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.
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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
