Re: [Wesnoth-dev] poison resistance

[John McNabb]

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Richard Kettering wrote:
> 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

This should be pretty straight forward to code.  Two 'important' questions 
that probably should be answered: 
1) How to represent this so that it is obvious to the user?  As a status 
icon (like poison, but with an x through it) or listed as an ability/trait?
2) what to call the 'immune to poison'?  preferably something short so as 
not to take up too much space, especially if the answer to 1 is as an 
ability/trait.

3) which reminds me of a third slightly off topic question.  It seems that 
currently abilities can not be added via wml modification tags.  Is there 
a plan to impliment this, or is there a reason why it should not be done?

John

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