"TNN17" said:
Having checked thoroughly on everything, Player Bars cannot be *subtracted* from creature bars, making any attempt to make armour "count" towards this damage impossible.

"notes.txt" said:
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"Narvius" said:
Keep two armor bars for the player, one negated.

"TNN17" said:
You cannot subtract because you cannot have Bar -X, as there is no "-X" bar

"TNN17" said:
I've also redone excess bar corrections. Now, rather than having checks that Health etc are over 150%...

"TNN17" said:

Question for people:

"TNN17" said:
...can I just use the existing polygons or would I have to make some?

"TNN17" said:
If you have any preferences to graphics standards (stick with a simple icon/symbol interface?) now's the time to let me know, rather than after I start on the forty-odd psionic-specific items.

"Narvius" said:
You might use that background for categorisation (attack, support, whatever), or possibly a hint what combinations are possible (I don't exactly know how that would be possible), or how many tokens were used to build it. If any of this metadata would be included (which could be achieved by coloration, edge shape or texture, and so on), the player'd have to figure it out by himself, of course.

"TNN17" said:
How interested would you be in a "safety catch" for selected items? I could easily take out Pebbles, Fists, Pummel and other "low tier" items with a single universal letter command in the inventory if people wanted, though I'd not do so for every weapon.

"Narvius" said:
You might use that background for categorisation (attack, support, whatever), or possibly a hint what combinations are possible (I don't exactly know how that would be possible), or how many tokens were used to build it. If any of this metadata would be included (which could be achieved by coloration, edge shape or texture, and so on), the player'd have to figure it out by himself, of course.

"Narvius" said:
I wonder whether you'll break the engine with too much stuff.

"TNN17" said:
... "E"mergency armour.

"TNN17" said:
Oh yes? Blast, you're probably right. Guess it'll be "M"ister Gency's Armour then.

"TNN17" said:
Some people are never happy eh?
How about.... Mister "G"ency's Armour? I'm not forgetting any hard-coded G-key there am I?

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"TNN17" said:
Exactly as you said - At a pole, travelling further north will.... Actually deposit you elsewhere on the northern-most part of the map, just as does travelling "north" in any sphere, you go far enough, you end up going south.

To actually achieve this, on a 3x3 grid, you'd actually have to make it a 5x5 grid.
ovvvo
>xxx<
>xxx<
>xxx<
o^^^o

o = no map.
v/>/^/< = switch map, populated by no-random object, teleport to one of the x maps.
x = regular areas.

But it's still much easier this way than the traditionally recommended "kazillion plot object" method.

"TNN17" said:
... if you stay inside the inventory screen and equip, dequip, equip etc, you will amass an ever increasing amount of accuracy ...

"TNN17" said:
Since the maximum for a damage stat is higher than will be possible through legal play, the only way there will be issues is if the player tries to abuse the system.

"TNN17" said:
I may be able to tweak this same formula to create a shield (I will not be handling armour this way, it requires one token per armour type) that adds to armour, rather than replacing it...

"Venom31" said:
Why does the engine make this sort of computations so ugly...