[CF List] Re: Improved invis spell and stealing skill broken in newest cvs?

[Mark Wedel]

Erhard Sanio wrote:

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     Wyverns have 'see invisible', so its not too surprising invisibility
     
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      doesn't
     
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     work on them.
     
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      This ist true, but only for bright rooms, or dark rooms when a fireball,
     
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      a torch or something similar is ignited. In dark rooms, wyverns don't
     
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      see you when you have improved invisibility (they lack infravision afaik),
     
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      so yo may pass or even hit them. 
     
     
  This may have been broken before, but it appears the new (as well as old) code 
was such that if a creature has see invisible, they ignore darkness.

  Obviously, this portion of the code now works properly.

  This probably goes on the basis that the creature does not have a magical 
ability to see invisible, but rather keen senses to hear/smell where you are.


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      Well true. That's why improved invis only works on a limited number of
     
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      maps. It is a pity anyway that it is brokenr.
     
     
  Well, I tried it on latest CVS and it seemed to work in my limiting testing.
But I only tested against wimpy monsters (orcs/goblins).



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      Right. Maybe the handful of CF players adapt to the punishment somehow,
     
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      the fact remains it hits them, not the network operators. Much worse,
     
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      without access to homepage and metaserver it will be hard if not
     
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      impossible to motivate new players.
     
     
  I can't really comment on the specifics, as I didn't set up the block - I'm 
only repeating what I have heard from Bob Tanner on irc (Rick might also have 
provided information).

  My understanding is that many sites from the german netblock were performing a 
DDOS against the real-time sites.  This was the cause of the long mail delay a 
few weeks back.  The obvious problem is that without the block, no one can get 
to the metaserver or other crossfire information.

  I'd have to say that if I was in a similar situation, I would do the same thing.

  I'm not sure what a workable solution would be - perhaps the most realistic 
would be a mirror of the information someplace else.