Just low level creatures with poor_old and standard_old use the bronze lists (though sometimes a good helmet etc does show up). This makes treasure chests accually usefull and exciting to find. --- Mark Wedel < mwedel at sonic.net > wrote: > Tim Rightnour wrote: > > > Now.. going bronze has one impact on this. If you > create say, 1000pp worth of > > iron weapons, of various artifact/quality/value.. > ie, some given set of iron > > crap totalling 1000pp, and then create the exact > same set in bronze, the bronze > > set will only be worth 600pp. (or whatever, I > don't remember the ratios > > anymore). Since the value of the artifact > multipliers is based on the base > > value of the original weapon, by making it bronze > you drop the total value. > > If you then use bronze more widely than iron, it > will drop the total money that > > can be made by doing so, which is probably a > non-trivial amount. > > Right, but presumably, iron weapons will still > show up occasionally also, > right? Eg, it may be the case that most orcs come > with bronze weapons, but > you'd think that leader types or occassionaly an orc > will show up with an iron > weapon (an ideal ratio for that I'm not sure). But > I'd also note that one thing > I always find neat is actually finding that cool > weapon that I'll actually use > vs it showing up in a shop (wow, a +4 longsword!). > So from that perspective, > I'd also think you want iron weapons to show up some > of the time. > > > > > Now, granted.. thats usually not how I made money. > If I wanted lots of $$, I > > usually went into the entrance to a high > difficulty map, and summoned monsters > > and issued killpets over and over to make huge > piles of high level treasure, > > then Id'ed and alchemized it all. > > > > That being said.. summoned monsters should > probably have startequip set on all > > thier stuff. > > Yes, probably so. I think at one point, summoned > monsters came without > treasure, but that created the problem that it made > some summoned monsters > really sucky. > > Alternatively, the value of all such objects the > summoned monster gets could > also just be reset to zero. Thus, they may have > some nice stuff, but it just > isn't worth anything. Although, I like the > startequip idea better - makes more > sense since the monsters are summoned out of thin > air. > > > _______________________________________________ > crossfire-devel mailing list > crossfire-devel at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-devel > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ crossfire-devel mailing list crossfire-devel at lists.real-time.com https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-devel