Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Xom polymorph and "Xom decided to like you when you stop being boring."

[David P. <pl...@mi...>]

Hi!

>>> Applied patch 1742546: Xom shouldn't polymorph demons.
>> 
>> I had that Xom polymorph applied twice. It is cool but stronger than a
>> wand of polymorph (says my experience and Zooko, too). Perhaps we want to
>> tone down it a bit: I died both times (one was standard orc -> some
>> dragon).
>
> For what it is worth, Xom has a wide range of possible effects and a wide 
> random distribution, meaning that every time you play with him should be 
> different.  I've played at least hundreds of hours of my Xom, and I don't 
> recall him doing something like that to me!

That sounds good. So I got unlucky - I expected that, and a sample size of 
precisely two isn't overwhelming.

> One of my ideas for Xom is that he does smaller effects more frequently and 
> larger effects less frequently.  If this particular effect is too 
> large-and-frequent, then it should be toned down, but perhaps it should be 
> made only a *little* less strong or only a *little* less frequent.

Good principle. I guess it makes more impact on players that way.

> Xom would lose some of his appeal if he *never* did something wildly out of 
> normal strength levels...

Yes! It was cool, really.

> By the way, I've been playtesting a patch (appended and attached) to simplify 
> Xom as we earlier discussed.  See the patch for details.  This makes Xom a 
> little more cruel, but so far I've still had fun with it.

I read it: you removed the swap. I think that's good. We'll need serious 
playtesting anyway but for now I just suggest to apply it. Should Xom need 
to be more benevolent, we can approach that in many ways.

Bye,
David


> Wed Jun  6 21:55:13 MDT 2007  zo...@zo...
>  * remove "Xom becomes nice again" feature when you become no longer boring
>  This "Xom becomes nice again" feature is item #5 in this e-mail:
>  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php? 
> msg_name=20070605223156.B104DA8B%40zooko.com
>
> diff -rN -u old-upstream/crawl-ref/source/xom.cc new-upstream/crawl- 
> ref/source/xom.cc
> --- old-upstream/crawl-ref/source/xom.cc        2007-06-27 09:08:20.000000000 
> -0600
> +++ new-upstream/crawl-ref/source/xom.cc        2007-06-27 09:08:21.000000000 
> -0600
> @@ -139,9 +139,6 @@
>                     (interestingness > 25) ? "Xom is mildly amused." :
>                     "Xom is interested."));
>     }
> -
> -    if (you.piety < 100 && coinflip())
> -        you.piety = 200 - you.piety;
> }
> void xom_makes_you_cast_random_spell(int sever)
>
>