EDIT: that is already quite a lot of work. It's taken a while for us all to find those bugs


What about the haste/slow bug?

In char.cpp:
CVS version was like:

void character::Slow()
{
  doforbodyparts()(this, &bodypart::Slow);
  doforequipments()(this, &item::Slow);
  BeginTemporaryState(HASTE, 500 + RAND() % 1000);
}

But now the IVAN says:

void character::Slow()
{
  doforbodyparts()(this, &bodypart::Slow);
  doforequipments()(this, &item::Slow);
  BeginTemporaryState(SLOW, 500 + RAND() % 1000);
}

I'll throw in my two cents

But seriously I am happy to make a contribution.

I love this description. This is exactly how it should function

I'll put my hand up to work on the fire subsystem.
For the record, still working on the boots. Results to follow soon.

Ok I have done some modelling of how the boots work and I have come up with some plots.
The data was generated using Spyder, running Python 2.7. The python code is attached (see: boots_surfaces.txt)

I plotted the total damage done by a kick for a particular boot material (Leather, Iron and for a couple of cases adamant).
There are two cases studied. We are particularly interested in effect of item enchatment on the damage inflicted by a boot.
The first case is X = Enchantment, Y = Leg Strength. This was done in two variations:
(1) Level = 0 (Fig. 1 to Fig. 3)
(2) Level = 10 (Fig. 4 to Fig. 6)

The second case is X = Enchantment, Y = Level. Two material species were examined, namely Leather and Iron (Fig. 7 and 8 respectively). For these two data, the Leg Strength attribute was held constant (LegStrength = 10).

At this stage, no new prospective boot of kicking model has been introduced.

I agree. The development subforum is a good place to break the discussion down into specific topics. We've really been using this thread as a place to do that, only it makes it hard to find specific things when everything is lumped together.
Does it mean this thread will be moved to the development subforum?
We pretty much have all the functionality of Trello in this forum. I can post pictures, code and ideas more easily here, where everyone can see it.

There's that text file somewhere containing work for a 0.51 release. Maybe we should revisit that file and come up with a summary. There may be some new things to add to the list. There is certainly mention of the child raising quest as a near future goal.

Ok I'm officially the forum dope.

But I was thinking more along the lines of prosthetics. I suppose wooden legs are already kicking around, but a prosthetic hand or one you can exchange for a weapon or claw or something like that...

I wonder if we could make hands and feet into separate body parts? And I wonder why wooden legs never got implemented. I think developing that subsystem further was one of our dev goals at some stage.

Man this game has been around for ten years and there are still things to discover.