Invulnerable arrows?

[bron]

It seems that I don't get arrows in my quiver destroyed by acid and/or fire attacks anymore? Is this the intended behavior? I'm guessing it's a side effect of the fact that arrows in the quiver are "wielded" rather than being part of "inventory". But I don't think it was an intentional effect (?)

Also, have magic/prayer book become harder to destroy? I seem to be losing fewer of them to fire beathers than I remember from the past. Was something changed or have I just been lucky?

[I'm running some version of 3.1.2 ; I'm pretty sure it is the 3.1.2v2 download from oook.cz download page, but I'm not 100% sure.]

[d_m]

Originally Posted by bron

It seems that I don't get arrows in my quiver destroyed by acid and/or fire attacks anymore? Is this the intended behavior? I'm guessing it's a side effect of the fact that arrows in the quiver are "wielded" rather than being part of "inventory". But I don't think it was an intentional effect (?)

This is definitely true, based on the current implementation. I'm not sure what takkaria's preferred behavior here is (I could imagine stuff being invulnerable to destruction like worn equipment, treated just like the inventory, or having a smaller (but non-zero) chance to be destroyed).

Originally Posted by bron

Also, have magic/prayer book become harder to destroy? I seem to be losing fewer of them to fire beathers than I remember from the past. Was something changed or have I just been lucky?

I am pretty sure this has not been changed, but I might be wrong.

[awldune]

Originally Posted by bron

Also, have magic/prayer book become harder to destroy? I seem to be losing fewer of them to fire beathers than I remember from the past. Was something changed or have I just been lucky?

Looking at the source, there doesn't appear to be any change from 3.0.9.

I haven't noticed any change in playing.

[PowerDiver]

Originally Posted by d_m

(I could imagine stuff being invulnerable to destruction like worn equipment, treated just like the inventory, or having a smaller (but non-zero) chance to be destroyed).

The whole idea that the quiver counts as equipped rather than being an extension of the pack is just plain awful IMO. Wielding ammo is bad, noticing brands on wield is worse, and invulnerable quivers are just plain wrong.

[d_m]

Originally Posted by PowerDiver

The whole idea that the quiver counts as equipped rather than being an extension of the pack is just plain awful IMO. Wielding ammo is bad, noticing brands on wield is worse, and invulnerable quivers are just plain wrong.

Takkaria wanted the same basic quiver from S/NPP and that's what we got (give-or-take).

#2 and #3 are both (probably) easily solvable bugs. I don't see how they are related to #1 at all (EDIT: that's overstating it, I guess I mean there is no reason to believe they can't be fixed without changing #1).

#1 would require a complete rewrite (and honestly would probably require significant refactoring to the whole inventory/equipment/obj-cmd scheme).

[Nick]

Originally Posted by d_m

#1 would require a complete rewrite (and honestly would probably require significant refactoring to the whole inventory/equipment/obj-cmd scheme).

Not so bad, I think. You would need another command for "put in the quiver", and an option in the take off command for switching to the quiver.

[PowerDiver]

Originally Posted by d_m

#1 would require a complete rewrite (and honestly would probably require significant refactoring to the whole inventory/equipment/obj-cmd scheme).

I'll rewrite it some day, but have more useful things to do now. I don't see why it would be a big deal, except to yank out all your hard work.

Increase the pack by 10 slots, and require max 10 slots of ammo allowed. Small changes to pack_absorb, small changes to pack sorting, label last 10 slots 0 to 9 and ammo only goes there.

[edit] pack_absorb or whatever is used to decide whether there is room in the pack enforces #non-ammo slots <= 23 + (99 + #ammo)/100

The only mildly interesting part is making sure you allow empty slots between used slots in the pack, and doing that correctly allows spellbooks to be forced into correct slots. I see upside and no downside.

This seems simple and complete. Did I miss something?

[Pete Mack]

Originally Posted by PowerDiver

This seems simple and complete. Did I miss something?

Yes. Quiver slots don't move currently. This is a nice feature that reduces the amount of required inscriptions.
Also: the inventory is already up to near the end of the alphabet.
Would you wrap the alphabet for ammo, or start with all caps, or with numbered slots (as now.)

[PowerDiver]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

Yes. Quiver slots don't move currently. This is a nice feature that reduces the amount of required inscriptions.
Also: the inventory is already up to near the end of the alphabet.
Would you wrap the alphabet for ammo, or start with all caps, or with numbered slots (as now.)

I wrote "label last 10 slots 0 to 9 and ammo only goes there"

and I guess I should have added no non-ammo is allowed in those 10 added slots.