Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon


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Post Sunday, 30th November 2014, 14:44

Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon

Pretty self explanatory. Don't let the player read a scroll of curse weapon when it would be useless, if they have it identified. The game already does this with blinking and stasis, so I don't think its unreasonable.

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Post Monday, 1st December 2014, 16:10

Re: Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon

I guess it kind of goes without saying that this should also apply to curse armour and jewelry.
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Post Monday, 1st December 2014, 16:14

Re: Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon

IMHO, idiot-proofing patches are always welcome.
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Post Tuesday, 2nd December 2014, 20:48

Re: Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon

XuaXua wrote:IMHO, idiot-proofing patches are always welcome.

as someone who has problems with baby-proof doors, I agree.
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Post Wednesday, 3rd December 2014, 06:58

Re: Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon

Curse Armour and Curse Jewellery already prevent casting when there are no cursables, so only Curse Weapon needs to be fixed. It wouldn't be quite the same implementation, though, since those two have item-selection menus where Curse Weapon does not.

IMO the inconsistency with the other two curse scrolls justifies calling this a bug and posting it on Mantis.

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Post Wednesday, 3rd December 2014, 13:13

Re: Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon

Problems with curse scrolls have been grandfathered in from when curse scrolls were a thing that could happen to someone who doesn't worship ash. As this is no longer the case, I see no reason why scrolls of cursing shouldn't be able to effect any item of their type, even ones not equipped, as long as that item is not already cursed. I also see no reason why they shouldn't be cancelable, like identify when it is identified. I also see no reason why curse weapon, and only curse weapon, should be wasteable.
However, I am not willing to go through the effort of posting it to mantis. *shrugs*

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Post Thursday, 4th December 2014, 15:44

Re: Don't let players waste scrolls of curse weapon

It's not very much effort to post something to mantis, you know.

Moot now in any case; I ended up handling this when I rewrote the scroll-reading code just now. You should be good to go.

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