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| − | After discussing at [[Talk:Scroll of mail]] and at [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_frm/thread/39b4e8a084d6a09a r.g.r.n], I finally sent an email to the devteam. Pat | + | After discussing at [[Talk:Scroll of mail]] and at [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_frm/thread/39b4e8a084d6a09a r.g.r.n], I finally sent an email to the devteam. Pat Rankin replied very quickly that in his opinion it is a bug that ''any'' item needs to be placed on an E-square to activate it and that this behaviour is a leftover from the times the only way achieve the same effect was a [[scroll of scare monster]] lying on the ground. The function that scares monsters only checks squares which have something on them, not empty squares, so they get ignored. --[[User:ZeroOne|ZeroOne]] 14:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC) |
Revision as of 14:39, 9 September 2006
After discussing at Talk:Scroll of mail and at r.g.r.n, I finally sent an email to the devteam. Pat Rankin replied very quickly that in his opinion it is a bug that any item needs to be placed on an E-square to activate it and that this behaviour is a leftover from the times the only way achieve the same effect was a scroll of scare monster lying on the ground. The function that scares monsters only checks squares which have something on them, not empty squares, so they get ignored. --ZeroOne 14:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
