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From: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: net.sources.games
Subject: Re: More HACK bug fixes
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Date: 28 Apr 85 03:01:42 GMT
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Posted: Sat Apr 27 19:01:42 1985
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John Myers indicated some bug fixes and mods - most of them
are appropriate, but I am not sure I like the solution for
the (very minor) problems he indicated with taming and polymorphing.

Taming a trapper while being swallowed is one way of obtaining
udist==0 in dogmove() - perhaps there are other ways. Instead of
forbidding to tame monsters in such a situation it seems more
logical to put a statement
	if(udist == 0) return(0);
in dog_move().

Polymorphing your dog into a worm is one way of obtaining a tame worm -
perhaps there are other ways - what about polymorphing it into a
chameleon that subsequently starts mimicking a worm? I haven't
checked but John may well be right that having tame worms gives
problems in the movement routines, but if that is the case it seems
to me that the straightforward solution would be to put
	if(mtmp->wormno) goto not_special;
in m_move() (hack.mon.c)
where not_special is a label after the tests for dogs, shopkeepers, guards,
tengus, umber hulks and whatever else needs a special treatment.

Of course the real bug is that all code in hack.dog.c was written
at a time where the dog was the only monster that could be tame(d).
Vampires going for tripe rations are a bit ridiculous. We'll have
to invent a suitable behaviour for tame monsters different from dogs.