Re: legends Statuses

From: phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)

Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article 93K@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de, lache@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Stefan Lache) writes:
> Dean Johnson (phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk) wrote in article
> <1995Jun2.121649.7998@leeds.ac.uk>:
>
> : I suspect that Enchanted and Netherworl will just overwrite each other.
>
> I very much doubt that.  If I recall correctly, there are four kinds of
> Legends-statuses (undead, lycantrophic, religious and "other"), any status
> has a power rating in all four categories, and overwriting is a matter of
> the strength of the statuses in the category corresponding to the new status.
>

What you say is true and well defined for ROI.  I'm not so sure for
NIC.

> Enchanted and Netherworld both belong to "other".  So only one of them
> should be the stronger one and be able to overwrite the other one.
> I have no idea which one is stronger (this may even differ between different
> games) and what happens if two statuses of the same power level collide.
>

In our recent Greater Weretiger affliction round we were finding that
it afflicted over just about everything (one status resisted it) and I
talking 4th rung religous statuses.  This lead me to believe that the
well ordered staus strength/type arrangement that is implemented in ROI,
is either missing or seriously NOT working in NIC.

> I would really advise you to carry the problem over to the Legends mailing
> list.  Edi Birsan is usually quite active in answering this kind of question.
>

This is probably the best way to get the REAl answer.

> BTW, if you find that the status you want to overwrite is too strong, you
> can always try to overwrite it first with something strong but easily
> removable: an undead or lycantrophic status.
>

Lots of wasted spell points though.  Removing undead can kill the character.
Be careful.

Dean

References

Re: legends Statuses
lache@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Stefan Lache)
Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000