[crossfire] Pen and inscription

[Juergen Kahnert]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:24:28PM +0200, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
> There are currently some bugs on tracker related to the ease one has
> in leveling in inscription.
>
> I propose to fix this issue by having pen use food when used. One food
> per character for standard writing, some computed value for spell
> scrolls.
>
> This would enable to limit the max scrolls one could write.

Are people unable to eat or why should this limit anything?


> Maybe we could enable charging to work on pen, too ;)

That will fix the problem.  Have you ever seen a pen which is able to
write forever?  Let the pen consume charges; make the pen rechargeable
via charging scrolls.  It's ok to have a high amount of charges, in a
range of 200 up to 500; maybe even more, depending on the xp gain.  Pens
aren't found that often, so having a low charge will prevent people
getting a decent inscription level.

Oh, and don't let the skill scroll level be higher than the casting
skill level.  Writing a scroll with inscription level 30 and a spell
casting level of 5 (for the selected spell) should result into a level 5
scroll (not 30).  And vice versa, having level 25 casting skill and
level 7 inscription skill will produce level 7 scrolls.  Whatever is
lower should be the resulting level.


And reduce the amount of xp someone gets for inscribing a scroll.
Slaying orcs and zombies to reach level 10 in melee will take a long
time, but using inscription level 10 is a matter of seconds.  That's
ridiculous.

    Jürgen