0000642: Spell targeting warnings (also, spelling?) - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tracker

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0000642

[DCSS] FR: Interface Improvements

tweak

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2010-01-31 20:19

2011-10-17 09:40

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Stathol

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KiloByte

Priority

normal

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done

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resolved

Product Branch

0.6 ancient branch

Summary

0000642: Spell targeting warnings (also, spelling?)

Description

As it currently stands, spells like firestorm provide no warning if you attempt to cast them at a location that places you within their potential radius. I blew myself up in Tomb this way a few days ago, in fact. I don't know that this necessarily needs to be changed; perhaps no warning should be given. However, to me, this seems a bit like "player vs. interface", which I thought was something that Crawl discouraged.

More importantly, though, this is something that the game sends mixed messages about. "Bouncy" spells will give you a warning if you are likely to catch yourself with the ricochet. Yet in most cases, these are far less likely to kill you than Firestorm, Icestorm, etc. IMHO, you should either be warned for both cases or for neither.

Marginally related, I noticed that my cause of death was "bad targetting". In older versions, this was "bad targeting". According to the OED, at least, the new spelling is incorrect ;)

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sgrunt

AOE spells don't prompt correctly

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(0001911) minmay (reporter) 2010-01-31 22:29	I lost a character in the same way a few weeks ago (offline game)...in Zot. There is one problem with this, which is that Fire Storm and Ice Storm have variable range - the storm could be only five spaces wide, or it could be nine (or even more?). That said, there is one thing that in my opinion definitely needs to be changed: neither of these spells will give you a prompt if you target yourself (an easy thing to do accidentally). I know these spells merit extreme caution regardless of prompts, but...

(0012344) KiloByte (manager) 2011-04-10 21:12	Firestorm has now feedback about possible ranges. Not yet applied to Ice Storm, but that's on the way.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-01-31 20:19	Stathol	New Issue
2010-01-31 22:29	minmay	Note Added: 0001911
2010-02-03 11:09	evktalo	Product Branch	longterm planning (0.7+) => 0.6 development branch
2010-09-13 10:34	rob	Relationship added	related to 0002491
2011-04-10 21:12	KiloByte	Note Added: 0012344
2011-04-10 21:12	KiloByte	Status	new => resolved
2011-04-10 21:12	KiloByte	Fixed in Branch	=> 0.9 development branch
2011-04-10 21:12	KiloByte	Resolution	open => done
2011-04-10 21:12	KiloByte	Assigned To	=> KiloByte
2011-10-17 09:40	Galefury	Note Added: 0015272
2011-10-17 09:41	Galefury	Note Deleted: 0015272

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