[crossfire] Auto ID on examine

[Brendan Lally]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:00:24 +0300
"Otto J. Makela" <om at iki.fi> wrote:

> Brendan Lally wrote:
> 
> > This changes the way the examine command (triggered by left
> > clicking on an object) works so that if the object is unidentified,
> > and the player has the appropriate skill, then an attempt to
> > identify the object is automatically made.
> > 
> > The intention is that this should make the ID process much smoother
> > for new players, and less likely to be discovered after wasting
> > money on ID tables or selling items that were useful.
> 
> This does change the overall game balance a bit (making it easier to
> use skills automatically), but all-in-all I think it is a good change.

I'd like to think that the change to game balance is only for the first
few levels and only because with the current behaviour new players may
lose money because they sell items before identifying them, or pay to
identify items which they could have IDed for free because they had the
appropriate skill to identify them.

I'd consider such behaviour to be a challenge posed by the interface
rather than the game itself.

The flipside is that a player who would want to 'scum' exp by
identifying a huge stack of arrows individually using a keybinding or
script might accidentally click on the stack and 'lose' the exp they
would've gained.

I'm not sure that sort of behaviour that should be encouraged or
rewarded though - even if I have done it myself in the (distant) past...

Brendan.