Door opens, door shuts


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Post Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 20:42

Door opens, door shuts

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Post Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 21:09

Re: Door opens, door shuts

'Monster sticks its foot in the door.'

'Monster forces its way through.'

If there is monster in pursuit of you, then you can't close a door adjacent to that monster.
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Post Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 21:30

Re: Door opens, door shuts

Energy randomization stops this, doesn't it? The monster will step into the door sooner or later.
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Post Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 21:51

Re: Door opens, door shuts

Leafsnail wrote:Energy randomization stops this, doesn't it? The monster will step into the door sooner or later.
This is correct.

Opening a door could just take an aut or two less than closing it, perhaps only you opened it a turn or so after it was closed if you want to effect just this one case.
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Post Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 22:42

Re: Door opens, door shuts

This is called 'door dancing', it's basically pillar dancing on the spot except more powerful because it works on ranged enemies just as well as on melee-ers. Energy randomization makes this eventually fail. It's still very powerful.
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Post Wednesday, 23rd April 2014, 02:23

Re: Door opens, door shuts

I've been killed by an allied demonic guardian opening a door that I closed the previous turn, allowing sight for an orc priest to smite me. Units under your control should respect doors (maybe only if they see you close/open it?).
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Post Saturday, 26th April 2014, 19:44

Re: Door opens, door shuts

Doors should not be a defensive element in crawl to this degree

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Post Saturday, 26th April 2014, 21:22

Re: Door opens, door shuts

I don't think player use of the wildly powerful death cloud spells that monsters have no meaningful way to deal with is really germane to the door-dancing issue. One could reasonably argue that the clouds are overpowered, but removing doors from the game would not suddenly change that status quo. More relevant to the issue of door-dancing would be situations where door-dancing provides a miniscule but real advantage, like incremental hp or mp recovery, rather than situations where it clinches a victory that has clearly already been won. Door-dancing some orcs so you can recover mp from 0 to 6 in order to cast a Bolt of Foo and then door-dancing for another 6mp so you can cast it again is undesirable behavior. Stalling for a few turns after you kill everything until the last stragglers realize that they are dead is not so clear.
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Post Saturday, 26th April 2014, 21:32

Re: Door opens, door shuts

KoboldLord wrote:I don't think player use of the wildly powerful death cloud spells that monsters have no meaningful way to deal with is really germane to the door-dancing issue. One could reasonably argue that the clouds are overpowered, but removing doors from the game would not suddenly change that status quo. More relevant to the issue of door-dancing would be situations where door-dancing provides a miniscule but real advantage, like incremental hp or mp recovery, rather than situations where it clinches a victory that has clearly already been won. Door-dancing some orcs so you can recover mp from 0 to 6 in order to cast a Bolt of Foo and then door-dancing for another 6mp so you can cast it again is undesirable behavior. Stalling for a few turns after you kill everything until the last stragglers realize that they are dead is not so clear.


I'm not advocating removal of doors, I just want monsters to be able to enter a door tile the same turn as opening it
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