[CF-Devel] Increased object information idea.

[Henric Karlsson]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Mark Wedel wrote:

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        I'm thinking that if a player examines an _identified_ item, that perhaps some
     
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      additional information that is not currently included should be.
     
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        This would be things like the sp regeneration penalty, spell encumbrance, max
     
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      speed allowed by armor, and base weapon speed.
     
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        Some of these are very easy to figure out (apply armor or weapon and you know
     
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      the speeds they give).  The sp regen penalty is much trickier - you can sort of
     
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      empirically find it out through a bit of work.
     
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        My thought here is to make it a little easier to evaluate what really is good
     
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      armor vs what is bad armor if your a spellcaster.  This will probably also make
     
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      it easier for new players (if the equipment since spell regen penalty 5, that
     
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      may be some clue why it takes so long to get sp back).
     
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        The argument against this would be that not knowing the exact values is part
     
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      of the game.  And there can certainly be some truth behind that opinion.
     
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I think this might be a good idea as well. It's always nice to be able to
get the info in-game instead of looking at spoilers or code. But I think
it should be fairly hard to get the info. How about introducing an other
*identify* scroll, only available as scroll, that shows more info than the
normal identify scroll/spell. This ofcourse implies that every object
keeps track of, if it has been identified or *identified*.

/Henric (aka Gambold)