change makhleb's summon servant text

[Osgoodbad]

For Makhleb's summon lesser and greater servant abilities, the flavor text says something to the extent of "summon a lesser servant of Makhleb with a chance of it arriving hostile at low invocations." While gaining several levels of invocations does reduce the likelihood of hostile demons, the possibility never disappears entirely, even at 27 invocations. I propose changing the text to say "summon a lesser demon with a greater chance of it arriving hostile at low invocations."

[and into]

Yes, that would be an improvement. Perhaps something like

"Summon a lesser / greater servant of Makhleb. Higher Invocation skill reduces, but does not eliminate, the chance that the summoned demon will arrive hostile."

is even clearer, though.

[Sar]

  Code:

With your Invocations skill, the chance of hostile servant is 8%.

[Osgoodbad]

  Code:

With your Invocations skill, the chance of hostile servant is 8%.

I like it. That would be much more clear.

[johlstei]

Is it really necessary to have separate "complete failure" chance and "failed to make friendly" chance? Maybe have it always succeed in summoning, and roll the old failure chance and hostile chance together into a new hostile chance, and display that.

If it would have had a 40% chance of successfully summoning a demon and it had a 60% chance to be hostile, it would now always summon a demon and have a 1 - ((1 - 0.4)*(1 - 0.6)) = 0.76 = 76% chance of being hostile. This could then be easily displayed by the ui, and would lead to more hostile demons instead of invocations failures, which is more interesting I think.

[DracheReborn]

Is it really necessary to have separate "complete failure" chance and "failed to make friendly" chance? Maybe have it always succeed in summoning, and roll the old failure chance and hostile chance together into a new hostile chance, and display that.

I like this. So invoking lesser servant either gets you a friendly demon on success, or a hostile one on failure. The third possible outcome (nothing happens) doesn't seem interesting enough to keep.

[Leafsnail]

You could then put the failure chance in red, like with miscasts.