Add the Grudge Patch: monsters with natural enmity will fight each other #281
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This ultimately derives from Nephi's Grudge Patch back in the 3.4.3 era, plus some updates from SpliceHack and xNetHack. Its primary purpose is to make the dungeon a richer, more interesting place by providing more opportunities for natural monster-to-monster interactions. All of the code necessary to support monster battling was already in place; this merely adds more monster pairs to mm_aggression. Monsters that will fight each other are: - Quest guardians and hostile non-guardians - Angels and demons - Elves and orcs - Hobbits and Nazguls Monsters with a one-sided grudge (where the defending monster may counterattack, but won't use its own turns to retaliate aggressively) are: - Baby purple worms against shriekers (purple worms already had this) - Ravens against floating eyes - Spiders against insects (x and a) - Bats against flying insects - Cats against rats - Woodchucks against the Oracle Pets will never attack other pets, even if they would normally be hostile to each other.
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If spiders grudge against the 'x' class, then they would attack xans, which have an high enough AC and speed that they would generally never be killed by a spider. This seems like a potential issue. |
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Yeah, since x is only grid bug and xan and you won't generally see grid bugs and spiders around at the same time, that grudge might be ineffective in practice. Same deal with the bat one; the only actual flying insect is the killer bee. |
Under previous rules, a pet would respect its level checks and not attack a monster it grudged, whereas the monster had no such restriction and would attack the pet with impunity, until either the hero got it away or the pet died. Make it so that if a pet grudges a monster, it will not balk at it being too high of a level. Also fix a case in which a pet at less than 25% health would not attack a monster it grudges, which has the same problem that the grudged monster will continue to attack it freely.
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This ultimately derives from Nephi's Grudge Patch back in the 3.4.3 era,
plus some updates from SpliceHack and xNetHack. Its primary purpose is
to make the dungeon a richer, more interesting place by providing more
opportunities for natural monster-to-monster interactions. All of the
code necessary to support monster battling was already in place; this
merely adds more monster pairs to mm_aggression.
Monsters that will fight each other are:
Monsters with a one-sided grudge (where the defending monster may
counterattack, but won't use its own turns to retaliate aggressively)
are:
Pets will never attack other pets, even if they would normally be
hostile to each other.