Fear ability - what's wrong ?

[Noyga]

I tried to implement this (a more complete code is here : http://bluebloup.free.fr/wesnoth/fear.cfg)

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#define ABILITY_FEAR_LEVEL_2
	[leadership]
		id=fear
		value=-50
		cumulative=no
		name= _ "fear"
		description= _ "Fear:
This unit can frighten enemy units that are next to it, making them fight worse.

Adjacent enemy units of lower level will do less damage in battle. When a unit adjacent to, of a lower level than, and is an enemy of the unit with Fear engages in combat, its attacks do 25% less damage times the difference in their levels."
		affect_self=no
		affect_allies=no
		affect_enemies=yes
		[affect_adjacent]
			adjacent=n,ne,se,s,sw,nw
			[filter]
				level=0
			[/filter]
		[/affect_adjacent]
	[/leadership]
	[leadership]
		id=fear
		value=-25
		cumulative=no
		affect_self=no
		affect_allies=no
		affect_enemies=yes
		[affect_adjacent]
			adjacent=n,ne,se,s,sw,nw
			[filter]
				level=1
			[/filter]
		[/affect_adjacent]
	[/leadership]
#enddef

Btw, it looks that it doesn't have any effect
Does anyone see what is wrong (if it is not a bug in wesnoth) ?

[Xan]

It's a bug; rather easy to fix, though, so I'll do it as soon as I have time.

[Jetrel]

By the way, gentlemen - I just wanted to applaud your work towards generalizing abilities and such. I'd hoped for this way back in the day, and now it's coming to fruition. Thanks.

[Elvish_Pillager]

I'll take the opportunity to join Jetryl in applause. I don't think I've properly thanked you(pl) yet for these wonderful new toys for WMLers like me.

[fmunoz]

The -100 to damage if a level 0 attacks a 3rd level seems a bit too much...a -50% should be the maximun damage reduction.

Defensive powers should be never as powerfull as offensive ones otherwise no point in combat (remember those old pesky guardian dwarves).

[Noyga]

You're right it's way too strong at high levels.
Btw it was currenlty more a test to see if it works than something balanced...