[CF-Devel] Calamity (the sword)

[Andreas Vogl]

on Wed, 13 Sep 2000 Peter Mardahl wrote:
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      So I've made that weapon considerably less potent.  I don't anticipate
     
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      making any other changes.  It gives +2 Str, +2 Pow -4 Cha, dam 35.
     
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      Is +4 stats unreasonable?
     
     
I´d say +4 stats is okay. It´s still powerfull considering that an
additional +26 stats can be added via enchantment. If that is
too much one should probably blame the enchanting rules, not Calamity
anymore.

referring to Jan Echternach:
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      I would give it Pow+1 Int+1 or Pow+1 Wis+1 instead of Pow+2, because
     
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      Pow+2 weapons make it much easier to get Pow 30, IMHO.
     
     
As long as one can add +26 stats to ("none-magic") weapons, getting
Pow 30 will always be a piece ´a cake...

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      > As Pertti Karppinen mentioned in another mail, there are numerous
     
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      > Lord Spectres on those random maps. Thus one can collect about
     
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      > 50 Clamities in five minutes. So when you´re at it, maybe you
     
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      > could make a unique final map instead, with only one Spectre and
     
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      > one Calamity. However, your map - your descision what to do...
     
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      If by "unique" you mean "only one person may solve the map, ever", uh,
     
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      no. I'm very disinclined to make quests that can only be done once,
     
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      though I've no problem making quests which can only be done once by
     
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      a particular character.
     
     
Oh no! By "unique final map" I meant a final map that is not random,
that can be done once per reboot. With one Lord Spectre as final "boss",
just like most of the other random map quests. I found it a bit
irritating that one could collect insane numbers of a valuable artifact
in a short period of time. That was what I intended to say.
(A unique map that can only be done once ever, that would be idiotic
indeed!)

I´d say forget about it. It isn´t that important. You´ve done
enough by toning the Calamity down. Let´s better focus on the immunity
issue and try to find a consensus there :-)


Andreas V.

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