[Request] Customizable waiting duration

[vi]

If a fast hero waits an enemy at the door, pressing "wait" should only wait for enough time for enemy to appear at the door, not also attack or walk away.

[Smujb]

Are you sure the enemy wasn't hasted or a Crab and you weren't slowed? The wait button is bound 100% of the time to "spendAndNext(1f)" with nothing complicated going on in the background. The only way this could be happening is:

• The game thought you long-pressed (could be a bug in the code or on your end)
• The Actor system is broken (very unlikely)
• The delay was not bugged, but affected by external factors eg mob/player speed factor (note that wearing armour you don't have enough strength for contributes to the last one)

[vi]

Probably it's because of while pressing the wait button I sometimes want to wait for less than 1 full move. Instead I want to wait for the next event.

This happens with the Ring of Haste more.

[Smujb]

Ah okay. Well, that'd be super difficult to program. I suppose I could try to add a way to wait half a turn, or have a customizable wait length.

[Smujb]

Keeping the issue open as a suggestion not a bug report, as it's not a bug but is potentially an interesting QoL feature

[vi]

Well, that'd be super difficult to program.

Long-press wait typically waits until something happens, i.e. enemy is noticed.

Maybe short-press wait should be like long-press wait, but not more than 1 full move?

Another idea is to wait until current move number becomes integer (i.e. that circular thing at the top shows no fractional move status), then waiting for 1 full turn if it is already integer.

[Smujb]

That last one could certainly work. As for the first, that would still be difficult to program because of the way resting is implemented (badly)

[vi]

Can't there be resting + an "alarm clock" for 1 move ahead.

[Smujb]

Not really... ? The game just sets "resting" to true, it doesn't know when a turn has passed, needs a callback to be called from elsewhere to say an enemy has arrived.

[vi]

For example, resting automatically stops when "Starving" buff appears.

Maybe "alarm clock" can also be implemented as a hidden technical buff?

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Maybe the proper place to fix it is Shattered Pixel Dungeon - the problem is also reproducible there and Powered merges back changes from it.

Fixing it in Shattered would avoid upstream discrepancy, unless Shattered readily accepts fixes from downstream projects.

[Smujb]

Yes, but other factors affect duration of buffs and it would be unlikely to spend exactly a turn as all actors are desynced from each other. You'd spend like .999999999 or 1.00000001 of a turn.

[vi]

Shouldn't .999999999 or 1.00000001 of a turn be considered equivalent - they are both almost "1.0".

When in doubt, waiting should err on the side of waiting less rather than more.

[Smujb]

No. No actor in the system has the same time. The difference is entirely random and out of my control, unless I add a manual exception for it like the hero always acting first which would get messy reallly fast.

[vi]

I often notice that short-pressing the wait button makes enemies that are typically moving one tile at a time move two tiles, as if it waits for 1.5-2 full moves instead.