent
     
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      spellcasters from suiciding is to set their resistances way high.
     
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      That's okay for one or two attacktypes, but not for more.
     
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      My patch would work especially well for boss-type monsters
     
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      who are usually alone in a room and have multiple spells with
     
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      various attacktypes.
     
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      It will not have much impact on maps with multiple monsters
     
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      per room, and it will have no effect on monsters who already
     
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      are immune to their spell's attacktypes.
     
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      In spite of breaking with the player's experience of spellcasting
     
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      (spell damages self), I think it would still be intuitive that
     
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      monsters just don't kill themselves.
     
     
Hereby I, Joris Bontje, admin of the mids.student.utwente.nl Crossfire
server, coder of small patches, fixer of minor bugs, declare that:
1) I agree with the implementation of your proposal.
2) I volunteer reviewing the patch before committing into the CVS.
3) I offer to test the patch on my server before committing into the
   CVS.
4) I will try to debug the code in case of potential bugs.

Additionally the 1983 players on my server are available as living
test subjects.

Digitally signed in threefold,
Joris Bontje / mids
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