[Wesnoth-dev] poison resistance

[John McNabb]

All,
        Jetryl has some time ago proposed adding poison resistance, a 
feature he would especially like to have for new Naga units.  Although he 
is not quite ready to animate them, I believe that it is time to 
impliment this feature.  I have poked around in the code and think that 
the following proposed functionality would be pretty straight-forward to 
impliment and will do so if noone objects:

0) resistance will have the usual meaning ie 100% resistance means you
take full damage from poison (currently 8 pts)  

1) units with no explicit poison resistance will be assumed to have 100%.  

2) the resistance will be applied at the time of damage taking, not at the
time of poisoning.  Thus, if a unit who is already poisoned has its
resistances changed for some reason, the amount of damage he takes from
that poison will change. 

3) a unit with 0% poison resistance will take no damage, but still be
considered poisoned.  This will prevent the unit from being healed and
will require a full round next to a curer or in a village to remove.

4) I would propose that non-undead units that use poison (currently the
orcish assassin, dire-wolf rider and a few monsters) be given a 50%
resistance to poison at their lowest poisoning level, and 100% resistance
at higher levels.

Thoughts?

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        "In theory, theory and practice are the same, 
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John W. C. McNabb
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