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#553 Improve Key Event Queue (aka Started combat while sleeping)
At one point, I was being followed by a couple monsters
on the world map. I defeated one, and they left a
chest. I believe while getting the chest, I hit a
SLEEP TRAP, which put my only character to sleep.
While sleeping, the other group of monsters must have
attacked, because I was thrown into the combat map.
At this point, my character remained sleeping, while
monsters surrounded him and kept attacking.
I pressed a few keys trying to get my character to
respond or wake up, although that didn't help.
As soon as my character *did* wake on his own, he began
to move about, presumably in the directions that I had
pressed when trying to wake him. So his movement was
queued. This caused him to eventually flee the combat.
Now I can't remember having ever entered combat with
all my characters sleeping, but I suppose that could
happen. The thing that seems buggy was:
1. the sleep seemed to last for a long time, enough
for 3 monsters to surround him and attack a few times.
This might not be a problem.
2. Because the movements were queued, I effectively
lost control of my character for a short time.
Improve control queue to not accumulate while sleeping.
The queue issue isn't only related to entering combat while sleeping.
In the overworld, press the key to move south many times while a hostile is in pursuit. This is easiest to test when your movement is blocked by water or a mountain tile. When combat begins, your character(s) begin moving south off the map.
We really should clear the input queue when entering or leaving a map, including towns, but especially combat.