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Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Lighting a fire on a spreadable tile needs a confirmation dialog #17821

Closed ZombiesAreUs closed 7 years ago

ZombiesAreUs commented 8 years ago

After accidentally setting a house on fire trying to activate a flashlight, I thought that lighting fires could use a confirmation dialog. To make it a bit less tedious braziers, ovens, wood stoves and pits should be exempt.

Zireael07 commented 8 years ago

Neat idea!

Labtop-215 commented 8 years ago

Do pits and deep pits contain fires now?

pisskop commented 8 years ago

im against.

all these confirmation checks slow down the game.

broken windows are a large part of early game, for instance, and its tedium because you should be aware of that minor danger.

same with lighting a bush on fire. :/

most ooc fires are spread by items, not terrain

Coolthulhu commented 8 years ago

all these confirmation checks slow down the game.

I agree, for many of those there should be a different kind of warning. For fires on spreadable tiles, I'd rather implement the ability to stomp out small fires.

broken windows are a large part of early game, for instance, and its tedium because you should be aware of that minor danger.

I disagree, it's hard to tell broken window with glass and without glass in console mode when it's dark or when it's covered in blood.

Zireael07 commented 8 years ago

I play tiles build in ASCII mode and I can't differentiate between the window with glass and w/o.

Also, I haven't seen a fire spread by items but I have seen two flamethrower-wielding NPC induced fires burning down terrain (with no items in-between)

pisskop commented 8 years ago

do you why i smash windows twice? its not because im afraid of 2 ho damage or a 2% chance if cutting clothing, its because itd tedious, a hassle, to press 'yes', i really do want to go through the window and escape the 15 zombie conga line behind me.

its tedium, its inconcenience, the risk of windows is minimal the reward semantic.

even rubble. id argue that losing your balance is only common when already under attack.

Fire spreads when you light wooden terrain and you dont have a brazier or oven or stove over that tile. :|

fire is still a primary early game weapon. early game is the most interesting part of cdda, and its being watered down by extraneous keystrokes.

perhaps an option to turn on a 'safe mode' wouod be better than having to confirm these. or walking onto thin gas with a filter mask on. the chance of choking on non-max intensity gas with a filter mask on is so low I cant recall the last time its happened, but i still have to waste keystrokes confirming the action. it rips you out of the action.

Coolthulhu commented 8 years ago

its tedium, its inconcenience, the risk of windows is minimal the reward semantic.

At the moment being cut on a window can cause a disease, which hits pretty hard if you have no means to cure it.

But I agree, the keypresses (and the disease) are too much. Maybe if there was a faster way to confirm dialogs?

pisskop commented 8 years ago

walking/sprinting comes to mind.

sprinters ignore safety warnings

illi-kun commented 7 years ago

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