Conflicting Rules

[Hopeless]

pressing 'o' or 'shift arrow' will not move you towards a ballystomcyte because its a monster!!! But you can't target one with a spell (unless you use an extra 5 or so keypresses) because its NOT!!! a monster??? Anyone else find this contradictory and absurd?

[Patashu]

solution: remove ballystomcytes except if you're fedhas and make them because they're a dumb enemy that haven't threatened anyone in several years

[Sar]

Not sure if a counterpoint:

[KittenInMyCerealz]

Ballistomycetes create interesting scenarios especially when Uniques have spawned on the same level.

There is no reason for not being able to autotarget them with spells though.

[skjarl]

I just wish I could take out those damned spores with blowguns. :'( It doesn't work, though.

[XuaXua]

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=7355

[Hopeless]

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=7355

Wow almost a year old and nothing lol. I guess it was considered to be a non-issue?

[reaver]

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=7355

Wow almost a year old and nothing lol. I guess it was considered to be a non-issue?

Generally if nobody handles something on mantis in a way with a clear resolution - such as fixing the bug or stating a change won't be done - the issue just stays open indefinitely. There are hundreds of open mantis issues, some of which have been open for several years.

[Lasty]

The only reason I ever have trouble with spores is that for some reason I have trouble seeing any of the asterisk characters in terminal as monsters. Usually they just make me throw something and then attack firewood for a while.

Yes, that is a big problem for me when there are orbs of fire around. I should probably re-glyph them.

[XuaXua]

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=7355

Wow almost a year old and nothing lol. I guess it was considered to be a non-issue?

Generally if nobody handles something on mantis in a way with a clear resolution - such as fixing the bug or stating a change won't be done - the issue just stays open indefinitely. There are hundreds of open mantis issues, some of which have been open for several years.

Whenever I have one open that reflects a complaint in a current Tavern thread, I tend to post a link to it; I think others should do this as well, but I suspect the intersection of Mantis submitters and Tavern users is smaller than one might expect it to be.

[tasonir]

Whenever I have one open that reflects a complaint in a current Tavern thread, I tend to post a link to it; I think others should do this as well, but I suspect the intersection of Mantis submitters and Tavern users is smaller than one might expect it to be.

I tend to avoid the dev wiki/mantis because my ideas are generally terrible, yet come to the forum to suggest them and find out why they're terrible, so yes, you're right xuaxua.

[crate]

mantis is for bug reports, not feature requests

[Sar]

Isn't mantis also a place for community-submitted patches?

[Hopeless]

mantis is for bug reports, not feature requests

Is requesting some logical resolution to this asking for a feature? Or is it a suggestion that there may be a bug in the implementation?

[duvessa]

He might have been talking to one of the eight other people that posted in the thread after you made it. In fact, I believe he was probably talking to one of the people who mentioned Mantis.

[Arrhythmia]

mantis is for bug reports, not feature requests

Is requesting some logical resolution to this asking for a feature? Or is it a suggestion that there may be a bug in the implementation?

To actually answer your question, instead of being a snide asshole, requesting a resolution to this wouldn't be a feature request. In general, if you're in doubt, just put it up on Mantis anyways; the worst thing that'll happen is someone might make fun of you a little.

[XuaXua]

My interpretation was that crate's post was a response to tasonir's comment about tasonir not wanting to post his ideas to Mantis but to Tavern first, and in that sense, crate was correct; don't post new concepts to Mantis.

My link to Mantis is to something that I view as a bug with the existing system that needs to be logged, and while it may require some coding or decision making to resolve, that Mantis entry is a low priority bug, not a feature request.

[tasonir]

mantis is for bug reports, not feature requests

I'm aware - I also post bug reports on the forums because I only use the forums. As an example: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11832

I suppose you could call "better messaging" a feature, but I'd consider that a bug.

I'm not going to dig it way up from 2010, but when my character died due to a bug with melding +fly items cancelling the spell of flight, I also reported it on the forums, had someone else confirm it was a bug, and the bug got fixed fairly soon after that. I'm not sure if the visibility on the forums had an effect on that or not, but I tell myself it did. It was already known beforehand, in any case.