[crossfire] treasure chests & wealth

[Mitch Obrian]

Is difficulty calculated by the server or must it be
set in the headers btw?

--- Mark Wedel <
     
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      Vernon T Rhyne wrote:
     
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      > This changes (for the negative in my opinion) the
     
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      other dynamic at work, the
     
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      > acquisition of truly rare items.  Since this is
     
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      basically a lottery at really
     
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      > really long odds, these random levels are a
     
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      significant potential source of
     
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      > rare items.  If you kill the volume, you
     
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      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
     
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      increase the value of
     
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      > individual-item yield for super-high level
     
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      treasures.
     
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        but by that arguement, we should then increase the
     
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      number of treasures, so it 
     
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      is more likely items show up.  But I doubt many
     
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      people would think that is a 
     
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      really good idea.
     
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        Now what could perhaps be done is increase the
     
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      likelihood of artifact items 
     
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      show up slightly based on difficulty of the dungeon.
     
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       Right now, I recall the 
     
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      likelihood of artifacts (ring of miracles type of
     
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      thing) is somewhat constant 
     
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      based on difficulty - or at least, the chance of a
     
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      ring becoming a 'special' 
     
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      ring is constant - some items do require minimum map
     
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      difficulty levels.
     
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