Re: New Changes and Fix in Blackdeath

Makaveli · Post by **Makaveli** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:12 am

First off, I would like to thank all of the admin who have recently been putting so much time and effort into this mud. It's great to see changes happenening and a return of a player base. This definitely makes the mud a lot more fun and definitely brings people back from torpor.

Ok, now onto my main point. Recently, blackdeath self has been fixed where you can no longer mort with it and instead it only inflicts 10% damage. I applaud this change since it was always annoying to be commanded to blackdeath self and then losing the battle in 3 seconds. However, there is one tiny problem with this new change. If you are stuck in a no-spell and no-recall room without any mobs to kill you, how are you supposed to get out of the room? Before the changes, one could just blackdeath self and escape obviously. But now, after the changes, I can't think of an escape route especially if the room is silenced and there are no admin around. That is why I am wondering if we could code in an "instamort self" to take care of situations like this. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that blight self still takes off 50% of one's hp but I guess that's not too big of a deal.

Makaveli

Hiroshima · Post by **Hiroshima** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:27 am

Make a wand of Fireball and keep that in your bag!

hold wand...zap self!

bair · Post by **bair** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:56 pm

command to mort yourself is a good idea. and a fireball wand is a terrible idea, it would take me like 5 wands to mort myself.

Arkhinor · Post by **Arkhinor** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:18 am

What stops people from commanding you to 'mort self' ?

wasn't that the problem with bein commanded to blackdeath self?

Sonja · Post by **Sonja** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:06 am

Arkhinor wrote:What stops people from commanding you to 'mort self' ?

The same thing that stops people from commanding you to rem all.
That just wouldn't be the cricket!

Arkhinor wrote: wasn't that the problem with bein commanded to blackdeath self?

Not at all. Commanding to blackdeath self should have made you do just that, blackdeath self with ~10% damage, but instead it made your shields hit you aswell. Now that it's "fixed", it does the ~10% damage and you don't hurt yourself any further - the way it is supposed to have functioned, and not the complete removal of the ability to command you to do it.

Hiroshima · Post by **Hiroshima** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:03 pm

Ok so if you have 25k like Sonja then yes the wand is a bad idea...but for anyone under heroic level hp it wasn't that bad an idea!

Post by **Azazel** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:23 pm

Nah, it pretty much was a bad idea.

We're working on something related to this, we'll see if we can't get something in for this (that can't be commanded or ordered).

Az

ghnat · Post by **ghnat** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:01 am

btw whats wrong with blackdeath self then wait 1 minute and do it again? until you mort. and btw blackdeath isnt 10%. for me its around 6% but it can vary in damage.