[CF-Devel] non-suicide spellcasters

[Henric Karlsson]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, 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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     So this is basicaly a fix for the,
"I'm too big and too dumb to realize from what square and in what
direction I should cast the spell"
in combination with
"I'm immune to attacktype X but if I put on this armour
with resistance to X my total resistance to X drops below 100%"

Ok it sure fixes the symptoms, but not the actuall cause.
As a player I'd say it's good, not that sure if you look from the code
designers view.

/Henric (Gambold)