Is this a bug?

[Daven_26d1]

Originally Posted by Big Al;

I assume that you're talking about the floating eyes even though you called them evil eyes.

Originally Posted by Ian;

> The Floating eye gazes at you.
> *** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***
> The Floating eye gazes at you.

Chose not to clarify this earlier, so I didn't spoil anything, but yeah, I guess he means floating eyes. =)

[Ian]

Originally Posted by zaimoni

In both V3.0.6 and V.3.0.9, the paralyze attack inflicts a minimum of 4 normal-speed turns of paralysis, and a maximum of 3+(monster level) normal-speed turns of paralysis.

I don't see any changes in the C source (either timeout code or attack code) that would cause an increase in paralytic efficiency.

Ok my bad on calling them evil eyes, I guess they were evil to me and eyes. Ok floating eyes in 3.0.6 never dirrectly killed any of my early characters. I mean a level 10 and 7 priest plus a few other priests that lvl just never saved even once to get away, just instant killed?

What damage does a floating eye do and take my little bit of AC plus health at that level, plus good resist chance, plus floating eyes chance to miss and how many turn about does that run? Alot and you would think 1 of my priest so far would have had a fraction of a chance in all the turns to maybe be able to react and move away.

Possible reason I didnt think of is I usualy run into them going down a hall way and they surprise me, using the quick move stopping at doors and the like. Could the program just keep saying im tring to move down the hall way, but not noticing the blocking eye thus every time I do save or come out of paralyze i just auto move again?

[Daven_26d1]

No. If you move into the eye, you'll attack and if you move into a wall you won't waste a turn. I can't think what else you mean, and I presume by "auto-move" you mean "running" and you won't keep on trying to run in this situation.

The eyes are really just traps that catch you out if you aren't paying attention; also be aware that it can be dangerous to run into unexplored corridors if you cut the corners...

[andrewdoull]

Originally Posted by Ian

What damage does a floating eye do and take my little bit of AC plus health at that level, plus good resist chance, plus floating eyes chance to miss and how many turn about does that run? Alot and you would think 1 of my priest so far would have had a fraction of a chance in all the turns to maybe be able to react and move away.

A floating eye does no damage to you unless you are paralyzed, in which case it does 1 hp.

This is to prevent you sitting for an infinite length of time getting gazed at and suffer the indignity of starving to death.

Andrew

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Ian

Ok my bad on calling them evil eyes, I guess they were evil to me and eyes. Ok floating eyes in 3.0.6 never dirrectly killed any of my early characters. I mean a level 10 and 7 priest plus a few other priests that lvl just never saved even once to get away, just instant killed?

Ian, you're not quite getting it. It doesn't matter how many times you save (and your priests probably both saved quite often), if you are still paralysed by a previously failed save. Don't forget that each failed save paralyses you for FOUR turns, not just one. So once you're paralysed, you have to save four times *in a row*, because the first three will be part of the existing paralysis, and only the fourth will actually let you move again.

Is that any clearer? This is why people are telling you not to fight floating eyes by standing next to them. By all means chuck rocks at them or fire arrows at them, but don't stand next to them. It's really not difficult.

Possible reason I didnt think of is I usualy run into them going down a hall way and they surprise me, using the quick move stopping at doors and the like. Could the program just keep saying im tring to move down the hall way, but not noticing the blocking eye thus every time I do save or come out of paralyze i just auto move again?

No, I'm pretty confident that this isn't happening. You are simply continually paralysed, because you never make four saves in a row. If your priest has a 60% chance of saving (I have no idea what the real figure is, but bear with me), then making four saves in a row is only 13% likely. (EDIT: it's actually even worse than this, because when you fail a second save another four turns of paralysis are added to however many you have remaining, rather than just re-setting the counter to four - so you can end up needing 8 ... 12 ... 16 consecutive saves ....)

You shouldn't run into them, because the running code should always stop you as soon as a monster comes into view. The only possible issue is if you are using the run_cut_corners option, which is unwise because you can step round a corner and be right next to a monster.

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[Seany C]

Originally Posted by Magnate

Is that any clearer? This is why people are telling you not to fight floating eyes by standing next to them. By all means chuck rocks at them or fire arrows at them, but don't stand next to them. It's really not difficult.

Simple(ish) solution: buy a sling and a bunch of rounded pebbles/iron shots - once you see an eye,'f'ire these from a minimum of 2 squares away until the eye is one big dead mush of conjuctivitis. At the risk of sounding spoily, once you get into double figures for CL, you should have a spell that can do damage from a distance so you won't need to use the sling/pebble method.

Also, as someone said earlier, once your AC is above 15 or so, you'd be quite unlucky to get 'hit' (i.e. "gazed at") by the eye before you splat it with your mace/whip/blunt object of choice...

[Big Al]

Originally Posted by Magnate

You shouldn't run into them, because the running code should always stop you as soon as a monster comes into view. The only possible issue is if you are using the run_cut_corners option, which is unwise because you can step round a corner and be right next to a monster.

New in 3.0.9 is torches have radius-2 light if they have over 2500(or is it 3000?) fuel, so always try to keep torches fueled up at least that much - that way, you'll see the monsters before you're right next to them.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Big Al

New in 3.0.9 is torches have radius-2 light if they have over 2500(or is it 3000?) fuel, so always try to keep torches fueled up at least that much - that way, you'll see the monsters before you're right next to them.

Thanks for the reminder - I'd forgotten that you could also run into them if your light source is only radius 1, even without run_cut_corners on. But I don't think I've ever played with a light source of radius 1, so I neglected to mention it!

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