[CF-Devel] non-suicide spellcasters

[Andreas Vogl]

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      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,
     
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      "I'm too big and too dumb to realize from what square and in what
     
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      direction I should cast the spell"
     
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      in combination with
     
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      "I'm immune to attacktype X but if I put on this armour
     
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      with resistance to X my total resistance to X drops below 100%"
     
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      Ok it sure fixes the symptoms, but not the actuall cause.
     
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      As a player I'd say it's good, not that sure if you look from the code
     
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      designers view.
     
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      /Henric (Gambold)
     
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