Re: cursed, worthless, and pseudo

pete m <pmac360@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> On Feb 29, 9:25 pm, Eddie Grove <eddiegr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > In the interest of generating more posts for Pete to read, here's an
issue
> > that is analagous to one rearing its head in my patch.  I can't
participate in
> > another shopping discussion right now.  That's just too depressing.
> >
> > Suppose you have strong pseudo and you wield a piece of armor with a
cursed
> > ego.  You immediately get the cursed flag, but that's it.  Wear it
forever,
> > you will never pseudo the difference between cursed and worthless. 
However,
> > leave it in your pack, and you can tell the difference.  That's
backwards.
> >
> > There is a separate field for keeping track of whether you have
pseudoed
> > something, so that's not a problem.  I guess the original rationale is
that it
> > would be really stupid to be wielding an item you know is cursed and
5000
> > turns later to get the message "you feel your boots are cursed".
> >
> > So what's the solution?  Inscribe it {bad} when you wield it, and then
> > reinscribe it {cursed} or {worthless} when it pseudos?  Leave the
{cursed} and
> > confuse newbies with a redundant "you feel your boots are cursed"
message?
> 
> 
> Just strong pseudo it immediately.  It hardly matters given that you
> are already wearing it.  All worthless items are inverse-splendid, so
> it's completely obvious that you are wearing one.  (Aggravation, drain
> exp, or some attribute is decremented.)

I thought about this for a while, couldn't make up my mind, so I got a
ruling
from Andrew and the result was that aggravation is *not* inverse-splendid.

I do not give a message when you wield an aggravating item.  Some day I
will
set up my learning code so that you auto-learn that items do not aggravate
when you fail to awaken visible monsters.


Eddie