Suggested by <email deleted>, chatting to a gecko will
give a reference to GEICO's car insurance ads. I limited it to when
the hero is hallucinating. Chatting to a gecko monster, or to anything
capable of speaking--except for a couple of previously handled special
cases, like quest leader--which happens to look like a gecko at the time,
or (50:50 chance) to a shopkeeper regardless of appearance, you'll get
"15 minutes can save you 15 zorkmids", parodying "15 minutes can save you
15% or more on car insurance". (One of my comments says there's a chance
to interfere with shopping, but that's not accurate since using #chat to
get shop price quotes doesn't use the monster-response routine. I left
that comment in anyway; the "15 minutes" response might interfere afterall
if someone mistakenly thinks they can save gold by waiting that long
before paying their shopping bill.)
I don't think we ever found a good place to add some reference to
GEICO's other--and more relevant to nethack--slogan, "so easy a caveman
can do it".
add SYSCF docs to the Guidebook because it's info needed in a binary distro
Guidebook.tex - also add some missing italics to some "NetHack" occurances
call nethack.org "official"
Guidebook.txt - didn't regenerate cleanly so no diff
add SEDUCE to SYSCF (only partly inspired by the recent email)
From the newsgroup: attempting to #chat to a gnome elicited "the
gnome grunts" (because gnomes have MS_ORC sound, and MS_ORC is just a
synonym for MS_GRUNT) even when the hero was a gnome. This patch makes
MS_ORC (orcs, gnomes, kobolds, a couple of named demons) or MS_GRUNT
(ogres, ettins, trolls, gargoyles) behave as MS_HUMANOID when the hero
has same race. That by itself wasn't quite enough; hostile MS_HUMANOID
monsters other than fake players wouldn't respond, so this gives those
a generic message (threatening the hero). In a somewhat similar case,
peaceful MS_CUSS monsters wouldn't respond; now they say something too.
From the newsgroup: player chatted with leader and was ejected for
not being high enough level, then when he came back later there was no
leader to be found, but there was a polymorph trap on quest home level.
This makes quest leaders and nemesis be aware of all trap types--rather
than just having leaders be aware of magic portals--so they'll be able to
avoid polymorph traps. It also makes chatting with a polymorphed leader
work as long as the new form is able to speak (use same criteria as with
poly'd shopkeepers: can't be in a form that's limited to animal sounds).
Pat wrote:
> <Someone> has a patch (we've added a couple of
> his earlier ones) which changes the statue display from a single
> one size fits all "`" to a gray monster symbol instead.
> But I think the idea is a good one, and along with the
> bouldersym option could make the fairly hard to
> distinguish back-tick character go away.
Sources tagged before applying NETHACK_PRE_STATUE,
and afterwards with NETHACK_POST_STATUE for easy
rollback.
The devteam feedback was to place casts in the code
in question.
This puts explicit casts on some code that was being
compiled into 'int64' then stuffed into smaller types with
VC2005.
- remove an unreferenced variable
- continue with recent code trend towards having DEADMONSTER()
check in its own if/continue statement in a few more places
The user (<email deleted>) who recently suggested a
dump command for containers also wanted atmospheric sounds on levels which
have altars. Right now we'd have to find unattended altars the hard way
(by scanning the entire level) but we could add a counter (or set of
counters, one per alignment) like for fountains and sinks if we really
wanted to do that. [Now that I think about it, the #overview patch may
have already done something of the sort.] But what noises would an altar
be expected to produce? This only adds sounds for temples, where the
attending priest can be the source of the noise.
I'm not real thrilled with the initial set of sounds, particularly
the hallucinating one, but the implementation works. The "carcass" one is
a little clumsy; it's intended to add a hint for new players who haven't
figured out what the #offer command does.
<email deleted> wrote:
> * #chatting to hostile prisoners gives "This will teach you not to disturb me!"
> This only makes sense for djinn and water demons.
I don't have a clue what they should say, this only deals with
what they shouldn't say.
Note: The CVS repository was tagged with NETHACK_PRE_MEXTRA
prior to application of this patch to allow easy withdrawal if necessary.
Adds a new mextra structure type that has a set
of pointers to various types of monster structures
including:
mname, egd, epri, eshk, emin, edog
Replaces the mextra bits in the monst structure
with a single pointer called mtmp->mextra of type
(struct mextra *).
The pointer can be null if there are no additional
structures attached. The mextra structure is not
adjacent to the monst structure.
Reduces the in-memory footprint of the monst that
has no other structures attached, at the cost
of adding 6 extra long ints per monster to
the save file
The new mextra structure has the mextra fields
independent of each other, not overlapping as was
the case with previous NetHack versions.
This patch doesn't do anything to capitalize on
that difference however.
Consolidates vault.h, epri.h, eshk.h, emin.h and edog.h
into mextra.h
Adds a macro for checking for whether a monster has
a name:
has_name(monst)
This fixes the magic trap panic
expels() -> spoteffects() -> dotrap() ->
domagictrap() -> tamedog()
because the monst no longer varies in size so no
replacement is required.
For "the hair on the back of your neck stands up" or "the hair on
your head seems to stand up" make subject and verb agree when poly'd into
forms where "hair" is replaced by something explicitly plural like "scales"
or "cilia".
Finally apply the patch sent by <Someone> in 11/2003 for slashem-Bugs-799278,
updated to match the current code and handle additional cases. The fix
is brute force: always ensure nomovemsg is set when nomul is called with
a negative value. I also scanned the code for places manually setting
multi negative, they all set nomovemsg. It would be nice to have a function
that did the right thing, but there are several special cases and I was
not feeling creative.
- can shift into fog clouds, vampire bats, and vampire lords into wolves
- after being "killed" in shifted form, they transform back rather than get
destroyed, and you must take them on in vampire form to defeat them
- can deliberately shift into fog clouds to pass under closed doors
+ Separate the two uses of flags.soundok.
+ Player-settable option is now called "acoustics".
+ Deafness is now handled as a full-fledged attribute.
+ Check for deafness in You_hear(), rather than caller.
+ Check for deafness in caller, rather than verbalize(),
because gods can speak to characters in spite of deafness.
+ Since changes are being made to prop.h, reorder it to the
same order as youprop.h and enlightenment.
There are still some extraneous checks and missing checks
for deafness, which will be followed up in a future patch.
Because of the size of this patch and its savefile incompatibilities,
it is only being applied to the trunk code. Portions of this patch
were written by Michael Allison.
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
Although the overlay stuff is destined to be
removed someday, this patch just makes the
use of STATIC_DCL, STATIC_OVL consistent
in the trunk.
[As a side pointless experiment, I was able
to build a working 8086 port of 3.4.2 after
this change that worked correctly in limited
testing right up until it came time to enter
Ft. Ludios., where it couldn't allocated the
required amount of memory.]
- fix ring of protection from shape changers causing
real monster to be created.
- add ability to get the character class monster from
genus() or the species.
- use the character class monster when animating
guardian corpses.
This uses pmatch() as a default pattern matcher,
and #defines USER_SOUNDS_REGEX for Qt
to enable the code for regular expressions.
This is enabled for win32tty and win32gui.
<Someone> wrote:
> Linux, Redhat 7.1 nethack 3.4.0
>
>Please see attached patch file.
>
>I'm attempting to move more stuff into the "read-only" area, in
>preparation for a port to another OS.
- Changed a cancelled chat direction to abort the chat -- it seemed odd
that the old behavior would sometimes take time, sometimes not, depending
on the previous direction.
- Documented the current spelleffects behavior of re-using the last
direction after a cancelled getdir() & added a message.
From the newsgroup: using #chat to talk to a "meditating"
monster like quest nemesis or Medusa could elicilit responses
without waking it up (at least if you moved fast enough enough
to probe it before it got its next turn).
- avoid several buffer overflows
- move use of access() to files.c in new can_read_file() function
- remove extra newlines in raw_print() calls
- get ready for lint, eg sprintf -> Sprintf
- generally make the code look like core code, not Qt code
