[CF-Devel] Thoughts on partial protections

[Pertti Karppinen (OH6KTR)]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:24:11PM -0800, Peter Mardahl wrote:
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      In general, I think the partial protection code which Mark has done
     
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      has been very beneficial.
     
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      1)  I use protection spells now.  I never used them before.
     
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      2)  Monsters can have (and have been given) greater protection vs.
     
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          area effect spells instead of either useless 50% protection or
     
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          total immunity.
     
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      3)  Items are ever so much more interesting to mix-and-match for
     
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          the desired protections profile.
     
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      I can't think of any downside to the partial protections.
     
     
I can. With about 100 HP, I quaf down a potion of both cold and fire
resistance, after making earth walls around me but one direction, pull the
lever and have just enough time to cast word of recall to get out a live from
/pup_land/kurte/eureca_road1.
20 chinese dragon vs. 90% cold resistance is worth shit.
And as people in their great wisdom made spells non cumulative, You cannot
boost Your hp's with con spells. And potions are so rare, it takes ages to
get You con up to it's max.
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