Clarify failure to teleport 'right now'


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Post Sunday, 29th June 2014, 14:25

Clarify failure to teleport 'right now'

"You cannot teleport right now." should be disambiguated. For example:
"You cannot teleport right now due to your [name of item, if there's more than one just print any]."
or
"You cannot teleport right now due to your current form." (for treeform etc)
And so on for cannot haste right now, cannot blink right now, etc.
A lot of people die because they should teleport/blink/haste, try to, get this cryptic message and don't know it's because of the amulet of stasis they are wearing. Yes, this really happens, example: !lg magipi place=vaults:5 2

It wouldn't be hard to code this. The only places you need to change are:
ability.cc, _check_ability_possible
item_use.cc, zap_wand and _is_cancellable_scroll
spl-cast.cc, _spellcasting_aborted and your_spells

Since the vampiric weapon wield message got clarified recently, it's time for this one to be clarified too!

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Post Tuesday, 1st July 2014, 15:08

Re: Clarify failure to teleport 'right now'

I like it

very sensible
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Post Tuesday, 1st July 2014, 16:51

Re: Clarify failure to teleport 'right now'

I'd probably push a patch if somebody made it and posted it on mantis, this seems like a good idea.

How would you handle something like a Fo in treeform during a Sprint?
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Post Tuesday, 1st July 2014, 17:07

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reaver wrote:How would you handle something like a Fo in treeform during a Sprint?

In that case, you get a stasis overflow and can teleport normally.
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Post Tuesday, 1st July 2014, 17:16

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reaver wrote:I'd probably push a patch if somebody made it and posted it on mantis, this seems like a good idea.

How would you handle something like a Fo in treeform during a Sprint?


GameType > Racial Mutation > Mutation > God? > Formchange > Status > Equipment ?
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Post Wednesday, 2nd July 2014, 23:53

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bisonbisonbison wrote:
reaver wrote:I'd probably push a patch if somebody made it and posted it on mantis, this seems like a good idea.

How would you handle something like a Fo in treeform during a Sprint?


GameType > Racial Mutation > Mutation > God? > Formchange > Status > Equipment ?


^ Most to least permanent. Hardly matter that you're wearing stasis if, you know, it's sprint and you can never teleport ANYWAY.
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Post Tuesday, 12th August 2014, 03:10

Re: Clarify failure to teleport 'right now'

Bump! This is still necessary.
Here is another death to someone who misunderstood the meaning of 'You cannot teleport right now.':
!lg fearthechris xl=25 1 -tv

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Post Wednesday, 13th August 2014, 09:47

Re: Clarify failure to teleport 'right now'

I created a patch solving this problem, and submitted it on mantis:
https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=8869

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Post Tuesday, 19th August 2014, 01:55

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Hi devs, when is nagdon's patch getting included? :)
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Post Friday, 19th September 2014, 23:30

Re: Clarify failure to teleport 'right now'

Sweet, it got added!
http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... 2ff917b623
Thank you to nagdon and wheals :)

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Post Sunday, 21st September 2014, 17:59

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And it only took a month for your reminder to work, too! :P

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