gangal@petsd.UUCP (Dept 3271) (08/22/85)
<Nick the Shrieker, Nick the Shrieker>
The devious ones here at PE have found a bug in Phantasia.
If one has found an "invisibility" scroll, a monster appears.
One can continue virtually forever by "nicking" this monster
and then "transforming" it right before it would die.
We feel this is a bug.
Since our source has changes, I can't offer a DIFF for the changes,
but the basic idea is this:
the transform spell is disabled after nicking a monster.
This requires changes in fight() (in fight.c, of course) which
sets up a flag "nick". This flag should get tested when the
list of spells is presented and when the "transform" spell is
chosen. It should be set during the "nick" option. It should
be reset back up at CALL. This will eliminate this situation.
bob
P.S. If anyone out there has made changes to Phantasia, I'd like
to exchange ideas...
Bob Philhower {world} ! vax135 ! petsd ! petfe ! bobp