Re: Another soon-to-be-dead char

djabanete wrote:
>>> 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.
> [snip]
>> 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.

In other words it makes inventory management a lot easier task. If you 
remove selling now you should also remove approx 20% of inventory slots 
too to make inventory management as much challenge as it is now.

You can go with no selling now if you like that approach. Just don't 
collect sellable items, use whatever slots you have to collect those 
items you call "junk". Usually limited use items also sell for good 
value, except maybe mushrooms, so practically nothing changes except 
that you can't sell that DSM you found early when you find better armor.

Timo Pietilä