Fire Festival vault

PowerWyrm · January 12, 2022, 09:18

So in our multiplayer variant, a player got obliterated with -5000 HP death when spawning on a level right next to this absurd vault. In V you would have exactly one turn to react (I think).

/me thinks something should be done to prevent player from spawning next to a zillion major demons...

backwardsEric · January 14, 2022, 02:24

That's one of the more porous vaults (plenty of '%'s where corridors can connect and those will likely have line of sight to the nasties). Turning a bunch of the '%'s into '#'s, preferably so an incoming corridor enters into a corner or alcove that isn't in the line of sight of everything, would help.

A more generic solution, slapping NO_STAIRS flags on <x> thick borders around all (or just some?) vaults is also fairly easy to implement and would be enough to keep a starting location found by find_start() <x> or more grids away from a vault.

January 12, 2022, 09:18	#1
PowerWyrm Prophet Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2,914	Fire Festival vault So in our multiplayer variant, a player got obliterated with -5000 HP death when spawning on a level right next to this absurd vault. In V you would have exactly one turn to react (I think). /me thinks something should be done to prevent player from spawning next to a zillion major demons... __________________ PWMAngband variant maintainer - check http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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January 14, 2022, 02:24	#2
backwardsEric Swordsman Join Date: Aug 2019 Posts: 273	That's one of the more porous vaults (plenty of '%'s where corridors can connect and those will likely have line of sight to the nasties). Turning a bunch of the '%'s into '#'s, preferably so an incoming corridor enters into a corner or alcove that isn't in the line of sight of everything, would help. A more generic solution, slapping NO_STAIRS flags on <x> thick borders around all (or just some?) vaults is also fairly easy to implement and would be enough to keep a starting location found by find_start() <x> or more grids away from a vault.

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