Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] [crawl-ref-commits] SF.net SVN: crawl-ref: [5337] trunk/crawl-ref

[Matthew C. <zel...@us...>]

On Friday 30 May 2008 02:09:23 am David Ploog wrote:
> > Added two new options, rest_wait_both and chunks_autopickup, both
> > defaulting to false.  If rest_wait_both is true then resting will
> > only stop when both HP and MP are both fully restored, not when
> > only one or the other is restored.

> Is the resting still interrupted after 100 turns?

Yes. I could have worded the comment a bit better.

> Also, I've always felt the need to improve resting. Why not make a
> new behaviour, starting with what you did?

> I would suggest that long resting does this:

> * wait until both hp and mp are full
> * if started with full mp/hp, wait 50 turns
> * interrupt when taking damage (subject to ignore poison)

Yeah, that sounds good

> * interrupt when discovering something _new_ (trap or monster)
>    (Ideally, resting in the presence of already known monsters
>    should be possible: like fish, butterflies, monsters behind
> glass)

I think for that to work that the game would have to keep track of the 
closest each already-seen monster had gotten, and stop rest if it got 
any closer.

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