TripleM
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Just wondering a thing about brains and the use of force arrows. Basically what I wanted was a room with a brain in it, with the following:
There is a roach and snake passing along this corridor, which has two openings allowing them to get at Beethro. I wanted the "brainy" roach to go down the first one, but wanted the serpent to pass by that one and use the second.. so I used a force arrow in the first opening, as the snake can't pass over that..

But it seems that, even if there is a path from the roach (or any monster) to you, it won't take it if that path requires going through a force arrow (pointing the correct way).. is this right or did i just design something wrong? is there any way to get around this problem? (having a roach and a snake take different paths to you)?

[Edited by TripleM on 01-30-2004 at 05:20 AM GMT]

Scott
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Its a known bug/feature. Not sure which it is. Brained roaches will not cross force arrows until beethro has crossed the arrow.

Edit
There is a way to make a roach take a different path. If the turning to the shorter path is a diagonal the snake can't take the turn.

[Edited by Scott on 01-30-2004 at 05:28 AM GMT]

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TripleM wrote:
is there any way to get around this problem?

I have a room in my hold The Killing Jar (1N1W) that uses brains, queens/roaches and force arrows. What I did for that one was insert red doors and a couple trap doors placed so that you need to cross all force arrows before dropping the last trap door, thus releasing the queens. Since the rooms been "pre-primed" by the player, the queens and roaches now use the arrows.

Also, if you're in a position where an "unbrained" roach would normally move towards the force arrow and use it, a "brained" roach will act as an unbrained roach until it crosses the arrow and then move as expected. So forcing a player to be on the opposite side of the force arrow from the roach could have a similar effect to what you want.

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It's a feature. It prevents Beethro from standing behind a force arrow and having a snake get to him and die.

The same applies to scrolls. In fact I'm making a hold about that feature!

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joker5 wrote:
It's a feature. It prevents Beethro from standing behind a force arrow and having a snake get to him and die.

Um... since when can serpents travel on arrows?

Edit: Never mind, I just reread your post. Thought you were suggesting the snake would kill Beethro. It's almost 3am, so I claim fatigue. I will suggest, though, that the brain doesn't send serpents down those corridors because, to the serpent, it's a dead end, and the Brain won't send a serpent to its death.

[Edited by DiMono on 02-01-2004 at 07:43 AM GMT]

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TripleM
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Unless theres no route for the snake to get to beethro at all. Then it would work.

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If there was no other way, it would function like a normal unbrained serpent.

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