May 22, 2017, 18:58
|
#1 |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Manhattan Beach, CA
Posts: 2,123
 |
drop-artifacts from monsters
Nick, I was just looking over the recent commits on Github to get an idea of what has changed in the last four or five nightlies. Since I don't code, it was just to get a general idea. One question popped up. Why the change - Remove drop-artifacts from monsters? I can see why having Morgoth drop directly makes sense, but it also changes how people could easily make their own variants. I'm thinking here of how you have Ungoliant drop her really cool special cloak in FAAngband. Also, the description at the top of monster.txt should be modified to remove the command description.
__________________
“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
|
|
|
May 22, 2017, 23:21
|
#2 |
|
Vanilla maintainer
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canberra, Australia
Age: 57
Posts: 9,429
Donated: $60
|
It was a quick fix to get around a problem with the way randarts are read. My thinking is actually that the correct place for drop artifacts is in quest.txt, and at some point I will make that happen.
__________________
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. |
|
|
|
|
May 23, 2017, 01:10
|
#3 | |
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Manhattan Beach, CA
Posts: 2,123
|
Quote:
__________________
“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
|
|
|
|
 |
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Unexpected drop! | Bogatyr | Vanilla | 38 | January 21, 2020 17:57 |
| When Artifacts and Monsters match | Mark | Vanilla | 22 | April 7, 2014 19:11 |
| Make all artifacts "special" artifacts | Derakon | Development | 14 | March 16, 2011 09:37 |
| Best Maggot drop ever ? | Estie | Vanilla | 20 | February 9, 2011 05:43 |
| The best drop I've ever seen | Ycombinator | AAR | 10 | June 14, 2010 06:43 |
Linear Mode
