[CF-Devel] Features suggestions

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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Mark Wedel wrote:

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      > But are functions actually checking an item's name that many? I think
     
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      > for instance the god enchanting weapon one (to punish you if you have an
     
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      > item of another god), but are there others?
     
     
Altars and alchemy at least.

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      > Also, i'll point out that the prepare weapon actually changes the name
     
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      > (weapon->name) of the prepared item, so changing an item's name isn't
     
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      > that bad apparently ^_^
     
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Even this restricted naming can be abused :
1. Calculate the hash value of a formula with rare ingredients.
2. Calculate the hash value of cheap weapon eg. club.
3. Make character with appropriate name.
Now you can make this formula with
1 club, 1 gem, 1 prepare weapon.

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        Note that the other advantage of a new field is that the original name is
     
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      always available (for example, if someone did make a quest where you had to
     
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      sacrifice the bag of valhalla, which is a special item, but a player renamed the
     
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      bag of valhalla, he could be somewhat screwed).  Since sacrifices would still
     
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      deal with the items real name, that wouldn't be an issue.
     
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     Even worse:  some player might rename some crap (eg. scroll)
"bag of valhalla" .
The altar would accept the item if it can't know the real name.
Even allowing to set the title would be extremely abusive concerning
alchemy.
So, i think, the extra field is necessary.

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