possible arena bug

[Mith]

not sure wether this is a bug or not, so i post it here (and not in the bug forum)

Today i was in the arena and i had a nice battle with someone else. He had depletion on his weapon... and we where curious what the effect would be.

ok... i got depleted, and back home i casted perceive self.

You ready rod of perceive self (lvl 97) * (readied).
...
Your strength is depleted by 1
Your dexterity is depleted by 5
Your constitution is depleted by 5
Your wisdom is depleted by 1
Your charisma is depleted by 2
Your power is depleted by 4

Let's see what the arena inscructions say:

You open the instructions, part 3 and start reading.
...
The looser will find himself in the
first-aide station. No loss of exp nor
stats. Moreover, inside the ARENA
draining attacks don't take effect and
acid doesn't harm equipment.
So there is NOTHING to be afraid of

hence, a contradiction!

I assume the arena is not working as it should work. Drain seems to be working (havent test, but it is confirmed by others) but depleted stats are not restored.

[Leaf]

To confirm..

When you died in the arena, you were teleported to the first aid station, right?

You had full stats before going into battle at the arena?
(You weren't depelted already...)

The +200 resist depletion (or drain?) ring, was it being used in this battle?

[Mith]

To confirm..

When you died in the arena, you were teleported to the first aid station, right?

You had full stats before going into battle at the arena?
(You weren't depelted already...)

The +200 resist depletion (or drain?) ring, was it being used in this battle?

yes, i was teleported to the first aid station.
before i entered the arena, i had full stats, and the ring (resist drain+200) was not used.

[Valderan]

Im pretty sure that sign is referring to deaths, not attack types on weapons.

[Salathar]

I'll second Valderan, I think that what the instructions mean is that you will not lose stats or xp as the result of death but other causes like depletion/drain on a weapon are probably not taken into account, although it does somewhat sound like a contradiction

I heard that several players have been drained xp in the arena, never had a chance to test it myself. From the comments in code(crossfire/server/attack.c lines 1226-1236) it follows that it should not be possible to get drained(not sure about depletion) much like it is not possible to corrode equipment with acid in the arena.

If it turns out that one can be drained while standing on battleground(arena) then it is probably a bug and should be reported/investigated more closely.