Re: Another soon-to-be-dead char

Eddie Grove wrote:

> Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
>> Antoine wrote:

>>> You can get the same effect in a non-selling game by putting in
>>> occasional very large gold drops...?
>> 
>> Those should then be occassional 30000gp at dlvl 50'. And found
>> onto floor sometimes. Othervise it is not the same thing.
> 
> It would have been precisely the same if he found a 20K gold drop
> instead of the dragonscale mail.  We had this discussion a month or
> two ago.  Everyone agreed that if given the option to sell a
> single-base-element DSM it was usually an automatic choice to do so.

I don't remember this exact topic being discussed, but I wouldn't agree
with that. Particularly that early in the game, I would definitely
consider using single-element DSM for a considerable period (and have in
fact done so, albeit not from *quite* that early), for the combination
of comparatively high AC + the resist (fairly rare at that depth, no?) +
the activation - this last being perhaps the most im****tant.

> If you believe that what the OP did was fun and good in the game,
> eliminating selling and generating occasional gold drops in multiples
> of 10K would be pretty much the same.  You could make it pretty much
> equivalent by, whenever you drop gold, call the item generation
> routines and drop the selling value of a randomly generated item.

That does sound like an interesting idea, though, irrespective of
whether or not selling is disallowed. How, if at all, would it interact
with store price limits? Ignoring them would lead to potentially much
more gold than could be gotten by selling, but failing to ignore them A:
would not necessarily make any sense and B: would tend to lead to more
exact-multiple-of-1000 prices than would seem reasonable.

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