On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, David Ramsey wrote: > Before I get back to Zin, on whom I've admittedly been procrastinating, > I have a few quick thoughts regarding the newly integrated Zot Defense: > > 1. The place displayed for Zot Defense is always Dungeon:1. Shouldn't > it be Zot:5 or at least Zot? (Sprint already displays Dungeon instead > of Dungeon:1.)
Zot would be great. > 2. There's a lot of code that assumes that monsters using the 'P' glyph > are plants, and that monsters that use the 'p' glyph are ghosts. With > this in mind, having oklob saplings use lightgreen 'p' is problematic. > How about moving oklob saplings to cyan 'P', and oklob plants to > lightcyan 'P'? Rationale: Most acid-associated monsters don't seem to > have consistent colors, but cyan contains some green, acid blobs use > lightcyan already, and the scheme keeps the convention of more > threatening monsters' having bright colors. I support that. Back in the day, oklobs were green, so as to camouflage among ordinary plants. It took a lot of time, sweat and threats to give oklobs another colour. At the time, lightgreen was natural, as a "more dangerous" plant (inverted commas because ordinary plants pose zero threat). Looking at it from now, a completely differnt, somehow acidic colour seems even better. > 3. There's currently nothing preventing the new monsters added for Zot > Defense, oklob saplings and burning bushes, from showing up in the > normal game or Sprint. And there's one way they can show up there > already: Xom's monster polymorph can affect plants, and overrides > monsters' magic immunity. Should they eventually be integrated into the > other sub-games (for lack of a better term)? For one thing, since > they're both plants, they could be useful to Fedhas worshippers, or as a > product of Fedhas' wrath. Also, burning bushes might be fitting for the > Volcano. Yes, but I'd suggest to not use any extra monsters in the game. We're nowhere prepared to differentiate and balance them. Let's make sure they only come up in their side games (for the time being). Many thanks for looking into this! David (who also neglected Zin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
