Re: Acid and cancellation

On 12/29/11 08:36 AM, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
> Hello.
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> Right now acid and cancellation will permanently alter an item, decreasing its
> "magic" (acid) or setting it to 0 (cancellation).
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> For "bad" items (weapons with -1 for instance), this is nice because you can
> recover items.
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> For good items, this is really bad, because you just lose some power on the
> item.
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> This can of course be the correct behaviour, but it's always painful for
> players to  have equipment thus damaged :)
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> If this should be changed, one fix could be to store the "magic" as a
> key/value, and add items to restore that value.

  This has been an issue for a long time (and discussed in the past with many 
different proposals).  I'm not sure the ideal situation - acid damage equipment 
is probably much harsher (or happens much more often) than it should - 
especially given the fast pace of the game - before you realize what the rust 
monster is doing, all of your equipment may be at -4.

  Certainly storing the original magic value of the item would be easy enough to 
do, and one could think of ways to allow it to be repaired - go to armor shop