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how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Sunday, 26th July 2020, 19:28
by petercordia
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Any way to reach the hidden shopping area?
I already checked all the hatches & trapdoors on the up and down floor. There was 1 temporary teleport trap, which I tried.
I could read tele until it works, but I doubt it'll be worth it.
I wouldn't even have known about the shops if I hadn't had to read ?mapping because I got shafted.

Character dump here:
https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/pete ... cordia.txt

Re: how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Sunday, 26th July 2020, 19:44
by Siegurt
Corruption?

Re: how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Sunday, 26th July 2020, 20:49
by vt
They're merely arches.

Re: how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Sunday, 26th July 2020, 21:15
by Majang
vt wrote:They're merely arches.

Yes, nothing in there. These days you could crack this place open with Shatter, but it's not worth it. Don't even ignore it!

Re: how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Sunday, 26th July 2020, 21:37
by petercordia
vt wrote:They're merely arches.

Well thanks for telling me.
Maybe this vault should be redesigned :shock:

Re: how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Monday, 27th July 2020, 01:31
by andrew
Do people like arches? I can see the argument that, when present, they make it harder to find timed portals, which might be desirable. But they're essentially just a mimic that only fools magic mapping, which strikes me as a weird effect.

Re: how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Monday, 27th July 2020, 04:31
by chequers
Arches are useful features to represent things like "there was a portal here, but it's gone now" and as flavour. Perhaps they shouldn't show up with magic mapping.

I submitted a pull request to fill in the middle of this vault. It's a vestigial location from back when cTele existed, I think.

Re: how to access hidden shops

PostPosted: Monday, 27th July 2020, 04:32
by andrew
I guess as ex-portals they make sense.