Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Too many inventory items these days, meld some

[David P. <dp...@ma...>]

On Tue, 30 May 2017, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote:

> I like the idea of having fewer potions with broader use cases. It will
> make deciding when to use a potion much harder.
>
> Rather than offering the player two levels of quaff menu (which this
> proposal seems to do), I suggest changing potions to apply ALL the effects
> at once. A potion of power would give might, agi and brill. Etcetera...

Agreed to both. I think that's a good idea.


> (Inventory pressure also doesn't present interesting choices: there are
> always enough "strategic" items in a player's inventory which can be
> dropped without concern. It just makes the player backtrack more, which is
> a tedious activity.)

Inventory pressure *could* provide interesting choices. In Crawl it 
doesn't, because you can stash items for later. In this sense, the limit 
of 52 items is a crutch. However, I am absolutely against allowing 
unlimited inventories. (Once possible, everyone will carry everything that 
might be remotely sensible to carry which is basically: everything. 
Browsing through the inventory list would be that much more painful.)

If you want to solve this problem, then it would be necessary to dig 
deeper, I am afraid. One solution is a tough clock (such as Crawl has), 
but I'm sure that a branched dungeon layout like Crawl's forbids that.
Another approach to force decisions is something I mentioned before: items 
dropped or left on the ground disappear.

However, I think the best course is to slowly combine items. This will 
reduce inventory pressure little by little, too.

Cheers,
David