[CF-Devel] Enchant Armour scrolls

[David Hurst]

As a side note, if no one responds I change it.. this is my policy so if
you have an opinion on this somewhat key items, speak now or forever
hold your peace.

dnh


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      I propose to reduce the effects of these, curently I find a player can
     
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      easily get to 99.999.... % armour at which point there own bombs no
     
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      longer hurt and no monsters physical attack can do anything more then
     
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      sneeze a hp point off every few minutes.
     
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      in apply.c there is this code:
     
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      apply.c:    new_armour = armour->resist[ATNR_PHYSICAL] +
     
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      armour->resist[ATNR_PHY
     
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      SICAL]/25 + op->level/20 + 1;
     
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      apply.c:    if (new_armour > 90)
     
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      apply.c:        new_armour = 90;
     
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      apply.c:    if (armour->magic >= (op->level / 10 + 1)
     
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      apply.c:        || new_armour > op->level)
     
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      apply.c:        new_draw_info(NDI_UNIQUE, 0,op,"to improve this
     
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      armour.");
     
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      apply.c:    if (new_armour > armour->resist[ATNR_PHYSICAL]) {
     
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      apply.c:        armour->resist[ATNR_PHYSICAL] = new_armour;
     
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      apply.c:        armour->weight += armour->weight * 0.05;
     
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      apply.c:        new_draw_info(NDI_UNIQUE, 0,op,"The armour value of this
     
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      equipme
     
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      nt");
     
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      If I simply change the 90's to 60's this should greatly reduce the
     
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      problem. I haven't tested how useful -40 AC is as I suspect most
     
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      monsters can still hit you, if this is a problem I will try and find a
     
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      way to reduce this too.
     
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      If anyone has a better idea as to how to do this, ie, making the maximum
     
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      armour some sort of ratio to the initial armour I am all ears. Perhaps
     
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      even increasing the negative effects like increasing the armour weight
     
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      to make the benefits somewhat more offset. This is really only a problem
     
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      for higher level players though.
     
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      dnh
     
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