Banish _?Banish?

[ewan]

On a separate note, thanks to Pav for having an 'ignore user' option on this forum

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by ewan

Agree on renaming of banish evil.

Banish evil is old name and fits quite well in what it does, it just conflicts now with genocide which was changed to banishment. I would rather change old genocide again to something else.

[fizzix]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

Banish evil is old name and fits quite well in what it does, it just conflicts now with genocide which was changed to banishment. I would rather change old genocide again to something else.

I don't care what gets renamed, as long as the same word 'banish' isn't used for monster deletion and monster teleportation. I can't think of a better synonym for monster deletion assuming we can't use genocide for sensitivity reasons. Do you have any good suggestions for what to rename monster deletion?

[dos350]

use genocide , nn 4 crying or caring 4 sensitive ones

[ehertlein]

Originally Posted by fizzix

I don't care what gets renamed, as long as the same word 'banish' isn't used for monster deletion and monster teleportation. I can't think of a better synonym for monster deletion assuming we can't use genocide for sensitivity reasons. Do you have any good suggestions for what to rename monster deletion?

Annihilation?

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by fizzix

I don't care what gets renamed, as long as the same word 'banish' isn't used for monster deletion and monster teleportation. I can't think of a better synonym for monster deletion assuming we can't use genocide for sensitivity reasons. Do you have any good suggestions for what to rename monster deletion?

"Deletion" could be interpreted as teleport level because you don't get any XP from them. Monsters can do that to you, so you should be able to do that to monsters. Problem with it is more that you do it in mass every time, there is no teleport level only one monster. Wording is a difficult one since there is already teleport level which teleports player, not monsters.

Teleport race from level and teleport area from level? Maybe also teleport monster from level as single-monster equal of that one (like teleport other, but removes from level and requires more mana).

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by ehertlein

Annihilation?

That would create another conflict with priest spells, there is Annihilation which is bolt-spell that affects living (weak spell for its cost, needs to be redone).

[ehertlein]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

That would create another conflict with priest spells, there is Annihilation which is bolt-spell that affects living (weak spell for its cost, needs to be redone).

That's a real shame as it seems very appropriate.

[Derakon]

Rename Annihilation to Eradicate and make it more powerful (e.g. flat 300 damage/cast against any target, instead of the current "only living targets" restriction). Then you can use Annihilate for genocide effects.

[nppangband]

Originally Posted by fizzix

I don't care what gets renamed, as long as the same word 'banish' isn't used for monster deletion and monster teleportation. I can't think of a better synonym for monster deletion assuming we can't use genocide for sensitivity reasons. Do you have any good suggestions for what to rename monster deletion?

Some choices:

Extinction
Elimination
Exclusion
Explusion
Extermination
Abolishment
Eradication


That's just a quick check with a thesaurus. Of those, I think I like "extermination" the most.