ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Thorondor wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:56 pm you asked something about rods; - need to ID both components to attach as far as I can see.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:56 pm haven't booted up the old 2.35 to check RE dragon armour activation; - I've a feeling that you needed to *ID* to confirm resistance to elements but the way you've got it (i.e. obviously a red dragon armour resists fire) seems sensible

Thorondor wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:56 pm just had an error in beastmaster shop:

error = "Game version: tome2-0.7.8\
Addons: gond_book-0.3.0, gervais_tiles-0.5.2, town_neutral-0.3.0\
\
Lua Error: /loader/init.lua:156: Error while loading base '/mod/dialogs/BeastmasterResearch.lua':\
/mod/dialogs/BeastmasterResearch.lua:116: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 109) near 'list'\

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:37 pm just completed library quest in Minas Anor. once it's done you have to complete the spellbook there / then. In original 2.35 there was an option to delay certain quest rewards to be acquired at a later date. Is this feasible for a future release (non-urgent)
Cheers

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:37 pm Just noticed something slightly odd; - you can buy rings of levitation in the magic shop but I can't sell one.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:37 pm Edit 2: just tried light activation rand-art - says it's not implemented yet.

• While you're driving your puppet, your original body will take no actions. If your puppet dies, you'll be returned to your original body; if your original body dies, you're dead.
• Your options while puppeting are limited; you can attack other monsters with melee attacks or with the puppeted creature's talents, and you can pick up or drop objects, but you can't wield/wear them (and NPCs don't wear anything for you to take off). You also can't leave the level or open or close doors.
• In addition to the puppeted creature's usual talents, you'll also have a Release Control talent, which is how you return to your original body. You will be offered the choice to release or destroy your puppeted body:
  • Releasing the puppeted creature will (if I've done this right) restore it to its original hostility — although fire golems are friendly, so it'll basically net you a pet.
  • Destroying the puppeted creature might seem like an easy way to take out tough opponents, but higher-level targets have a greater chance of resisting, and uniques are immune. Also, you get no XP for the kill.

• Give the Minas Anor Library quest the option to come back for your quest reward later, as we do with the Lothlorien fireproofing quest.
• Implement light absorption junkarts. And AFAICT that was the last unimplemented junkart power.
• How on earth did I not have shortcut keys on the use-item dialog, after having gone to the effort of writing an addon to add them to T4?
• Not a visible feature, but I've done some internal structural rearrangement in an attempt to prevent the kind of persistent object-related bugs that happen when a method defined in the object template has a bug, like the potion-shattering problem that Thorondor kept running into even after it was officially fixed. In the new system, any object method that's even remotely complicated is defined in a separate global table and called from stub methods in the object template — which means that if we fix a bug in the external method, all current objects in existing games, in the player inventory or in stores, will effectively get the fix retroactively.
• We now implement the NPC Teleport To spell. ([Scorpion voice:] "Get over here!" ) And unlike original T2, this should also work for one NPC against another NPC.

• I don't think I was doing reflection quite right. The reflected bolt is supposed to hit a location within radius 1 of the source (I think I was centering on target ) in line of sight of the target, and reflection isn't supposed to happen if source and target are adjacent (presumably so that the ricochet doesn't accidentally hit the target).
• I think I've finally figured out why we kept getting duplicate artifacts: the game doesn't register an artifact as created until it's officially "added" to the zone you're in, and in most of the places where we were creating objects, we weren't doing that. I think I've caught everywhere I need to patch that up.
• Small fix to a few object types that weren't properly handling the "don't show mods" flag to :getName(). So, for instance, in the list of princess quest rewards, a Mace will show up as "Mace" instead of "Mace (2d4)", as intended, but Arrows were showing up as "Arrows (1d4)" instead of "Arrows".
• The Rangers' Guild in Lothlorien and Minas Anor and the Golden Flower in Gondolin were screwing up trying to find arrows they could enchant for you. As a small bonus, we extend the enchant-arrows functionality slightly to cover arrows in both your quiver and your inventory at once (all the other bow/weapon/armor enchanting in stores will only enchant what you're currently wielding/wearing, as per baseline T2 behavior).
• Alchemists' Detatch Rod Tip power apparently wasn't cleaning up sufficiently behind itself; I think you would still have been able to use the rod afterward as though the tip were still attached (that or it would have choked trying…).
• By executive decree, I'm declaring that rod tips and rods with attached rod tips will describe their activation when they're just ID'd; everything else now requires a full *ID*.
• Traps of Silent Switching were something of a mess. They seem to be working now. We Apologize for the Inconvenience.™
• And speaking of traps, apparently I implemented vault generation before I had implemented traps, because there were several notes in the vault generation code to the effect of "TODO place trap here". You are checking for traps before entering vaults, yes?
• Assorted fixes to the Beastmaster Shanty's monster research option.
• Caught a few more object activations that weren't defining damage types properly, notably Potions of Blindness, Booze and Poison.
• Spells whose school skills are made accessible by Sorcery are supposed to be uncastable while blind or confused, unless the spell is specifically flagged otherwise. Some spells, however, have multiple school skills (Thunderstorm, for instance, is Air/Nature), and I was screwing up the check in that case.
• T2 requires both rod and rod tip to be ID'd before attaching the one to the other; we were covering the latter, but not the former.
• Turns out we need to be giving the AI quite a bit more help in the talent definition than we have been so far — notably, a .target() method to tell the AI how to choose a target. Honestly, I'm surprised this was actually working. [In my defense, the NPC talents code is some of the oldest in the module… ] I'm not entirely sure I'm getting this right, so be sure to report any unusual behavior.
• Temporary effects weren't being handled for NPCs quite as well as I'd hoped. In particular, I'm not sure the NPC spell Haste Self would actually have had any effect. On the other hand, I'm worried that other temporary effects might be a bit too player-specific in their implementations (although I have mostly convinced myself that most of those come from using objects or talents, which you can't do while puppeting). Basically, as above, let me know if anything looks weird.
• Small tweak to make sure Smeagol's Ring of Invisibility doesn't get promoted to a randart or an artifact.

• Artifacts appearing multiple times (which we hope we've fixed with this release).
• Randarts reporting *ID*'d info when just ID'd? Maybe some sloppiness in Object:getDesc(). (Think we've got this one too.)
• Ring of Stupidity appearing in store stock.

• Alchemic Arcanorum (current release 1.0.0): Starts Alchemist characters with an Alchemic Arcanorum object from my old ToME:Arcanorum T2 module, which can be used to store and extract essences.
• Gender Parity (current release 1.0.1): Modifies assorted NPCs that don't particularly have to be male or female so that they can be either randomly.
• Go to Landmark (current release 1.0.1): A quickie port of my T4 addon of the same name; allows you to auto-travel to various landmarks like stores or up/down stairs via the "Show known landmarks" action on the <Esc> menu.
• Neutral Townsfolk (current release 1.0.0): As requested by Thorondor. Modifies a few of the more harmless town denizens into the "Neutral" faction so they don't pester you.
• ZAngband Monsters (current release 1.0.1): Adds ZAngband monsters (hence the name). Untested.
• Gondolin Book Store (current release 1.0.0): Also as requested by Thorondor. Adds a book store to Gondolin (hence the name…).
• Gervais Tiles for ToME Classic (current release 1.0.1): Repurposes David Gervais' TomeTik tiles (reused here pursuant to the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license) for use with our T2 module.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:24 am One character on previous version is doing well, almost at the bottom of moria so will continue to see how far I can get it, in parallel with new version.
Updates from newer version might be a bit slower.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:24 am From a gameplay perspective dungeon towns sound interesting though not easy.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:24 am One thing I did wonder is whether there's an easy way of borrowing the graphics for the character equipment page? Purely for cosmetic and not worth lots of time investment but would be cool!

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:24 am Incidentally there's a vault I'm near to in moria that's surrounded 100% by permanent wall or mountain chain. Let me know if you need a screenshot

Zizzo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:59 pm

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:24 am Incidentally there's a vault I'm near to in moria that's surrounded 100% by permanent wall or mountain chain. Let me know if you need a screenshot

Mm, I think I've had problems in that direction before. Yes, a screenshot would probably help, thanks.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:22 am in DG's main game when it comes to equipping e.g. a hat or a sword, you drag it to being over a representation of your character and drop it onto a box. No gameplay effect whatsover, just looks nice to be able to 'see' your character.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:22 am sorry, can't seem to attach an image. I think this is the vault layout, with ^ = void jump gate. the permanent walls on the left have all been replaced by mountain chain. (each chamber is 5x4 squares, - they don't line up exactly when displayed on forum).
I don't have climbing gear so mountain chains are impassable.

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#.....#^....#....^#.......#
#.....#.....#.....#.......#
#####################

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Thorondor wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:22 am a cursed amulet of nothing is flagged as "excellent" when I looked on automiser.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:02 pm Have attempted a character in 0.80
unfortunately it repeatedly crashed early in the Bree house quest, game just freezes.
Have extracted something from the error log
[…]
ame version: tome2-0.8.0
Addons: gond_book-0.3.0, gervais_tiles-0.5.2, town_neutral-0.3.0

Lua Error: /mod/class/Actor.lua attempt to index global 'level' (a nil value)
[…]

• Stupid typo in the previous release's changes to checking whether the player is blind and thus cannot cast spells.
• Missed a spot switching Object.resolve_flags{} over to Object:setResolveFlags().

• Artifacts appearing multiple times (which we hope we fixed in v0.8.0).
• Randarts reporting *ID*'d info when just ID'd? Maybe some sloppiness in Object:getDesc(). (Which we also hope we fixed in v0.8.0.)
• Ring of Stupidity appearing in store stock.

• Nothing player-visible, but in the debug dialog for changing zones, I've reproduced the feature from the T4 module's equivalent dialog that you can type a letter to skip ahead to the next zone in the list whose name starts with that letter. Has been useful in testing recently.

• Alchemic Arcanorum (current release 1.0.0): Starts Alchemist characters with an Alchemic Arcanorum object from my old ToME:Arcanorum T2 module, which can be used to store and extract essences.
• Gender Parity (current release 1.0.1): Modifies assorted NPCs that don't particularly have to be male or female so that they can be either randomly.
• Go to Landmark (current release 1.0.1): A quickie port of my T4 addon of the same name; allows you to auto-travel to various landmarks like stores or up/down stairs via the "Show known landmarks" action on the <Esc> menu.
• Neutral Townsfolk (current release 1.0.0): As requested by Thorondor. Modifies a few of the more harmless town denizens into the "Neutral" faction so they don't pester you.
• ZAngband Monsters (current release 1.0.1): Adds ZAngband monsters (hence the name). Untested.
• Gondolin Book Store (current release 1.0.0): Also as requested by Thorondor. Adds a book store to Gondolin (hence the name…).
• Gervais Tiles for ToME Classic (current release 1.0.1): Repurposes David Gervais' TomeTik tiles (reused here pursuant to the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license) for use with our T2 module.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm the spell recovery does restore hitpoints but doesn't seem to restore life levels. Spell level = 30 so should be sufficient.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm when I met a Q: "The draconic quylthulg tries to cast summon dragon but fails" - however it successfully summons a dragon each time!

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm holy fire doesn't do additional damage to evil creatures; - this would be nice to sort if feasible as it's something mages use a lot.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm noxious cloud is meant to be a choking gas that harms all living creatures however a few creatures seem to resist it - i think it was some sort of troll though apologies I didn't take a note of which one; - that might be the correct implementation but i don't remember 2.35 working in that way

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm Are all non-squishy golems reflective of bolts / spells now? - again may have been original T2 behaviour just I don't remember it being that way.

• Colbran
• Mithril golem
• Cherub
• Eog golem
• Colossus
• Crystal drake
• Seraph
• Great crystal drake
• Fallen angel
• Eöl, the Dark Elf
• Archon
• Iron lich
• Smaug the Golden
• Knight Templar
• Uriel, Angel of Fire
• Azriel, Angel of Death
• Gabriel, the Messenger
• Saruman of Many Colors
• Maeglin, the Traitor of Gondolin
• Great Wyrm of Power
• Sarko, rider of gold Foronth
• Sauron, the Sorcerer
• Gandalf the Grey
• The Sandworm Queen
• Various spirits that I think can only appear in the Void.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm on 0.78 casting identify spell whilst inventory displayed caused a significant crash - game locked

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm also 0.78, - how do you bind something to spellbinder? - nothing seems to happen.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:34 pm one nasty crash - game froze on going down stairs:

• Yet Another Stupid Typo™ in Player:restoreExp() that probably have prevented any restore-experience effect from working.
• Multiple errors in the Spellbinder spell's setup dialog.
• Also, the Spellbinder effect that we use to store info about your bound spells is suposed to, y'know, describe which spells you've got bound.
• Stupid typo in NPC summon talents that caused them to use the "failed" message whether or not the summon succeeded.
• Typos in the 'target vault' room definition.
• Copy/paste error in 0.8.0's implementation of the NPC Teleport To spell, that basically broke all teleportation for everyone…

• Artifacts appearing multiple times (which we hope we fixed in v0.8.0).
• Randarts reporting *ID*'d info when just ID'd? Maybe some sloppiness in Object:getDesc(). (Which we also hope we fixed in v0.8.0.)
• Ring of Stupidity appearing in store stock.
• Hard lockup when Identifying?

• Alchemic Arcanorum (current release 1.0.0): Starts Alchemist characters with an Alchemic Arcanorum object from my old ToME:Arcanorum T2 module, which can be used to store and extract essences.
• Gender Parity (current release 1.0.1): Modifies assorted NPCs that don't particularly have to be male or female so that they can be either randomly.
• Go to Landmark (current release 1.0.1): A quickie port of my T4 addon of the same name; allows you to auto-travel to various landmarks like stores or up/down stairs via the "Show known landmarks" action on the <Esc> menu.
• Neutral Townsfolk (current release 1.0.0): As requested by Thorondor. Modifies a few of the more harmless town denizens into the "Neutral" faction so they don't pester you.
• ZAngband Monsters (current release 1.0.1): Adds ZAngband monsters (hence the name). Untested.
• Gondolin Book Store (current release 1.0.0): Also as requested by Thorondor. Adds a book store to Gondolin (hence the name…).
• Gervais Tiles for ToME Classic (current release 1.0.1): Repurposes David Gervais' TomeTik tiles (reused here pursuant to the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license) for use with our T2 module.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm the 0.78 (0.79) character died on last but one level of moria; - hadn't got round to spellbinding properly and paid the price; oh well.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm A couple of things that are odd; - one princess room was generated deep in the forest on barrow downs, no way to get to the vault.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm Also a wierd thing happened with a summoned elemental; - it kept killing a large kobold but the kobold reappeared a few times. Strange. Will monitor.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm Anyway a couple of error reports are below; - one of the themes is that scrolls of lore don't seem to be working properly

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm tried a fire golem; - managed to summon it and release it; there's one error below, when it is released it doesn't follow the caster; - i think in 2.3x the golem follows the caster around after it's released in the same manner as a summoned elemental does.

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm is it possible for some sort of icon for elemental wave (Geomancy)

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm Lua Error: /mod/class/Actor.lua attempt to index local 'attacker' (a nil value)\
At [C]:-1 __index\
At /mod/class/Actor.lua:1661 onHitInMelee\
[…]

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm Lua Error: /mod/class/Object.lua attempt to index a nil value\
At [C]:-1 __index\
At /mod/class/Object.lua:1600 getFlavorText\

Thorondor wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm Lua Error: /mod/class/Player.lua /data/general/objects/bases.lua:104: attempt to call field 'use_simple' (a nil value)\
At [C]:-1 \
At [C]:-1 error\
At /mod/class/Player.lua:1713 playerUseItem\

• Misnamed talent icon for Elemental Wave. We Apologize for the Inconvenience.™
• Typo in the code that handles "retaliatory" damage, like the fire damage you take when you hit a Fire elemental in melee.
• Misnamed the function for handling parchments. And the beauty of all that internal structural work I did for objects back in 0.8.0 is that because the typo wasn't in the stub function that lives on the object itself, all the parchments that already exist in your game should be fixed by this change.
• Small bug in the tooltip description of NPC breath talents. Which might not have been a problem, except that Fire golems can breathe fire.
• Among all the internal juggling needed to transform a player-puppeted NPC back to a regular NPC, I missed a case: if the NPC wasn't a companion or otherwise in the player's "party", but is in the "pets" faction, we need to re-leash it to the player like other pets.
• Another wrinkle I missed: when you save and reload a character, the game updates the player's image and ASCII display based on race and class — which we don't want to happen if we're puppeting some NPC.
• If we're fated to find a mundane object like a Potion of Heroism, the fate description should specify the object by its identified name instead of describing it as, say, "an Orange Potion" — not least because we may not have decided yet what color a Potion of Heroism actually is…

• Ring of Stupidity appearing in store stock.

• Alchemic Arcanorum (current release 1.0.0): Starts Alchemist characters with an Alchemic Arcanorum object from my old ToME:Arcanorum T2 module, which can be used to store and extract essences.
• Gender Parity (current release 1.0.1): Modifies assorted NPCs that don't particularly have to be male or female so that they can be either randomly.
• Go to Landmark (current release 1.0.1): A quickie port of my T4 addon of the same name; allows you to auto-travel to various landmarks like stores or up/down stairs via the "Show known landmarks" action on the <Esc> menu.
• Neutral Townsfolk (current release 1.0.0): As requested by Thorondor. Modifies a few of the more harmless town denizens into the "Neutral" faction so they don't pester you.
• ZAngband Monsters (current release 1.0.1): Adds ZAngband monsters (hence the name). Untested.
• Gondolin Book Store (current release 1.0.0): Also as requested by Thorondor. Adds a book store to Gondolin (hence the name…).
• Gervais Tiles for ToME Classic (current release 1.0.1): Repurposes David Gervais' TomeTik tiles (reused here pursuant to the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license) for use with our T2 module.