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icon Roach Queen only lays eggs from first fight in a turn (+2)  
Roach Queen text says it lays an egg when a monster is fought, but if you fight multiple monsters in one turn (because of either a mimic or moving enemy, or both), then it only lays a single egg.

See attached example hold. Start on the player start square and move SE.

(This example hold has also showcased another strange bug, when the custom monster fights the player, the game incorrctly shows an "ATK too low" warning message, despite your ATK not being too low.)
11-07-2020 at 05:17 PM
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icon Re: Roach Queen only lays eggs from first fight in a turn (0)  
Is this really a bug though? It kind of makes sense that the queen would only lay a single egg in a turn.

How about briar? Does it grow twice in one turn or only once in these circumstances?

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icon Re: Roach Queen only lays eggs from first fight in a turn (0)  
I think I would also interpret "when a monster is fought" to mean "if within a given turn a monster is fought, the queen will lay one egg during that turn too". If it said "lays an egg for every monster fought" or something, that'd be different.

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11-08-2020 at 05:58 AM
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mauvebutterfly wrote:
How about briar? Does it grow twice in one turn or only once in these circumstances?
Briar will grow multiple times in one turn if you fight multiple monsters in one turn.
11-08-2020 at 09:08 AM
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icon Re: Roach Queen only lays eggs from first fight in a turn (+2)  
I agree the current behavior is working as designed (fwiw).
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kieranmillar wrote:
mauvebutterfly wrote:
How about briar? Does it grow twice in one turn or only once in these circumstances?
Briar will grow multiple times in one turn if you fight multiple monsters in one turn.
Dang...we are not flawlessly consistent.

Okay...seems like we might want to change some logic, but I'm not sure which way we want to change things. Kieran, it sounds like you'd prefer to have the queen lay one egg per enemy engaged.
Let's also consider what holds we'd break by changing either way. Can you provide insight here?

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icon Re: Roach Queen only lays eggs from first fight in a turn (+1)  
It's OK to rule this as only spawning once per turn if you want to. This is a very niche behaviour, and I believe if you changed it then it wouldn't impact any published holds. Having multiple fights happen per turn is not something you see very often in published holds because mimics and moving monsters are both rare, and I can't think of a single instance that also has Queens in the room.

So feel free to change this or not. It's your call. I just thought I'd make a thread for it just in case.
11-10-2020 at 10:06 PM
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'k, makes sense.

I'm fine with leaving as-is too.

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