[crossfire] Item power/enchantment question

[Mark Wedel]

Nicolas Weeger (Laposte) wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Regarding bug 
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1612838&group_id=13833&atid=113833 
> (Problem with item_power code), I'm wondering if there is somewhere 
> documentation about what item power and enchantment are supposed to do? :)
> 
> So we can fix as the documentation says it should work, or fix the 
> documentation ^_-

  The armor improvement code appears to be broken.

  IIRC, the weapon improvement codes does this more properly - each time an item 
is further enchanted, it just adds one to the items current item power.

  This perhaps isn't perfect (since the automatic method is sort of 
exponential), but seems fair.  It could be reasonable that some forms of 
enchantment are more valuable than others, and so should perhaps increase the 
item power by more than one.