[CF-Devel] remove curse spell broken

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On a related note, why doesn't remove curse/remove damned work on items that
are not applied, a la praying at an altar? This would be far more useful
behaviour.

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From: "Mark Wedel" <
     
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Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] remove curse spell broken


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      Preston Crow wrote:
     
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      > I applied a cursed ring, and then cast "remove curse."  It told me that
     
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      > I do not have any cursed items applied, and didn't remove the curse.
     
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        I just tried this, and it worked as expected.
     
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        Are you sure the item wasn't damned?  In that case, remove_curse won't
     
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      anything with it.
     
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      > Also, I noticed that it did use the mana points.  It used to be that
     
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      > when spells like identify, remove curse, disarm, and consecrate were
     
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      > unable to do anything, they didn't use up spell/mana points.  Was that
     
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      > an intentional change, or an oversight?  Similarly, when a prayer fails,
     
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      > it doesn't cost any mana points, whereas it used to randomly charge
     
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      > points; again, was that intentional?
     
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        It is intentional that all spells, when you cast them, such the
     
     mana/grace
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      points, whether or not the spell in fact does anything.  It makes the code
     
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      simpler, but arguable makes more sense (you are still casting the spell).
     
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      could argue if that wasn't the case, things like healing should only cost
     
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      points if they heal someone, etc.
     
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        In terms of spell failure not costing points, I'll fix that up.
     
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