Author Topic: Skinnable corpse - make immune to chain lightning (Read 521 times)

Frendh · « **on:** July 26, 2005, 03:28:00 PM »

If you kill animal with chain, the chain lightning also hits
the skinnable corpse and electrocudes it to nothingness.
The animal and its' corpse is the same "being" so the
chain shouldn't hit it twice. Making the corpses immune
to chain lightning would be an easy (but time consuming?)
way to solve it.

Lalaith Va'lash · « **Reply #1 on:** July 26, 2005, 03:36:00 PM »

Not sure how time consuming that would be.. there are a LOT of skinable creatures..
But anyway, I would think if you killed the animal with lightening .. The skin would be a bit charred.. and your character wouldn't want or even be able to use it to craft with anyway?
Or can you kill it with lightening.. and just not chain lightening?

General_Ski · « **Reply #2 on:** July 26, 2005, 04:23:00 PM »

Well same should supposedly be a result of killing something witha fireball or inferno.. Try drowning them:P

Frendh · « **Reply #3 on:** July 26, 2005, 05:02:00 PM »

For the none magic users.
Chain lightning bounces from target to target.
So it's not the type of damage that's the
problem, but the spell.

You can kill animals with fireballs, scintillating
spheres (elec) etc just fine, as long as there are
no coprses close by when the spell takes effect with
its AoE damage.

Why I don't just do that? Well I do when I can, but in
a group fight or when the animals are guarded by stronger
creatures some people have a very limited choice of spells
to use.

General_Ski · « **Reply #4 on:** July 26, 2005, 05:12:00 PM »

Umm this is a full PvP server. So spells like chain lightning are likely to hurt your party as well.

ZeroVega · « **Reply #5 on:** July 26, 2005, 06:00:00 PM »

Think the point is, something gets whacked by lightning, it's fried. Can't make it stop hitting the corpses, and it'd be unrealistic to make em impervious to lightning so... yeah.

Frendh · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2005, 09:45:00 PM »

well, chain lightning. One spell. Not lightning spells in general.
But still, it's unrealistic.

Diamondedge · « **Reply #7 on:** July 29, 2005, 12:11:00 AM »

I bet it happens because the lightning is at such a high, powerful voltage that it actually disintegrates any useful part of the animal. Venison, anyone?

General_Ski · « **Reply #8 on:** July 29, 2005, 07:44:00 AM »

WHy unrealistic. Lightning takes the shortest/easiest way to the ground. It does not care whether you are alive or not.

Rayenoir · « **Reply #9 on:** July 29, 2005, 08:44:00 AM »

I believe the logic is that in real life, if something dies, it becomes dead. The living thing doesn't despawn and a corpse does not spawn in its place as a new object to be hit, it's the same object. Therefore, the chain lightning shouldn't hit the living thing and then also hit the dead thing, realistically speaking.

General_Ski · « **Reply #10 on:** July 29, 2005, 10:13:00 AM »

Yes it does not despan but it does become charred and unusable as said earlier. Also it can be burned by electrical fire... Lesson: don't kill harvestable beasts with chan lightning.

orth · « **Reply #11 on:** July 30, 2005, 12:31:00 AM »

Fixed in next update. Corpses are not immune to lightning, just delayed the creation of the corpse by half a second so the chain can go through without hitting the corpse too.