[crossfire] Random ideas.

[Andreas Kirschbaum]

Mark Wedel wrote:
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      1) Basing success of potons on overall level to me isn't good - base
     
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      it on the overall stats of the player or something. If I'm a sucky
     
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      player and don't do the right dungeons to get a bunch of potions to
     
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      level 30, I'd hate to effectively be punished for that fact by not
     
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      being able to use those potions.
     
     
I was unclear here: the level array has one slow for each level (right
now up to level 10, after my proposed change up to max level). I meant
that (for example) an "improvement potion (lvl 15)" can successfully max
out one slot up to level 15 (probably choose the highest
not-yet-maxed-out slot up to slot 15). That means, it does not matter if
you find such a potion at level 15, or if you are unlucky and find it
not before level 30 -- it always maxes out slot 15 (or below). OTOH, if
you find it when you are still below level 15, it may be useful to save
it for later use.


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      2) I'm not sure what increasing the level arrays to 115 really does
     
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      relative to improvment potions, and/or I don't see how that wouldn't
     
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      make characters more powerful.
     
     
Here I have to clarify my thoughts, too: of course, I didn't mean to
just increase the level array size and hope nothing changes. Currently
you get 2 hp for each level you gain (beyond level 10). Each slot in the
levhp array maxes out at a value of 9. Therefore, I'd thought to replace

	for(i=11;i<=op->level;i++)
	    op->stats.maxhp+=2;

by something like

	for(i=11;i<=op->level;i++)
	    op->stats.maxhp+=(op->contr->levhp[i]+1)/5;

(And similar changes for levsp and levgrace.)

That means, the character will not become more powerful. He just has to
quaff a suitable improvement potion to actually get the 2 hp for his
newly gained level.


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      And the fact that improvement potions loose usefulness isn't as big a
     
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      deal to me as stat potions (the fact that improvement potions show up
     
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      in shops also make me reluctant to make a change - if they are always
     
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      useful, players will always snatch them up. Stat potions OTOH can only
     
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      be found in dungeons)
     
     
I see. But is there a reason that improvement potions have to show up in
shops at all?

Or: is there an (easy) means to restrict improvement potions showing up
in shops to have a level not more than 10? That way the really useful
(high-level) improvement potions would show up only in dungeons.


And regarding to the improvement potions being snatched up: that should
be no more a problem than currently, because after some time low-level
improvement potions will not have any effect for you. Therefore
low-level improvement potions should remain being much more available
than high-level ones.