On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:09:00PM +0300, Vsevolod Kozlov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:13:46AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Is anyone against just making the Abyss, Pan and so on regular branches
> > code-wise? It would stop bugs like this, make it easier to save multiple
> > levels (stacked troves, etc), and let us have sane depths in Ziggurats
> > (currently duplicated in Lua, badly).
>
> We have discussed this on IRC previously, and we haven't been able to reach
> consensus regarding how to do branches for portal vaults. The idea that I
> liked
> was introducing the ability to create branches dynamically, but that sounds
> like
> a lot of work, too.
Portal vaults are such dynamic branches already.
This sometimes works well (1 level vaults) and sometimes fails spectacularly
(Ziggurats).
> Also, bugs like this one could also be resolved by setting you.where_are_you
> to
> something like NUM_BRANCHES when setting level_type to non-LEVEL_DUNGEON.
Except you still won't be able to have more than one level per level_type,
as that's hard-coded in a number of places. That's the core problem here.
> It's also questionable whether having special cases for branches is actually
> better than having special cases for different level_types, and many special
> cases (for example, those related to monster generation) wouldn't go away
> easily.
Of course, they would still be special, it won't get rid of all special
caseing -- just some.
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