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0011059 [DCSS] Bug Report text always 2017-05-15 21:03 2017-08-17 07:34
Reporter neil View Status public  
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Priority normal Resolution open  
Status new   Product Branch 0.21 ancient branch
Summary 0011059: Fixed-position summons fail with an uninformative message when cast on a teleport/shaft trap
Description Casting either Fulminant Prism or Summon Lightning Spire and targetting a teleport or shaft trap "succeeds", but the spell fails to place the ally, giving the message "You see a puff of smoke. Nothing appears to happen." This happens whether the trap was known or unknown.

If the trap was known, targeting such a position should abort the spell, similarly to targeting a visible creature. If the trap was unknown, the spell should fail with a special-case message indicating the reason, similar to but distinct from the message from targeting an invisible monster; possibly the trap should be revealed or trigger as well.

See this discussion for an example of player confusion: https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/6b7lwk/ [^]
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Tags newbie friendly
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(0031770)
johnstein (reporter)
2017-08-17 07:34

I submitted a PR for this:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/594 [^]

There was another simpler version at:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/536 [^] (I'd already mostly finished mine when I found the previous PR)

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-05-15 21:03 neil New Issue
2017-05-15 21:07 neil Tag Attached: newbie friendly
2017-08-17 07:34 johnstein Note Added: 0031770


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