[CF-Devel] start equipment (RE: town portal)

[Tim Rightnour]

On 28-Feb-02 Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      My proposion for additional start equipment (for all races):
     
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      - An "apple of life", being a potion of life in fact.
     
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        (Description message contains hint about potions of life
     
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        and what they do.)
     
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      - A balm of travelling (WoR, balms never fail - that's
     
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        important for newbies).
     
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      - A decent bunch of lightweight food. Removing the
     
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        infinit food auto-generation on HallOfSelection map
     
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        (it gets heavily abused for earning money).
     
     
I'd take it one step farther, and give them one random artifact, and maybe
something like an amulet of life saving.  I don't know if we have one in the
game, but I'm thinking along the lines of nethack, where it saves your life
once, and vaporizes.  In this way, they can explore a little, and get a hang of
things before getting slaughtered and set back to zero exp.  It gives them a
free learning experience.

Both of these, would obviously dissolve on drop.

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