for now at least, until there is more time to look into it.
<email deleted>
> Yet more nitpicking about potions of oil being lit by sparks from axed
> statues, I'm afraid.
>
> Konosja's potions of oil catch light!
> "That will cost you 66 zorkmids (Yendorian Fuel Tax)."
> "That's in addition to the cost of Konosja's potions of oil themselves, of
> course."
> You snuff the lit potion.
>
> a) why is the Fuel Tax on (in this case) six potions the same as on one?
>
> b) if you a)pply-light a potion, it's just "in addition to the cost of
> the potion". Is Yname2() the right name-function for catch_lit() to
> be using? It's odd for Konosja to be talking about herself in the
> third person.
>
> c) Grammar on the snuffing message is wrong for multiple potions.
Pat forwarded a message from the newsgroup in March that the town guards
enforce rules even outside the town proper. Fix: On room-based town levels,
check if the location is in a room containing subrooms (roomno will often
have a subroom id instead). On the other levels (e.g. minetn-5), there are
no subrooms, so the whole level is fair game. Currently, this is valid.
If fancier towns are added in the future, more flags or use of regions may
be required to tell where the town border actually is. These checks are done
in a new in_town function.
<Someone> writes:
I can accept that losing gold into a fountain recharges it to make it
possible to find a gem in it in future (however weird that is). What
_does_ seem wrong is that receiving a warning about a Minetown
fountain prevents finding gems and gold there.
<email deleted>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: Sparks from statue-axing
> First, the message given when your axe-handle vibrates is a little
> ambiguous; I'd be explicit and include the name of obj.
>
> More seriously, potions of oil catching light from the sparks are a) a
> great idea, but b) slightly broken. They catch light fine, but
> snuffing them produces a "del_light_source: not found"
> impossible(). (This probably means the same applies to being lit by
> fire_damage(), but that's rare enough this hasn't been caught before.)
>
> (Also, a)pplying a potion of oil to light one identifies its object
> type, so lighting one by this means probably ought to as well. And
> oughtn't it to be charged for if you don't own it, as light_cocktail()
> does?)
<email deleted>
Subject: Beta 1 comments
> Is "You swing your axe through thin air" the right message to give
> when you try to use it to chop through a statue or boulder? Relatedly,
> this line in dig() looks as if it needs updating to the new dig_typ
> indices:
Refinement of the digging code:
* Picks should not chop down trees, but axes should.
* Picks should break walls, rock, statues, and boulders; axes shouldn't.
* Either picks or axes should chop down doors.
Can't push boulders through iron bars; traps can't roll such through either;
likewise for objects thrown by monsters.
Thrown objects susceptible to breaking might do so when they hit iron bars.
Assorted monsters can pass through iron bars; ditto for polymorphed character.
Attempting to dig iron bars will wake nearby monsters instead of yielding
"you swing your pick-axe through thin air".
Autodig won't accept iron bars as candidate location.
The autodig code still requires lots of interaction, because of all the
digging messages. Make these messages behave more like boulder pushing
messages, where they only display if the previous move wasn't a push.
