[CF-Devel] A few glitches

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Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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      Hello.
     
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      Playing on crossfire.metalforge.net, i noticed the 'bomb' trap seem 
     
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      broken. I set off one, and nothing happened. Runes of create bomb are 
     
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      ok, though. Summoning runes are broken too.
     
     
  Well, I just tried this out, and all seemed to work ok.

  I had made some changes to the summoning runes a little while back - possible 
that I hadn't updated that server.  But the bomb stuff seems to be unchanged, 
yet I made a simple test map, put a chest there with a rune of create bomb in 
it, and sure enough, if I opened it, the bomb was created.

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      I think there is also a scroll-writing issue. From the code 
     
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      'write_scroll' in skills.c, there is no check for the spell being 
     
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      written... So you can happily write down sanctuary, or any god-given spell!
     
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      (i did _not_ succeed in writing one, too low literacy, but i had 
     
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      messages of reading the scroll while attempting to write it. Also the 
     
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      code is pretty straightforward)
     
     
  That is correct, and intentional.

  Since we currently only allow scrolls to be written (not spellbooks), this 
isn't that abusive.

  But the reason is more that it is much more difficult with the new spell code 
to tell if a spell is a special spell or not.  In the old code, spells were just 
a table, and so very easy to tell the properties of a given spell (Eg, spell 56 
may be cleric, and not normally found in scrolls, so disallow).

  The only way to really try and do that now days would be to traverse the 
treasurelists for the scroll and see if the spell in question shows up anyplace 
- if not, must be a special spell.

  OR alternatively, a flag could be used, like 'not_inscribable', and add that 
to the archs.

  But the question I guess really, is do people see this as being much an issue? 
  I personally thought it may add some more player interaction (players trading 
scrolls back and forth for spells they normally could not get).


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