enemies fighting petrified statues

caruga

Observed behaviour: I picked a fight with the lich behind that wall in the pub. Had Viconia disrupt his spellcasting and he failed to protect from evil and wound up in a battle with his pit fiend. He managed to petrify his fiend and then proceeded to waste a lot of his spellcasting on the fiend (and a summoned efreet of his also fought the statue) after the fact instead of turning to fight me.

Expected behaviour: The AI should be smarter than this and not waste time on statues. Maybe if the monster is dumb/unintelligent (< int 3, golem, etc) an exception could be made.

Galactygon

Simple solution, fix the petrification opcode so that it overrides the EA of .cre to become inanimate, graphically remove the foot circle (but still allow the targeting of single-target spells), and to disrupt ongoing targeting as if they had died.

If it were me, I would change parts of the petrification opcode:
- only physical damage would affect the petrified statue
- the statue wouldn't be broken apart by one hit, and would have hitpoints dependant on the size of the creature (this is debateable)

SharGuidesMyHand

Solution: revel in the fact that the lich isn't after you. ;-)

AndreaColombo

@Galactygon - Was this ever reported in the beta forum and/or Redmine? I like your ideas a lot and I wouldn't mind to see it implemented.

AndreaColombo

Redmined.