[CF-Devel] non-suicide spellcasters

[Andreas Vogl]

Sorry for the last mail. It was empty. XP

I wanted to reply to Gambold:
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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
     
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      > > *each other*.
     
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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"
     
     
IMO this is not true. Multisquare monsters cast well in the right
direction. But spellcasters always get covered with their own
spells - especially so for multisquares.

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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%"
     
     
What you describe above is true, but a seperate issue.
Currently, mapmakers must ensure that special monsters
don't get any equipment to apply. That works.
(Set "randomitems none", "pick_up 0", etc)
This could be fixed by storing "special" resistances in
a force and applying that to the monster at loading-time.
Unfortunately this is hard to realize, because it would
need to be implemented into the Crossfire object-loader
which is a great pile of sh... eh... *complicated stuff*. ;)
 
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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
     
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      > the code designers view.
     
     
What I intend to fix is the problem that many boss-monsters
suck because they either self-destruct due to low resistances,
or they're too hard due to immunities.
The patch is designed to help map-designers to create
special monsters of a more balanced kind.


Andreas

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