Re: Levitate/CD voyage

Pascal Molli writes:

> 	I have a strange bug. When i wear the levitate boots in swamp
> 	of the CD voyage. After few seconds, the game is completely
> 	stopped and i must kill it with "kill -9".

Hmm, probably due to a last-minute hack by me to avoid sinking into
swamps when levitating...  Will fix it.

> 	In the prison of the unnamed town and since the 0.88.4
> 	version, i can see through walls, is it normal ??

I didn't know I had fixed that already in 0.88.4, but at least that's the way
it is now and it will be in the future:  You can see over moats.

> 	A friend play with crossfire like that :
> 		- he enters in the tower at the exit of the village
> 		- the first beholders quickly kill him
> 		- before responding "yes" at the "playing again ?"
> 		  question, he makes a "cp char.pl.sav char.pl" (I
> 		  said him that it's not a good way to play but ...) 
> 		- Then he comes back where he has been killed and often
> 		  crossfire gives him 150.000 or 200.000 EXP points
> 		  ...  we thinks that this bug appears when he walks
> 		  over his tomb ...

That happens because of some old code which haven't been changed since v0.0...

When something kills something, the killer always gets half the
experience of the victim.  What your friend got was half the
experience of the beholder which killed his previous character.

I'll probably add some max-limit to monsters' experience in the future.

> 	Surely that's a stupid question but we didn't understand the
> 	signification of the "s" key (braced, unbraced).

The ability to brace your character was made by Rupert G. Goldie.
This is what he posted to the list along with the patch:

> This is a patch to allow a character to brace himself. This just means that
> you stand still and won't move when you press a direction key. You will
> still attack things but you won't move. This is useful for when you are
> standing outside a door and you are attacking the monsters streaming out,
> but you don't want to jump into the room when one of them dies.
> To brace yourself, press 's'. It is a toggle, so pressing 's' again
> unbraces you.

Since that time I've made "brace" somewhat less powerful, since it was too
easy to gain fast levels that way.

> 	We didn't understand too how to use the swap stats when
> 	creating a new character.

After you have rolled your stats (but before you answer 'n' to "Roll again?"),
you can type two numbers.  1 corresponds to strength, 2 to dex, etc...
The values of the two stats you choose are then swapped.

-Frank.