Re: Spell descriptions in manual

Malte Helmert wrote:

The Wanderer wrote:

Emmet Jao wrote:

I'm kind of curious: why were the range, damage, and duration
removed from the spell descriptions in the manual?


IIRC, he said that he did it because he'd added the automatic
calculation of ranges and so forth in the spell display and he
didn't want to have to update things in two different places if he
changed them later on.

Yes, that's how it was. 

Of course, he *already* had (and, probably still has) to change them in
two places: the one which calculates the actual effect when casting the
spell and either (previously) the one in the manual or (currently) the
one in the auto-calculating display. But at least this way he doesn't
have to change *three* places.

I'd have preferred to still have them included, since (if nothing
else) the range formulae also apply to mindcraft which doesn't have
the same automatic calculation feature, but I can see his reasons.


It would probably make sense to include the formulae in the
Guidebook, now that they are no longer in the manual.


Yeah, that'd probably be a good idea.

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