[crossfire] Create food / alchemy abuse?

[Mark Wedel]

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

  The simplest is perhaps to disallow the player from specifying what to create 
with the create food command (without options right now, it will try to create 
the best food, via food value, anyways).

  Note however that booze is very common.  Mandrake root is rarer, but can still 
be found now and again in shops - even buying from a shop, probably still make 
money in the deal.

  Another option would be to make it more difficult to make cure disease potions.

  However, these last two options aren't all that appealing - we don't really 
want to make it really hard to make alchemy items.