[CF-Devel] Dragon Guild and Devourers cult

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David Stuart wrote:
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      I started a dragon character recently and am having problems with the
     
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      devourer cult. Basically I joined up and it changed my race to "undead"
     
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      and I cannot enter the Dragon Guild anymore.
     
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      I am using v 1.4.0 of the client.
     
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      I worked around it for now by patching my race back to dragon, but I
     
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      imagine that changes something else..
     
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      I also tried setting my race to "undead,dragon" but that didn't work
     
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      either.
     
     
  changing it back to dragon basically removes the advantages of being undead.

  One could argue this is the right behavor - when you join the devourers, you 
become undead, and thus lose your normal racial abilities.

  However, this is probably a bit harsh.  At some level, the idea that a new 
convert is now undead seems a bit extreme - it would probably make more sense 
that at some time, you can do a quest and become undead.  To become a lich or 
whatever shouldn't be a simple matter - I could certainly (from a role playing 
perspective) be an ideal of people joining the cult to become undead.

  It's perhaps even a bit odder than if you then worship some other god, you 
become living again.  which is a bit odd.

  I actually don't have a good fix.  Devourers need to be undead.  The simple 
solution is that if you are a dragon player, don't become a follower of the 
devourers.

  I don't believe all the code supports common seperated values for races for 
monsters.  Eg, a weapon could be something like 'slaying goblin,orc' and the way 
the logic work, would be OK.  However, a race of 'undead,dragon' may not be 
handled right.

  BTW, if it was, it would be a disadavantage, as you'd be suscpetible to things 
that hits either undead or dragons (eg, could get killed by those arrows of 
dragon slaying, or arrows of undead slaying).



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