[CF-Devel] non-suicide spellcasters

[David Hurst]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:54:27AM -0800, Peter Mardahl wrote:
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      To Andreas:  I think this is a good idea in general, and if it
     
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      works out should benefit the game.  It's silly to have boss
     
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      monsters self-destruct, as you've said.
     
     
I agree with the boss point, but might not someone want to create a map 
where the moster is meant to kill itself sort of thing. IE a problem 
like the Avatar of the Fire God, but where instead of solving it that 
way, you have to wait for it to kill itself? (soz no spoiler here ;).

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      To Tim:  monsters will still immolate each other, according to Andreas,
     
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      and giving the poor monsters immunity to their own spells is pretty
     
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      much what every mapmaker would have wanted.  They put monsters in
     
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      the maps for players to fight and destroy, not to conveniently remove
     
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      themselves without any effort on the part of the player.
     
     
In general it isn't a bad thing, but I would have thought a flag which 
either turns on, or turns off monster immunity to itself, might be 
useful?

dnh