ToME WikiKhymChanur: From todo.txt is this line:
- ro_info.txt to describe rooms types/ego rooms/art rooms
I assume that "room types" is for rooms shapes, like round rooms, and those randomly shaped rooms you get in the Orc Caves. But what are the ego rooms intended to do? I can come up with some guesses:
- Changing the terrain inside the room (lava, water, sand, whatever).
- Placing things inside the room: a room completely filled with traps, a room with lots of fountains, a room with lots of jumpgates, etc
- Affecting the monsters and/or player while inside the room: increasing or decreasing mana/HP regeneration, increasing/decreasing breeding rate, increasing energy consumption for momevent, etc (like the special room types in ADOM)
- Having an effect on player/monsters when entering or leaving the room.
Also, what would artifact rooms be? Like ego rooms, but only generated once? Never generated again if the player enters them?
TheFalcon: Oh, I like the sound of this! (Would princess rooms be included here, so they could be flagged / more easily edited??)
KhymChanur: I asked DarkGod about this, and ego rooms will control the shape of the room, the terrain, and the contents (fountains, traps, monsters, items, etc), but the rooms won't have any effects on the monsters or players, unless its from the terrain.