EXPLAINED: Ways DT save sends me to random other ways room?!

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Jeffery
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EXPLAINED: Ways DT save sends me to random other ways room?!

Post by Jeffery » Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:40 pm

I was told this was a bug, so I am posting it! It cost me two mauls! Saved on DT, then was transported to different ways room. Then DTed because I thought I would be in the same room!

o S HP:Healthy MV:Haggard >
w
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An Island in the Ways
[ obvious exits: N E W U D ]
(wotmudmapper): (error): Caution. Direction n leads to an unknown room.
(wotmudmapper): (error): Caution. Direction w leads to an unknown room.
(wotmudmapper): (error): Caution. Direction u leads to an unknown room.
Zone: The Ways

o S HP:Healthy MV:Haggard >
A Badly Damaged Span

Ack...!
WHEW!! You narrowly avoid certain death there, and retreat back to safety!!!

Approaching a Vine-Carved Door
[ obvious exits: N S U D ]
(wotmudmapper): (error): No matches found.

o S HP:Healthy MV:Haggard >
score
You have 368(368) hit and 17(241) movement points.
You have scored 108500001 experience points and 286 quest points.
You need 1727319362 exp to level and 114 qp to rank.
You have amassed 174 Turn points to date.
You have played 4 days and 6 hours (real time).
This ranks you as Jeffery the Revolting Torturer [Dhai'mon 5] (Level 51).
You are standing.

o S HP:Healthy MV:Haggard >

Ominous winds carry screams, howling songs, melodies to die for...


o S HP:Healthy MV:Haggard >

Invader narrates 'dfo easy'

o S HP:Healthy MV:Haggard >
d
A Badly Damaged Span
[ obvious exits: ]
(wotmudmapper): (error): No matches found.
You are dead! Sorry...

Adael
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Re: Ways DT save sends me to random other ways room?!

Post by Adael » Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:50 pm

Don't think it's a bug, but maybe not common knowledge that surviving the DT check will move you somewhere else in the ways.

Elysia
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Re: Ways DT save sends me to random other ways room?!

Post by Elysia » Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:33 pm

I wonder if it's not just a Ways thing. Maybe other deathtraps with multiple entrances/ exits do the same?

Aureus
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Re: Ways DT save sends me to random other ways room?!

Post by Aureus » Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:45 pm

Yup, not a bug. DTs will send you randomly to one of the rooms that lead into that DT. In the case of the Ways, this can be almost any room. You leapt to safety! But not necessarily where you came from.

Draz
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Re: Ways DT save sends me to random other ways room?!

Post by Draz » Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:06 am

Highly recommend always always checking exits before moving in the ways, even if you know them.

The /only/ time not doing this is justified is if you already know the layout and are going to die if you don’t.

Many DTs have a % chance of survival, in the ways this shunts you out into another room in the ways.

Check your exits, never walk into a blackened span.

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