[CF-Devel] A few glitches

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       Well, I just tried this out, and all seemed to work ok.
     
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       I had made some changes to the summoning runes a little while back - 
     
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      possible that I hadn't updated that server.  But the bomb stuff seems to 
     
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      be unchanged, yet I made a simple test map, put a chest there with a 
     
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      rune of create bomb in it, and sure enough, if I opened it, the bomb was 
     
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      created.
     
     
I'll check bombs go off correctly next time i find a create bomb trap :)

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       That is correct, and intentional.
     
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       Since we currently only allow scrolls to be written (not spellbooks), 
     
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      this isn't that abusive.
     
     
Hum, one could write a whole lot of scrolls, and that may give too many 
advantages to players... You could have scrolls of every special god's spell, 
some being pretty useful. Gaea's nightfall, for instance, you need many all 
right, but it's too easy, with let's say 10 per level, to destroy any level. 
Granted, that's a high level spell, so it'd take a while to write'em :)

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       But the reason is more that it is much more difficult with the new 
     
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      spell code to tell if a spell is a special spell or not.  In the old 
     
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      code, spells were just a table, and so very easy to tell the properties 
     
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      of a given spell (Eg, spell 56 may be cleric, and not normally found in 
     
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      scrolls, so disallow).
     
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       The only way to really try and do that now days would be to traverse 
     
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      the treasurelists for the scroll and see if the spell in question shows 
     
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      up anyplace - if not, must be a special spell.
     
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       OR alternatively, a flag could be used, like 'not_inscribable', and add 
     
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      that to the archs.
     
     
Couldn't we use some unused field in the arthetype? Like 'weight', which 
probably isn't used for spells themselves?

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       But the question I guess really, is do people see this as being much an 
     
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      issue?  I personally thought it may add some more player interaction 
     
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      (players trading scrolls back and forth for spells they normally could 
     
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      not get).
     
     
True, could be fun, one could make a whole lot of money :)

Nicolas 'Ryo'


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