Drow sneak oddness

Character: Shev
Published: 2004-08-22 15:28 UTC

Description

As a drow, I sneak automatically. As an assassin, I have the sneak skill, which my drowness sets at 100%. Normally, I just sneak, without any sneaking listed on my affect list. When I type sneak, though, sneak is added to my affect list, with the same duration as assassin sneak, but isn't removed in combat just like drow sneak isn't. When that sneak runs out, I stop sneaking. Unless I type sneak again, I walk around like a non-sneaky human for an hour. On the next tick, drow autosneak sneaks in again. Is this by design? Are there advantages to sneak that autosneak doesn't have, so that sneaking with the sneak skill makes you sneakier? Or is it a sneak bug? Sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak. Sneak. Sneak.

Comments

Carrion Fields on 2004-08-22 15:28 UTC

Automatically imported from the legacy bug board forum.
Zulghinlour on 2004-08-22 16:39 UTC

Subject: By design

As a drow, I sneak automatically. As an assassin, I have the
sneak skill, which my drowness sets at 100%. Normally, I just
sneak, without any sneaking listed on my affect list.

Which is what you're supposed to do.

When I
type sneak, though, sneak is added to my affect list, with the
same duration as assassin sneak, but isn't removed in combat
just like drow sneak isn't. When that sneak runs out, I stop
sneaking. Unless I type sneak again, I walk around like a
non-sneaky human for an hour. On the next tick, drow
autosneak sneaks in again. Is this by design?

Yes, this is by design. Why type sneak, when you already do autosneak?

Are there
advantages to sneak that autosneak doesn't have, so that
sneaking with the sneak skill makes you sneakier? Or is it a
sneak bug?

No...there are advantages to autosneak that sneak doesn't have, namely, you don't have to ever type sneak.