[crossfire] Create food / alchemy abuse?

[Mitch Obrian]

This sounds like a rather good solution!


--- Alex Schultz <
     
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      Nicolas Weeger wrote:
     
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      > Same player on Metalforge that reported talisman
     
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      issue also showed 
     
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      > alchmy-related one.
     
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      > Player can easily use 'create mandrake root', and
     
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      'create booze' and 
     
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      > things like that to make potions of cure disease.
     
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      > Thus again much money gained, for a real low risk.
     
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      > I thought items created with 'create food' were
     
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      god-given?
     
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      Both I and eracc (poof or galahad on MF) have known
     
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      about the fact that 
     
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      "create food" items being usable for alchemy for a
     
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      long while now. 
     
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      Neither of us have really considered it a bug. We've
     
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      done it for things 
     
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      like water of the wise and some others, but those
     
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      alone aren't very 
     
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      profitable, though they are good for getting parts
     
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      for other alchemy 
     
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      recipes. It seems you've stumbled across a highly
     
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      profitable one 
     
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      compared to the ones eracc and I have been using for
     
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      making alchemy parts.
     
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      I don't consider this to be bug that create food
     
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      spells can be used in 
     
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      alchemy, however I'm thinking that something need to
     
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      be done to increase 
     
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      risk to those using it. One possible solution to
     
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      this that I just 
     
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      thought of, would be making the items made by create
     
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      food cursed a 
     
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      portion of the time to mess up people trying to
     
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      abuse it for alchemy (as 
     
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      those who do alchemy should know well... throwing
     
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      cured items into the 
     
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      mix can sure mess somebody up)
     
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             Alex Schultz (aka Rednaxela)
     
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