{"id":375,"date":"2013-03-01T23:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T06:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/?p=375"},"modified":"2013-03-01T23:53:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T06:53:40","slug":"february-updates-for-zborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/2013\/03\/01\/february-updates-for-zborg\/","title":{"rendered":"February Updates for Zborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, I began to implement some support for the passwall ability.\u00a0 It is part of some spells but also innate for spectres.\u00a0 It might take a while to hammer out all the benefits for the ability.\u00a0 So far, it seems to work better as a method of escape.\u00a0 There is a lot of damage taken by hiding in wall grids.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improvement to how the borg will look at strategically backing up.\u00a0 Specifically, he will consider the speed differential between himself and threatening monsters as he backs up.<\/li>\n<li>Corrected an error which made Fruit Bats always trigger the scary_guy flag, regardless of the borg&#8217;s clevel.<\/li>\n<li>Certain attack spells were not being cast because their mana cost was greater than the damage done.\u00a0 Which is not a huge problem except if you are a Life High Mage and have only one attack spell.<\/li>\n<li>When considering a strategic retreat, the borg will skip it, if it might be a better idea to use a sleep spell on a monster.\u00a0 This is called from borg_caution() which is before borg_attack().<\/li>\n<li>Borg_projectable_pure() needed to consider the passwall skill of the borg.<\/li>\n<li>A spectre borg in danger will consider backing into a wall to hide and wait for a recall.\u00a0 He will use recall if sitting in the walls.<\/li>\n<li>Borg_flow_recover() should have the &#8216;sneak&#8217; flag set in order to avoid grids near monsters.<\/li>\n<li>If in a hallway and down on HP, the borg will try to use Sleep spells as a defence maneuver.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, I began to implement some support for the passwall ability.\u00a0 It is part of some spells but also innate for spectres.\u00a0 It might take a while to hammer out all the benefits for the ability.\u00a0 So far, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/2013\/03\/01\/february-updates-for-zborg\/\">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":[11,14,21],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zborg","tag-combat","tag-defense","tag-race_spectre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}