Re: Another soon-to-be-dead char

Andrew Sidwell wrote:
> Timo Pietilä wrote:
>> About ranger ID, I think that ranger should have strong pseudo like 
>> all other warrior-spellcasters. It is slow enough that it would still 
>> suck, but at least you could be sure that items that you have have 
>> been pseudo-identified. And big majority of spells removed. Rogue is 
>> the one that should have more spells, because rogue doesn't have any 
>> special abilities.
>  >
>> In my variant there will be "archer" class which is basically bookless 
>> ranger with better melee and Ranger will be less bow-oriented class 
>> with slightly better non-offensive magic. I give rogue something to 
>> make it interesting (don't know yet what, but I have few ideas).
> 
> I am very interested in seeing more patched versions of the game around 
> which embody particular ideas on how things should be done (like Eddie's

> patch).  Even smallish patches, because having something concrete to 
> play as a suggestion rather than newsgroup posts is a really excellent 
> way to make it far more likely your changes end up in V.  :)

Short to do:

- Remove "extend power of look command". What you see is what you can 
identify. Blue potion revealed from detecion is just blue potion until 
you really see it.
- Restore rchaos giving resistance to confusion effect.
- Restore chaos being the most damaging of all high elements
- Make poison true high element by making it follow same rules as rest 
of the high elements (dlvl ~2000 instakiller).
- Make paralyzation effect not stackable so that you might break free 
with luck from paralyzation if monster misses you in turn you recover 
from it (dlvl ~1000 instakiller).
- Tweak artifacts a lot (remove weak, boost rare)
- Tweak ego-items quite a bit (remove useless and near-useless items)
- Tweak monsters a lot (remove some uniques, tweak depths, make them 
more tolkienised (major changes to dragons, some changes to demons, 
angels get renamed))
- Tweak some normal items.
- Remove hard limits for all OoD possibilities, but make sure that 
extreme cases are also extremely rare.
- Modify some effects of some items (probing should reveal what monster 
can do to you, not other way around, etc.).
- Deal somehow with TMJ. (Pits get smaller, item drops smaller but 
better quality, that kind of stuff).

Next one is beyond my current programming skills, but when I have 
learned enough I try to implement it.

- Separate telepathy from ESP. Make ESP area effect that detects a lot 
more than just monsters, but with much less info with centerpoint to 
character (might be really slow on older machines)). Make telepathy 
two-way thing with some monster/character level based chance of instant 
detection like aggravation, but also reveal everything from the monster.

- Make mimics real animated items. Make skeletons skeletons and mummies 
etc corpses and sometimes corpses just being corpses to create some 
atmosphere.

Unfortunately I don't really have much time to work with code.

Timo Pietilä