[crossfire] Spellcasting Swords progress

[Mark Wedel]

Alex Schultz wrote:

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      I'm trying to make it show up randomly. Since the e-mail you're replying 
     
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      to, I've found a nice solution: create another python script that runs 
     
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      when it's applied which generates a rod if it doesn't already have one, 
     
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      and it is generated based upon parameters given the event options of the 
     
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      script. This seems to work quite nicely, and and still allows map makers 
     
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      to just put the rod in via the map if they want (which I see as easier 
     
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      for map makers).
     
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      The only issue I'm running into now, is where the best place to insert 
     
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      such items into the treasurelists to make them randomly appear. I do 
     
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      know of several places that would work technically, but I'm not sure 
     
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      which is the most proper and from what I see chance values add up to 100 
     
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      so I would have to change existing ones so I'm not sure of the best way 
     
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      to do that.
     
     
  Probably best to find existing weapons in the treasurelist and reduce the 
chance of those.

  Note that the total value of the chance fields in a treasurelist does not need 
to be 100%.  Look at the doc/Developers/objects for more about treasures.  Briefly:

If if it is a 'treasureone' type list, one item is generated.  At load time, the 
server sums out the chance fields - they don't have to sum to 100, probably just 
habit that they do.

  If it is a 'treasure' list, then the chance field is the percentage chance of 
each object showing up.  In a normal treasure list, you can get 20 items from 
one list showing up.