[CF-Devel] discussing... race vulns.

[Peter Mardahl]

Leave it as it is.  It can wait until AV's patch goes in.
Mark, this is a patch to improve balance.  May it go in before
1.0?

PeterM


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      > Well after all that, is it okay if I change all the players that have
     
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      > anything >20 on the three major resistances to have it reduced?
     
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      > These monsters include,
     
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      > wraith -> fire -30
     
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      > fireborn -> cold -30
     
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      > Q -> cold -30
     
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      > troll -> fire -30
     
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      > The reason being it is simply to much to have players not being able to
     
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      > reach even 80. Although 80 in itself is not alot, if the player wants to
     
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      > try some of the harder maps, potions of frost and lava will give cold and
     
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      > fire +95 which should be enough.
     
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      I've already written a patch to make protection spells overrule race
     
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      vulnerabilities. (only the "protection from xxx"-spells, not holy word
     
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      or blessings!)
     
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      For example:
     
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      o I play a troll with fire -30, then I cast "protection from
     
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        fire" which has a bonus of fire +20 (level dependant). => My race vuln is
     
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        reduced from -30 to -10 temporarily.
     
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      o I play a troll with fire -30 and cast protection from fire, with
     
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        fire +45. => My race vuln is reduced to 0, and I get an additional
     
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        protection of +15 (the latter calculated with diminishing return).
     
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      o I play northman with cold +30, or human for example.
     
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        => Everything works like it used to be.
     
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      I know, having protection spells overrule race vulns isn't very logical,
     
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      but concerning gameplay and balance I think it really is the best we can do:
     
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      Since those spells are only temporare, race vulns are still nasty.
     
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      But they no longer hinder a character to develop properly and have fun.
     
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      Besides, the protection spell gets increased bonus and duration at
     
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      higher levels, a nice motivation to advance in wisdom. At some point,
     
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      a player can reach the "break even" where his protection spell completely
     
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      negates the race vuln...
     
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      Considered that spellpath-attunements and WIS-stat also affects the bonus
     
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      of protection spells, this could be a lot of fun.
     
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      Anyways, Mark will surely not want me to check in that patch before V1.0.
     
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      Hence, darth bob you can do what you want for now. But I guess the vulns
     
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      will be turned up to the old values after 1.0, if my patch is accepted.
     
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      Andreas V.
     
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