From pc-crossfire06 at crowcastle.net Sun Jul 2 19:07:05 2023 From: pc-crossfire06 at crowcastle.net (Preston Crow) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 20:07:05 -0400 Subject: [crossfire] huge money bug Message-ID: A player alerted me that using alchemy, you can convert a huge gold nugget into a ridiculous number of smaller nuggets that you can actually pick up.  While the economy in the game tends to break down for higher level characters, it wouldn't be a bad idea to fix the worst of the abuses. It's probably worth examining all uses of arch hugenugget, though the two in navar_city/mlab/ttower28 are the ones my player cited. From pc-crossfire06 at crowcastle.net Sun Jul 2 19:18:44 2023 From: pc-crossfire06 at crowcastle.net (Preston Crow) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 20:18:44 -0400 Subject: [crossfire] stealing abuse Message-ID: There are a number of abuses for the stealing skill to gain ridiculous XP.  Generally they all boil down to being able to get the stealing XP for a monster every time you steal from it, not just the first time.  I'm not sure what the right fix would be, but one idea might be to insert an object into the monster when stealing xp is awarded to flag it as not granting stealing xp. That would eliminate the entire category of abuses. Thoughts?  Anyone want to implement a solution?