On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Talies the Wanderer wrote:

> From: <kim@...>
> >
> >Did anyone else notice the "you feel as if you are about to
> >become visible" message with invisibility? Of course Clouding
> >pulsed again before I became visible. I have to wonder if
> >this fix (message 5 sec before invisibility blinks off) didn't
> >just make Clouding 100% reliable...
>
> What do you mean 100% reliable? Explain for the slow members of our
> audience (ie, ME.)

Previously, invisibility had a chance of flickering off at any
time. Since there are 6 seconds between invisibility pulses,
that is 6 seconds of vulnerability between pulses.

Now there's a message that appears a set amount of time before
it flickers off. For this to work, the game must determine
that your invisibility will flicker off, give you the message,
wait a set amount of time, then flicker off. I noticed that
when I got the message, my invisibility did *not* flicker off.
So it seems our song pulses "refreshes" the invisibility and
overrides this determination that it will flicker off.

So if the time between the message and flickering is 5
seconds, with 6 second pulses, that leaves 6 - 5 = 1 second of
vulnerability to this happening. If the time for the message
is 6 seconds or more, our invisibility can never flicker off
because it will *always* be "refreshed" before it can flicker
off.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...