aqualectrix
Member
The Request:
When you use the cli command to summon a demon using anything but a name (effect, location, number), and Mafia does not know the corresponding name, please make Mafia give you a failure message and not try to summon. Currently, Mafia attempts the summon and uses up an AFUE and 3 black candles in the process.
If the Daily Deeds button doesn't just use the cli command, please add a failure message and stop summoning in that case too.
The Story:
Revision 8552
There I was in Bad Moon, ready to face the nuns. I had my AFUE and my three black candles; I know my Greed Demon name.
I fought one brigand. Hmm, that's a lower meat drop than normal... check the side pane. No Preternatural Greed, that's odd. I guess I should have clued in when the cli didn't tell me "You acquire an effect..." Maybe Mafia forgot my demon name? I check with "demons", and see that yes, it did. Okay, no problem, that's why I keep them in my quest log too. I copy the name from the quest log and head to the Summoning Chamber, paste it in...
Not wanting to blame Mafia for consuming things when I might just have a poor memory -- the library and the castle were a while ago -- I logged onto a friend's abandoned multi. No greed demon name, check. AFUE and candles, check.
I refreshed the inventory and checked again, but indeed the scroll and candles were gone. And here I am with my request... please protect against using these resources for no benefit!
When you use the cli command to summon a demon using anything but a name (effect, location, number), and Mafia does not know the corresponding name, please make Mafia give you a failure message and not try to summon. Currently, Mafia attempts the summon and uses up an AFUE and 3 black candles in the process.
If the Daily Deeds button doesn't just use the cli command, please add a failure message and stop summoning in that case too.
The Story:
Revision 8552
There I was in Bad Moon, ready to face the nuns. I had my AFUE and my three black candles; I know my Greed Demon name.
Code:
> summon greed
Summoning Greed...
Requests complete.
Er, not good. I had the summoning stuff, where's my buff? As near as I can guess, Mafia used it while attempting to summon my greed demon -- which, since it didn't know the name, was bound to fail.You utter "Ak-chuk-dur" and look at Lord Spookyraven's altar, expectantly, but nothing happens.
It's obviously a potent source of magic, if only you can figure out how to operate it. Three lumps of black wax congeal on the surface, which is also dusted with flakes of fine, papery ash.
Not wanting to blame Mafia for consuming things when I might just have a poor memory -- the library and the castle were a while ago -- I logged onto a friend's abandoned multi. No greed demon name, check. AFUE and candles, check.
Code:
> inv forbidden
scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil
> inv candle
thin black candle (24)
> summon greed
Summoning greed...
Requests complete.
> inv forbidden
> inv candle
thin black candle (21)