comment on the mindcrafter guide: getting moar out of mindcraft

[Unforgiven82]

I've been thinking about trying mindcrafters a bit, but I'm wondering about the bug with corrupting monsters. How/when does it actually happen. I've read the bug report (the new one in iADOM threads) and it's a bit vague. Does the game crash every time a corrupting monster is hit? does it only crash when something else that is non-corrupting is killed at the same time, does it require some specific power or some specific placement of the monsters?

Mainly how cripling this bug is really when playing a MC?

Ps. This has propably been discussed several times, but with a quick look around I couldn't find the specifics so please excuse me for feeling too lazy to really dig the forums.

[grobblewobble]

Even though I've been hit by this bug, I'm not sure what happened exactly. However, judging by the report, the game crashes when you kill a non-corrupting monster and a corrupting monster simultaneously. In any case, I've been too paranoid to ever cast mind blasts again on corrupting monsters ever since.

The good news is that confusion blasts on them will never crash the game (AFAIK). Besides, some monsters with a corrupting melee attack unexpectedly appear not to count as "corrupting". For example, dwarven chaos knights can safely be attacked with mindcraft!

[Unforgiven82]

Even though I've been hit by this bug, I'm not sure what happened exactly. However, judging by the report, the game crashes when you kill a non-corrupting monster and a corrupting monster simultaneously. In any case, I've been too paranoid to ever cast mind blasts again on corrupting monsters ever since.

The good news is that confusion blasts on them will never crash the game (AFAIK). Besides, some monsters with a corrupting melee attack unexpectedly appear not to count as "corrupting". For example, dwarven chaos knights can safely be attacked with mindcraft!

I didn't even know DCKs have a corrupting attack. I wonder if any of them have actually hit me recently (they seem to have a relatively low "to-hit" modifier and I usually have a overpowered DV by the time I meet them.

[Silfir]

Dwarven chaos knights should not be confused with chaos knights. I don't remember getting hit for corruption by one either.

[grobblewobble]

Oops.. they don't. Uhm, ignore that please.