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  • [slashem] bug - polymorphed item poly'd to same object seems to not nee

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 26 23:48:17 2022
    I polypile unicorn horns, magic whistles, and empty magic markers to
    get new markers. When an [empty] marker gets polymorphed and becomes
    another marker - identified by vanishing individual "empty" engraving
    and charge information (if identified) - I am able to write scrolls
    as expected, but dipping it into restore ability has no vanishing haze
    effect; it's obviously not necessary to "fix" the marker (to prevent
    it from reverting back). - Maybe intended, maybe a bug?

    Janis

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to Janis on Tue Sep 27 02:20:30 2022
    On Monday, September 26, 2022 at 2:48:37 PM UTC-7, Janis wrote:
    [...] it's obviously not necessary to "fix" the marker (to prevent
    it from reverting back). - Maybe intended, maybe a bug?

    Revert back to what? We've previously established that all
    that is recorded of the original item is its object type (no
    charge count or enchantment, no BUC or erosion state), so
    a magic marker that was polymorphed into another magic
    marker would just "unpolymorph" back to a magic marker
    (and retain its present charge count and recharge counter).

    Presumably because there's no revert effect possible, when
    an object is polymorphed into the same type of object, the
    code to set a revert timer skips doing such and the 'old type'
    isn't even recorded. After that, it isn't even treated as a
    polymorphed object so dipping won't give the "less hazy"
    feedback (or use up the potion--unless dipping into restore
    ability has some other unrelated effect).

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