[CF-Devel] DM Mode & non-peaceful quirk

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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Mark Wedel wrote:

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      > I noticed on Metalforge today that a player turned off peaceful so they
     
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      > could attack another player.
     
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      > As the DM, I went to summon this person into jail, but as they tried to
     
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      > step off the teleporter they would always walk into (attack) the DM and
     
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      > die.
     
     
Sidenote: Something like this happened to me as well in the Arena.
(Simply standing and doing nothing I can kill low level characters who
simply run into me. Sounds strange, tho this char worships Ruggilli, so it
may have been immolation, but it happened in all of a sudden and the
death/kill message doesn't show the cause as immolation, and it's true
mice and kobolds live longer against it. So I think it was not immolation.
Thought I mention that, maybe something's wrong with this peacefull/not
peacefull thing.

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      > I'm not sure how to prevent or avoid this, was it an error on my side or
     
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      > is this a server/coding issue?
     
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        Catching up on old messages.
     
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        It seems proper to me that non peaceful players would attack anything,
     
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      including the DM.  Perhaps something so that players don't attack dm's would be
     
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      in order?
     
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        What's a little confusing is why he would die.  Unless the dm tried to step
     
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      into the player, I can't really see why attacking the dm he would take damage.
     
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      In fact, looking at the code, it appears there is specific case of 'if target is
     
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      dm, they never take damage'.
     
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        Is there any mention of what killed the player?
     
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        OTOH, arguably this isn't terrible in this particular case (I don't feel too
     
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      sorry if a pk'er gets killed).  But I could see other situations where dm
     
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      summons someone, and you don't want them to die.
     
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