Re: [Exult-general] Re: Ideas for combat/dexterity

[Jeff F. <fre...@he...>]

On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:25 am, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:

> Hmm, what about code cleanliness bugs which are trivial to reproduce
> *and* have a patch? I'm talking about
> <URL:http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D50383=
4&group_
>id=3D2335&atid=3D102335> here.

Hmm.... I wonder if that patch will still work.  Trouble is, I'm reluctan=
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make changes like that which might break things in subtle ways (and which=
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might not get noticed until loooong after the patch was done).  I seem to=
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remember that a 'char' was always 'signed', but I probably learned that i=
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the K&R C days.

>
> Will larger deviations from the original be optional? I'm sure that
> whatever changes you make, someone is going to hate it.

Yes.  There's now a 'combat type' option, which can be set to 'original'.
>
> One direction that I'd be interested in would be to put more
> interaction into combat while keeping its current "realistic" feel.

See my post about pausing during combat.  I'm sure it's going to need wor=
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but that's the direction I'm taking.