Re: [Wesnoth-dev] poison resistance

[Richard Kettering]

Dave and I had this discussion, and our opinions afterward came out 
like this - forgive me if I am putting words in anyone's mouth:

A full-fledged resistance system such as has been described would be 
too complex.
-however-
A simple "immune to poison" flag is very desirable.  The "non-living" 
flag should NOT be used as a hack to emulate this effect - it already 
has other effects attached to it, and scenario designers may use it for 
further things - for example, a magical trap could be scripted such 
that any "living" creature that stepped on it would trigger it, and the 
scenario could be structured around non-living units being able to pass 
this undetected.

There are probably a number of other uses for the non-living flag, and 
it should not be understood as a simple alias of "poison immunity," 
which is not currently a discrete effect that can be applied by itself. 
 Right now, one of the other effects that non-living has is that 
non-living units cannot be healed by healing units.  A white mage can 
heal a friendly necromancer, but he cannot heal a ghost.



Thus, if Darth fool could code in a discrete "immune to poison" flag, 
that would be both welcome, and very useful.



- Richard