this is great idea, thank you!

but we need to decide what to do with her sister then. their chat lines says that sisters are caring about each other, so it doesn't look like she would leave the sister and just go away.

maybe make her friendly, but don't allow her to leave Attnam? something like the question on leaving: "XXX doesn't want to leave her sister alone, and prefer to stay here. Continue?"

also, they need names, i think. the names could be revealed after befrending them.

i think it's almost the time for the new build, mostly to show off new "finder AI". but i still can't decide on danger map update rate…

the problem is that i am very-very bad IVAN player, so what is "very hard" for me might be "normal" or even "easy" for others. there is the console variable to control the rate. i will prolly tell you how to change it (remind me, please!), so it would be possible to experiment a little and tell me what your preferred update rate is.

i tried to implement that. if the player turns Petrus hostile (and only Petrus), the code first moves princesses to the player team. haven't checked if it works yet, but i cannot see why it shouldn't. also, introduced special handling for gifts, so it's now possible to give them something besides luxuries.

but if the player managed to turn Attnam hostile by some other reason, ladies won't join. they hate Petrus, but not the whole city (how noble of them! .

wife #7 will prolly need a special handling, tho. i don't think that the code will work for her. besides, she needs a different logic: i bet she could always join, considering her… living conditions.

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valgrind says that they are uninitialised. `character` doesn't have those default strenghtes set, there is even the comment about that. and colors are set only for humanoids. so those end up as undefined. fighting skills don't have default values too.

actually, the game itself should check for this, but sadly, it can't.

that is, valgrind is always right, because it actually executes the machine code, and checks if the memory initialised on each read. it's not some static analysis tool. it is freakin' slow, of course, because it is a fully-featured CPU emulator. so running the game with valgrind is PITA, and i cannot check more than that (it literally takes minutes to heal several HP). sigh.

mushroom needs `TorsoSpecialColor` and `BeltColor` set. the values can be arbitrary, the properties simply need to be defined. this is prolly wrong (the actual bug is somewhere else), but at least it makes valgrind happy.

btw, i think that petrus' wife #3 and petrus' wife #7 should join the player if he attacks Petrus. they prolly won't survive long enough, though…

also, it should be possible to give them weapons. let's pretend that nobody notices.

some characters have undefined attributes. it is mostly harmless, but causes the game to access uninitialised memory.

imp has no:

DefaultArmStrength
DefaultLegStrength
DefaultDexterity
DefaultAgility
DefaultEndurance

i don't know what to put there. i mean, by which other creature imp was modelled? and i'm not sure that this is harmless.

petruss wives has no fighting skills, and they need them just in case they will get some weapons. also, petruss wife #2 "wields" a child, so she needs weapon skills from the start. i propose something like

// taken from the housewife
KnownCWeaponSkills = { 3, UNARMED, UNCATEGORIZED, BLUNT_WEAPONS; }
CWeaponSkillHits = { 2, 50, 50, 50; }
BaseUnarmedStrength = 200;

in the main definition. "blunt" added for frying pans and rolling pins.

firstborn item is missing some definitions, so danger caluclation for petruss wife #2 is UB.

Category = MISC;
FormModifier = 30; //k8: i don't know
IsTwoHanded = true; //k8: why not?

don't ask me how i found that. you don't want to know.
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there seem to be a problem with mushrooms too, but i don't know yet what causes it, and if it is present in vanilla too. it is something with graphics data and animation (and i rewrote graphics subsystem, so it's hard to compare things there).

because there is huge difference between commerce and banking. tbh, i simply don't want Mellis to be involved in this shit. nobody deserves that.

The Bank Corporation not really a god: they have no altars, there is no way to change your relations to them. it's just TBC voice interface nicely fits to prayers. Mellis would like to banish them, but he is not powerful enough.

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hm… with "finder AI" the game drifts back to "nintendo hard" territory. i used to relaxed playing — just rushing into monsters… and now it doesn't work anymore. also, i used to simply throw away things i don't need… DON'T! those bastards WILL pick them up! now it's IVAN i love!

playing with "item-collecting" monsters if more fun, but harder too. i never realised how dumb they are: they often spawned near good equipment, and don't bother to pick it up.

also, more heavy metal sirens with skull helmets. maybe i should add a special kind of song for them…