Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Abyss banishment bug

[Haran P. <ha...@ma...>]

"Darshan Shaligram" <sci...@gm...> writes:

> So I've finally found the bug that crashes the game when a monster
> wielding a weapon of distortion banishes you. I've moved the
> banishment out of the monster movement loop so that the monster array
> doesn't get trashed while in the loop.
>
> Question is: how severe do we call this bug? :) There's (almost
> certainly) no loss of data, because the game gets saved when
> transitioning to the Abyss, and the crash happens immediately
> afterwards. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this alone isn't
> worth doing 0.1.8 for, but feel free to yell at me if I'm wrong.

I agree: not such a big deal. It's pretty rare for this occurrence to
happen to begin with. (Even though I play mostly spellcasting types,
this has *never* happened to me in several years of Crawling.)

Haran