WE have this on my mud. make a cast_a_spell() function, so that you wrap all the casts. TAR_OFFENSIVE is a must.
Warning, this really unbalanced the mud.. it was a shock how much ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tom Whiting'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Mallek'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:24 PM Subject: RE: Multi Casting for magic users (need some help please) > I would definitely target this type of thing strictly to TAR_OFFENSIVE > spells. > > There's no need for this to affect objects at all, because objects use a > different method of casting spells. > > I would, personally, go into do_cast near the bottom where something like > this exists: > > (*skill_table[sn].spell_fun) ( sn, level, ch, vo,target); > check_improve(ch,sn,TRUE,1); > > Then add below it: > > if (skill_table[sn].target == TAR_CHAR_OFFENSIVE){ > if (check_for_double_cast_is_true) { > (*skill_table[sn].spell_fun) ( sn, level, ch, vo,target); > check_improve(ch,sn,TRUE,1); > > if (check_for_triple_cast_is_true) { > (*skill_table[sn].spell_fun) (sn, level, vo,target); > check_improve(ch,sn,TRUE,1); > } > } > } > > This will limit the spells to offensive, and ones that are actually executed > with the cast command. > Now, as Tom did mention, some spells you don't want to cast twice or more > (blindess). > > I would simply add an integer to the skill_table struct called 'mult_cast'. > then set it to 1 on all the offensive spells that can be cast more than > once. > > then change the above test to: > > if (skill_table[sn].target == TAR_CHAR_OFFENSIVE){ > if (check_for_double_cast_is_true && skill_table[sn].mult_cast) { > (*skill_table[sn].spell_fun) ( sn, level, ch, vo,target); > check_improve(ch,sn,TRUE,1); > > if (check_for_triple_cast_is_true) { > (*skill_table[sn].spell_fun) (sn, level, vo,target); > check_improve(ch,sn,TRUE,1); > } > } > } > > > How to do the check for double and triple cast? Could be a skill, could be > level based. > Up to you. > > Good luck- > > Jason > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tom Whiting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:55 AM > > To: 'Mallek'; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Multi Casting for magic users (need some help please) > > > > > > >>Ok Heres what i'm trying to do. I want to make it so that > > magic users > > spells have a chance of doing a second and third hit. > > > > Sounds like an excellent idea, in theory. > > However, you will have to think this through just a little > > bit more... > > > > One of the reasons being is because of spells like poison, etc... Many > > of your spells like this have an if check in them that won't let it be > > cast twice on the individual. Now, you could go through and > > change that, > > but it's often not good to have 2x Plague and the like. In > > fact, having > > two of any spell (be it beneficial or not) isn't always a good thing. > > > > Another thing to consider is this: > > There's many wands/staves/pills in the game that contain > > spells in them. > > Granted, most of the nasty stuff is in staves/wands, but they all > > contain spells, and some more than one of them. There's the strong > > possibility that they won't like that, or that the > > staff/wand/pill will > > suddenly become too powerful, causing more unballance inside of your > > game. > > > > A third thing to consider: > > Will this just be attack spells? If so, then great, that's > > even better. > > However, if not, then you should consider it. While some beneficial > > skills/spells have the recursive "$n is already affected by > > spell", some > > don't.. In addition, do you really want mages walking aroudn > > with double > > or tripple sanc? Would really throw off your fight routines. > > > > My suggestion: > > Create a new TAR_xxx case. Call it tar_attack, or whatever.. Move the > > attacking spells into that.. While MOST of these will already be in > > tar_char_offensive, I don't believe that all of the skills in > > this group > > are best suited for that. > > Modify the new TAR_xxx case to handle the casting, not once > > but two (or > > three) times.. That'll take a little bit of work, but I think it's > > probably for the better. > > Move the spells that you want to be cast two or three times into said > > new TAR_xxx case. > > > > Of course, that's a lot of work to do, but, so is modifying > > any mud. If > > it works, then great, if not, then, well, keep trying at it, untill it > > does. Good luck. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > TJW: Head tech, Dreamless Realms Mud > > Personal: http://twhiting.kyndig.com > > Mud: http://drealms.kyndig.com > > Snippets http://drealms.kyndig.com/snippets > > Telnet telnet://drealms.kyndig.com:9275 > > The OLC2 Pages http://olc.kyndig.com > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > > > This is because I > > have uped the number of attacks done by other class skills such at > > circle to > > go off of second/third/fourth attack etc... I actually think > > I know how > > to > > write the skill (pretty much copy all the instances of second attack > > leaving > > out most of the parts in fight.c) however i will need to write 2 new > > functions to process this. The best way to ask for help i > > think was to > > snippet up what i have done so far. and ask if anyone could help me > > where I > > am falling short. > > > > A problem that I forsee is the fact that spells don't have gsn's so am > > stuck > > having to make a gsn for every spell i have or is there a > > better way to > > do > > this. Again thanks in advance for your help > > > > Mallek > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > >
