Re: Another soon-to-be-dead char

> > Removing selling would make inventory management far less im****tant a
game
> > element than it is otherwise, at least until endgame.  Currently,
before
> > gold becomes meaningless (which happens sometime after stat gain)
characters
> > have a good incentive to delve into the dungeon with plenty of room to
spare
> > weight-wise, so that they can carry more stuff with them to sell.
> 
> It doesn't make inventory management less im****tant.  It changes what is
> im****tant.  Items become im****tant according to how useful they are
rather
> than how much they sell for.
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> For example, playing with selling, a wand of sleep monster is something
to
> sell.  Playing with no selling, I sometimes use it a couple of trips
after I
> found it.  Is the game better if I am more likely to use items?  IMO it
is.

Completely agree with Eddie Grove on this point. No-selling does *NOT*
make
inventory management less im****tant. You have the same number of inventory
slots, and you are still trying to cram as much useful stuff as you can
into
that finite number of slots. The only difference is that now you no longer
worry
about things that are *only useful inasmuch as they make you want to go
back to
town and sell them*, and you start worrying more about items that are
*useful in
your efforts to stay alive in the dungeon*. It ****fts the focus towards
exploration of the dungeon, and as a side-benefit it _reduces_ TMJ because
now
those "sell" slots in the inventory are going towards items that you never
used
to pay attention to like Mushroom of Cure Blindness or Wands of Sleep
Monster or
whatnot. Stuff that used to be junk is no longer junk.

When I play *band, the more I ignore "sell me" stuff, the more fun I have.
I
dive farther, live more on edge, and am forced to use a wider variety of
items
and tactics because I'm not going back to town every 10 minutes to cash in
my
chips. This means my characters are usually really poor, but increased
gold
drops would compensate for this. So for me at least, a no-selling
higher-gold-drop version of Angband would be a lot more fun.