Hit percentage

[celem]

'Ello folks

Im playing trunk just now and noticed that when I aim a spell at a mob I get a little 'hit (%%)' note. Pretty sure this is new since I didnt notice it before, but cant seem to find a changelog around.

Now this is handy, I like it. But in my mind it makes most sense for bolt spells, I'm aiming Pain. Is this number now showing me the chance I have to beat his warding roll? I.e if I have hit(85%) then the monster has 15% chance to resist?

[Arrhythmia]

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... 525a9d5434

So, yes OP, you're correct

[Sprucery]

Woohoo! Stop development, now Crawl is perfect! :)

[celem]

Good stuff, thanks for the link, i'll have to have a dig around in the commits more often.

Im liking the change for what its worth. Mainly because I'm too lazy to lookup monsters I meet. (Though I learned from that link above that monster MR is displayed in 'describe' now. More awesomeness!)

[1010011010]

My recent run is an enchanter and although I like the percentage it is misleading at times.

There are monsters who are immune to effects, either because of their innate nature (eg. EH on a undead) or your god interfering (enslavement on fire drake while worshiping Dith), but still show a non-zero value on targeting.

The latter is understandable as in some cases it will leak information concerning spell sets but overall it's giving the wrong message.

This isn't entirely new; a similar issue was brought up before by and into

[duvessa]

The latter is understandable as in some cases it will leak information concerning spell sets but overall it's giving the wrong message.

Oh wow, I never even thought of how that enslavement restriction interacts with multi-book monsters. Just when I thought I couldn't hate it more.
What happens if you enslave a monster that has a wand of draining/fire? Or wielding/wearing a disliked item in general? Seems inconsistent to block monsters with disliked spells/abilities and not those.