Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Autofight???

[Adam B. <kil...@an...>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:39:31PM -0700, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:
> I keep hearing about this 'autofight' thing, usually as vague rumors
> attached to lua talk between developers. Now it's posted as an
> official part of the 0.8 release, on the blog. I don't see it in the
> help. I can't find it with Google.

Sounds like the documentation sucks.  Like a gaping vacuum it is.

> Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? Is there a keypress, or a config
> modification, or a lua modification, or ... ?

Press Tab or shift-Tab.

You can modify it by copying autofight.lua somewhere and customizing that
file.

It is pretty primitive, though.  I'd add at least prioritizing to it --
killing actual threats before popcorn, damaged monsters before healthy ones,
real before summons, giving less weight to poisoned ones, and so on. 
There's always a lack of time, though...

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