Scorches
Parsed smudge list that the engine never uses.
The engine accepts and loads it, but no gameplay code uses the stored value.
- Applies to
- global rules
- File
rules.ini- Section
[CombatDamage]- Value
- typelist
- When omitted
(empty)- Used by the game
- No — loaded but not used
Scorch marks are not chosen from this list. When an animation that scorches the ground settles on it, the engine gathers every registered smudge type carrying Burn=yes that will fit the cell, weighs the size of the marks against the size of the blast, and picks one of the survivors at random. A smudge type reaches that pool through its own setting alone, whether or not it is named here.
The section carries five of these lists — this one and Scorches1 through Scorches4 — and each is stored in its own place. Nothing reads any of them, and nothing distinguishes one from another.
Naming a smudge the game does not already know still registers one of that name, so an entry here can add an artless smudge type to the game without the list ever placing it.