On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:06:52AM +0200, David Ploog wrote:
> > commit 96e0e3f36a54f5af1ec40fcec51cccad4c927329
> > Author: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thu Mar 24 12:14:47 2011 +0100
> >
> > A quick hack to disable hunger in ZotDef for non-Vp.
> >
> > This solves problems with spriggans being flat-out unable to play, and
> > everyone else unlucky to get a few non-living waves in a row starving
> > with no recourse.
> >
> > You can still eat -- needed by ghouls. Mutagenic chunks can be eaten
> > only by carni/saprovores or via Fulsome, this is one of problems left.
> > Messages and spell description about hunger are another.
> >
> > Does anyone have a better idea before we go to fix such loose ends?
>
> Not sure if it's better, but I'd suggest to keep as many Crawl rules as
> possible
Yeah, while I went with the solution galehar suggested, I have second thoughts.
> and just change the starting gear. Don't worry about Spriggans;
> give everyone a bunch of nutrition (meat/bread rations, potions of
> porridge).
"Everyone" being monsters or players?
The former might work, the latter not really.
> I haven't played ZD in a while, though. Weren't you able to set
> up food shops?
No. You get bazaars, but 1. at an exhorbitant cost (4 levels including
having to acquire gold), 2. very late on.
Lemme quote excerpts from the Mantis entry:
me:
# Our options:
# * disable spriggans
# It'd suck to forbid a race for such a reason.
# * make spriggans Herbi 2 in ZotDef
# Trivial to code, dpeg didn't like that.
# * a Zot ability to create food or fill nutrition
# Would be either too costly early on or trivially cheap later.
# * a Zot ability to convert corpses to vegetable food
# Existing permafood: allows stockpiling, unthematic. New type of perishable
# food: coding needed.
mageykun:
# How hard would it be to just spawn monsters with permafood carried in
# inventory?
galehar:
# The food clock is irrelevant in Zotdef. Game rhythm is dictated be the
# waves of enemies, there is no grinding. How about simply disabling food
# in Zotdef? No hunger, no eating.
So, what would you prefer?
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