Alignment abuse balance issue

[liferooter]

EvilHack alignment abuse mechanics make alignment abuse very unforgivable. Unfortunately, attacking a peaceful monster, which is the most common source of alignment abuse, is extremely hard to prevent for some role-race-alignment combinations. Although some scenaries are pretty obvious (e.g. human wizard with no infravision casting spells into a monster coming from darkness, but the darkness contains a peaceful monster) and can be avoided in theory, some are ridiculously hard to avoid (e.g. a peaceful invisible ghost gets angry if the player bumps into it without seeing it).

Unfortunately, some character creation choices (e.g. being a vampire) cause alignment abuse be critical and impossible to avoid at the same time.

Is it truly a balance issue, or maybe I'm wrong and alignment abuse was supposed to be extremely annoying mechanic?

[k21971]

Been thinking about the 'bumping into a peaceful monster' bit for awhile now. I have a couple ideas in mind to maybe change what kind of penalty (if any) is incurred if that happens.

Unfortunately, some character creation choices (e.g. being a vampire) cause alignment abuse be critical and impossible to avoid at the same time.

That's not true. There are a handful of 'never abused alignment' ascensions already. Some races/roles are harder to pull off than others, but not impossible.

Is it truly a balance issue, or maybe I'm wrong and alignment abuse was supposed to be extremely annoying mechanic?

There's nothing in this variant that was designed to purposely be annoying. More challenging? Absolutely. If you ever get to a point where you feel like you can relax and just coast (e.g. vanilla nethack after finishing the castle level) then I have more work to do.

[liferooter]

Some races/roles are harder to pull off than others, but not impossible.

Well, when I said that it's impossible I ment that its possibility depends on randomness and the player can do nothing with it, because the player can do nothing with randomly bumping into an invisible peaceful ghost. On the other hand, it's pretty common for NetHack/EvilHack to have some not-fully-avoidable and inherently random-dependent challanges and as long as they're not fatal it's ok I guess. Maybe that's just my vanilla-5.0-poisoned mind that expects that no random should make me face 25k-zorkmid difficulties without my direct fault.

Although I still feel like vampire being too conscientious about randomly hurting some undeads hidden in their way is at least pretty awkward and lore-inaccurate :)