Talk:Riders

This page threw me a little... I thought I'd wandered into a different wiki by accident :-O GreyKnight 22:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Yep, it was a bit off-tone. I've done a complete rewrite. --Jayt 23:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Monster templates

I think this was one of the few articles still lacking the standard monster template, so I've provided them. One thing I didn't do was add the "attributes" section, since that seems to be formatted rather than free-text, and darned if I could find a description of how the formatting is supposed to work. So I just added the line in the article:

Riders can fly/float, are humanoid, can regenerate themselves, can see invisible creatures, and have teleport control.

If anyone wants to work out how that goes in the template, fantastic!--Ckbryant 11:40, 15 February 2008 (EST)

Seven deadly sins patch

greyfire.org is dead so the patch is no longer available.

http://bilious.homelinux.org/?178 --Kahran042 13:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Can Anyone Explain This?

Randomly spawned Famine? Can anyone explain how this happened? --Daniel Draco 00:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Wait, nevermind, I figured it out...leftover bones from messing around in wizard mode. --Daniel Draco 02:42, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Engulfing

What happens when riders are engulfed? Can a purple worm take care of them for good since no corpse is left? DemonDoll 19:21, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

I've done the purple worm thing, but mine have never been strong enough to attack the Riders. You'd probably have to level drain the Riders to bejeezus and back (so you could only do this to Famine and Pestilence in any event). I've honestly been kind of underwhelmed by what worms can do for you on Astral, though it is fun to do once.--Ckbryant 15:10, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

You mean you'd have to level drain them simply because a pet won't attack something much more powerful than itself? What are the rules on that anyway? And can someone confirm that sacrificing riders gets rid of them for good? DemonDoll 15:18, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Your purple worm will die instantly (there is even a special message for that). You cannot sacrifice the riders because you have to hold stuff to sacrifice it on the astral plane, and their corpses will revive if you try to pick them up. -Tjr 15:39, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Ambiguity of source comment

I am a novice C++ programmer, and I think that the source comment does add a bit of ambiguity because the double equal sign is the comparison operator, as in "if (foo == 8)", so it may mean, "Is the player war?"