Acid & Drain Re: [CF-Devel] DB's wish list

[Tim Rightnour]

On 10-Dec-01 Mark Wedel wrote:
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       I think a more interesting approach would be to remove such a cap, but
     
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      perhaps
     
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      make a chance of an item being destroyed.  Maybe allow all armor up to +2 and
     
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      weapons to +4 for sure, but after that, impose some percentage of failure
     
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      (like
     
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      15) for each plus.  So to make that armor +3 implies a 15% chance of failure.
     
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      To make it from +3 to +4 means 30%, etc.  This effectively puts a cap on it
     
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      at
     
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      +9 (but you had a 90% chance of failure to go form +8 to +9). It gives
     
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      players
     
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      with lots of money something to try for if they want.
     
     
In nethack.. the formula for determining what you can enchant is a bit simpler:

up to +5 is free, you can enchant with 0 risk.  After that the chances go up
exponentially.  It's very difficult to get a +10 weapon, or beyond, but its
possible with some luck.  I don't remember the exact formula.. but it never
becomes 0.

I wonder though.. If I have a pile of two longswords, and improve weapon them,
does it only enchant one, or both?

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