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ID Category Severity Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
0005558 [DCSS] Bug Report text always 2012-04-13 04:07 2012-04-13 15:20
Reporter Saul View Status public  
Assigned To KiloByte
Priority normal Resolution done  
Status resolved   Product Branch 0.10 ancient branch
Summary 0005558: Equipping a shield when wielding a 2 handed weapon as an octopod.
Description If an octopod player is wielding a two-handed weapon and attempts to wear a shield you get the following message:
"You'd need six tentacles to do that!"

This message seems a little inappropriate, since you have 8 tentacles and you probably have 6 of them unoccupied at the time (except for walking). I'm not sure what this message should be, but it strikes me as very odd when I'm playing.

Thanks,

Saul
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(0017731)
galehar (administrator)
2012-04-13 08:03
edited on: 2012-04-13 08:52

 From commit 31fb67cd:

If you need two tentacles to wield a weapon, three hands translates to six tentacles, not five.

However, it's not clear at all that an octopode holds one handed weapon with 2 tentacles. Or that it walks on 4 tentacles and use the other 4 as arms.
And I agree that it's very weird to say that you'd need 6 tentacles when you have 8.

edit: how about we save ourselves a headache and simply print:

You'd need more tentacles to do that!
(0017732)
KiloByte (manager)
2012-04-13 13:43

 Any number would confuse someone.

I used "You need the rest of your tentacles for walking." instead.
(0017734)
Saul (reporter)
2012-04-13 15:20

 Thanks for the speedy response. I think, "You need the rest of your tentacles for walking" is perfect!

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2012-04-13 04:07 Saul New Issue
2012-04-13 08:03 galehar Note Added: 0017731
2012-04-13 08:52 galehar Note Edited: 0017731
2012-04-13 13:43 KiloByte Note Added: 0017732
2012-04-13 13:43 KiloByte Status new => resolved
2012-04-13 13:43 KiloByte Fixed in Branch => 0.11 development branch
2012-04-13 13:43 KiloByte Resolution open => done
2012-04-13 13:43 KiloByte Assigned To => KiloByte
2012-04-13 15:20 Saul Note Added: 0017734

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