This is a security fix, intended to avoid a DoS attack (that has
been used in practice against public servers) in which a situation
is created in which the same short loop of commands can be run
over and over indefinitely; this causes a lot of CPU usage on the
public server as it simulates the game turns, and requires hardly
any network or CPU usage for an attacker.
Once the turn counter goes above 100000, the average prayer timeout
increases by 1 for every additional 100 turns spent. Thus, even
with a ring of slow digestion, nutrition prayers will no longer
be possible after turn 2 million or so. This is unlikely to have
any noticeable effect on any strategy that does not rely heavily
on prayer for nutrition; even in an implausible 200000-turn game,
prayer timeout will only be increased by 1000 or so, which should
be easily manageable for a character that powerful.
Same race corpses, deceased pet corpses, wraith corpses, and unicorn
corpses could be sacrificed even when otherwise too old. This
prevents that for wraith and unicorn corpses but leaves the same
race and dead pet cases as is. I'm not sure that this is the right
way to resolve things but at least has the virute of being simple.
This also lets chaotics get the trivial bonus for sacrificing a
wraith corpse even though alignment matches. Alignment doesn't
matter for anything else (except unicorns) and giving up a wraith
corpse that isn't too old to eat is a tangible sacrifice. Unless
the hero is vegetarian (or the supersets vegan and foodless) since
giving up a corpse that won't be eaten isn't worthy of a bonus.
(It will still retain regular sacrifice value in that situation.)
Fixes#304
From a reddit thread, praying on the altar in orctown behaved like an
ordinary prayer directed at Moloch rather than being an exceptional
event. Make it always be rejected. The penalty is very trivial.
Instead of an assortment of bits, assign numeric indices to the
potential achievements and keep an array of those in the order they
were attained. So disclosure might show the same subset occurring
differently in different games depending on the player's actions.
The encoded field in xlogfile doesn't care about that and remains
the same.
Modifies 'struct u', so EDITLEVEL has been incremented and existing
save files are invalidated.
Recently added "you hear an invisible choir chant in Latin ..." is
jarring. Unfortunately, something like "in an archaic language" would
make the message too long so just take out "in Latin".
Also a few reformatting bits for pray.c.
Give 'novel' a 1 in 1000 chance of being created in place of each
random spellbook (except for hero's initial inventory and NPC
priests' monster inventory and divine reward for prayer--those all
force regular spellbooks; statue contents aren't among the
exceptions--those books can now be novels). Shop inventory (where
first book or scroll shop created is guaranteed one novel) hasn't
been touched. If there is any other special spellbook handling
somewhere, I've overlooked it.
The general idea here came from SpliceHack -- give each alignment a
unique effect in what happens to its sacrifices -- but the "puff of
smoke" in Splice seemed too small.
Something I noticed in the hardfought diff what looked interesting.
Unfortunately the most interesting bit turns out to be unuseable.
Display high altars (Moloch's Sanctum and the Astral Plane) in
bright-magenta and unaligned altars (aside from the Sanctum one) in
red. Hardfought's code also uses white for lawful, gray for neutral,
and black for chaotic, matching the unicorn colors associated with
the alignments. But those colors don't render in a reliable fashion
(see the comment in mapglyph.c) and become confusing about why they're
used for altars of particular alignments.
Move makeplural(body_part(FINGER)) into its own routine, with option
to substitute gloves when wearing such.
Wearing slippery gloves (ie, wearing gloves while having slippery
fingers) wouldn't let you put on a ring because you can't take the
gloves off, but removing a worn ring lacked the same restriction.
After changing that, teach prayer that slippery gloves is another
reason why a ring of levitation can't be removed.
From the newsgroup (reported for slash'em but applies to nethack too):
a chaotic monk was crowned and told he or she had been "chosen to
steal souls for My Glory!" while being given a spellbook of restore
ability which has nothing whatever to do with soul stealing. There's
alternate wording for when Stormbringer can't be given because it
already exists; also use that for when it's not going to be given
because the character is discouraged against wielding weapons.
When kicking an altar, trigger divine wrath (minor: luck or alignment
loss) before deciding whether hero has hurt himself in the process.
Add some variation to the wrath penalty so that it can't be used to
precisely control Luck.
Even though it isn't using verbalize() to make a specific statement,
don't let a demon ask the hero for a bribe when the hero is deaf.
Also, give alternate setup messages in a couple of places where a
divine voice is overriding deafness.
Hero polymorphed into a vampire or v.lord can use #monster to switch
to vampire bat or fog cloud [or wolf for lord] but it was a one shot
polymorph. Remember when current form is a shape-shifted vampire and
allow #monster in shifted form to pick another shifted form or the
vampire form.
Genocide of the alternate shape forces back to base vampire. Genocide
of base vampire does too, then reverts to human (or dwarf, &c) as
vampires go away. Being killed while shafe-shifted reverts all the
way to human rather than to vampire. [Just realized: interaction
with Unchanging wasn't taken into consideration so hasn't been tested.]
Since 'youmonst' isn't saved and restored, I had to add a field to 'u'
to hold youmonst.cham during save/restore.
Tested with 3.6.2+ and seemed to be working (except saving while
shape-shifted restored as ordinary bat/cloud/wolf because new u.mcham
wasn't there to hold youmonst.cham yet). Builds with 3.7.0- but not
execution tested yet (I didn't want to clobber my current playground).
When looking at something else I stumbled across this. Using #turn
is described as chanting a formula but was allowed even if hero wasn't
able to speak due to strangulation or speechless polymorph form.
Also, the check for whether a potential target monster was in range
used 'cansee(mx,my)' which required the hero to be able to see but
not necessarily to be able to see the target. I've changed that to
'couldsee(mx,my)' on the assumption that it was intended to prevent
\#turn from operating through walls.
Also, the comment about the effective range was wrong. I changed the
comment to match the code rather than vice versa.
Changing an inventory item's bknown flag wasn't followed by a call to
update_inventory() in many circumstances, so information which should
have appeared wasn't showing up until some other event triggered an
update.
Make healing magic which cures blindness also cure deafness. So,
drinking non-cursed potion of healing or any extra healing or full
healing; breathing fumes from blessed potion of healing or non-cursed
potion of extra healing or any potion of full healing; prayer reward
to cure blindness as a minor trouble. (Doesn't affect unicorn horns
which already treat deafness and blindness as two distinct troubles
that are eligible to be cured.)
More of a missing feature than a bug fix, so I listed it in the new
features section of the fixes file.
The new code provoked several warnings; this fixes one of them.
Moving the declaration of 'rolecount' would have been sufficient,
but I've gone another way.
This is based on the multiple-RNGs code fron NetHack4, but using
only the parts relevant to the display RNG (and with substantial
changes, both because of post-3.4.3 changes, and because Nethack4's
display code is based on Slash'EM's rather than NetHack's).
Use the make_foo() intrinsic set/reset routines instead of trying
to manipulate the intrinsics directly. Previous patch left Dex
down by 1 if stoning caused wounded legs to be fixed, and left
delayed killer allocated if stoning cured sliming or vice versa.
Salvaged from an old, unfinished patch. When checking whether the
hero is trapped by walls and solid rock, adjacent boulders are
evaluated on whether they can be pushed out of the way. Extend that
evaluation: (1) two boulders on a spot are pushable if there is a
pool beyond that spot, and (2) boulders can't be pushed diagonally
in Sokoban.
