{"id":336,"date":"2012-03-20T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/?p=336"},"modified":"2012-03-20T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:16:40","slug":"march-updates-for-zborg-240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/2012\/03\/20\/march-updates-for-zborg-240\/","title":{"rendered":"March Updates for Zborg 240"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>When using DimDoor to escape, the borg will now choose a spot further away, if the dangers are equal.\u00a0 This will allow him to get a few more ranged shots in as the monsters approach.<\/li>\n<li>Radiation mutation was being considered as a ball instead of a dispel effect.<\/li>\n<li>Certain Dispel effects were passed positive through borg_projectable, but failed in the project_path() from spells1.c\u00a0 In effect, it was a &#8216;knight movement&#8217; error.\u00a0 They show up from time to time.\u00a0 LOS() is positive going one direction but not the other (monster-&gt;player vs player-&gt;monster).\u00a0 I added the reverse LOS check to verify the projection path both ways.<\/li>\n<li>Before jumping into a pit and casting Mind Wave as a defence, the borg will check to make sure he has sufficient HP.<\/li>\n<li>Track bad landing zones when trying DimDoor.\u00a0 There might be an unseen obstacle keeping him from sucessfully jumping.\u00a0 And he might try to jump onto the same spot repeatedly.\u00a0 Now he will track bad spots and select a new one.<\/li>\n<li>Using Mind Wave as a defence had some problems if he was in a room with a few Raals Tomes.\u00a0 Borg will now keep track of the danger induced from non-effected (empty mind) monsters.\u00a0 If the danger is too high, he won&#8217;t use the Mind Wave defence.<\/li>\n<li>There was a crash error being caused by a variable being overwritten.\u00a0 The problem was in the wilderness grids for tracking town location.\u00a0 That overwrote the array for tracking glyphs.\u00a0 When a certain glyph was created, it caused a crash.\u00a0 It was not fun to track down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I still do not have a version of vanilla angband that will compile in VS2008.\u00a0 It might take the dev-team a few iterations before they have the dust settled.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pick up the vborg as soon as they have a version that is compatible with Visual Studio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using DimDoor to escape, the borg will now choose a spot further away, if the dangers are equal.\u00a0 This will allow him to get a few more ranged shots in as the monsters approach. Radiation mutation was being considered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/2012\/03\/20\/march-updates-for-zborg-240\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zborg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}