Posted by Deft on 04/14
I just fought three rounds with a create mage that had a flame
sword and flamestriked too, and he damage so much stuff, that I
just ran. I worked too hard for my eq to lose it to some harsh code.
On top of it, there is no tf mob, or anything. But forget that, with
that much flaming in a fight, my eq could easily go from perfect to
destroyed. So I have a suggestion...
Maybe we could make it so that eq damage in pkill goes to falling apart
but does not get destroyed. It kind of sucks to have hard to get items
and strings destroyed from perfect cause your fighting someone with
flaming shrouds and shields swords and flamestriking as well. I dont
feeling like these people are better fighters, but they will make me
run every time cause I just dont want to lose my eq. So consider
making it so that items damage in pkill (where most the damage seems
to happen) go to falling apart, but never get destroyed, and could
only get destroyed in mobkill. This way, the attacker still enjoys
the ac advantage from ravaging someones eq, but doesnt destroy
hard to get items. Untill then, I intend to run fast from people
that damage that much, its kind of sucks, but I just dont want to lose
my eq. Personally, I never understood the point of items getting damaged
so easily in the first place, it doesnt really take much skill, and its
just plain frustrating, and not a very interesting game feature. -shrug-
Deft be nimble, Deft be quick, Deft runs away so fire wont damage
his ----!
From: Deft
Saturday, April 10, 04:14PM
I was just thinking, you could even make it so that instead of getting
destroyed, the eq becomes "unwearable" and goes to inventory, until it is
fixed, this keeps the feature useful without removing it, but makes it
a bit less frustrating in a mud where good eq is such a chore to get, and
often unreplacable one-time quest eq.
Deft
From: Ronnie
Saturday, April 10, 07:42PM
Or at least make scraps able to be restrung for strung equipment
From: Fright
Saturday, April 10, 08:30PM
If you keep an eye on things every once in a while, they don't get
in danger of scrapping very often. And with more and more eq being
mendable and repairable instead of tf, its even easier to get
thing repaired. Realism isn't often an issue here, but I think
that eq damage could be upped if we were considering realism. Its not
often that you can get killed by sword blows and not have it
touch anything you are wearing. Ditto with fire, and daggers, and
on more solid objects, staves as well.
Being able to tf isn't as much as an advantage as it once was, even
though I can mend as well, there are still items I have that I have
to seek out someone from klein to fix. Face it, you can't have everything,
repair, mend and tf... no matter where you are from.
Another point, I have been playing here a long time, and I remember
very few instances of eq getting scrapped in only 1 fight. It
doesn't happen often, considering the heaps of damage that people take
around here.
Fright
From: Wuss
Sunday, April 11, 05:12AM
Mmm. I've had eq EASILY scrap in one stunned round, and that's
not even from mages -- Nosferatu scrapped my ring of poets in
one round, and vanion scrapped my tunic of flame in one round,
both from perfect to kaboom.
It's pretty silly imho that supposedly all damage-dealing spells
are supposed to damage eq, yet i've not seen harm and wither
damage eq yet, altho their damage is quite harsh (in some cases
fairly close to that from immolate). Considering then, that
it's mostly fire and sheer damage from a weapon that kills eq,
there should be an herb at least that can be brewed to give
one protection from fire -- and have it actually prevent eq
damage -- right now, it only seems to make it less likely to catch
aflame.
Tfable and mendable, repairable eq is not too bad if you get it
damaged, but there are heaps and heaps of non-repairable eq out
there, a lot of which make it to fighters' eq lists. I am equipped
with 5 pieces of gear that cannot be fixed, and with the exception
of just one of those pieces, they mostly involve quite a long time
of work to get them replaced. And they can easily be damaged from
full to falling apart in one fight -- I had 3 of them go from slightly
to heavily in two immolates.
wuss
From: Mac
Sunday, April 11, 08:34AM
Yeah, I haven't had stuff scrap from 1 hit but just 2 hits
on one item in a fight has scrapped my eq. I think Deft has
a good idea in limiting damage to falling apart and possibly
putting it in your inventory as to act if scrapped.
From: Leatherface
Sunday, April 11, 04:27PM
Since realism isn't the qeustion here, why is eq damaged at all? It
is like xp, ecept that there is no real need for it. It just takes up
time and effort to get new stuff, or repaif/mend/tform it, and really
who wants to spend their time here like that when they could be out
killing and stuff.
It's pretty much just PKers complaining about this, because in mob kill
you arn't normally gonna fight something that kills your eq like another
char does. I have gone from perfect eq (except for my no-repair items)
to 4 slightly, 3 moderate, 2 heavy and 1 falling apart, not to mention
my scrapped horse collar. The 'no-scrap' idea is good, but I still
don't get the eq dam in the first place. It really dosn't add to the
game, just gives you another mundane task to acomplish before you can star
doing what you came here to do once more.
Fire damage is INSANE, though. My skullstaff damaged about 3 items per
flamestrike when I had it, and that was weak compared to immolates.
Now, that staff only went off once or twice a fight, but someone like
Marcel, or Shino_Kage who immolate every skill round can nearly destroy
a set of eq. That takes a lot of fun out of it, and I don't fight Marcel
anymore because I would rather play than constantly get new eq. Maybe
you imms already do, but I suggest you make a char and try going against
someone like that. See how quickly your stuff scraps, it really is as
bad as people make it out to be.
(Flaming) Leatherface. (heavily damaged ;)
From: Violence
Sunday, April 11, 05:12PM
Hmm just my 2 cents ont his, rather than have all equipment
be unscrapable, how about just hte equipment that cant be TFed, Repaired
or Mended as unscrapable? I personally cant undertsnad why any eq here
cant be fixed at least one of those ways but such if life.
Violence
From: Wuss
Sunday, April 11, 06:21PM
The way I see it, damage of eq is like loss of xp, just another cost
of maintaining a character, be it pk or non-pk -- but way too high
for pkers. The mobs that come even CLOSE to pk damage are those
that aren't 'practically' solo-able, and they are worth heaps of xp.
Raise the xp given in pk to such comparable levels, and i'd be more
than willing to deem eq damage from pk reasonable. But aside that,
eq damage needs to be toned down to non-pk levels, spells shouldn't
do damage, not all slots should be damaged (since most of the 'new'
damagable slots mostly turn out to be tf or no-repair) and regardless
of rent, those eq found in a 'harder' mob should be sturdy to begin
with. I don't expect everything to be as sturdy as the twice smelted
maclir or the shield of nucklavee hide, but it would be nice if they
at least could be sturdier than the stinking flame tunics.
wuss
From: Nothing
Monday, April 12, 08:50AM
While I don't agree with taking out eq damage for spells completely,
I do agree that the fire spells damage too much eq. It'd be nice
if items that shouldn't be damaged by fire (metal things, or
whatever) shouldn't be affected by fire, but still be damaged
in normal fight rounds. I'm just like the most of you in that I'd
run from a person who just tries to trash my eq rather than stay
and fight.
-Nothing
From: LadyAce
Monday, April 12, 09:23AM
I'm not sure if item damage by fire is too high, it may also
be an issue of what eq you are wearing.
Each item has a specific material type, which changes its
cost as well as its performance -- currently you only really
see that performance when you are trying to fix it, or under
attack from fire, but I personally would like to see that
change. There's a way for builders to set items to 'INFLAMMABLE'
and I personally would like to see the material being worn,
matter a little bit more -- since you're paying for it and
since we went and coded materials types already, good to have
them mean something etc.
So, while the coders are working on the various formulas for the
various things, don't forget that you do have the option to
steer your items towards those which can handle more damage.
Oh, actually, another thought (ramble ramble) -- there seems to
be two kinds of people who look for things to be fixed, i.e. those
who ask about something the minute it gets a scratch on it, and
people who consistenly wait until half their stuff is nearly
scrap. I agree that sometimes items go from perfect to ruined,
and that does seem like a bit much, particularly in pk situations,
since there's less opportunity to take off, fix stuff, and come
back in.
Oh and another thing. Protection from fire spell. Last I heard
this didn't just protect your skin, it protected the stuff that
protects your skin. :)
-LA
From: Wuss
Monday, April 12, 07:08PM
Like i pointed out, that spell doesn't prevent gear from getting
damaged, nor does it reduce that effect dramatically -- what it does
seem to prevent is gear catching fire. That's a relatively small
gain seeing as to how three pieces of gear gets damaged for every piece
that catches on fire.
Wuss
From: Rufus
Wednesday, April 14, 08:49AM
I made some adjustments in that spell yesterday. It should provide
significantly better protection against most fire-based attacks
(I'm not sure if I got all the code instances of people's gear
being damaged by fire-attacks yet).
-Ruf
From: Wuss
Wednesday, April 14, 04:33PM
Heh. i'd me more than glad to check that spell out in a testmud and
stuff, but, uhm, don't harp on me for being more than a bit testy
to throw myself against an immolator :p
Wuss
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