Unwinnable games
issueid=735 02-13-2012 08:51 PM
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Unwinnable games
There are several ways to make an ADOM game unwinnable.

Problem
There are several ways through which the player's actions, an ADOM game can be unfairly rendered unwinnable. Those are:
1. Throwing a potion of exchange at a regular monster who picked up a Chaos orb. The new monster won't drop the items its previous form had on it.
2. Sacrificing a monster (orb guardian) means no fixed drops (orbs) are left.
3. Orbs can be lost in the Pyramid or Minotaur maze if the player drops them there and then can't retrieve them anymore due to their level restrictions.
4. It is possible to throw at "nothing special" squares (i.e. the border of a wilderness location). If the player throws an item at the very border of the screen, it'll get stuck in the first row of "nothing special" squares. Regular items are then unreachable and essentially lost forever. Orbs and other artifacts will hop back into the PC's backpack if not inside a town or other special wilderness location - otherwise, they're also lost. Here's a quick demonstration:


Proposed solutions:
1. Don't let monsters pick Chaos orbs up. Possibly, preserve monster inventories between PoEX transformations.
2. Make sacrificed monsters drop what they would have dropped if killed, besides their other inventory (if any).
3. Make the orbs hop back to the PC's backpack when they're dropped in these locations, like they do in the ID or WE, regardless of the PC's level.
4. Prevent any items from getting stuck in the second row, as it's done when the player attempts to kick or shoot them into the first row.

How to reproduce it
See above.

Notes
See above.
Issue Details
Issue Number 735
Project ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Category Windows NT
Status Fixed
Priority 4
Affected Version Unknown
Fixed Version ADOM 2.3.0 (r73)
Milestone (none)
Users able to reproduce bug 0
Users unable to reproduce bug 0
Assigned Users (none)
Tags (none)




05-26-2012 04:28 PM
Issue Changed by jt
  • Status changed from Unconfirmed to Confirmed

02-26-2013 08:15 PM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Issue marked as addressed
  • Addressed version changed from Unknown to ADOM 1.2.0 pre 12

02-26-2013 08:16 PM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Status changed from Confirmed to Fixed

06-22-2017 03:54 PM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Status changed from Fixed to In Progress

08-03-2017 01:56 PM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Addressed version changed from ADOM 1.2.0 pre 12 to Unknown
  • Status changed from In Progress to Fixed

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