[crossfire] treasure chests & wealth

[Mark Wedel]

Vernon T Rhyne wrote:

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      This changes (for the negative in my opinion) the other dynamic at work, the
     
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      acquisition of truly rare items.  Since this is basically a lottery at really
     
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      really long odds, these random levels are a significant potential source of
     
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      rare items.  If you kill the volume, you dramatically lower the chance at a
     
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      rare item.
     
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      If we're reducing clutter, I'd argue we should increase the value of
     
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      individual-item yield for super-high level treasures.
     
     
  but by that arguement, we should then increase the number of treasures, so it 
is more likely items show up.  But I doubt many people would think that is a 
really good idea.

  Now what could perhaps be done is increase the likelihood of artifact items 
show up slightly based on difficulty of the dungeon.  Right now, I recall the 
likelihood of artifacts (ring of miracles type of thing) is somewhat constant 
based on difficulty - or at least, the chance of a ring becoming a 'special' 
ring is constant - some items do require minimum map difficulty levels.