Upcoming changes

[maxum]

With Unicus offline for a bit, I have stopped sending updates through.
I will let him catch up for a bit before floodding his mail.

I have not stopped doing stuff though, I will post here changes I have made that are ready to go through. I am doing this because my mind is a cluttered mess at the moment, and it seems like the easiest way to record stuff I have done.

[maxum]

Bigbys Crushing Hand should no longer be aggressive to other players when summoned.

Spells Charm Person and Charm Monster will no longer work on other players. Note that until this goes live using this exploit is still a major infraction.

Restored Poly ability for giant races to heave created boulders. Good luck hitting anything with them.

[maxum]

Cause Serious messages (restored previously) should actually be correct now.

[marla]

Is there a psi ability that charms also? I can't remember.

[lennya]

Domination or somesuch, currently not in game according to the help file.

edit: No wait, it's hypnosis. And working like it should.

[maxum]

When you level, it will actually say what level number you have reached, instead of 'n'.

[maxum]

Whenever you stop fighting, mud checks for spell affects on your gear and reapplies. This should reset invis.

[unicus]

I thought invis reset when you left the room?

[lennya]

No, if you kill one mob when polied, and move into a next room, occasionally the invis isn't reapplied.

[maxum]

Tracking down why poly does not reapply lost item spells is a huge time sink. More correctly, tracking down when and where not poly chars do get these reapplied is the issue, and modifing to include poly.
I have had two attempts so far, but on each go I have run out of time (two hours each try). It is a case of backtracking through the code.
I suspect this has noting to do with combat, and non poly chars are just getting caught in a regular pulse update.
My fix is to add to the stop fighting code an item update loop that catches all players. This code happens whenever a player stops fighting (mob dies, player dies, mob flees, player flees, disengage). It just runs through and reapplies any item spell affects currently worn. I dont see any game breaking issues with it, but if there is anything I can keep looking.

[lennya]

A quick do_save() after (or in) stopfighting should solve it, even if it's not a proper fix.

[maxum]

Paralyzed mobs can now trigger events in no death rooms.

[maxum]

Disarm Traps has a chance to learn on fail.

[maxum]

Some spells were firing twice from external sources (wands mostly).
Fixed, plus rechecked and fixed any other spell targeting issues I spotted.

Just a reminder:
Potions: self always
Spells: ability to query if no target or invalid target specified, allow targeting if spell is not self only.
Wands: allow query if no target, otherwise hit target, even for 'most' self only spells.
Scrolls: always fire, if invalid target, target self.
Staves: always fire, no target required as all affects are area. Has some additional protection for grouped people with damaging spells.

There are of course individual cases that don't fit these rules, but not that many.

[maxum]

Changed the order in how zones de-init.
Now scans zone to clear mobs, then scans again to clear items.
This will stop items falling from mobs and surviving (Abyss - Flame whip).