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OG17 (reporter)
2010-12-13 00:54
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A dragon's already able to change into an ice beast when over deep water, and vice versa. |
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Kate (developer)
2011-01-25 21:03
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This also affects switching into flying forms from boots of levitation, it seems. |
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absolutego (reporter)
2011-01-25 21:32
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you bet it does! |
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galehar (administrator)
2011-04-04 00:20
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Changing from spider to flying form is fixed. The other way around is designed this way. This is the wall clinging restriction. You can enter a dangerous cell with it only if you're already clinging. When you teleport, change form, end levitation or whatever, you end up on the ground and can cling to the wall at the end of the turn, or next turn. |
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OG17 (reporter)
2011-04-04 06:29
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Why design a feature that only results in accidental deaths? There's no upside to this, and as above, the reasoning's inconsistent with existing clinging rationalizations. |
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galehar (administrator)
2011-04-04 10:04
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Here is how clinging work:
* If you're not currently clinging to a wall, you can't enter an adjacent deep water / lava cell even you would be able to cling to it. If you enter a shallow water cell, you cross the water, take the speed penalty and cling to the wall at the end of your turn.
* If you're already clinging to the wall, there's still restrictions on which cells you can go while keeping your clinging and ignoring the ground.
Therefore, the fact that when you teleport, you don't land on the wall but on the ground is perfectly consistent. Same for end of levitation and form change.
What could be done is to give a chance to spider form to "scramble free" by clinging to a nearby wall. |
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minmay (reporter)
2011-04-04 17:33
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The end of flight/levitation I can sort of see the logic in, even if it will only lead to accidental drowning deaths, but form changes? You can change from flying dragon form to floating ice form without drowning, you can change from floating ice form to flying dragon form without drowning. You should be able to change from clinging spider form to flying/floating dragon/ice form without drowning.
At the very least: Ice Form doesn't let you cast Blade Hands if you're floating in deep water, because it would make you drown. Do the same for Spider Form, especially since players will expect not to drown, and in any case there is no reason they would, in practice, want to. |
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galehar (administrator)
2011-04-04 22:53
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The transformation of clinging spider to ice form or dragon form has been fixed already, it no longer drowns you. Doing the opposite, you fall in water, but you now have a chance to scramble free by clinging on a wall. Also, since fed893d, you can't kill yourself by cancelling form or levitation. |
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