Re: CF: Disease code mods

[Kimmo Hoikka <Kimmo.Hoikka@Digia.com>]

John Cater wrote:

> After a long time playing with diseases, and watching other people play with
> them, I have a suggestion to make:
>
> Could we please make diseases line-of-sight.

good idea.

> This introduces some risk into casting the spells.
>
> Too often do I see someone go into the dragon hanger (for example) and cast a
> disease, through an impenetrable wall, and gain 50 levels without seeing or
> encoutering a monster. This has to be stopped!

agree on that

> It would also be nice if curse/damned walls/doors stopped diseases, if you
> can't dimension door through something, you shouldn't be able to kill
> everything on the other side (at no risk!)
>
> As for food etc. I think it would be good if some monsters and food items
> already (randomly) had minor diseases (the flu etc)..
> Perhaps some monsters could be "carriers" ie. They have a disease but don't
> catch it or die from it themselves.

excellent idea. then we could also have a skill to detect such diseases that you
would know to keep some distance to them.

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