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Currently, the NPC_SELFDESTRUCT skill is the *only* skill that uses the "area-of-effect damage" code, which is a pretty messy thousand lines of code.

Some questions:

• Does this actually work? I haven't observed it, but then I play an archer. I do seem to recall some sort of complaints, I'm kind of fuzzy on exactly what (and might be confusing it with magic summons).
• Do we actually want self-destruct to damage beings other than the attacker?

The mobs that use this are:

• 1092 SlimeBlast
• 1093 WhiteSlime
• 1049 Bee
• 1070 BallLightning

Skill works, but server not send packet to client what skill was used.

cody wrote:

o11c wrote:

• Do we actually want self-destruct to damage beings other than the attacker?

It makes things more interesting. This effect makes the snowland slimes very different from the woodland slimes.

I agree and think this feature should be kept.

Jenalya wrote:I agree and think this feature should be kept.

Okay, I'll figure out how a way to do it with new code instead of keeping the old code.

well, I found out what was confusing me ... there are actually two completely separate code paths that are supposed to do self-destruct, but one of them reads and writes arbitrary memory due to ab off-by-two error and but is not actually executed, whereas one is.