Alchemy grabs adjacent pile value instead of underneath
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:26 pm
Of all the bugs I posted on the sourceforge bugtracker some weeks ago (before I discovered this forum), this one is probably the most important. Players on Metalforge currently think their alchemy spell "failed", when really this is the problem:
Alchemy (3rd lvl summoning spell, type "invoke alchemy"): Non-additive results with the range is an issue
This 3rd level summoning spell, Alchemy, grabs all items in the nine tiles at range 0 to 1 from the character, and turns them into approximately 20% of their value in gold nuggets.
The problem is that it does so in non-additive fashion! More than once now, I have "lost" a pile of valuable goodies, because it was adjacent to a piece of furniture (table, chair, etc.). The nearby furniture got dragged into the alchemy spell, and its value replaced the value of the pile I was alching, basically giving zero value.
My band-aid fix has been to double-check that all nearby furniture and also "nearly invisible" (on my screen anyways) arrow droppings have been accounted for before alching. I try to alch in truly open places, away from flowers, mushrooms, trees, rubble, bones, boulders, and other bits of seemingly harmless scenery.
A much better, more robust fix would limit alchemy's range to 0, so you can affect only the pile of goodies that is in the one tile directly under you.
Alchemy (3rd lvl summoning spell, type "invoke alchemy"): Non-additive results with the range is an issue
This 3rd level summoning spell, Alchemy, grabs all items in the nine tiles at range 0 to 1 from the character, and turns them into approximately 20% of their value in gold nuggets.
The problem is that it does so in non-additive fashion! More than once now, I have "lost" a pile of valuable goodies, because it was adjacent to a piece of furniture (table, chair, etc.). The nearby furniture got dragged into the alchemy spell, and its value replaced the value of the pile I was alching, basically giving zero value.
My band-aid fix has been to double-check that all nearby furniture and also "nearly invisible" (on my screen anyways) arrow droppings have been accounted for before alching. I try to alch in truly open places, away from flowers, mushrooms, trees, rubble, bones, boulders, and other bits of seemingly harmless scenery.
A much better, more robust fix would limit alchemy's range to 0, so you can affect only the pile of goodies that is in the one tile directly under you.