FR: Keep the Draconian breath weapon hotkey constant

[milski]

If you're playing a Draconian and find an evokable item before you hit level 7, your breath weapon will not assigned to the hotkey used if you don't have anything to evoke (f). This is a mild annoyance for Draconians, since in almost any run you're going to want to use your breath weapon, while you rarely care about that ring of flying you left on just because. If Draconians had a default breath weapon hotkey that evokables wouldn't overwrite (without using "=,a"), this annoyance would go away.

[jejorda2]

Maybe L1 draconian should have a placeholder breath weapon? Like maybe a roar that makes the same damage as shout, then gets replaced when the color is revealed? Or breath that can do nothing but wake up sleeping monsters at range, like throwing stones without needing to find stones, but with a breath timeout? Or even that with a limited range?

[archaeo]

I'm 99% sure there's a way to get your .rc file to automatically assign hotkeys for any given ability or spell. Part of me wishes the game just did this by default, but it's probably more flexible this way.

[duvessa]

The problem with doing that by default is that there are more abilities than available hotkeys, and not all hotkeys are convenient.

[wheals]

I'm 99% sure there's a way to get your .rc file to automatically assign hotkeys for any given ability or spell. Part of me wishes the game just did this by default, but it's probably more flexible this way.

There was a patch for this for abilities (for spells, it's been around for quite a long while), but it's currently stuck in development hell.

[archaeo]

The problem with doing that by default is that there are more abilities than available hotkeys, and not all hotkeys are convenient.

But aren't most abilities impossible to have at one time, if not outright mutually exclusive? Like, you could keep berserk, channel, etc. on aa, since any character worshipping Trog won't have to worry about the Sif hotkeys?

It's possible I'm seriously underestimating the number of abilities. It's also possible I'm misunderstanding what the OP meant by "hotkeys."

[Pollen_Golem]

OP means that while evocable equipment, mutation abilities, etc. normally get assigned to (f), (g), (i), (j), and so on, draconians should have (f) reserved exclusively for their natural breath weapon. In other words, do not let (f) get occupied by some evocable ability. Nagas basically have this already because their breath weapon becomes available at level 1.

[chequers]

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/130

[chequers]

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