schep wrote:
Watcher, please post in this thread so we can all mod you up.
Done.
Since I'm posting anyway, I'm going to expand a bit on coppro's post. The behaviour of switchers and doublestabbing is almost unchanged from the way it was when I became a beta tester. I started looking at the tarstuff in detail when I discovered an odd little inconsistency: If Beethro stepped onto a switcher and stabbed tarstuff at the same time, then the switch would happen before the stabbing, but with mimics, the switch happened after the stabbing. This was changed so that the switch always happens before the stabbing.
After playing around a bit more, I discovered the double-stabbing possibility mentioned in the article. I didn't really like this behaviour; it seemed weird that you could hit the tarstuff "
simultaneously"
and still have a switch take place in between. I tried coming up with an alternate behaviour that would exclude this possibility. I had a few ideas, but all of them led to some weird behaviour in other situations, so the current behaviour was left unchanged. When I wrote the article, I decided that since this form of double-stabbing was possible, I might as well document it.
(Also, I'm not sure why coppro's post was modded down; I didn't see any problem with it. I modded it back up to 0.)
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