Shattered Kingdoms

Shut the hell up you are so damn annoying.

Many of the issues in the mud code that might appear a simple routine of logic and reason, do not work as such when messing with the code.

The complexity by which the -original- code handles many of the issues in the game is stunningly stupid.

In SK, where the original base code has been altered heavilly, such changes could result in a series of chain reactions in areas you could not possibly imagine.

So please keep in mind, when suggesting a "simple fix" that the logical and reasonable process to do, could and most propably would, throw off a lot of other factors, which the IMP and the coder of each mud must take seriously into account.

A simple example would be, that in order to change the total Vnum capacity the orignal code allows, is not as simple as altering say, 65000 (total vnum numbers) with 650000. This will only kill the whole structure and make everything collapse. It might appear as the logical thing to do, but it's not.

I'm not trying to be a smart "behind", I am just sharing what toil and trouble have revealed in time.

Hope this clears it up for all who are interested into getting a more "inside" view.

Is it possible that there is a converse problem, in that 'heal' or other "non-aggressive" spells wouldn't make the proper checks against an undead?

You'd have to rewrite the whole way that the healing and harming spells work as they are flagged agressive or not aggressive.

After taking that into account, it is quite a daunting task, and probably would be easier to rewrite entirely how 'aggressiveness' works for spells instead of modifying the existing spell set.