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

[Nicholas F. <ple...@gm...>]

If you want to reduce inventory item types to reduce inventory pressure, I
would strongly consider just removing types, rather than combining them
willy-nilly.

Is a potion with three different unrelated effects really a good design,
something that would be added to the game on its own merits? Or is it just
an appeal to crawl's history?

On 30 May 2017 at 17:08, David Ploog <dp...@ma...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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