2011/1/21 David Ploog <dpl...@mi.fu-berlin.de>
> I am a bit late to the party, but let me still say something.
> First, the new behaviour seems to be okay in actual play (feedback on
> IRC), which is awesome. Second, there are limits to how far we _want to_
> (as opposed to _could_) push monster AI.
>
There is still one thing that I'd like to improve with the monster AI. I
hate it when intelligent monsters waste turns trying to poison you over and
over when you are obviously resisting it. This behaviour is perfectly fine
for swamp drakes, but not so much for nagas and draconians. And the recent
change only made it slightly worse. Here is how I propose to fix it:
Whenever foo resists poison (can be an ally), we check all the monsters. If
it is intelligent, has foo as a target and can see it, we set a boolean
(target_resists_poison). Then, when evaluating available attacks, we skip
the poisonous ones (except poison arrow of course) if the boolean is set. I
wouldn't bother with other resists, as poison is the only one that can be
completely resisted.
As a side note, I noticed dragons are only I_ANIMAL. Wouldn't it be more
appropriate for them to be I_NORMAL, at least for the stronger ones (golden
and pearl)?
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