[crossfire] Game balance: potion of life, healing, cure disease

[Lalo Martins]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:30:34 +0200, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Having just started a new character, I think potions of life / healing /
cure
> disease should be way less expensive than they are now.
>
> My level 8 character died a lot (ok, Navar is a bad starting place). I have
> ~50 plat, potions of life cost ~2500, others are probably the same.
>
> IMO, those potions should be easily findable (ie monsters drop more, or you
> can find them in shops), and cost like 20 or 30 platinum.
>
> When you're higher level, and start having money, you just don't need
> potions - you pray at your god's altar when you die or use your own spells
to
> protect yourself, you got enough platinum to buy in shops, and so on.

maybe the reason they're expensive is the fear that level 10-30 chars will
buy all they can find, leaving none for the real beginners to find?

One possible solution for this is to have a "restoration service", probably
on the house of healing in Scorn

best,
                                               Lalo Martins
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