[CF-Devel] Various bugs in the server.

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     phil at theperlguru.com
     
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      Three bugs.  The first, Glaurung reported in IRC.  A dragon joining
     
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      the devourers cult can't enter the dragon guild, as the race gets set
     
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      to 'undead' upon joining the cult.  This was discovered on a 1.4.0
     
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      server, but I'm guessing it's still a bug.
     
     
  Or feature, depending on your point of view.  It probably should be considered 
a bug - a dragon that is unable to get his dragon abilities would probably be a 
pretty uninteresting player.  I don't see any convenient way of fixing this. 
One could easily document it away, eg, 'The dragon guild is open to all dragons. 
  However, the guild masters look down on any dragons that forsake their 
heritage and join the ranks of the undead followers of Devourers.  Such undead 
dragons are no longer allowed into the guild'.


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      The second bug is that the chests in the snake pit, which are supposed
     
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      to be openable only with the key, can be opened by being burned open.
     
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      No key?  Simple, cast firebolt, and grab the venomtooth from the
     
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      rubble.
     
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  The right approach is to probably change the material on this so that it can't 
be destroyed (change the material for this one depositbox on the map).  We could 
add special code which tries to check for this, but that just makes things more 
complicated (now need to check for object type + if it has slaying) - i'd much 
rather just set the object to be non destroyable on that map.

  One could also make for interesting maps other places.  Eg, put some 
spellbooks in a similar chest - sure, you could burn the chest open, but who 
knows, good chance you'd burn those spellbooks you want.  But such grey areas of 
adventuring are probably what make things more interesting.


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      The third bug is that poison cloud, icestorm, and other attacks that
     
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      really shouldn't cause items to blow up, cause items to blow up.  I
     
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      seem to recall someone else reporting this, but it's really obvious
     
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      when you get a screenful of burnouts from a poison cloud.
     
     
  I've fixed this.




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