github issue #1275: curses init vs pauper

Reported by ars3niy, the curses interface could behave strangely on
the first turn if the 'pauper' option/conduct was specified.

There isn't any definitive flag indicating whether or not the game
has started.  Since 'moves' has traditionally been initialized to 1
rather than to 0, there were several instances of
|  if (moves <= 1 && invent != NULL)
being used to determine the starting state on the assumption that
once hero has inventory, the game has begun.  Introduction of the
'pauper' option made the test for non-Null invent become unreliable.
For paupers, the program would behave as if the game hadn't started
yet until the player finally made a time-consuming move.

This changes compile-time initialization of 'moves' from 1 to 0,
then sets it to 1 when initial inventory would be bestowed (even
when 'pauper' inhibits that).  That's probably not the best place
for it, but testing for 'moves==0' now should produce an identical
effect as 'moves<=1 && invent!=NULL' used to accomplish.

It would have been much simpler just to give paupers 1 gold piece,
or perhaps one rock, in place of usual starting gear so that their
initial inventory wouldn't be empty, but the moves+invent way of
checking for start-of-play has always bothered me.

Should 'pauper' be preventing 'nethack -X' from giving its starting
wand of wishing?  Conducts and explore mode don't really overlap so
maybe it doesn't matter.

Fixes #1275
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PatR
2024-08-31 14:08:04 -07:00
parent 8e85561725
commit 0ce2439e82
7 changed files with 26 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
/* NetHack 3.7 u_init.c $NHDT-Date: 1711165379 2024/03/23 03:42:59 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.106 $ */
/* NetHack 3.7 u_init.c $NHDT-Date: 1725138482 2024/08/31 21:08:02 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.110 $ */
/* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
/*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2017. */
/* NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. */
@@ -617,6 +617,12 @@ u_init_role(void)
{
int i;
/* the program used to check moves<=1 && invent==NULL do decide whether
a new game has started, but due to the 'pauper' option/conduct, can't
rely on invent becoming non-Null anymore; instead, initialize moves
to 0 instead of 1 and then set it to 1 here, where invent init occurs */
svm.moves = 1L;
switch (Role_switch) {
/* rn2(100) > 50 necessary for some choices because some
* random number generators are bad enough to seriously