[CF-Devel] Improved invisibility ... isn't

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On Sunday 25 January 2004 02:10 am
Mark Wedel wrote:

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      ERACC wrote:
     
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      > Dear Coders,
     
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      > Playing on metalforge.real-time.com my char with level 46 magic
     
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      > does not stay invisible when casting improved invisibility and
     
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      > moving or attacking. This did work on other, less up to date,
     
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      > servers. It seems that something has been changed in the code
     
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      > that causes improved invisibility to be no better than plain old
     
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      > invisibility. Please fix this.
     
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        Just tried this on CVS, and improved invisiblity seems to work
     
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      fine.  Duration isn't really long, but hey.
     
     
Got it, this is already fixed in the CVS code.

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        But then I re-read your message and see you're talking about
     
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      metalforge.real-time.com.  This is running old code (basically, pre
     
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      the spell rewrite).  That code isn't really being updated.
     
     
I understand. Ok.

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        At some point, that server will be deomissioned.  In any case,
     
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      since this bug doesn't seem to exist in the new server code, I'm
     
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      not all that eager to go back into the old code to fix the problem.
     
     
No way to run it with newer code as a "small world map" server? Would
that require restarting all the player characters or can they be
converted for the new code?

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      Note that crossfire.metalforge.net runs latest CVS code, and is
     
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      also a much faster (in terms of cpu speed) server.
     
     
Oh, yay, big world maps. <sigh> :-(

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