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From: kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie)
Subject: Re: Monster Weakness Indicators?
Message-ID: <1992Apr16.155429.29674@gboro.glassboro.edu>
Summary: Already done.
Keywords: monsters, strength, ability, `Woof!'
Organization: Glassboro State College
Disclaimer: Brandy the WonderDog wants something to tell how many teeth have
            have been knocked out.
References: <xk!vxx_@rpi.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:54:29 GMT
Lines: 79

Christopher Petit writes about telling how dead a monster is:

>80% or more of starting HP              Strong
>50%-79%                                 Fit
>29%-49%                                 Wounded
>10%-28%                                 Badly Wounded
><10%                                    Critically Wounded

This will not work; a `Badly Wounded' AMHD could still have 582 hp, and be
able to do 194 hp of damage with a single breath.

I've implemented something like this already, as a part of the `look' feature,
with a few additions.  First, if the monster is asleep you are told.  Second,
if you are the wizard you get the monsters sleep counter, max/current hp.  The
formula for non-wizards is this:

	If the monster's max hit points is > 200,
		then we use 200 as our measure of `maximum health'
	else
		use the monsters max hit points.

	Depending on percentage of max health, we use one of the following
	descriptions: dying, faint, weak, tired, shaken, healthy.

	If the monster has drained mana/charges from you and his _above_
	his max dice roll, then he is described as `energized'.


This was made for umoria 5.4, but can probably be stuck into other versions
with a little work.  Here are the diffs for the file source/moria4.c (it's a
little gross, I haven't gone back to it since I put it in because I've been
doing other stuff):

617,620d616
< /*
<  * kilroy changed this to tell if the monster is asleep, and give its
<  * current health.  4 December 1991
<  *   old code:
625,659d620
<  *    new code:
<  */
<       (void) sprintf(out_val, "%s a%s %s ",
< 			dstring,
< 			m_list[c_ptr->cptr].csleep ? " sleeping" :
< 			( is_a_vowel( c_list[j].name[0] ) ? "n" : "" ) ,
< 			c_list[j].name);
< 
< 	{ char  health[25];
< 	  char  hack[25];
< 	  int   mhp;
< 
<      mhp = c_list[j].hd[0] * c_list[j].hd[1];
< 
< 	(void)sprintf(hack,"(%d-%d/%d) ", m_list[c_ptr->cptr].csleep,
< 					  m_list[c_ptr->cptr].hp, mhp);
< 
<     switch ( m_list[c_ptr->cptr].hp * 10 /
< 	     ( mhp < 200 ? mhp : 200 ) ) {
< 	case 0: sprintf(health,"(dying"); break;
< 	case 1: case 2: sprintf(health,"(faint"); break;
< 	case 3: case 4: sprintf(health,"(weak"); break;
< 	case 5: case 6: sprintf(health,"(tired"); break;
< 	case 7: case 8: sprintf(health,"(shaken"); break;
< 	default: sprintf(health,"(healthy"); break;
< 	}
< 
< 	if ( m_list[c_ptr->cptr].hp > mhp )
< 		sprintf(health,"(energized");
< 
< 	(void) strcat(out_val, health);
< 	if (wizard) (void) strcat(out_val, hack); 
< 	(void) strcat(out_val, "). [(r)ecall]");
< 	}
< 


Darren F Provine / kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu
"It only makes sense that every facet of our daily lives should depend upon
the position of celestial bodies hundreds of millions of miles away." - Calvin