Oath and vows

[marchessa_the_red_witch]

Druscilla misses you with her claw.
Druscilla misses you with her claw.
You skillfully parry the attack of Druscilla.
Druscilla misses you with her bite.
Druscilla misses you with her claw.
Druscilla bites you very hard.
You slash Druscilla very hard.
You slash Druscilla extremely hard.

823/834/+66hp 315/317/+18ma 188/188 -10align 1:42 am 160513062xp 199292 -9.6ac
toss siYou swear a mighty oath of victory over Druscilla!

1033/834/+66hp 316/317/+18ma 188/188 -10align 1:44 am 160513062xp 199292 -9.6ac
nger e
You grab Druscilla and throw her to the east!
Congratulations, you have fulfilled your oath of victory!

827/834/+42hp 316/317/+18ma 158/188 -10align 1:46 am 160517532xp 199292 -9.6ac

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Tossing the mob should not get you honor - it is against the concept of the idea. I could understand oath of victory barring tossing the mob out - and this is certainly simplest to code.

But better would be to simply make it so that the oath of victory is still running, but if the character doesn't get back into combat post hase - say 6 mud minutes or so, or does anything that is regenish - sleep, rest, change eq - the oath has failed. Toss is a combat move to do damage, and part of doing ones level best to fulfill the oath, and best would be to treat it that way.

But even putting what MIT students used to call "a screw" into it would be preferable to having a cheap way out.

[Avatar]

Well, it's interesting to have an autoquest with multiple endings. Still, I think I think it sucks that we'd punish someone for actually listening to the content of the autoquest, then spending an extra 45 minutes performing the quest.

I can't believe I was chatting about how cool some of the new quests are.

[marchessa_the_red_witch]

The info in the quest is sufficient to make a good decision about it.

I listened, and while the mud alignment system is... odd ... it is pretty clear.

[kjartan]

Yes, but now the gods can look at your level in that skill and if it's 98% instead of 100% judge you to be of better character. From a gameplay standpoint, I'd say it doesn't make any measurable difference: you will blow the oath 1 time in 50, big deal. And I agree with Marchessa: if all you wanted was to max out the skill, then you could have figured out from the quest info that the "jerk" ending would give you more plusses. Ain't that just life.

[Avatar]

I read all the information, and nothing led me to believe that it would be a worse ending. I spent more time on the quest, found the right mob, made her happy, etc. I guess it's not worth complaining about, except that the skill still shows up on my unlearned lists.

I guess that's what I get for listening to a woman.

Is there any way to reset an autoquest so I can just do it over?

[kjartan]

[quote="Avatar":245p3re4]I guess it's not worth complaining about, except that the skill still shows up on my unlearned lists.[/quote:245p3re4]

How about I just make that particular skill not show up on your unlearned lists if it's at that percent?

[Avatar]

That would be fine with me.

[marchessa_the_red_witch]

Everyone has been set to 98% in the oath now.

[kjartan]

Well, either way, it will now not show up on prac unlearned unless it's < 98%

[Medios]

Can someone explain to me what oaths actually does, other than get ppl in my groups killed for no reason?

Mike

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I'm sorry to bring this up again KJ, but my Oath was set to 95% by the autoquest. It's still 95%, and still on my unlearned list.

Charles

[kjartan]

Oh is it 95? Whoops, I thought it was 98. I will fix it to show up unlearned, sorry about that.

[marchessa_the_red_witch]

Oath of victory adds about 200 hps, even going over your max - so I top out at 1080hps when uttering an oath fast against a mob that doesn't hit hard

[madmax]

KJ - can you fix this one too?


Last bootup: Wed Jun 21 09:30:49 2006

Current time: Wed Jun 21 10:38:46 2006

1 hour since bootup.

prac unl

Warrior Skills:
oath of victory - Lvl: 35, Learned 98%

[Weasel]

heh yup.. I was 100% learned, now I'm 98% and it shows up as unlearned.. methinks you tweaked the wrong bit.