Questions about default auto destroy settings [Frog]

[CyclopsSlayer]

Try throwing flasks of oil, they used to be a standard goto in old vanilla. As I recall, they did 1-10 fire damage.
BTW, old as in 2.4 Frog-knows from nearly 30 years ago. lol

[Pete Mack]

Originally Posted by CyclopsSlayer

Try throwing flasks of oil, they used to be a standard goto in old vanilla. As I recall, they did 1-10 fire damage.
BTW, old as in 2.4 Frog-knows from nearly 30 years ago. lol

In V they did 3d4 damage, then in the "ridiculously easy era" they did 3d4 damage with fire brand, comparable to a (+0,+5) longbow. Then it went to 1d4 with fire brand. Now it is back to 3d4, no brand, I think.

[budswell]

Another one:
Why are empty bottles not auto destroyed?
In Tome2 there were fountains you could fill them with. Is there something similar in Frog?

[Sideways]

You can fill empty bottles with water, salt water or poison (not that it's a particularly useful thing to do). If you have virtues on, you can also sell empty bottles back to the shops to improve your Nature virtue

[budswell]

Thanks,
Out of interest, which command would you use to fill the bottles? I assume I would have to stand on a tile of the relevant water/poison.

I have turned Virtues off ever since I had a character with Daemon magic who could not summon manes because I was "too good" - which I think had occured because I'd killed too many evil chars (or used too much nature magic). This was back in poschengband
http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=8839

[CyclopsSlayer]

Originally Posted by budswell

Thanks,

I have turned Virtues off ever since I had a character with Daemon magic who could not summon manes because I was "too good" - which I think had occured because I'd killed too many evil chars (or used too much nature magic). This was back in poschengband

This is why I refuse to use virtues. I despise things that enforce a playstyle without matching benefits.
IF when you killed enough 'good' to become 'evil' if all evil monsters stopped attacking you. Or vice versa. Well, maybe virtues might have a use.

As it stands, virtues are just a difficulty setting. Want hard mode? Turn virtues on.

[Sideways]

Originally Posted by budswell

Thanks,
Out of interest, which command would you use to fill the bottles? I assume I would have to stand on a tile of the relevant water/poison.

You would just drop the bottles in the water/poison. (I don't think you can actually fill a bottle with poison in Doom Quest 1, because the bottles refuse to be dropped on the poison squares; but you can do it in the Disaster Area.)

[EpicMan]

Originally Posted by Sideways

You would just drop the bottles in the water/poison. (I don't think you can actually fill a bottle with poison in Doom Quest 1, because the bottles refuse to be dropped on the poison squares; but you can do it in the Disaster Area.)

Could this be added to the description? "Can be filled by dropping it in a liquid"