Miscellaneous...

[Marinos Yannikos <nino@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>]

Hi!

I've just joined the list today, so I don't know if any of the subjects
that follow have been discussed (excessively... ;-)), so please don't 
flame me for this:

BUGS:

- crossfire-0.91.2 doesn't even compile on my SPARC IPC/SunOS 4.1, unless
  I fix this:
  In map.c, line 1536, there is a spelling error - in_meory instead of
  in_memory, if I remember correctly.

- It crashes very soon, unless I define MAP_SAVING to be 1 (same as MAP_MEMORY),
  if I remember correctly again (this is from memory, since my machine at
  home isn't networked - a pity). The reason for this is, that while a map
  is being saved, it is considered "not in memory", so accesses to map objects
  lead to a crash. IMHO, the checks whether a map is in memory or not should
  be macro-ized to avoid such problems in the future (e.g. MAP_ACESSIBLE(map))

- The editor crashes if I 'Enter' an exit that leads nowhere, in a level
  just created.
 
- The editor should probably call crossfire with -xpm as well, if it was
  started with -xpm itself.

- In the game, when I ready a bow and then a wand, the bow is still shown
  as 'readied', even though the wand is used with SHIFT-<arrow-keys>.

COMMENTS/QUESTIONS:
  
- How to set the different archetype variables etc. is somewhat confusing -
  where do I obtain information on this?

- The gameplay should be better documented, e.g. how much a platinum vs. gold
  vs. silver coin is etc.

- The runtime commands don't seem to work well. I remember having seen somewhere
  that pressing 'd' is supposed to drop items, but it doesn't work. It would
  be nice to have better online-help for the runtime commands.

- Some of the levels are erm... not very well designed, IMHO. But that's OK,
  since the whole 'world' is huge, and there are enough well-designed areas
  as well. The xpm-pixmaps are great by the way.

- It would be really nice if NPC actions were more complex, i.e. like in
  Ultima (where they walk around, do things etc.).

Regards, 
  Marinos
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