<email deleted> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:40:33 +0100, <Someone>
> <email deleted> wrote:
>
> >You begin praying to Anu. You are surrounded by a shimmering light.
> >You finish your prayer. You feel that Anu is well-pleased.
> >Your stomach feels content.
> >You are feeling mildly nauseous.
>
> Huh.
>
> sh-2.03$ grep nauseous *.c
> pline.c: if (Vomiting) Strcat(info, ", nauseated"); /*
> !"nauseous" */
> potion.c: if(talk) You_feel("much less nauseous now.");
> timeout.c: "are feeling mildly nauseous.", /* 14 */
>
> Well, pline.c has it right. Nauseated means feeling sick. Nauseous
> means sickening to contemplate.
Second opinion (dictionary.com):
> Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is
> properly used only to mean causing nausea and that it is
> incorrect to use it to mean affected with nausea, as in Roller
> coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is
> preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88
> percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence
> The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and
> nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence
> to show that nauseous is widely used to mean feeling sick, it
> appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it
> is considered incorrect. In its correct sense it is being
> supplanted by nauseating.
Fix the reported bug of an unskilled rider who is unable to pick
items off the floor while mounted still being able to dip into water.
There might be other actions which need similar checking; this one only
handles the dip into pool/moat case.
Implement <Someone>'s suggestion for addressing <Someone>'s
complaint about the inadequate feedback given when dipping a unicorn
horn into a potion to convert it into water. (Mainly, if the potion
has already been given a name, you won't be prompted to give it one
when dipping transforms it; if that was the last one you had, getting
"The potion clears." isn't sufficient to let you keep track of what
type of potion was cleared. You still have to keep track of such
stuff yourself, but now you'll get "The swirly potion clears." so you
at least don't have to start remembering or recording the type prior
to dipping.)
The hallucination handling isn't very useful; the description is
given will full accuracy by the immediately following inventory update.
> I'm working on a Nethack port, and one of the header files a
> library uses has a structure with a member named "red". Since
> includes/decl.h #defines red to something, this totally loses.
>
> Attached is a patch which fixes the color defines.
Implement a check in make_hallucinated similar to the check in make_blinded
to handle the case where your hallucination is cured but Grayswandir is
suppressing its effects anyway.
Don't suppress hallucination on/off messages when blind.
This fixes the case where you might be observing hallucinatory
monsters via telepathy yet not be told that perception was back
to normal when hallucination timed out. It does not fix the
case where temporary hallucination times out while the effect is
being blocked (in which case successful application of a unicorn
horn yields no feedback), nor the hypothetical cases where timed
hallucination starts or ends while also hallucinating for some
other reason (which could happen via polymorph someday if a
monster which is always hallucinating--the way that bats are
always stunned--ever gets introduced).
Provide a chance for the player to name a polymorph potion if you dip
something into it and nothing happens.
Also fix several places in dipping and drinking potions where the HUP cheat
would allow you to use the potion a 2nd time, made more important since
the polymorph sequence includes what is currently a unique message.
Fix the problem [reported in the newsgroup and forwarded by <Someone>]
of blessed potions of gain level having the possibility of reducing
your experience points if you were already level 30. The random XP
value that averages "half way to next level" could be less than your
current experience if you had gotten to level 30 via such a blessed
potion or had drunk at least one of same since reaching that level.
This didn't really make any difference to game play since you weren't
losing any levels, HP, mana, or score, but it was visible to users who
enable the `showexp' option.
<email deleted>
<email deleted>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 6:01 AM
Subject: Bug in 3.4.0: spellbook fading
> Dip a spellbook in a fountain:
> "The spellbook fadefades."
>
> In get_wet (potion.c), otense is used, which returns "fades",
> redundantly, as a suffix to "fade".
- candles, et al, light via catch_lit
- non-weapons can be damaged
- only flammable items can be damaged, previously SILVER objects, for example,
would get a message, but add_erosion_words wouldn't display a damage word
- can't track burnt food, put this in the "seems" case too
- PLASTIC items are is_flammable, which is appropriate for all current uses
- paper gets destroyed (special artifacts excepted by earlier check)
- a cursed potion now spills even if not dipping weapons
- charge for damaging unpaid objects this way
- still very hard to destroy PYEC this way
> Should a potion of polymorph autoidentify if the item dipped into it
> polymorphs into (as far as you know) the same item? It just seemed
> odd, choosing "Z - a wand of light" to dip into a potion, to get
> "Z - a wand of light" returned, and the potion identified.
>
> (Ideally, I'd like to see it be "Nothing seems to happen.", as for
> a failed-this-time unicorn horn.)
Make wands of speed or slow monster known if their effect
on monsters is observed; likewise for speed boots. Also, avoid
giving odd "the bat is moving faster" when seeing a bat created
in gehennom and inaccurate "the monster is moving slower" when
a monster puts on speed boots.
When potions of full healing got added, they included the
ability to restore lost experience levels when blessed ones are
quaffed. This patch throttles them so that when multiple levels
have been lost, drinking multiple potions can only restore half
of those levels. Also, it prevents them from fixing any level
loss which occurs if you polymorph into a "new man" (or woman
or dwarf, &c, where you can gain or lose up to 2 levels).
This also makes the "golden glow" prayer result be at least
as good as blessed full healing by restoring a lost level instead
of giving 5 extra hit points when you have any recoverable lost
levels pending.
And tangentially related: gaining a level while polymorphed
now gives your current monster form an extra hit die in addition
to the latent boost your normal human/whatever form gets.
Files patched:
src/exper.c, polyself.c, potion.c, pray.c
