Re: reading books, another idea I am working on

[mwedel@pyramid.com (Mark Wedel)]

> On Dec 15,  6:43pm, GESTIONNAIRE DU Casino wrote:
>>  This is a problem right now.  You may (jsut from experience) know that cer!
>> spells work good against monsters or whatever else.  However, on some maps,
>> those monsters may have been changed so this is no longer the case.
>
>Yes, it's a problem right now... Someone should check all for places
>where this is not the case (archetypre override without name change), and
>change the name... Any volunteer ? :-)
>
>>  The ideal solution is that when stats are changed, the monster name is also
>> changed, so that you know it is not the same thing.
>
>


 The perl scripts that go through and check maps for various consistencies
could probably also check to see if immunities/attacks/protections have been
changed.

 The problem is more to recognize how substantial the change is.  For
example, if the only change is that immunity to fear have been added, this
is not really major, and it is reasonable for the monster to retain the same
name.  However, if it is a monster that is now immune to fire instead of
cold, that is pretty substantial, and it should be renamed.

 I am not sure if the perl scripts should try to make that differentiation -
probably for the script, it should just sound out the warning, and let the
person using the script see if that is something worth worrying about.


 --Mark