Joshua Wilson wrote: > Mark Wedel wrote: > > Having the same logic for bolt spells doesn't seem unreasonable - if > > a bolt only hits 50% of the creature, it only does 50% of the > > damage. > > This is awfully dangerous sounding - given a bolt spell can NOT hit > 100% of any monster other then a 1xX monster we will end up nuking > bolt spells if we are not careful here.
Of course, we should not blindly scale down by monster area. Since a bolt spell naturally hits only in one dimension, we should scale down by monster "diameter". The adjustment Mark Wedel suggested above should be (IMHO): scale down by the maximum number of tiles you could hit. This number depends on the bolt direction, so four values are necessary. For rectangular monsters this would reduce to: - horizontal bolt: scale down by width - vertical bolt: scale down by height - diagonal bolt: scale down by MIN(width, height) To reduce necessary calculations, we could add five new fields to the archetype type: scale factors for area spells and for bolt spells in all four directions. These fields would be calculated only once at archetype load time. (Unlike to the code I just committed which calculates the value each time it is accessed.) _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
