[CF-Devel] non-suicide spellcasters

[Michael Toennies]

I just read this thread and because i had reworked in one of my last works
for CF
the attack stuff, i found some more problems.

Because i don't know what of my work is not deleted, i don't know the status
of the server code.
But because my new push code is still in, i think the attack code is it too.

At last, most monsters don't kill itself with own spells, even when it looks
like.

In the past monsters kill itself because
- arrow/bullets are not syncronized (monster can step on them, etc - and
then they get hit)
- mutiple arch monsters have synchron problems
- monsters aggro false objects
- monsters can attack itself (physical)

i had removed the last one - this was the killer number one.

The bullet problem is, that a monster can drop a shot and then step on it -
or get hit in any
other way from it. In old code, in this case then the owner of the bullet
object is new attacker
- bad idea when its the own object. I had removed this, but the arrow/bullet
object code is still not
100%.

Iam sure i had not removed all the traps in the code - when you want look in
it, insert some LOG() in the
critical attack routines (there are only 3-4 of it which are triggered every
attack/damage a object do).

In my test, most times the monsters dies from side effects and not from her
own spell damage.


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      > I agree with the boss point, but might not someone want to create a map
     
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      > where the moster is meant to kill itself sort of thing. IE a problem
     
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      > like the Avatar of the Fire God, but where instead of solving it that
     
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      > way, you have to wait for it to kill itself? (soz no spoiler here ;).
     
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      The A o t F G kills itself?  It shouldn't be able to....  Did someone
     
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      mess with it?
     
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      But anywya, I hadn't considered a case where the mapmaker WANTED the
     
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      monster to kill itself.  However, I'd prefer a map solution to this:
     
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      a map maker could put somethng else in the map to kill a monster
     
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      rather than requiring it to kill itself with its own spells.
     
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      I do not think the complication of another flag is needed for
     
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      this case....
     
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      PM
     
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